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Jim Sculley in Assemblies6 years ago (Show more)

I have an assembly I've been working with for a couple of days with no problems. Suddenly, when rotating the shaded model in the display window, the geometry 'jitters' as though components are being moved, even though I am only rotating the display. When I stop rotating, the components 'stay' in the wrong places. If I then switch the display… (Show more)

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John Pruyn (to Chad Belbeck) 22 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Works for 2018 Thanks!

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Pete DeRaymond in Assemblies9 years ago (Show more)

Mate references - only active in one config?

I have a mate reference in a part that is active only in one configuration. If i select another configuration of the part, the mate reference is greyed out and is not active in an assembly. Is this how mate references are supposed to be?

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Sdfw Werw (to Stephen Brett) 1 day ago (Show more Show less)

Thankful that was perfect It worked

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Taylor Begay in Assemblies2 days ago (Show more)

Help with "Copy with mates"

Hi everybody, I am just having a little trouble with the "copy with mates" function while making an assembly. I am trying to copy mated spacers multiple times so I don't have to sit there and do concentric and coincident mates forever. I have attached my assembly through a zip folder created with pack and go, so you can all toy around with it… (Show more)

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Mariah Fox (to Taylor Begay) 1 day ago (Show more Show less)

You can still use the copy with mates command when getting the "Mates to be copied with the selected component are under defined" popup. Just click the right arrow to move to the next step and proceed. If you would like to stop getting this error, fully define the component before copying it. Try locking the concentric mate.

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Nandika Sirinuwan in Assemblies3 days ago (Show more)

Blue icon in Solidworks part files ?

Im working with assembly that has several parts. In Windows Explorer shows small blue arrow like below. This icon has only on Solidworks part files. What is the reason for this? Thank in advance

John Howell in Assemblies2 years ago (Show more)

Mirroring Components with multiple Configurations

I have a part that has two SolidWorks configurations. One configuration has a few features suppressed while the other does not. This part gets mirrored as a component in an upper level assembly. Both configurations come over to the mirrored part - however they do NOT correctly reflect the corresponding geometry from the same configuration in… (Show more)

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Glenn Schroeder (to Terry Raymond) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Terry Raymond wrote: I have this question too - how are mirrored parts supposed to sync configurations with the parent part? I'm on 2018sp5. Right-click on a mirrored (or patterned) component in the tree and choose the "Component Properties" icon. When the dialog box opens choose the option shown below.

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Rene Ruiz in Assemblies4 years ago (Show more)

SW 2016 "open summary"

in SW 2016, is there any way to permanently disable the "open summary?" It causes my assemblies to either hang and solidworks to crash, or take an excessive amount of time to open. This was not present while using sw 2015. thanks.

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Cameron Blank (to Deepak Gupta) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

I'll do that on Monday. Thanks for your help.

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Alex Yang in Assemblies6 days ago (Show more)

Can a part/assembly file cause issues for incomplete step file model?

SolidWorks 2019 SP3 Currently having an issue with saving an assembly as a STEP file and opening the STEP file. Step file is missing components that is there in the assembly file. None of the components in the assembly file is suppressed. It only happens on this specific part (MET-0027-02...). I made other assemblies using different part… (Show more)

Axel Dahmen in Assemblies2 weeks ago (Show more)

How can I move parts out of a folder?

I accidentally added some parts to a folder in Feature Manager and hit "save file". Now I want to move these parts back to the Feature Manager root. But that doesn't seem to be possible. Whenever I do, SolidWorks tells me that I cannot move items to their identical location: This seems odd to me. So, how can I move parts from a folder… (Show more)

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David Matula (to Krzysztof Szpakowski) 6 days ago (Show more Show less)

I did not break the function of being able to take parts and move them to another folder or out of it. It is not working for him so delete the folder to accomplish what you need at this time, and move it on, there is work to be done. recreating the folder is not that hard as the parts and features stay grouped.

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Gordon Rigg in Assemblies2 years ago (Show more)

Lightweight won't switch off

I cant stop my assemblies loading lightweight. The odd thing, is that this has become a problem since implementing PDM standard. But I don't understand how that can mess with my system setttings. Other system settings do remain as set. So it seems each time I open solidworks I must re-uncheck that box i have ringed in red? why? All my… (Show more)

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Glenn Schroeder (to Gordon Rigg) 6 days ago (Show more Show less)

Gordon Rigg wrote: SW 2019 SP4, this check box is coming back checked even more often, since new clean install of solidworks. Affecting all 3 of our seats randomly. How many of us have this issue? its seems like lots and lots of us... why this setting and not the other many many settings??! So I open an assembly drawing, make one small…

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Dave Bear in Assemblies2 years ago (Show more)

Ball And Socket Constraint Ideas.........

Hi all, I've search the forum for a similar post but only really found one from 2012 that wasn't fully resolved. So in the hope that idea's and functions have changed, could people please give me their best suggestions on how to constrain my ball and socket. Both these parts are self made as I'd rather learn how to make them than just… (Show more)

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Brent Gaspard (to Solid Air) 6 days ago (Show more Show less)

Thank you for the question. Actually, I was able to place a "Limit Angle" on the associated axes of the ball and the receiver components, however, the movement became "limited" along one plane. So the outer lever point would only move along the front plane for example, and would not pivot 360-degrees through all planes.

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