I took a job working in production right out of high school for a small mfg. company where I was transitioned into their Drafter position due to my computer skills (at the time). Since then I have standardized their mechanical and electrical documentation, converted 99% of their...
I'm becoming annoyed with my Cadman motion controller when I'm working with design tables in Solidworks.
I always 'edit table in new window' which loads excel and my design tables in, you guessed it, a new window. When I close that app and it starts to apply the changes, the mapping window for...
When I export drawings from Solidworks to a DXF format for my 2D assembly and wiring drawings, some of these files contain 30,000+ objects. Upon further inspection, I have realized that solidworks exports every visible edge as a separate line regardless how small. Also, many edges are coincident...
Hi,
I'm having some difficulty completing an assembly. It seems that when I use CTRL+drag from the feature tree to insert another instance of a part, the part that is inserted is always the first one in the assembly, not the one I clicked and dragged.
Has anyone else experienced this problem...
Does anyone know of a procedure, plugin or application to take a view of a SW part (2D or iso) and convert it to a format that can be used in Illustrator in a shaded format?
It's rather simple to get a wireframe out of SW and into .AI format, but a huge pain to re-shade the models. Imagine...
Hi,
It seems as if all my thumbnails are dissapearing from the File,Open dialog box when I have the paperspace background set to black. I had it set to white for the longest time. I have found that I like it better as black as I can keep using standard colors rather than pick "paper-friendly"...
Help, my Toolbox parts are not behaving properly when dragging them into an assembly. They show the alternate positioning after pressing the tab key, but when dropped, align to the default orientation. This is getting really annoying.
