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    Publication Reordering

    Derek, Thanks for the info! Regards, Kevin
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    Publication Reordering

    Does anybody know if there is a way to reorder publications in the tree. I have a part that has 25 items published and would like to organize them to be more user friendly. Thanks, forfun
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    Hyper-Threading

    OS is winXP 64bit running a dual core
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    Hyper-Threading

    Our machines currently have the hyper-threading enabled, will this slow down our catia session? When catia is not responding the cpu is at 50% Thanks, forfun
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    Hyper-Threading

    Does anyone know if hyper-threading is a benifit to have running when using catia? Any pros and cons would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, forfun
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    Incident Report

    Milleou, I haven't had any of our users(14) complain about it since we went to sp7. Hope we don't see it again:) Derek, we were having the issue on sp5. forfun
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    powercopies and VB scripts

    Can anyboby tell me if a license other than HD2+KWA is needed to instantiate a powercopy from a VB macro? I am unable to get it to work. v5r16sp7 Thanks, forfun
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    face coloring

    Figured out that if use a pocket instead of a surface split that i can color all faces as needed. Has anyone else run into this? forfun
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    face coloring

    We color faces of our solids so that the toolpathing dept knows what type of finish that area needs. On the last three service packs we have been unable to color all the faces we need to. When we right click on the face it says there are no properties attached. We have not gotten any help from...
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    Incident Report

    solid7, Thanks for the info. We are on v5r16sp5 which it said it should have been fixed for. We just went to sp7 so we'll see how that goes. thanks agian forfun
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    Incident Report

    We have gotten this error acouple of times trying to open a catproduct. The only fix we have found is to tape an older version on and redo what was lost. Does anybody know what might cause this and how to fix it? Type | Object | Description Error (file name) OSM_DA016:Cannot open...
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    linking design table to more than 1 sketch

    Is it possible that a constraint was created in the sketch to a feature outside of the sketch or maybe in a different part? This may create a projection that would not show in the Use-edges tab. forfun
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    Formulas

    I am sorry my question is not very clear as it was written in haste. Given some more thought, I don't know as it would be the time saver I thought it would be anyway. But more out of curiosity now, here goes the question again. Below are two examples, example a, is how I would do it now. The...
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    Formulas

    I am looking to do simple math where the math function is parameter driven. ex. 6 (a parameter equal to + or -) 6 6+6 or 6-6 Is this even possible? If so, what type of parameter would work and could i get a simple example of it used in a formula? Thanks in advance, forfun
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    V5 Volumes

    Sorry, I thought the thread id# would work forfun

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