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Im new to analyzing forces on parts. I am trying to do this but it is a small assembly. Is there a way to easily merge an assembly into a single part.
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I am making an assembly with a hydraulic cylinder. I would like the shaft of the cylinder to freely move in and out but be constrained by the start and stop of the stroke length. How do I do this mate?
Does anyone know if there is a source for a solidworks model of a Dodge truck frame. Specifically a 2008 4×4 Quadcab 5500 with a 164.5 inch wheelbase? Goggle turned up nothing for me. I have a drawing from dodge but it sure would be easier to just drag in a model.
I am trying to combine two 2d splines to form one 3d spline. I can not for the life of me remember how to do this and composite curve does not seem to work.
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I used to have windows vista home basic. realizing that solidworks just did not function properly on this os I jumped on windows 7 beta and was pleased. Now I am on windows 7 rc and everything is still working fine but microsoft is offering its home and pro versions for half price. Does anyone know if these will run solidworks ok or do I have to fork over top dollar for the ultimate version? (which is the rc version I am running right now)
Holy crap Ben! The zipped package in the new beta is amazing!!!!
Hey all, I hope that there is a simple answer that I have missed in help. I want to change default settings used in drawings. I want third angle projection, reduced fonts and arrows sizes. Right now I have to do it for every drawing I make. There must be some simple way to make the changes become the new default. Right?
I just installed windows 7 beta and put solidworks 2008 on it. So far so good. It does stuff right off the bat that didn’t work on my old vista home premium. Ill continue playing with it and post if there are any problems I find.
I have a weird problem. I have a very simple part I want to put an overall length on. As you can see by the picture, it has rounded ends and holes on the same centers. I click on each end and by default of course gives me the dimension between centers. In the leaders tab I click both to MAX but they jump to the max dimension of the holes, not the max dimension of the part. I had to redo it about 6 times just to make sure I wasn’t clicking on the wrong spots.
Is there any word from Solidworks about eventually having it run on a os other than windows? I would love to go to linux.
I’m running sw 2008 sp4 on vista with 4 gig ram. every time I try to save as a dwg (autocad) I get the following message:
Solidworks is unable to obtain the required memory. Please attempt to free some memory and then press retry, or press cancel to terminate your solidworks session.
This is very frustrating. Any ideas what is wrong?
I also get some problems when saving as a pdf. If it is a large assembly, it craps out and I only get the bottom half of the image.
in an assembly can I space multiple objects on a rack by # of objects and edges of rack; or do I always have to measure and calc distance. (looking for a solution like the width mate)