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Hi everyone I've been doing a lot of multibody part modeling lately and I'm looking for a way to have the list of Solid and Surface bodies at the top of the feature tree to always be in the same spot without needing to scroll to the top of the tree. In my worfklows I'm often selecting a body...

Hi Everyone I'm creating new title blocks for my company, and I'm hoping to make things a bit more efficient so that if we make changes, these can be rolled out across multiple drawing formats easily. I'd like to maintain a central title block table, and when changes are made to this table...

Hi folks I have a number of holes on a part where we have special instructions. Typical instructions include notes for adding a helical thread insert, bushing, etc. We add these instructions directly below the hole diameter by adding custom text to the hole callout. We are doing this on hole...

Hi all I've done a few searches on this and didn't come up with anything. I've got a few machined castings in aluminum that have hardened steel locator bushings and pins pressed in to them. We want our suppliers to press in these bushings during machining, and deliver to us or our customers a...

Hi Folks, I've been noticing significant lag when selecting drawing entities in SW2012 (see below for PC specs). It's turned the drawing process into a "click, wait... click, wait..." experience. It's taking me longer to do simple drawing cleanup tasks as a result, since I find myself spending...

Hi Folks, I work on assemblies of automation systems where we generate configurations of the various "states" of the various axes. As part of our design review process I often generate images from a single viewpoint of the assembly in various states, so we can "jog" through the process with...

Hi folks, Does anyone know if it is possible to limit a results plot (in my case a vector plot) to a specific surface? I've got a set of results for a rather complex casting and I'm trying to create a visual showing my principal strains along with their direction. I'd like to limit the plot...

Hello, I'm reviewing my company's existing standards for our fastener torque specifications, particularly as they apply to our metric SHCS' in aluminum castings (AA356-T6 material). I understand that under specific loading conditions, we need to review the bolt torques in detail based on the...

Hi Folks, I've been using the Insert-->Part feature for top down design of my assemblies. I create planes and sketches that define all of my critical geometry (linear rails, motor & sprocket locations, mating surfaces for my castings, etc). I then bring this into my critical part models and...

Hi Folks, I'm working on a plan to validate our FEA of a particular prototype with some strain gauge measurements. In choosing the placement of one or more uniaxial gauges I'm trying to first find the principal stresses and their orientations as predicted by Solidworks Simulation. I'm able to...

Hi Folks, I'm working on an FEA of a component that has one surface which repeatedly causes the mesh to fail during creation. When the mesh fails, I get the "Mesh Failure Diagnostics" window, which shows the single failed surface. I create a mesh control on this surface and then the mesh can...

Hi Folks, I've got a model of a casting that I'm bringing into my company's BOM system. For reasons specific to our company's purchasing system, we don't use configurations to refer to the "as-cast" and "as-machined" state. The process here is to build the cast model complete with machining...

Hi Folks I'm trying to create a rib pattern between a straight edge and a wall which has a height that varies with distance. Please see attached image for reference. This is a simplification of the actual geometry, but the basic idea is the same. I'm running into an issue patterning the rib so...

Did anyone catch today's webcast about PTC's new product line to replace Pro/E, CoCreate and ProductView? http://www.ptc.com/products/creo/intro-to-creo-elements/ At least they've stopped naming their products after natural disasters. Thoughts?

For a backgrounder, see my post thread732-255928 More background info: I graduated with my BSME last April, and I'm at around 8 months into my first post-graduate engineering position. Prior to that, I sustained myself through university as a CAD designer/drafter, with the career plan that I...

Hi All, Here's my situation: I'm a few months in at a new job. When I started here, the boss hinted that from time to time, I'd be asked to work on bids and proposals to bring in new work. This proposal work is not "billed" time, and so would be outside of the 40 regular hours that I'm assigned...

This is somewhat of a rehash of thread559-93779. It was posted around 5 years ago so I'm mainly inquiring if anything has changed. I'm using SW2008, and we will be upgrading to 09 in a few months. The situation: I've got a mechanism that I'm modeling with a layout sketch. In my layout I have a...

I'm working on the drawing for a part that has an arc surface that is concentric with a hole. I'm trying to create a dimension to the maximum distance of the arc. When I go into my dimension properties and change the arc condition from Center to Max, solidworks gives me the max dimension to the...

Hi all, I'm working on an assembly where I'm generating a layout sketch to control my parts and, in some cases, subassemblies. I have a few issues that I'd like to solve, however: 1) When I generate parts from blocks in a layout sketch ("Make Part from Block"), the sketches imported take on an...

Hi Everyone, I have an offer on the table to work as a medical device designer in a large university research hospital affiliated with my alma mater. The job came to me through my network of personal contacts. Background: I'm a recent grad, and the job is well suited for my level of...