One of my PDMWorks users works out of the office quite often. We keep our common library models (motors, bearings, switches, etc) in a common library project in the vault. He's asked if there's an easy way he can copy the entire common library project to his local drive without selecting each...
I'm setting up PDMWorks for our office. I want to get as much of the bugs ironed out before I let everyone loose. How are others handling the following:
1. drawing title block : does the revision that appears here reflect the revision of the drawing file or the model it represents? (I feel it...
When checking in drawings, PDMWorks adds the contents of the NOTE column of the PDMWorks Check-in Window to the drawings revision table's DESCRIPTION column. Can other revision table columns be populated from the PDMWorks Check-in Window?
i.e. Rev By, Zone, Approver, etc
Thanks,
Killswitch
SW...
I'm creating a cylinder assembly with DT to control the stroke. I have 3 configurations : extended, retracted and floating.
I've been able to set and change the limit distance value for the floating configuration with the design table but I need to be able to set the minimum to be zero. If the...
I've created a new holes standard derived from the "ANSI Metric" standard and added custom holes for press fitting dowel pins. I'd like to share this modified db with the rest of the SW seats in the office. I've tried copying the SWbrowser.mdb (from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Solidworks...
I've tried all morning to create a dxf (or dwg) from a SW drawing and Solidworks has crashed every time (SW 2006, SP 3.4). I've even tried using other work stations hoping it was local to my computer but no luck. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Killswitch
I'm looking for the swConst value for swUnitsDualLinear so I can change the secondary units :
retval = Doc.SetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swUnitsDualLinear, swMM)
I've successfully used the following to change the primary units (type and precision) and the secondary precision:
Const...
We have a couple of seats of SW04. When 1 person opens an assembly (Assem1) the parts and subassemblies in it become their "property" according to SW - only they have write access. If someone else opens another assembly (assem2) hat also contains some of the parts from Assem1, those parts in...
Last year I found a couple of macros on the web. One was for showing all parts of an assembly and the second hid all the selected components in an assembly. I found them very useful when working with large assemblies (or any assembly for that matter). I've recently changed jobs and I'm having no...
I'm looking for a way in SW 2004 to get a length of a closed spline consisting of a number of straight lines and tangent curves (ie. belt path) without having to dimension each segment and adding them all up.
Any thoughts?
Killswitch
Good afternoon,
I'm running a thermal analysis on an assembly today that I haven't worked with in months. Back in September the analysis ran fine. Today if I run it (on the exact same assembly file) I get the error "Execution abort in DIRCOS".
I've tried running an analysis on a new...
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When I detail my models on a drawing I use driven dimensions (manually inserted similar to AutoCAD). When the model changes and the drawing is updated, dimensions are left dangling on the drawing. Ordinate dimensions can be re-attached to model features by dragging the dimension to the new...
Good afternoon,
I have a sealed metal chamber with a heat source on one wall. Is there a way to determine the air temperature/gradient inside the chamber?
SW 2003 SP 0.0
CW 2003 SP 0.0
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