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  • salbu 3:00 pm on June 10, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Ben,

    Please it is possible to make a video material regarding how to use DrawCompare tool, in detail please.
    Thank you.I appreciate.

    Salbu,

     
  • nak 3:40 am on June 7, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Good morning everyone,

    question I have for the day:
    Am I able to add a jog to the leader of a radius dimension?

    thanks
    Nick

     
  • gurup 1:11 pm on May 27, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Hello Ben
    Is it not possible to select different configurations of part while inserting it into another part , i.e while doing multibody assembly in SolidWorks ?

    regds
    Guruprasanna , Bangalore ,, India

     
  • guido 6:39 am on May 20, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Good morning all,
    I have just purchased a font from Linotype, it is the OTF type. It installed in Windows OK and Word, however it did not install in Solidworks, which is the reason I purchased it. Is there something else I am needing to do?
    I had installed the same font in the TTF style and it did install in Solidworks, from Windows, however the lettering could not be extruded in Solidworks, thus the reason I changed to the OTF type..

     
  • suvenb 10:37 pm on May 18, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    I would like to use request Michal for permission to use his animation on ‘working of a Torsional Spring’ under
    Michal 7:21 pm on September 18, 2009
    Tags: Working Torsion Spring
    I am a Doctor and this is for an academic presentation to explain a concept on a certain device. This presentation has no financial interest or commercial value.
    Would like to also request for any further animation on combination of torsional & compression springs.
    How do I contact Michal?

     
  • Ben 7:55 am on May 6, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Webinar this Wed… 

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  • ali 10:13 pm on April 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    hi , i am doing project to move water form one container to another using solidworks , the idea is to use flexible pipe which will be squeezed in sequence in order to move the water from one container to another ..the pipe will be squeezed using solenoids, my problem is that i couldn`t make the pipe flexible and i don`t know how to squeeze it
    my regars

     
  • Gary 3:40 pm on March 18, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Greetings,

    I may be trying to bite off more than I can currently chew, but I would like to be able to create drop-down lists of available sizes for parts that I model and add to the SolidWorks “Toolbox”. For example: if I drag and drop “Jig Bushing Type F” from “Design Library/Toolbox/Ansi Inch/Jig Bushings/All Jig Bushings”, into an assembly model; the “Jig Bushing Type F Property Manager” is displayed, with drop-down lists, under “Properties” for “Drill Size, Length, and Configuration Name”. Some “Toolbox” items have even more selections available among their “Properties”. Without necessarily trying to get into details as to how to create them, at least for now; can anyone please tell which, among the following would be involved in creating such properties for my own “Toolbox” items; VBA, API, macros, Excel Design Tables, and/or SolidWorks Configurations, other?

    Thank you very much.

    Sincerely,
    Gary Skinner

     
  • Gipsy 10:45 am on March 17, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: Cam follower animation!   

    Hi
    I am trying to model a cam follower mechanism with spring and roller can anyone help me Please!!

    I am trying something like that shown in the youtube video but this time in solidworks

     
  • ws2 2:40 pm on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Hi Everyone.

    I may not be using the correct terminolgy here but I hope you understand what I’m getting at.

    Can I automatically label a detail, a section or a view from one drawing sheet that indicates the drawing sheet and view that the detail originates ?

    Cheers

    Martin

     
    • salbu 3:13 pm on March 13, 2013 Permalink

      hand made is working
      automatically not yet …may be if
      you find a sw user that has talent in programming.

  • Gary 11:42 am on March 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Greetings,

    Can any of you tell me if a number, typed into the “Text” box of the “Sketch Text” command, can be linked to a dimension’s text; so that changing that dimension would result in the sketch text updating to match the dimension text, preferrably minus the “in” or “mm”, etc.?

    Thank you very much.

    Sincerely,
    Gary Skinner

     
  • guido 10:46 am on February 14, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Thank you again Ben!

     
  • Ben 8:51 am on February 14, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    From Guido: Will someone here please identify which of these parameters represents the selected arc length?image001

     
    • Ben 9:04 am on February 14, 2013 Permalink

      None of them Guido. You need to measure the arc length with the dimension tool. Select the smart dimension tool and then select each end of the arc and the arc it self and you will get the arc length as shown below. As for what each of the parameters stands for, I found the second picture in the help menu

      2013-02-14_1604

      2013-02-14_1559

    • CBL 6:02 pm on February 14, 2013 Permalink

      The Measure tool also reports the arc length.

  • mpacillo 6:18 pm on February 9, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    The SW sidebar SolidJott Add-In – is it available for SW2012 64bit? 

    Hi Ben,
    Getting reacquainted with SolidJott after a hiatus of 18 months. I’ve got a newly installed set-up running SW2012 SP4.0 on a zippy system (dual quad-core Xeon 3.0 GHz, 6 GB RAM) all on a SSHD – Win7 64bit.

    The point of my inquiry: I cannot seem to find the sidebar add-in download for SolidJott anywhere in the site. Am I missing something, or is it no longer working on SW – thus it’s not being offered?

    Thanks.
    Michael Pacillo

     
  • gurup 7:52 am on January 30, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Hello Ben/CBL
    w.r.t my previous question , its simple , I saved one multibody part , then I tried it to put to one SW part at that time SW gives me error message like this :

    ” Inserting this Component would cause a circular reference, which is not allowed”.

    Do u have idea about this issue ?

    regds
    Guruprasanna

     
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