19 Replies Latest reply on Nov 3, 2017 1:03 PM by Edward Lehrke

SOOOOO frustrated. I have limited SW time and things do not appear on our computers as they do in tutorials HELP!!!!

Edward Lehrke Oct 11, 2017 1:26 PM

Part question, part venting! We are doing the pressure plate tutorial and students are following along with tutorial. Our first glitches seem to be that when it's time to do the "blind in end condition" we cant get property manager to do anything. We click on property manager and get nothing. We can right click and get the circle to extrude, but we can get nothing look as any vid or the tutorial does as far as the property manager. Can anyone out there shed some light on what is going on? I am so frustrated as are my students. I have done this tutorial myself , but my skills in this area are very limited. HELP!!!

Re: SOOOOO frustrated. I have limited SW time and things do not appear on our computers as they do in tutorials HELP!!!!

Deepak Gupta Oct 11, 2017 2:22 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)
Edward, not sure why you're facing issues (without looking at some pictures from your screen) but check the attached video to give you steps on how to do that tutorial initial step.

Also note that there can be different ways or steps to create the same plate. So do explore when you get the time.

Base Plate.wmv 2.5 MB
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Re: SOOOOO frustrated. I have limited SW time and things do not appear on our computers as they do in tutorials HELP!!!!

Kelvin Lamport Oct 11, 2017 2:27 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)

Can you post images of what you are seeing compared to what you expect to see?
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Re: SOOOOO frustrated. I have limited SW time and things do not appear on our computers as they do in tutorials HELP!!!!

Dan Pihlaja Oct 11, 2017 2:39 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)

OK, I see what is going on. The tutorial forgot to tell you to select the extrude command. Correction! See response below.

So select that and then you should be good to go.
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  Dan Pihlaja Oct 11, 2017 2:38 PM (in response to Dan Pihlaja)
  
  Correction, it actually does:
  
  Just not on the page....it is on the 3rd page.
  
  You can go about creating an extrude before you even put any sketch geometry down and it will automatically prompt you for a sketch to start.
  
  OR
  
  You can create the sketch and then select the extrude command.
  
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Re: SOOOOO frustrated. I have limited SW time and things do not appear on our computers as they do in tutorials HELP!!!!

David Matula Oct 11, 2017 4:11 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)

This sounds like a fun challenge....take the SolidWorks essentials part class again using the book that you got back in 1998.....opps don't have that book got the advanced modeling from 2006....and see how easy it is to follow the steps...
Question who makes and updates these tutorials(torcher)...would be more like it....Last bunch I had to play with was on cadworx and the version I had vs the version they were using there was a lot of help and internet search going on to find out how to get stuff done....once or twice I had to contact the instructor ...
If someone wanted me to do one we would have to set bind 3 videos into one....there is the screen video the key board video and then you have to get the mugshot video too....then I guess I could do a command by command screen shot....but those suck.....cause there is 5 ways to do the same thing in this program who is to say one is better than another and if one wont work you have to know about the other....
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Edward Lehrke Oct 23, 2017 1:00 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)

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  David Matula Oct 23, 2017 5:54 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)
  
  wooooowwww !!! Check that out no feature manager...no tabs for different functions....I used to keep mine set up like that....till the guys started asking me for help and if was frustrating when neither one of us could find the command.....
  instead of forcing them to work like me I decided it would be better to adapt and overcome to the new settings no matter how much you do not like them so that you do not become the old grouchy man that people hate to ask for help.
  What version of SolidWorks is that?
  
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    Edward Lehrke Oct 24, 2017 12:45 PM (in response to David Matula)
    
    sw 2017
    
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      David Matula Oct 24, 2017 12:57 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)
      
      That is SolidWorks 2017.....There has been a lot of great things posted here to help out..one thing is I would do is to back up and save all the settings on the computer for your solidworks.
      Then see about getting the feature manager up and from there the things should look better and follow the examples better
      
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        Edward Lehrke Nov 3, 2017 1:00 PM (in response to David Matula)
        
        How do I do this? I'd love to have things in "default" if possible... I would love toskype or facetime with sombody to figure this out
        
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        Deepak Gupta Nov 3, 2017 1:02 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)
        
        I can do a quick screen sharing session (using Team Viewer)with you to help, so PM me with details.
        
