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Jeff Wygum in Assemblies11 months ago (Show more)

Who still uses lock washers when designing machinery?

As a many year designer of food processing equipment we are planning to start eliminating all lock washers and most flat washers from our designs. This is to improve sanitation of our machines, as well as customer requests. There are also studies that demonstrate that lock washers actually cause fasteners to loosen more easily. What has… (Show more)

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Matt Peneguy (to Scott Perman) 2 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Scott Perman wrote: I stumbled across this today while investigating threaded joints. From NASA. (publication 1228.) Hence the name "lockwasher"... Maybe they should call them anti-lockwashers.

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Andrew Branch in Assemblies1 day ago (Show more)

Quick add automatically mates the copied part

I'm using ctrl + click and drag to multiply an item instead of manually inserting a component. My question is, is there a way to duplicate a part and not have it automatically mate to the nearest part of the assembly? I duplicate the part and I have to delete the resulting mate.

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Andrew Branch (to Dario Karalic) 3 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Thanks for discussing. I missed that undo option, that is quicker than manually deleting the mate. Thanks; I guess I just don't register when I see a pop-up menu that there may be useful things on it. I want to learn more shortcuts to cut down on lead time for my designs.

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Jean-Michel Krencker in Assemblies4 days ago (Show more)

Replace configs parts by individual parts in config assembly

Hello everyone, I'm facing a problem. And maybe someone may have the solution... I would be grateful... The context is: -I've an assembly with 3 configurations -In each of this config assembly , a same part is used with 3 differents config (one config part, for one config assembly) My job is: Save this 3 configs as 3 individual part and… (Show more)

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Jeremiah Feist (to Jean-Michel Krencker) 1 day ago (Show more Show less)

correct - the assembly tree will need all of the parts for each configuration - and you will control the suppression of each for the different configurations (instead of controlling part configurations).

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Andrew Branch in Assemblies1 day ago (Show more)

My display changed color and I can't see parts as well

I'm working on a rather large assembly and all of sudden it changed color (it's a softer white and the parts are almost transparent). I tried toggling large assembly mode and it doesn't change anything. I open this specific file and it's the weird color but other files I open look normal. Any help is appreciated.

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Andrew Branch (to Andrew Branch) 1 day ago (Show more Show less)

I figured out what the problem was. View--->Display---->Shaded was auto activated. I don't like the shaded view for trying to assembly a workbook. View---->Display----->Change the options to your liking.

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Jonathan Gourlie in Assemblies4 years ago (Show more)

How to use a subassembly's exploded view in an assembly

I have an assembly with a sub assembly that I want to show exploded within the assembly exploded view. I found an explanation of how to do this in Solidworks help, 2016 SOLIDWORKS Help - Using a Subassembly's Exploded View which states If a subassembly has an exploded view, you can reuse that view in a higher-level assembly. To use a… (Show more)

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Matt Hawk (to John Stoltzfus) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

Thank you!!! It looks like this box is unchecked by default on SW2020.

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Taylor Oetelaar in Assemblies1 week ago (Show more)

Stationary Tensioner Belt Design

I am trying to create a belt with a non-rotating tensioner (see attached image). The tensioner is in a slot to allow for vertical movement but I still get an warning saying one pulley is fixed. After some digging, I realized that it is because the tensioner cannot rotate. Is it possible to engage only certain pulleys or do all pulleys have to… (Show more)

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Taylor Oetelaar (to Josh Brady) 1 week ago (Show more Show less)

Ah, nice hack! Makes sense. Thanks!

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Dara Kong in Assemblies2 weeks ago (Show more)

Edge to plane parallel mate removes 2 DOFs?

MY SITUATION I'm trying to mate two plates having two holes each. I need the holes to match/align, and the plates to touch each other. But I have two constraints : I need the fewer possible mates, an most importantly I need my assembly to have zero redundant mate (for complex motion analysis). The final assembly should look like that : So I… (Show more)

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Dara Kong (to Dara Kong) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

I found the solution! I thought that not having the necessary geometry to apply a perpendicular mate was a problem, but it's not. The solution is to use the fundamental planes of each part to remove the last rotational DOF by making them perpendicular. Unlike the parallel mate, the perpendicular mate in SolidWorks behaves as expected and…

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Rex Jackson in Assemblies12 years ago (Show more)

Constrain Z axis rotation?

I need a trick for not allowing rotation about -Z- (or an Axis) This seems to be missing from the Solidworks contraint list. You may not use any other geometric entities to accomplish this (due to them being in violation of other pre-existing constraints and model parameters) This may be an enhancement request.... Anyone?

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Dara Kong (to Roland Schwarz) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Wow! Thank you for you answer! I had the same question as Rex Jackson, because I was trying to fully define a part in an assembly without having redundant mates. After reading your comment, I tried using a cricle-to-circle coincident mate (revolute joint) + plate-to-plane perpendicular mate to lock the remaining DOF. It worked! No…

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James Smith in Assemblies13 years ago (Show more)

Insert component wont move by dragging....

Occaisonally when i insert a part into an assembly, the part wont… (Show more)

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Dara Kong (to James Smith) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

It happened to me just after duplicating some sub-assemblies, and dragging them where I wanted them to be. I suppressed the sub-assemblies I've just duplicated, and dragged. Then I unsuppressed them, and the problem got away! It would be great if someone could test this workaround to know if it works every time?

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Matt Black in Assemblies2 weeks ago (Show more)

How to simulate overlapping parts in assembly?

I am trying to create a model of a mechanical iris, which is made up of several overlapping leaves contained within a body. In reality, these leaves bend slightly in order to overlap with each other, but in SolidWorks, they are treated as completely rigid objects and any overlap between them is considered to be interference. Is there any way to… (Show more)

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ömür tokman (to Matt Black) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

make the parts angled. draw pins at an angle. Did you try?

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