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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guido
Thank you again Ben!
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guido
Thanks Ben, Actually I had never heard of DraftSight before this.
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guido
Does anyone have an idea why I should be getting this error message when importing an Autocad file
into solidworks, for conversion to Sheet Metal mode?
Guido
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guido
Is there a way to explode and edit the fonts that are native to Solidworks?
Some of them are drawn in a way that does not lend themselves to extruding,
with very unclean geometry.
They would have to be exploded first. I find that one letter or line cannot be selected alone,
without selecting the entire alphabet. I attach an example.
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guido
What is the correct way to adjust the height or boldness of the dome created when using the Filled Surface tool on an extruded surface? How are the parameters set?
Also, what is the “Constraint Curves” section all about?
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guido
If anyone has a Solidworks model of a cloth backpack, that is not proprietary, and is able to share it, I would appreciate it.
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guido
Hello all.
Wishing all my Cad Brothers and Sisters a joyous Holiday Season and beyond.
Can someone tell me why I should get this nasty unsolveable when attempting to mirror
a fully defined sketch? Is there a way to resolve the situation, or maybe I should say is
there a way to abstain from getting in this predicament in the first place?
Thank you…
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salbu
For mirror in sketch ude Centerline, second for conflicts in sketch use tools /dimensions /fully define sketch play there and eliminate the problems.
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Ben
One thing I have found is that sometimes deleting a few measurements and re-doing them can help. Keep in mind that measuring from a end point vs measuring from a line actually are considered two different types of measurement. If you measure from a line it is a perpendicular (always) from the line to the measuring point or other line. From point to point even if it is perpendicular to start it can morph to a non perpendicular state causing issues…
I feel a new video coming on. This is a bit weird to explain with words…
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salbu
If Ben allow me I have something similar to complete and is a rule in other software 3D, ProE, when you add dimensions it is a good practice to set the dimensions first, surface to surface or plane to plane, plane to surface, plane or surface to line, line to point, the last one point to point I think we can apply this in SW too.For sketch the same rule line or other geometry arc, are more stabile than a point.
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guido
Hey Ben, your world class videos have removed the “weirdness” out of a lot of questions for many of us over the years.
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guido
Thank you!
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guido
Regarding the several neutral file formats that Solidworks files can be “saved as” for translation, there are two step files, AP203, and AP214. Does anyone know the difference between the two.? Is one preferred over the other by 3-D Printers I wonder?
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afee451
STEP203 is the older of the two formats, and is slightly more widely used. STEP214 is newer and the only difference I know for sure is it can store color data along with the geometry. There are probably some other minor differences as well, but I’ve yet to notice any. In the name of simplicity, I always use STEP 203, and I have never had a problem.
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guido
I would appreciate someone decyphering this error message for me.This involves some lettering inserted onto a surface with the Text tool, to be either depressed or embossed with extrusion.
“The sketch contains a doubly nested contour. Pick a sketch entity to define an open or closed contour. To define a region, pick inside an area bounded by sketch geometry.”
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afee451
Solidworks freaks out when you draw something with more than 3 concentric rings. Not a big deal. You just have to use the “selected contours” feature to tell it which regions you do, and do not want extruded (or cut, revolved, whatever….).
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guido
Thank you !
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Can anyone Identify this Font? It is not included in my version of Solidworks.-
Ben
I have had some success using http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ in the past.
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guido
Hey Ben,
You ought to vent. The assistance and help you have so graciously given to so many hundreds of Solidworks users over the years has offered to Solidworks a Serendipity, and payback like they never dreamed that they would be entitled to, from any single user. That would be Ben Eadie. Although the exposure of Solidworks that you have put out there was more or less unsolicited by Solidworks, and irregardless of your personal motives, they still in the long run benefitted from the blogs and brilliant high quality tutorial videos that you have created, and they glean the benefits of these in so many ways, from the many of them that are peppered throughout the internet. Talk about Marketing… my perception, along with many others of Ben Eadie, is a human Solidworks Selling Mechanism.
It is true that I am personally no Solidworks Geek, nor am I schooled in Corporate strategies, or Marketing philosophies, however I do claim to know a little about common sense and logic, and all this tells me that the immeasurable by-product of exposure afforded to the Big Boys of Concord MA is largely due to the likes of people like Ben Eadie.
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Ben
Thanks Guido! I am humbled.
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guido
If a core and an outer mold were modeled and then assembled, and the Wire-frame Tool then used, the lines of both outer mold and core would then be displayed. Is there a way to leave the core itself colored so that when the wire-frame tool is invoked , the core would show as colored and yet the outer mold would be in wire-frame ? The purpose of this would be for maximum visibility.
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afee451
I typically use “change transparency” in the right click menu.
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You could create a Display State to retain the graphical states of components and switch between that and the normal shaded state.
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guido
Thank you, gentlemen
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guido
Hello,
I am working on a Marine project that consists of a 5 foot diameter hollow sphere, ( a Buoy), that has quite a bit of instrumentation within, and protruding out , antennae, sensors, transmitters, etc. that communicate with both satellites and ground receivers. This sphere has a rather long fixed ballasted keel, with a 40 “ hollow ellipse attached, designed to hold lead pellet ballast, to control what is called the “Righting Moment”, and keep the sphere, with it’s protruding measuring, and transmitting instruments, as upright as possible in high winds and waves.
My question is, assuming that I know the density of the ballast material, how can I calculate the weight of the ballast, with Solidworks, that will nearly fill the football shaped ballast tank attached to the keel ?
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CBL
The Combine function is one method.
http://www.solidprofessor.com/blog/index.php?p=304Or create a sketch on a plane at the fill level, and extrude Up To Body. Depending on the shape, you may have to create a couple of features (or a mirror)
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salbu, and 
afee451 is discussing. 
CBL, and 
Have you tried to cut and paste the drawing from DraftSight to SolidWorks? I find that works better some times