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Hi, I have a series of 3D sketch points (3DSketch4 in attached model), each of which is constrained by two 'on plane' constraints, and one 'on surface' constraint. The surface is an extruded ellipse (nearly cylindrical), which means the 3d points could mathematically be in one of two points...

Hi Guys, I'm trying to circular pattern a feature but there's no 'vary sketch' option. I don't mean it's greyed out; there's no box for it at all (but the help menu refers to it). Any ideas? Thanks, Simon

Hi All, A pick your brains question to see if anyone out there does this a better way than me... I model a lot of rib structures for injection-moulded parts (so lots of 'X' shape ribs intersecting on the inside of a shelled component). Often the ribs are disrpted with lots of screw bosses...

Hi Guys, As the title says really; if you have a saved view in one part or assy (with perspective, say, and at exactly the right angle...) anyone know of a way to copy it to another part or assy for reuse?

Hi Guys, I have an exploded view of an assembly in a SW drawing. I've created a detail view of an area of this view, but can't work out how to hide the explode lines in the detail view. I can't work out how to put them ona separate layer, or hide them in the detail view. Any ideas?

Hi Guys, More annoying than earth shattering, but any ideas why when I check in a large assembly to PDM, many of the sub-assemblies and parts are displayed multiple times in the check in window? Makes it really difficult to see what you've selected/deselected for check-in when there's 100+...

I often try to use this to see if changes I've made to a model have resulted in any subtle 'unexpected' changes elsewhere, but never have much success. If they're really simple parts, fine, but as soon as I try running it with any semi-complex parts (mainly plastic mouldings) it take ages to...

I have a mirrored (handed) component within an assembly, and I need to move both it and it's parent down a level to a sub-assy within the main assembly. Is it possible to do this without breaking the link between them? Or possible to re-point the link if it's broken? Thanks, Simon

Hi, We're looking at ToolWorks & CustomWorks to aid the process of handing designs over to our purchasing dept. Does anyone out there have any experience of these or any other programs they'd care to share? At the moment we're manually plugging data into File > Properties fields, but I'm keen...

Digging up the past a bit, but this is a really simple thing I've been trying to do for ages: Changing the dimension colour on all drawings (when changing just the settings in Tools > Options > System Options > Colors doesn't seem to work) - what you have to do is activate your 'line format'...

Apologies for this not being SW related; when using the forum search function does anyone else get no results more recently than 2007? Even if I search for a keyword in the latest post and select 'When > last 7 days' I get the 'no results can be found message'. Cheers

Anyone know why the FilletXpert box is disabled (greyed out) sometimes? It seems to be when working on parts with more than one configuration, which seems a bit bizarre. Anyone experienced the same or know a workaround? Cheers, Simon

Hi, If you have a face with several open & closed contours, then create a sketch on it, select the face then click 'convert entities', why does SW only convert the the open contour(s), and not the closed ones? Any ideas? Cheers, Simon SW2009 SP4.0

Anyone know if it's possible to edit the actual entities a dimension snaps to? Say for example, you've dimensioned between two points (and then that dimension is used in lots of equations etc...) and you want to change one of the points to a line or another point without affecting anything else...

I've searched for this, but can't find anything. If you're plotting out loads of say, A2 plots (from separate dwg files) on an A1 plotter, does SW provide any functionality to nest them together to save paper & time? Cheers, Simon

Hi, A quick general question, that a search hasn't yielded any really relevant results for: I'm working on an assembly with approx 30 components (mainly injection moulded plastic parts of reasonable complexity) and updating / saving the model is so slow (20+ mins) that I'm thinking that...

Hi, When attempting to export a drawing as a DXF using File>Export>2D Exchange (drawing is referencing a part as master model method) the 'Translating to 2D Part File' dialog box gives the following error: File ASSEM_OPTIONS ="C:\Program Files\UGS\NX 5.0\UGII\load_options.def" for setting...

Hi, Anyone know how if you have an existing array of features, and then want to add more features to it, how you include them into the original array? Editing the 'instance feature' dialog brings up the array's dimensional properties, but not which featuers it looks for. Thanks, Simon

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to create an array (or instance depending on your terminology) of entities in a sketch? I mean in a way that can be edited in the future, so using the 'transform' feature isn't really an option. Thanks, Simon

Hi, I know questions around this have been asked a million times before, and I've searched loads of old threads but can't seem to find a solution to this: I'm setting up drawing templates with title blocks etc... We use the master model method (i.e. separate drawing and part files.) I want to...