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    Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance

    yeah, I am a guinea pig too, first to try. So I confirm that there is something about BOM, but not the only reason to stop SP2. Today I played with a few drawings. Excel based BOM as rule always worked fine. I created a new drawing and BOM worked, but on old drw not. I agreed with Mig26 about...
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    Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance

    hmm, will they fix finally all the bugs? today I installed a SP2 on the first PC and guess what: when I deleted an old Excel BOM and putted a new one (SW BOM), (da.mn) my nervs exploaded when it worked with SP1 and with SP2 it inserted only 1 row with titles. So, it seems reasonable to wait...
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    Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance

    Hi all. The same problems. My hair is white. I can't say that the PC is bad (P IV -3.06GHz with Quadro 4 - 750). When i draw routing the lines disapear when zooming closer (with last Video driver) and SW crashes frequently. Some days 5-6 times, some days 0-1. I already have a collection of parts...
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    Mechanical advantage from pulleys

    Is this related to rope hoist and hook mechanism?
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    faster PC -> to work with SolidWorks ???

    Hi all! I just want to order a faster PC (better performance) for my work with SolidWorks. What hardware parts will recommend me to use (Matrox SVGA card, or ATI; Processor type?; RAM-> DDR or RDRAM; Motherboard; HDD - IDE or SCSI etc.), or just order HP workstation?
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    Part numbers vs. Drawing numbers

    Sometime is easy for customers to decode a simple part number, but for engineers is neccessary to use drawing number that describes exact variant of part, even if this variant not concern to customer. excuse me for my bad english, did you get it? I mean shaft with center holes on both ends and...

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