Morning All,
I have come to work this morning with a busy day planned. I made a couple of new assemblies first, which I had no problems with.
Then I used pack and go to create new versions of some assemblies I already had. Again no problems.
Then Solidworks crashed (as if often does on my...
Morning all,
Some of you may recall that I have asked about document management in the past (along with many others), and I got some great advice when I did. But this time it's a little different.
Over the past year or more, I have adopted Workgroup PDM (as a solo user), which was a great...
Hello All,
I am designing an assembly using the top down approach. When I create a new part (Insert Components-->New Part), and choose an existing face of another part as the plane to sketch on, I cannot add any relations between the new part sketch and the existing geometry.
For example...
Afternoon all,
I want to create, set up and trial a vault on my laptop and then transfer it to my work server once I am happy with it.
My reasons are...
1) More time to trial the vault.
2) I can't seem to get 5 minutes to myself in the office.
I am the only person using the vault, as I am...
I was wondering what programs you guys use other than Solidworks? And what you use them for? I'm trying to add a few strings to my bow...and have a bit of fun at the same time. I figure what better time than a recession to add to your current skills.
I've started to get interested in 3D...
Afternoon all,
I was wondering what peoples views on the best practice for folder structure within the PDM Workgroup vault are.
Initially, I attempted to create folders for each of our product types, and then sub folders in each of those to separate different configurations etc.
After a while...
Apologies if this is in the wrong section of the forum, I was going to put it in the Engineering Management/Certification section until I realised that only 3 threads were active in the past month. And because I've received some cracking help in the Solidworks forum in the past I thought I'd...
I have just upgraded my copy of SW 09 SP0.0 to SP2.0 and I'm experiencing some difficulties with PDM Workgroup.
After updating I was unable to check anything out of the vault. I tried to open PDM VaultAdmin but was greeted with the message "This action is only valid for products that are...
Evening all,
I have copied a previous assembly of a tipper body, which I want to change the appearance of, so that it will suit a different customers colour scheme.
The previous assembly was a green olive drab colour, the new colour needs to be purple.
I have changed the colour of the...
Not sure if everybody else has already seen this, it's exactly what I've been looking for for months on end. Maybe someone else will find a use for it...
Apologies to all for bringing the subject of file management and dumb file numbers up again, I promise I'll be quick.
I have chosen to use a dumb file numbering system for all of my SolidWorks files, after reading all of the advice on these forums and other sites.
My question is, how do I...
I have an assembly that I use as a template to create other similar assemblies, I use Pack-&-Go to create the files for the new assembly and I usually add a suffix with the length and height information.
i.e. SP-001-FLOOR PAN-6500 x 1170
I encounter a problem when opening up the new assembly...
I have a problem when rebuilding an assembly sometimes in SW.
I have some rear frame components at the rear end of a tipper body assembly which are on a 10 degree angle to the rest of the body. The in-context references determine the height of the rear frame so that it suits the body height...
Sorry if this has already been asked before, I've had a look through the forums and couldn't find much.
I have an in-context part that is an L-shape, the inside height of the L is driven by a dimension in a sketch of another part via an equation.
When I change the height of the driving part...
I am developing a configurable body of a steel wagon body that my company manufactures. It is similar to a big metal tub with a door on the back.
When I increase the length of the body, there is a rail alongside the body which increases to suit. The rail has slots cut into it in a linear...
My company is just about to invest in a new laptop so that I can do more work from home. I have pretty much settled on a Dell M90 with 4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz 4MB L2 cache 667MHz FSB, 17" WUXGA Screen, NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 2500M with 512MB GFX.
My question is which operating system should I...
Following some advice from a previous thread I have decided to use DriveWorksXpress to automate the design of the product that my company manufactures.
We manufacture a steel tipping body that is essentially very simple in construction. It is all produced from sheet metal. See the link below...
Greetings all! I should probably introduce myself as this is my first post! I'm a recent graduate of Computer Aided Design in Liverpool, UK and I'm 8 months into my first job as an engineer using SolidWorks. My course at University didn't really teach us an awful lot about CAD programs and so...
