Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by MichaelPaauwe

  1. MichaelPaauwe

    How to get usage statistics?

    We have a single seat operating on a network license. Is there a way we can get usge statistics on our solidworks seat? I know there is alog file but docs say this can't be used for this purpose. (Although I don't know why not) Has anyone written anything to analyse this log? Thanks in advance...
  2. MichaelPaauwe

    View Mates in Assembly

    I remember reading in the docs somewhere... Assemblies created in earlier versions of SW will have all mates in mategroup1 assemblies created in SW01+ will just have mategroup (no "1") It is only the name of the tree branch and doesn't seem to affect anything else.
  3. MichaelPaauwe

    Tangency problems in Wankel motor model assembly

    I tried to do this with SW99 but kept running into difficulties. The trochoid surface of the rotor housing was easy enough. You generate the trochoid coordinates in an excel spreadsheet and save the sheet as a text file. You can import this as a curve and then use the curve to do a sweep which...

Part and Inventory Search