Hlep!!!! I have had two attempts on cswa but still fail it. I dont know what am doing wrong. Please help
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Hi,
Please I need help info and detail examples regarding the next Concept from In Context Feature: (if is possible same video material I will appreciate very much);
“There are other ways for creating in Context References such as”:
1- Adding geometric Relations to other assembly components;
2- Adding dimensions that reference other assembly components;
3- Using surfaces and planes belong to other assembly components;
Thank you, I appreciate.Sorin,
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Nucu
Once you edit a part in context of an assembly you can add any relation between elements of part and assembly elements.
like a dimension or a relation in a sketch that relate on assembly elements.
you find on youtube if you search something like “solidworks in context” -
salbu
Nucu,
Thank you for your answers and for the path to youtube.These not resolve to much my issues but I appreciate, I already search and it is very weak material regarding my inquires.Thank you, I appreciate.
Sorin,
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Don’t forget Ben’s contest will be ending in a few days! visit http://www.mechanicalmashup.tv to find out how to win a free 3d print!
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ok odd queston but i am a fairly new to solid works but am learning quickly with the instruction of adam scheible i will be taking the solid works associate test in late aug. and am inerested in finding work after that but am not sure as to what to do to find work or how to put this in a resume
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dave spencer
if you want to freelance, you need to build up a portfolio of stuff. you can put it on paper or a website is better because you can also show animations. You can go to local fab shops and talk to them to see how they do things. One I do work for does most of their stuff on napkins but sometimes when a customer wants a design approval he will call me to dress it up. Also, some customers apply for CSA approval or govt grants and they need full drawings to do that. Another thing I have done is to figure out complicated sheet metal flat patterns for everything from duct work to a salad bar. One fab shop isn’t going to make you a lot of money but if you get in with a bunch of them it can be lucrative. Don’t be put off by rejection though. If a company has been successful for years sketching on a napkin, they are not going to want to spend money just to make things prettier. But leave them a business card and someone will ask them at some point if they can get drawings done and he will remember you.
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After you complete your basic training, and you start doing solos, you will need to accumulate as many models of your work as you can and keep them in a folder. As Dave Spencer said, you will need to show your “wares”, the best way possible, and that way is probably a Web Site whose URL you can boast and advertise at the bottom of your e-mail, for example in the form of a Signature, or an amendment to your business card. You can check out my site if you wish at http://www.valhallagrafix.com.
Not that it is anything special, it is not, but I do believe it gets the message out and maybe you can get a couple of ideas from it for your own.
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So I have a contest for a free 3d print and 8hours of my design time going at mechanicalmashup.tv/episodes/episode-17/ Watch the video and enter (or just enter by clicking the’Digg’ link in the post and digging the post) help MechanicalMashup get known. Spread the word. The print will be courtousey of http://SolidoUSA.com
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Hi,
I have same problems regarding Revision please help me if is possible:
1-Where and how can I identify the Revision in a drwg, asm and prt, files in SW?… or (where and how can I find the Internal Property which give me the Revision number for a drw, asm ,prt files in SW).I know in drwg file I can observe in the right of the Title Block but I would like to know if this Revision I can find in other way with same property?
2-How can I modify the Revision for a files drw, asm, prt without using PDM or SolidWorks Explorer, other method?
Thank you I appreciate.
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Hello,
I have a potential project recreating a knee joint-4 bones. The model will be reproduced by a Rapid Prototype machine so the bones will have to be hollow at one end.
I can get all the MRIs I need, but I do not have the add-on ScanTo3D (I have Professional, not Premium, but could use another computer with it if it is worth the trouble)
I thought I could MRI Scan every .0625 up the lenght of the bone to give me that layers perimeter and loft ’till I drop. Kinda like rebuilding a deli sliced ham! I tried a few test layers but it is quite rough. Would this make a very cumbersome file, and too much for the Shell feature to handle?
Is ScanTo3D, point clouds and surfacing worth using some one else’s computer?
Any other suggestions?
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I think you would most definitely be better off using the other computer with ScanTo3D to read in the data. Will probably make for a more accurate and possibly much lighter model that way.
