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Ashok Anumula in Assemblies4 years ago (Show more)

Using Solidworks 2016 SP2 and have a problem. When I move a component in an assembly Solidworks pops up a dialog box to modify the last mate and if I do not pay attention then it deletes the last mate I did. Not sure where to turn this option off or is it a bug in Solidworks. Thank you

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Serge Piastra (to Ryan Garis) 1 hour ago (Show more Show less)

As mentioned earlier, issue first reported in 01/08/2012... Oct. 2019, SWX 2017 sp 5.0 and the issue is still current. VAR, SPR, SR... you name it, I've been through all those avenues with no result. BTW, I have yet to be convinced of the usefulness of a VAR, but that's the subject of another discussion! As you said, restarting SWX will fix the…

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Ivan Silva in Assemblies8 hours ago (Show more)

Hidden components in assembly drawing

Hey folks, how can I hide some components of an assembly when in assembly drawing? For example, I have a ladder steel structure and I need to dimensioning its angle-irons but there are some checkered plate in its front.

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Tom Strohscher (to Dan Pihlaja) 5 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Nice Dan It could be dangerous to use suppress. Mates and BOMb could be affected. You could also not show hidden lines in the view and show hidden edges for the parts you need hidden lines for. However pasted versions struggled with this. I haven't tried it since 2015. Showing all hidden parts in the view and turning each off displayed…

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Rocky Reynolds in Assemblies1 week ago (Show more)

Aligning an existing part's origin with the assembly's origin.

I know when you first drop a part into a new assembly there are two (maybe more) ways to align the 1st part's origin to the assembly's origin. Without clicking in the drawing area click the eye and engage the origin button and drag the 1st part, still attached to the pointer, to the origin and left click. The origins will coincide and the… (Show more)

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Scott Perman (to Rocky Reynolds) 8 hours ago (Show more Show less)

I realize it ends up with the same result, but for some reason i prefer to have the part aligned to (usually) the origin, instead of fixed.

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Martin Jensen in Assemblies8 months ago (Show more)

Spending most of my day looking at the "SOLIDWORKS is busy" window .

I'm spending most of my days looking at the "SOLIDWORKS is busy running the ### command" window . Pretty much anything I do, results in that window. The window itself is not the problem, but the time wasted while SW is processing a function. I am well aware that some commands takes longer than other, and I often work with some quite large… (Show more)

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Joshua Shepherd (to Martin Jensen) 12 hours ago (Show more Show less)

I have the same issue as well. I locked up my machine for 2 hours(untill i killed it) trying to fully define a sketch I copied from autocad. No PDM, and running an Intel i9-9900 (8 core 5.0GHz) 64gb ram, 2x Samsung 970 Pro M.2 2280 512Gb NVMe SSD & Quadro p4000 8gb GPU.... SP4.0

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Yago Tuneli in Assemblies3 days ago (Show more)

How can I save an assembly as a part to use the combine tool? (create a negative shape)

Hello I'm Yago and I'm from Brazil. I need to print a 3D part and this part need to be a negative form of an assembly (M600 PRO Drone image attached). I'm tried to do this using the combine tool from Solidworks 2017. My question is how can I save an assembly as a part to use the combine tool? The part needs to appear like a solid body and… (Show more)

Kostas Stergiopoulos in Assemblies3 days ago (Show more)

Copy an assemply

Hi everyone . I have made a box in assemply and i made a second (same with the first) with -copy as - method .At the second assemply box i have many questions marks why? (src44) Can anyone tell me where am i wrong and how can i fix it? Thank you for your time Regards

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Jacky Hao (to Kostas Stergiopoulos) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

yes，->x,this symbol means you have an external reference.and ->?this means the external reference is missing.

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Colleen Christie in Assemblies5 years ago (Show more)

Parts not showing in assembly

I have noticed recently that I have several parts within sub assemblies in my top level assembly that are not showing even though they are not hidden or suppresed in the feature manager. If I selct the part in the feature manager (its icon shows yellow) hide it, then show it it reappears. I have tried to rebuild and do ctrl+Q and that doesn't… (Show more)

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Juan Aviles (to Colleen Christie) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

If anybody is looking for a fix still, try zooming to selection on the solids or single parts. sometimes they are so far from the origin that they appear infinitesimally small and cannot be seen.

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Greg Welch in Assemblies9 months ago (Show more)

Pack and Go won't work with Keep full folder structure option

I'm having problems with a particular set of assemblies using Pack and Go. When I have the "Keep full folder structure" option selected, I get the "folder does not exist...." error message. I've tried this on multiple folders on multiple drives, including brand new folders in my C: drive. I suspect the problem is related to several 3D… (Show more)

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Paine Zeng (to Greg Welch) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

the api help has a wrong order for the code. like this: swPackAndGo.FlattenToSingleFolder = False status = swPackAndGo.SetSaveToName(True, myPath)

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Zhe Chen in Assemblies6 days ago (Show more)

How do I specify two dimensions from two different parts in an assembly to be equivalent?

I know there are several ways to make dimensions from different parts linked or equal. But here is my problem. I need the two dimensions undefined, such that they can be draged or freely changed in the assembly since the dimensions are not defined or specified. Hope I have make myself clear. I have this question because I want to freely… (Show more)

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John Stoltzfus (to Zhe Chen) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Zhe Chen Use a Skeleton Sketch Part (SSP) to control your parts in the Assembly, no global variables, also no separate equations required, control every thing at one place.

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Joel Filipe in Assemblies6 days ago (Show more)

Making a part flexible in 3 points using a mate

Hello, I design sofa beds and one of my my bigegst problems doing so is transforming what happens in reality to SW. You can see on the attached picture that the part shown on the PrtSc with the 3 circles isnt flat with the sofa structure. I want it to be able to twist like it does in reality. I've been experimenting with coincident mates:… (Show more)

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Joel Filipe (to Dan Eldred) 6 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hello dan, No, I'm not trying to bend the part.. I know how to bend parts. (If you look closer I have a few).. But this part is just riveted at an angle wich I cannot measure and that angle is maintained during the opening and closing of the sofa bed. Thanks anyway

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