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    Solidworks crashes when trying to modify part

    Hello, I have this problem with Solidworks crashing when trying to edit a feature, even trying to change the height of an extrusion. I have received an assembly and parts together in one folder. They are from a previous Solidworks version and I have saved the parts for Solidworks to update...
  2. peternoon

    Moving sub-asemblies

    Hello, I am relatively new to Solidworks. I have created an assembly with a number of sub-assemblies. I am trying to move whole sub-assemblies to see them in different configurations, ideally saving the configurations, but is too difficult to do it. Sometimes they will not move, sometimes only...
  3. peternoon

    RECOMMEND A CAD TRANSLATOR

    Hello, My CAD package is getting a bit old and clunky, it cannot import STEP files. Can anyone recommend one of those translator programmes that can translate between formats like STL, IGES, STEP and maybe solidworks PRT models. It would also be an advantage if it could do things like...
  4. peternoon

    Modeler Tolerance errors

    I have been using I-DEAS for many years and recently I started getting error messages that I had not had before: 1- When checking in a part (that was not imported from another system but created in the model file) in the library I get a warning message: "this part was not created with the...
  5. peternoon

    Problem export to IGES and I-DEAS

    Has anybody been asked to export files (parts mostly) to I-DEAS and had problems at the other end. I am importing a set of part files that were exported from Solidworks to IGES and I have trouble importing the larger files (over 4 MB). Has anybody found a solution to export to I-DEAS otherwise...
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    Problem importing IGES and Solidworks

    Does anybody know if there was a limit in the size of IGES files that could be imported into previous versions of I-DEAS? (I have version 10 NX). I am importing a number of files that were exported to IGES from Solidworks. I can import files up to about 4Mb in size, but above that even though...

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