I am using hole wizard to add holes to a plate. I have put in multiple types of holes in the same plate. Three separate features in the feature manager tree. After saving and opening up later the tree has the sketch shown after the hole feature, which contains the location information of the...
I have a base plate that has Reference Planes, constructed as offset distances from the center plane. I have two configurations of the part, cold & hot. Che cold config has the planes at the given distances from center, and a suppressed Scale feature. The hot config has all that and the...
I have an assembly of common parts, and it's respective assembly drawing with a BOM. I am trying to make all of the like parts have a similar description with only the different sizes listed at the end of the description. What I want to do is to modify the description of each part from the BOM...
Basically I just want the datum to be a box with the label inside, and attached by one of the box sides to a dimension extension line, part edge, or a geometric control box as shown in the attached picture. I took that picture from my GD&T Fundamentals book.
SolidWorks Newbie since 2001...
I have a part with a hole wizard hole. On it's respective drawing, I'm trying to add a tolerance to the hole. I click on the "Hole Callout" dimension and under the Tolerance/Precision selections, None, and .125(document) dropdowns. Both are are grayed out, and not drop down-able.
I've also...
I have some new templates that I am using, and when I put in a part view, that has hole wizard generated dowel holes, the dowel symbol is not populating the circles. In the options/document properties tab/detailing/Auto insert on view creation, both dowel symbols-part & assembly boxes are check...
So when modifying a sketch in my part I have gotten used to double clicking the dimension, and it comes up automatically with the scrolling box so you can modify the value using the scroll wheel on the mouse. That said, for some reason I cant make that happen anymore. Now when I double click...
The company I work at does not use tool box components for fasteners. We have a library of separate screws that we place into our assemblies. The filenames are nothing like those of the toolbox components. Recently we are experiencing in our assemblies that the screws are being automatically...
I've been trying to offset a group of edges to a sketch, and noticed that it's not showing the offset geometry until I finish the command. And then if it's the wrong direction I have to undo and redo with the directional check box oppositized to what it was. I have a memory that it used to...
I've am standardizing our hardware library. Specifically our data base of screws, (and those who came before did not adopt the SW toolbox). Many descriptions are all over the place as to how the pieces are described so I'm getting those all in line. I've made an assembly model of all the Shcs...
I just went to rename a solidworks part from my filemanager. I right clicked the file, highlighted "solidworks" and it only showed the "Pack and Go" option. Is there a way to get it back without calling the IT monster to reinstall?(network licensing). And Yes I tried it again after full...
I have a radius I have dimensioned which is way off the border of the drawing, so I made the radius dimension forshortened. Then I went to dimension the center position, and it shows up way off the border, and there's no "foreshorten" display option for it. What may be the solution for this...
I am making an assembly file which I am using strictly for evaluating clearances, and need to keep the file for reference. I have three sub assemblies in it, and I am not going to change them, or their components at all. I have started the assembly, placed the three subassemblies in it, and...
I am working on updating an old print. It was two pages when I opened it. The first sheet has view 1 properly shown with the tangent edges visible. Sheet 2 has view 1 with the same orientation of the part, but the tangent edges are not showing. Is there a way to turn them on again...
Somewhere along the line Solidworks decided to emulate Inventor colored Icons, by making them all blue/grey based. There's a switch somewhere that changes them back to yellow/blue/green. Where is that switch?
SolidWork Newbie since 2001
-Currently using SW2017
Inventor Newbie since 2019...
So I've just been pushed from my computer which broke, to limp along on the company laptop for a while. Upon opening a certain part, the graphics display was missing. All I could see was the feature manager tree. I was able to pull down the view drop down, and turn off the tree so then I...
Overnight my computer decided to reboot, with SW 2017 running. upon startup this morning, things were messed up. I opened the part I was working on, and the command manager was along the right, where I normally keep it along the top. I was able to move it to the top like normal. then I...
My line styles are way to tiny on my drawing, which is to say the hidden dashed lines are super small, which makes them just look like a dotted line ......... instead of dashes? Same with the phantoms. so is there a scale factor I need to change or is my only choice to modify the "Document...
My line styles are way to tiny on my drawing, which is to say the hidden dashed lines are super small, which makes them just look like a dotted line ......... instead of dashes? Same with the phantoms. so is there a scale factor I need to change or is my only choice to modify the "Document...
For some reason my down arrow key will not rotate the part toward me anymore. The options screen has it set for 15° increment rotations, and the Right,UP, and Left keys work fine. Do you know if I can reset it somehow? I've gone to the customize keyboard, but don't see any listing for rotate...
