Daen,

I have frequently attempted to follow and vote for those linked ERs. I must not get it, I have only been successful less than 10% of the time. There has to be an easier way....

      Then when I had an issue that was very important to me I searched the ER data base and fully 15% of the requests that came up covered the issue I was wanting. They all were marked as closed, some of them years ago, and the issue still remains.

Yes!

We cannot state if and when changes will be made to the Top Ten.  There cannot be system changes this year, of course.  There are a lot of elements we have to consider and time necessary to implement.   The focus this year is to provide as much time as possible for the idea submission process.

This one change is not addressing any of your stated concerns and wishes directly, but there may be other ways to help in the meantime.  For example, if someone wishes to submit a Top Ten idea that has already been submitted as an Enhancement Request, they are welcome to include the associated SPR # in the description of their idea.  (Do not include the SR #, as this is specific to each person and not searchable by others.)  The only thing I ask is that SPR #'s are not included in the Titles for Ideas.  Only include them within the Descriptions.  If an SPR # appears in an Idea's title, we'll require an edit to the Idea to move the SPR # to the description.

Why Toolbox and Weldment are in same category?

I can't get in.  It was the same with the Visualize beta forum before they tweeked something.

Edit:  I can get in through the shortcut links to the sub categories.....just not through the link that everyone has been posting or the main shortcut link on the left side of the forums page.

Hello Matthew Lorono ,

I have the same authorization problem, even though I work for a VAR. It doesn't matter if I login to VAR RC or Customer Portal.

Kind regards

Joerg

You need to use the same details and make sure you've account on SW customer portal.

And have active subscription. If nothing works, then talk to your VAR.

Here's the text from your idea last year:

Combine and improve options for loading assemblies- single dialog for search and loading options

Provide a combined UI for opening of SolidWorks assembly files and reduce the amount of load time and 13 different rules for loading (Search Routine for Referenced Documents). Currently, SolidWorks relies on several different system options to fully define how an assembly is to be loaded. The user has to navigate through several setting pages to locate and define the search
paths hierarchy and how the assembly is required to be loaded. In a simple example, a user would need to change folder locations from the Options->File Locations->Search Paths to define where SW (native) is to look for files. Next the user would need to navigate to the Options->Assemblies tab and then select how they want the assembly to load. Finally, the user may also need to access External References tab to set how they want data to be loaded and define conditions of what to load and how.

I would like to see a simple Load Options UI that pulls the needed information to load assemblies into a single dialog. This dialog would be accessible from the Open File dialog and as a standalone dialog.  The user would be able to select how the assembly is to be loaded, helping define the search routine and define what type of data to load when opening the assembly.

Primary Search Options

As saved: (Only load files based on the current references stored in the assembly file) report of files not able to be found display in secondary dialog. This reduces any need to run through all the different checking levels. Currently Search using full path as was last saved is check #12 in the search routines!

Use Search Directory:
Load files using only the defined search directory- this is used when working/looking for specific design projects and you want to load only files from that specific set of folders.

• This section would allow the user to either type in paths to use
• Allow for recursive using \... option at end of path or some sort of recursive checkbox
• Allow for search path file to be saved and accessed by others
• Allow for loading/reading existing search path files (quickly change search paths when working on multiple projects)

From directory:
This option only loads data located in the current file folder that the assembly file is being loaded from. Period. Assembly Component Load optionsLevels: This setting will allow you to load your components using several different methods

• Shown:
  Only load components that are flagged as Shown when the assembly was last saved. Hidden components are ignored.
• Empty/None:
  Loads the assembly structure and enough data to define the bounding box of the component to allow for a general visual location of the component/sub-assy
• Lightweight:
  Loads components that contain lightweight representations
• As Saved

          This options loads datat that the assy was saved with.

Configuration: Load
components using a defined configuration and/or configuration hierarchy with basic logic that says load this configuration if it exists first, if not then next configuration on list, etc.

Load External Reference Data:

This option load the needed data to resolve external references.
Depending on the reference only that data required to resolve the relationship is loaded.

Save Load Options:
Have a final ability to save the Load Options to a file that can be saved and shared between users.

Allow Substitutions:
This option will allow the system to automatically replace files who name matches the name stored in the parent assembly but who’s unique SW file ID does not match. This would allow an assembly to load bolt.sldprt to be loaded from the current folder instead of the last saved folder location when using the From directory or search paths. The system would automatically load the file and attempt to resolve mating conditions.

When working in a managed environment additional functions can be applied.

For this year, we will keep things as in the past.  I'm not sure how we will approach this next year.  There are reasons to remove the list from public view which we'll have to consider.  However, I foresee us at least hiding the Top Ten a week or two before SWW so we can make it as much of a surprize as possible.   After SWW?  That's the part that needs to be looked at.

Richard,

Thanks for taking a look. I have registered - because my VAR thought that might fix some different issues a while back - but just did it again and the SW site acted like I had not registered. So I am now re-re-registered.

Logged out and back in to the forums and still no change. Not sure how long the handshake between the forums and the SW customer portal will take. You'll hear from me if it isn't better in a few hours.

Daen

Richard Doyle,

Is there a way to make the profile more portable? I have been with my new employer for a year now. I have contacted both my current VAR and my previous VAR at least a couple of times as well as SolidWorks and I am still listed as being with the previous employer but no longer have an active account because of it. The old VAR tells me that SW needs to make this change, SW tells me that either of the VARs need to make the change, and the new VAR tells me that my account is the previous VAR's asset thus they are unable to change anything.

      I have a new account with my current employer but of course because it is a new account it doesn't have my history such as bookmarks, questions that have been answered and the like. Using one account for things that require an active account and the other for every thing else might be one option as undesirable as it is. But when I log out of the portal to change accounts i am logged back into the same one unless I close my entire browser between logging in. Even opening a second internet session doesn't do the trick.

     The crux of the issue is this request, "Is there a way to move my information from one forum account to another so I don't have to deal with the VAR cluster"? And people wonder why Paul Salvador doesn't want to send extra cash to a VAR.

I have someone looking into your access issues Ken.

Richard

Michael, check out this thread for some additional information on this years Top Ten at SWW...

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