i have an isue with using this forum
and it keeps popping up again and again
it gets most obvius while navigating true this
Parts and Features
the problem is that people are on all different platforms/years of solidworks
they post the part file
but if the post a 2017 sldprt there is no way of opening it in 2014 2015 2016 or lower
wich makes helping dificult
only way of knowing this is downloading the file trying to open it
if u cant u need to wait until someone posts a picture in order to help
and since most newwer pieces of software are more capable there is a big chance i can help using a lowwer software version
this aplies to so many sections of this forum
macro`s that work on 2017 , wont work on 2012
but 2012 wil work on 2017
its frustrating going true this
and could easely be helped with having a topic prefix
im on a programming forum as wel and they have a prefix in the tittle of the topic like , html or c# or php
example
C# need help hooking into batch commands
or
HTML5 need help with custom H7 heading
here is a quicpic of different ways u can go about something like this
would be grealty apriciated of this could be adressed
if the dev`s of this forum do not have enough knowledge/time i would like to do the work for free
but since they added allot of functionality to this forum already i doubt they need my help
also it would be nice for the macro section to have special code sections
and then protect them using spoilers so people that are not a member of this forum cannot see it
Nick, I can understand your frustration but I may disagree with some of your points.
1. It is more on the user/member who is asking for help, to post all the required details, specially SOLIDWORKS version and SP (though nothing is mandatory but at least for courtesy). Further if that person can properly create the post title and describe the problem in more details this helps other who are trying to help. Check this post and share with others on how to utilize this as well any forums Forum Posting
Now since advanced version has newer features, so it is little difficult to give a backward compatibility within all versions.
2. You can use window explorer to find the last SOLIDWORKS version used to save the file.
3. Same is with macros since there are obsolete methods OR additional new methods which sometimes creates issues when using higher version macro into lower version (though it would be ~10% cases).
4. Well I may not agree with you on this particular one. This is a public forum and open to anyone, so hiding the codes might be a biasing. But yes there are some sections of this forum which are only available to customers/user which are on subscriptions.