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1. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Ryan Dark May 4, 2017 4:38 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)Two words:
Save As.
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2. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
S. Casale May 4, 2017 4:40 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)One must be careful with not just what, but how they write what is posted on this thread as it is public.
A big pet peeve of mine is the lack of understanding for design intent anywhere, it is everywhere!
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3. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
S. Casale May 4, 2017 4:41 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)Duplicate file names.
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4. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
John Stoltzfus May 4, 2017 4:46 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)One of the Past Famous - that worked here, decided that once a project cleared prototype, he saved over the files or completely deleted a portion of the assembly.
Opening a file that has 5 or more configurations that are in context to a non-existent model...
BLUE LINES - make me shudder....
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5. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Glenn Schroeder May 4, 2017 4:55 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)I do your #1 all the time, although I generally use construction lines instead of sketch points in the independent sketch.
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6. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
John Stoltzfus May 4, 2017 4:56 PM (in response to Glenn Schroeder)We must be the only guys on the planet that actually sees and knows the benefits of doing it our way, kind a funny
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8. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
S. Casale May 4, 2017 5:02 PM (in response to John Stoltzfus)Construction lines are awesome!
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9. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Jim Steinmeyer May 4, 2017 5:03 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)Jim, four first one is a method I learned form the impressive tricks thread, and one I happen to like so I guess one of us gets extra points. However I am in total agreement with #2
1. not centering the part or assembly on the origin. Especially if the part is symmetric. Think of a square tube or such.
2. taking an autoCAD drawing and mirroring it for an opposite handed version.
3. opening an assembly (or several) then not closing their W session before going on vacation. We do not use PDM yet.
4. Placing items in an assembly and locking them in position, no or few mates.
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10. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Dave Dinius May 4, 2017 5:04 PM (in response to Jim Sculley)I try not to look at what they are doing. Unfortunately we are not using a vault (or fortunately depending on which way the parts are moving) so I don't have to use their parts.
Sketches that are NOT symmetric when it can be.
Editing their sketches that show every relation and sketch end point.
Creating planes or axes when there is a planar face or temporary axis to be had
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11. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Roland Schwarz May 4, 2017 5:07 PM (in response to S. Casale)There's a magical thing that happens to an unconstrained line in a sketch that is closed--NOTHING! Nothing happens to it. It stays put.
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12. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Jim Steinmeyer May 4, 2017 5:19 PM (in response to Roland Schwarz)now thems fightin words!
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13. Re: What do your co-workers do with SOLIDWORKS that makes your blood boil?
Jim Sculley May 4, 2017 6:57 PM (in response to S. Casale)You should probably direct your hatred toward SOLIDWORKS on this one. Every file in the file system has a unique path. There are no duplicate file names. SW chooses to ignore the path and *that* is the source of your misery.