I'm doing a print for a multibody part that has an exploded view, and every drawing view has a huge bounding box (the dotted line thing you grab to move the views around.) In order to get all of the views on the print, the boxes are overlapping, and it's really difficult to select and move a...
When doing a BOM for an assembly, is it possible to make it so that some of the subassemblies have all of their components show up, but other subassemblies show up as just one line?
SW2011 SP2.0 System: Dell Precision M6600 w/ I7-2820QM, 12GB DDR3 1600MHz, FirePro M8900
I've always dreaded any project using Solidworks Animation. I don't know why, but it never works right for me. I can use their wizard to rotate my part/assy, but when I try to do more complex animations, it...
I'm working on a beach chair model and the fabric will attach to the frame with lacing to a zig-zag bent wire welded to the inside of the frame. See here for an example of a chair that uses this kind of fabric attachment...
When creating section and detail views Solidworks automatically names the view with the next letter in the alphabet after the last view it named. However, if I delete one of the views, Solidworks doesn't "recycle" that name, so every time I create a view from then on I have to manually rename it...
I have a large assembly and when I have sub-components and assemblies expanded on the feature tree, I can't reach the bottom items on the feature tree. With the scroll bar all the way down, there are 3 or 4 things off screen. The only way to get to them is to minimize all items on the feature...
I gave an assembly to a coworker and he made some drawings and gave it back. Now almost all of the view toggles are greyed out. I really needed to mate to an axis, but I was unable to turn on the view of axes. What causes this greying out...
Is there any way to toggle the display of cosmetic threads in parts and assemblies? I'm not talking about the surface texture representation of threads, but of the dotted line circle that shows through everything.
I frequently have features fail because my sketch has a stray tiny line segment hanging around at some intersection. I then have to zoom in, find it, and delete it. I guess something about the way I draw lines is occasionally causing me to accidentally draw a tiny, extra line when endind line...
I'm modeling a beach chair and I'd like to show it with the below fabric on it. I've used surfaces to model the fabric and I've assigned appearances/textures from the solidworks included samples (grey cotton looks best so far) but I don't know how to edit a custom texture to make it look right...
What's you/your company's policy on producing prints for parts that are mirror images? Do you always produce prints for each, or is is occasionally acceptable to issue a vendor a PO with a line for part A (print included) and a line for part B with a note that it's an exact mirror image of part...
1. I can add a new column to a BOM on a drawing, but I can't figure out how to link that column to a specific component/part property, such as vendor. How do you do that?
2. Does Solidworks have any way of exporting BOMs as a spreadsheet file?
3. If so, is there a way to generate and export a...
When I dimension the radii of a part, for instance a rectangular plate with 4 filleted corners, I like to dimension one radius and call out the # of radii that dimension applies to. Is there a way to modify the radius dimension to include a parametrically linked # of instances value? Perhaps...
I've noticed when I use the hole callout to annotate a set of holes on a drawing, the callout on the number of instances only reflects the holes in the original hole wizard operation. If I then mirrored those holes, it seems like the hole callout should add the total number of mirrored holes to...
When I use the toolbox to create a fastener, I'll "save as" and check "copy", then insert that copy in my assembly. I've been doing this because I thought it would break the link to the toolbox part but it seems like it doesn't.
The reason I wanted to break the link is recently when I migrated...
I'm posting this for a friend of mine; I'm not having this problem. He's running SW 2010, and recently when he dimensions drawings, the dimensions are coming up neon green instead of black or grey. This is not the olive green of a dangling dimension, and he's gone through the system options...
I've been having computer issues and have had a warranty motherboard and hdd exchange, followed by a whole new computer (dell laptop.) Originally I had Solidworks installed and everything worked great. After the new motherboard/hard drive, I reinstalled and noticed that sometimes the scroll...
I'm doing prints for an assembly. One of the components is a weldment with several segments of tubing extruded along the segments of a 3d sketch. I inserted a front view and projected a top and isometric view from it. I'm wanting to show the 3d sketch for the tubing, and it's showing up on the...
When I save a drawing for the first time, the "description" field is always filled in already with the description of a completely unrelated part I did long ago (the same one each time, ergotron arm mounting plate something or other.) If I don't remember to change it, I'll have a drawing file...
I'm trying to turn on the visibility of temporary axes, but when I click on the hide/show items button, everything is greyed out and un-selectable except for sketches and decals! What might be causing this, and how can I re-enable everything? It's really hard to get done what I need to do now.