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        Edward Lehrke Nov 3, 2017 1:03 PM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        Great
        
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  Jim Wilkinson Oct 24, 2017 7:46 AM (in response to Edward Lehrke)
  
  Hi Edward,
  
  You have the CommandManager (the main default interface for accessing all the commands) undocked and resized to be very small and pretty much useless in the middle of the screen. IF you want that back in the default location, drag it by the title bar that says CommandManager and drop it on the icon that will show near the top center of the graphics area. Then it will redock to be in the default location and much easier to use. This may be leading to some of your confusion since in its current state, most of the command access UI is hidden.
  
  Thanks,
  Jim
  
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    Dan Pihlaja Oct 24, 2017 8:51 AM (in response to Jim Wilkinson)
    
    Jim Wilkinson wrote:
    
    Hi Edward,
    
    You have the CommandManager (the main default interface for accessing all the commands) undocked and resized to be very small and pretty much useless in the middle of the screen. IF you want that back in the default location, drag it by the title bar that says CommandManager and drop it on the icon that will show near the top center of the graphics area. Then it will redock to be in the default location and much easier to use. This may be leading to some of your confusion since in its current state, most of the command access UI is hidden.
    
    Thanks,
    Jim
    
    Ahhh, didn't notice that. I was wondering what that thing was in the middle of his screen.
    
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    Edward Lehrke Oct 24, 2017 12:48 PM (in response to Jim Wilkinson)
    
    This helped a ton!
    
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Re: SOOOOO frustrated. I have limited SW time and things do not appear on our computers as they do in tutorials HELP!!!!

Edward Lehrke Oct 23, 2017 1:01 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)

So in the property manager tab we cannot get any features to show up. Thanks for the help
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  Dan Pihlaja Oct 23, 2017 1:08 PM (in response to Edward Lehrke)
  
  Edward Lehrke wrote:
  
  So in the property manager tab we cannot get any features to show up. Thanks for the help
  If you are talking about the pictures that you posted right before you posted this:
  
  Then the problem is that you haven't exited your sketch yet.
  
  You need to slow down and make sure that you are doing every single step. You can't skip any of them.
  
  Like I said earlier, you can create an extrude (or a cut) linked to a sketch in 2 ways (there are more, but the 2 most common are:):
  1) Select a surface, Create sketch, draw sketch, exit sketch, select sketch in tree, select extrude (or cut), fill in properties....done
  
  2) Select extrude (or cut), select surface (automatically creates sketch), draw sketch, exit sketch, fill in properties....done
  
  The way they are doing things is using method 2. I think that you are skipping that first step.
  
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    Glenn Schroeder Oct 23, 2017 1:42 PM (in response to Dan Pihlaja)
    
    Dan Pihlaja wrote:
    
    Like I said earlier, you can create an extrude (or a cut) linked to a sketch in 2 ways (there are more, but the 2 most common are:):
    1) Select a surface, Create sketch, draw sketch, exit sketch, select sketch in tree, select extrude (or cut), fill in properties....done
    
    2) Select extrude (or cut), select surface (automatically creates sketch), draw sketch, exit sketch, fill in properties....done
    
    The way they are doing things is using method 2. I think that you are skipping that first step.
    
    I prefer #3. Select surface or plane. Select the Extrude (or Extruded Cut) command. SW opens a sketch on the selected surface. When I close the sketch I'm immediately taken to the command's Property Manager.
    
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David Nelson Oct 24, 2017 9:48 AM (in response to Edward Lehrke)

Part of what you are seeing depends on the version of Solidworks you are using and how it is set up. The last few years we have had changes in Icons that make these tutorials hard to use. Maybe they should update the tutorials but then folks using previous versions of Solidworks would not understand them. I did most of these in 2013 and even then things did not match up.
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