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..
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guido
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suvenb
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.
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Ben
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ali
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
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Gary
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,
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Gipsy
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
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ws2
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
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salbu
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Gary
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,
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guido
Thank you again Ben!
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Ben
From Guido: Will someone here please identify which of these parameters represents the selected arc length?
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Ben
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
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CBL
The Measure tool also reports the arc length.
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mpacillo
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-
CBL
I’m not sure whether the add-in is still available.
See here for the last -mentioned details … http://solidjott.com/solidjott-and-vuuch/2009/08/19/
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Ben
Its no longer available google saw it as a spam threat and basically told me to take it down.
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gurup
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-
Ben
If you dont care about the old references on the new part. Right click the part name at the top of the feature tree and chose delete references and it should insert
http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2012/09/cutting-all-ties-best-practices-for-removing-external-references.html -
CBL
How was the multibody part created? Does it reference another part?
Does the part you are inserting the multibody part into, contain geometry, or is it a new part?
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gurup
Hello Ben / CBL
I have one issue here ; i.e When I am working with SolidWorks , sometimes I wants to do MultiBody Assembly , i.e by saving a MultiBody part into a New part then trying it to insert at different places of the same working & active part , But 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-
CBL
Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by “then trying it to insert at different places of the same working & active part”.
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gurup
Hello Ben/CBL
NVIDIA GEFORCE & AMD RADEON Graphic cards does suits for SolidWorks ?regds
Guruprasanna-
CBL
No.
Only the cards listed at http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html are suitable.
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dak
Hi Ben-
I watched your videos on animating a spring:
http://www.viddler.com/v/d649dfa3
http://www.viddler.com/v/7dee36ccI got the spring itself to work, but cannot get it to work in an assembly.
I get stuck at the point in the second video where you create a “Motion Point”, which you said is a part with no features or anything. I’ve tried making a new part file with nothing in it, and then inserting it, as well as adding a part directly to the assembly. I can’t seem to get an origin I can mate with the top of the spring path line. The video shows a point with origin arrows and it appears you can move it around – I have been unable to reproduce that behavior.
I suspect I’m missing something simple, but am at a loss to figure out what! Perhaps it is because I’m a relative newbie to SolidWorks…
I’m using SolidWorks 2013 – have things changed since SW 2009?
Doug
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Ben
Make sure the sub assembly is set to flexible.
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salbu is discussing. 
CBL and 
hand made is working
automatically not yet …may be if
you find a sw user that has talent in programming.