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    Custom properties: Selectively enabling/disabling a note?

    Not that this will help but I saw in a PDMWorks Enterprise demo where they had a watermark that was a custom property that they disabled / enabled by editing the note card for the file. Do you have any other programs that can edit the custom properties without SW? I believe all PDMWorks...
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    "Clamshell" exhaust manifolds

    As far as manufacture: Flanges: WaterJet, Laser cut, Punched, Flattend if nessesary Inner Skin: Either Drawn (two halves) or fabricated tubes ie header. Mig, Tig, or Laser seam welded. Filler: Knitted ss wire cloth, or possibly packed wire mesh used with a form. Outer skin: appears to be a...
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    Computer Upgrade

    Ralph, Looks good! 2 gigs is good for modeling for most stuff. If doing FEA 4 gigs is a must esp with FlowWorks. If you are looking at going to 2006 you may want to think about xp 64. Solidworks xp 64 kicks heiny. I have gotten it to act weird where it should crash but never crashed yet...
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    OT Hard drive swap due to SW.

    Your best bet is to backup, reformat, reinstall windows, applications, restore data when you change out hard drives. It's usually a good idea to do so even if you are switching out users. Your main problem will be that the motherboard drivers will be all different between the rambus machines...
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    Processors for AutoCad 2004

    AutoCAD should run great on Athlons, Durons, Pentium 4's, 3's etc. Actuatlly what might be killing the Celeron that he is having problems with is most likely he is either low on ram or the build in Intel extreme or whatever built in graphics is slowing it down. (Assumption that not many...

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