https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/index.cfm?forumid=3 FuseTalk Enterprise Edition https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14697 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:48:46 EST David Vaughan 1 Here's an issue I had and have in both 2007 and 2008 versions of SW: occasionally I will attempt to open an assembly (both through the SW menu and by double-clicking in Explorer), and all the parts will be missing (greyed out). I keep assemblies and parts in the same directory, don't mess around with file names or locations in Windows, and have "Search file locations" turned on in External References, though that shouldn't matter.

If I open the drawing of an assembly with this issue, I get the Xed-out boxes. If I open all the parts (sometimes there are a lot...), then the assembly will load. If I attempt to check the References button in the Open window, I get an error claiming that the assembly file must not have been saved in the current version of SW. This is, of course, silly. I saved it the day before.

The "File not found" error does not come up, and I am not given the option to hunt for the "missing" parts manually.

This is inconsistent. It happened this morning, and after searching fruitlessly here for an answer, I tried again, and the file opened up with no problems. I suspected it may be network speed related (I work off a server), but my coworkers don't have the same problem. Is there any way to tell SW to "look harder" for files before giving up?

Also, Hi! I'm Dave, I'm an engineer, work on garden tools, and have been using SolidWorks for 4 years. My first port on the forums.

Any guesses? Thanks in advance...

Dave ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14691 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:23:01 EST Neil Hofer 1
first post here so bear with me k. Finally asked people were the button is to make a new topic on here.

On my latest project I decided to use display states to created the different shaded views of the various assemblies I need in the drawings I'm making. This is a fairly large assembly with the assemblies going several layers deep. I was empressed with the view flexibility I had up to this point and was asking myself why I hadn't been using display states before.

Well two days ago I started running into problems. Currently I'm working on making display states for assembly layer 2. I am trying to create a display state that changes the transparency of a part that is part of an assembly that was inserted into assembly layer 1.

The problem:
On that same assembly in which I'm trying to change the transparency of a part I can change the transparency on one or two parts but not the other 10 parts.

Any suggestion as to what is going on here? My VAR points me to the help files which don't give me anything useful to go by.

Thanks,

Neil ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14684 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:13:21 EST Howard Gledhill 9 https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14662 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:01:07 EST Stephen Bittner 5
Along the way in the design process, I now have a need to have differing hole patterns in the two parts.

Is it possible to modify the original part and NOT have the mirror update? Likewise, is it possible to modify the mirrored part? ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14594 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:34:01 EST Ron Betser 2 https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14593 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:24:33 EST Aaron Larson 4
-Aaron Larson ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14575 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:16:19 EST Cameron Kennedy 4
thanks in anticipation
Cameron ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14530 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:47:57 EST Joe Dunfee 12
I wanted to create a configuration of a large assembly where most of the items are suppressed. Note that this assembly has become quite difficult to manage and is very sluggish to do anything. I used the following steps;

-Created a new configuration.
-Selected the items to suppress with a window
-Right Click/Properties
-The pull-down window to select "This configuration" (or other configurations) was ghosted out. So, I took a chance and selected the "suppress" radio button.

To check if I was successful in my intent, I switched to the default configuration. To my dismay, I had apparently suppressed the parts in all configurations Undo was not available... But, not to worry, I will just use a back up of my assembly!

NOT! The backup file, even though it was created before I suppressed the parts shows the parts suppressed. Investigating deeper, as I opened the sub components, the parts had been suppressed in each individual part file!

So, SW has successfully messed up half of my part files.

What should I have done? Is there any way to easily fix what has happened?

Joe Dunfee ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14506 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:14:18 EST Hal Hardin 5 Does anyone know how much memory I should have in order to effectively handle these files? They also have refferenced drawings. ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=14500 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:20:45 EST Brandon Campbell 2
thanks ]]>