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I agree with Brian the number of data points that you will need for the accurate representation for the bone cannot be accomplished with the standard version. However I have had some luck getting scan data into a program called that is free, google the name to get it. Then tall
King the scan data reducing the polygons and then importing it into SolidWorks. It might be worth a try…
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Mr Eadie,
I think that what intimidates most of us who are weak in the surfacing end of Solidworks is the use of the Spline Tool. To arrive at the correct framework for a surface is not an easy thing for us, and of course this is the nucleus of a correct surface. A blog or tutorial on the fine points of this tool would probably go a long way to eliminate this.
Making smooth curves is most difficult to us who do not know the use of the handles, when to releast the mouse in the course of drawing a curve, etc. Watching you during one of your tutorials, one would think that it is as easy as you make it seem. Would that it could be so!
For what it is worth to you, most of the classmates that I have spoken to about this have said pretty much the same thing.
Ami Sarnoff
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Hey All… I’m surfacing up a car design of my own and I have some questions that are concerning me… Once I’m done with the overall body I will want to sub-divide the surfaces into the individual components…such as hood or door…etc…
Option#1
My initial thought was to use split line to separate the larger surfaces into the smaller respected surfaces…for instance the door skin out of the side of the car surface… I then would want to put that surface into another part file to have it as it’s one unique part, still linked to the master body file, in case I make any overall shape changes. This way I can have the outer skin as a part to use in the assembly file for the completed door that will combine all the individual parts that make up the door assembly…My problem is…I can’t get the split surface out of the main file and into another part file…can this be done…and still retain a link to the original to maintain dimensions????
Option#2
My only other option was to create separate configurations within the master body using the split surfaces tool as before and then create new part files and do insert>part to create the separate and still linked surface to work from…What is your thoughts on this?? Obviously I’m looking for the cleanest workflow to accomplish this… so far Option#2 works fine…and then I just create a new coordinate ref in the new part file and I’m good to go…but my only concern is and I haven’t gotten this far is when I’m creating all the configs…things may get a bit messy…so I’m just reaching out to see if there are any other alternatives out there…
Thanks
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CBL
Option #3
Keep the master surface model intact and use it as a base feature for other parts.
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A Google search on ’surfacing a car in cad’ turned up these two links, among others.
http://www.solidworksaudir8.com/
That should keep you going for a while….
Cheers,
Anna
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You can also check out
http://www.cardesignonline.com/design/modelling/cad/index.php
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I am going to be doing some more webcasts in the near future. What all would you like to learn about in SolidWorks?
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ivanl
Animations and renderings never fail to interest me.
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Ben,
If you were to create a tutorial on modeling the front fender of a car, for example, the mere nature of the exercise would encompass quite a few surfacing principles I think. Use of the spline tool, lining up the edges of the planes, tangency of the ends of the curves, sizing, lofting selection sequence, and probably more than my level of skill can think of. -
Chad
Guido,
Have you looked at the Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling book by Matt Lombard… that is a great resource on the topics you’re asking for… This may be a great place to gain some knowledge on what you are looking for…beside it’s great sometimes to have a book on hand to always have for reference…plus there are some tutorials that would help get your feet wet with surface modeling..once you get the workflow down…doing a cars fender is no different… I would highly recommend this book..it has a lot of good info…
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Renderings, Routing, FEA…
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Does anyone know what graphics card driver for Nvidia Quadro FX 3400 works with Wwindows 7 64 bit? I have Solidworks 2110 SP 4.0
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CBL
With the absence of an approved listing by SolidWorks, I would use the latest offering from nVidia.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-win7-winvista-64bit-258.49-whql-driver.html
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Hi,
I have same problems regarding Revision please help me if is possible:
1-Where and how can I identify the Revision in a drwg, asm and prt, files in SW?… or (where and how can I find the Internal Property which give me the Revision number for a drw, asm ,prt files in SW).I know in drwg file I can observe in the right of the Title Block but I would like to know if this Revision I can find in other way with same property?
2-How can I modify the Revision for a files drw, asm, prt without using PDM or SolidWorks Explorer, other method?
Thank you I appreciate.
