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mcgyvr, Thanks for the reply. In a quick web search I have seen that surfaces can be rotated, but what maripali said is that IMPORTED surfaces can't be rotated. Do you find that statement correct? It seems surprising to me that IMPORTED surfaces would be treated differently that native...

Thanks maripali. Wow, you can't rotate imported surfaces in Inventor? SolidWorks can easily do this. I am quite shocked that Inventor can't. Is this limitation for all versions of Inventor?

I'm not an Inventor user, so please pardon the ignorance. We supply 3D models (surface models only) of our product for customers to use. A particular customer is using Inventor and says he can't manipulate the surface model (actually a collection of surfaces) to show a crank arm in a different...

Eric, Wow, Yikes. Your top level assemblies must have a ton of revisions. Is this a requirement? FDA, DOD? Just curious. Anyhow, I was just kicking around the exercise of having part numbers ballooned and not item numbered as it would side step a lot of this...

Since you are showing revision in your balloon on the assembly drawing, do you then update your drawings every time a component used in that assembly has a revision done to it? Yikes.

Eric, Are you a large company? Small?

Eric, Sounds like you are doing what I was thinking about. Good to know. By the way, you can now call out part number directly in balloons without having a macro needed. It works in SolidWorks 2013 (don't know which release it was added in). I think you may be able to get what you want...

Jim, Are you saying that showing part numbers in balloons is potentially the right track for us? I was a little confused after reading your posts. I have fond hints in books and other places that something like what I am proposing seems to be a logical progression towards a more efficient...

CBL, Our part numbers are also 8 digit.... XX-XXXX-XX. I did a test on a busy assembly drawing of ours. Everything fit nicely. Didn't seem too cluttered to folks here. Font size could also be reduced if needed and still plenty visible. As far as finding the part number in a list.... Both...

I am throwing this out there for discussion (this is also posted on the SolidWorks forums under EPDM).... This is related to whether you show BOMs on Drawings and how you manage your BOMs with ERP and Drawings (and there could be implications with EPDM). I am interested in hearing what other...

As per Standing's description of the BOM issue with SpeedPAK- I would stay away for now. Its not ready and should not be in this release of SolidWorks.

Try modelling and solving the simulation with contact conditions between the legs and the floor and setting the appropriate coefficient of friction. I can't tell you what the appropriate coefficient would be, but maybe by successive runs with coefficients you could see if it even affects the...

Bradley, Thanks for the confirmation. I have been making posts on the SolidWorks forum - with out much response. I don't know what to make of it... are 2009 users not using SpeedPAK, are there not many 2009 users yet, have they not noticed the BOM issues with SpeedPAK?? To everyone else -...

Anyone seeing weird issues with the use SpeedPAK assemblies and subassemblies and correct BOM reporting? I have been playing around with SpeedPAK in 2009 SP 2.0 and can't seem to get the drawings and BOMs to work with SpeedPAK. I am getting "*" for the item number in the balloons that connect...

I love the property tab manager while working in an assembly. You can click on a part and that parts properties can be filled out in the pinned manager in the task pane. Just click on the next part and fill out the info. If you click on a blank space in the assembly, then you get the...

razzendahcuben, Perhaps you saw "chattering" on your first example was because of the frame rate of the animation relative to the speed of rotation. For example, if you had a speed of 1 revolution per second and a frame rate of 1 frame per second, the gears would appear to be stationary...

Sarah, Instead of creating one master database, create a database for floors, another for copper plating, etc... This will give you one more level of categorization. Make sure to locate all your databases in the same folder location. Make sure your system options point to this location...

Sarah, Create separate databases as an added level of categorization. I've done this... It works well. Pete

GRF, Agreed that Enterpise has more capability than WorkGroup, but there are things that are different. I think Enterprise needs to have an Item Centric view capability (like WorkGroup has had since its inception) before the interface will be close enough for WorkGroup users to feel...

In my opinion, PDMWorks WorkGroup is getting burried by SolidWorks in favor of development spent on Enterprise. There were zero improvements in 2009 and apparently a few regressions. I wouldn't hold my breath about enhancement requests - maybe bug fixes will be handled, but I don't imagine...