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    Hole Wizard is moving sketch outside of feature in tree

    Did you open mine and find the sketch outside, just like I do? I'm on 2024 sp4, with the downgrade of Windows11
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    Hole Wizard is moving sketch outside of feature in tree

    So if you open it, and it shows the sketch outside of the feature, try deleting the sketch, then undoing. I do that and it brings the sketch back into the hole feature., but after saving and opening it kicks it out.
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    Hole Wizard is moving sketch outside of feature in tree

    Sketch 11 is the sketch of the tap drill hole. Sketch 15 tells the feature the location, and quantity of holes on the surface. Historically both sketches stay within the feature. And when I put a fresh hole in it shows up normally. Below are screen shots of the original, after saving and...
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    Hole Wizard is moving sketch outside of feature in tree

    My flat tree view was unchecked. and here's the expanded and coliapsed views of tree:
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    Hole Wizard is moving sketch outside of feature in tree

    I am using hole wizard to add holes to a plate. I have put in multiple types of holes in the same plate. Three separate features in the feature manager tree. After saving and opening up later the tree has the sketch shown after the hole feature, which contains the location information of the...
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    Reference planes offset positions arent affected by Scale Feature-Can I get them to?

    Response to BiPolarMoment: I have a base plate, with multiple nests mounted to it. They are mounted in a grid of lanes and rows. The tool is assembled and in its working mode is heated, there for grows. I use the planes for mating the nests to the assembly. The base plate has 2...
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    Reference planes offset positions arent affected by Scale Feature-Can I get them to?

    I have a base plate that has Reference Planes, constructed as offset distances from the center plane. I have two configurations of the part, cold & hot. Che cold config has the planes at the given distances from center, and a suppressed Scale feature. The hot config has all that and the...
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    Does Solidworks allow making a datum symbol without a triangle to anchor it?

    Powerhound, thanks for the reply. We are not necessarily using Y14.5-1982, but for the minimal amount of GD&T we use, we prefer to keep the drawings conforming to the look of the original datum callout. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001 -Currently using SW2021 Inventor Newbie since 2019...
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    Modify part description by typing it in my Assembly Drawing BOM

    I agree with you both. I just wish the former employees who setup this community library would have been organized and set some standards/naming conventions, on their properties, instead of flavor of the day. I'm just trying to fix the rag-tagged-ness of it the most convenient/efficient way...
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    Modify part description by typing it in my Assembly Drawing BOM

    I have an assembly of common parts, and it's respective assembly drawing with a BOM. I am trying to make all of the like parts have a similar description with only the different sizes listed at the end of the description. What I want to do is to modify the description of each part from the BOM...
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    Does Solidworks allow making a datum symbol without a triangle to anchor it?

    Basically I just want the datum to be a box with the label inside, and attached by one of the box sides to a dimension extension line, part edge, or a geometric control box as shown in the attached picture. I took that picture from my GD&T Fundamentals book. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001...
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    Tolerancing grayed out on drawing when adding & modifying hole dimensions

    I have a part with a hole wizard hole. On it's respective drawing, I'm trying to add a tolerance to the hole. I click on the "Hole Callout" dimension and under the Tolerance/Precision selections, None, and .125(document) dropdowns. Both are are grayed out, and not drop down-able. I've also...
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    Auto Insert Dowel Symbol, is not working on my template.

    We are layerless. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001 -Currently using SW2021 Inventor Newbie since 2019 -Unfortunately Currently using Inventor22
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    Auto Insert Dowel Symbol, is not working on my template.

    I have some new templates that I am using, and when I put in a part view, that has hole wizard generated dowel holes, the dowel symbol is not populating the circles. In the options/document properties tab/detailing/Auto insert on view creation, both dowel symbols-part & assembly boxes are check...

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