Sorin,-
Nucu
You can use custom properties. Make a prop “Revision”. When you inser revision table in sw drw this property is updated with the last revision code from table. Becouse you use custom prop tese are visible also in windows on file properties. I don’t know if you change the value for Revision prop. sw will propagate that change on revision table - really I don’t think so.
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salbu
Thank you Nucu, I will try your variant.Thank you I appreciate.
Sorin,
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In a die design I have some models that will have wire-cut openings. My models show the wire-cut profiles but in the drawing file I add a sketched circle to show where to drill a start hole for threading the wire. The model also has tapped holes and such that I call out in a hole table. Is there a way to add the sketched circles to my hole table?
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Mike,
You need to model like you are going to manufacture. In other words, model in the wire starts, then add your cavities. Then create two configurations of your part, one for Milling and one for the Final part. You set up your hole chart to the Milling configuration.
Here is a link to a blog post I did on the subject a couple years ago. There is a SW2007 you can look at.
http://www.solidmuse.com/2007/02/modeling-for-manufacturing.html
I will look around and post an example or two of some parts and drawings so you can see how we detail these types of parts.
Cheers,
Anna
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Mike,
http://visualvault.auerprecision.com/ViewFile.aspx?DlID=2bcf4702-7383-452d-99e1-0ade51e9210a
Here is a link to some examples files of production die details that we send to our shop. We manufacture everything we design.
The single sheet details have two plan views overlaid and Aligned By Origin, Vert and Horz. See views 1 and 5. One plan view shows the Milled configuration the other shows the Default configuration. Hide the Default view and set view focus on the Milled view, then create your hole chart from that.
There is another example of a two sheet drawing with the Milled configuration shown on sheet 2. To get around the holes running into each other I use the same technique. Views 4 and 7 are overlaid. I have three configurations in that file.
I hide lines in the views as needed to get the views looking like I want.
Once you get used to modeling for manufacturing, it becomes second nature and is not that much extra work. Actually, it is the only way you will be able to show wire starts in a hole chart.
Cheers,
Anna
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Gooday!
Being a neophite with the Solidworks system, could one of you whiz kids, help me?
My client needs his dimensions in Feet and inches on the drawing sheets, I’ve tried to get the dim’s to look like 2′ - 4″ which is supposidly the default, but it ends up 2′ 4″. Am I reading it wrong?or am I missing something—– possibly a brain.-
CBL
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CBL
… as shown in the attached image.Attachment - arch-units
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BEEGEE
CBL …. Thanks for the “input” —- but isn’t the one shown using the dual work units? i.e. (metric & inches) — I’m working soley in feet - inches - fractions, and the default just does not seem to work..
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CBL
Select whatever settings you want for the dimension. The point of the image was to show the option under the “More” column. i.e. “Convert 2′4″ to 2′-4″”
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My main interest is in learning “Best Practices” that will let me build a library of parts and partial parts that I can re-use in future projects. I seem to trip over my external references constantly. A few pointers to how/when to use Save vs. Save As vs. Save As Copy vs…. etc. would be a great help.
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For library parts I am making I never use refs with them. Here is how I see things
1. If you have the assembly that a part is in open along with the part and you ’save as’ the assembly will look at the newly saved part
2. If you duplicate #1 scenario but ’save as copy’ the assembly will retain the link to the original part. However the part that remains open in SolidWorks is the original so if you want to work on the new part you have to open it. Do not assume that the part that is left open is the new part
3. If the assembly the part is in is NOT open and you ’save as’ the original part will be retained in the assembly
4. If the assembly the part is in is NOT open and you ’save as copy’ the same rules apply as point #2
5. If you have a part with external references that you do not want you can try clicking the top most icon of the feature manager and choose ‘list external references’ and then choose break all. This is a bit of a hack but it does work.Here is a more in depth article on all of this
http://www.capinc.com/pages/support/tips_assembly.cfm
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afee451 7:01 am on July 30, 2010 Permalink
Take the classes at your VAR. The CSWP exam lines up well with Essentials + Advanced Assemblies + Advanced Parts (a little). CSWA should probably be ok after just essentials.