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  • ivanl 8:25 am on March 16, 2010 | 9 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: luxology, material,

    I just downloaded some fantastic material files from Luxology Share Assets site but I’m having trouble getting the tire treads to work in PV360. If I simply copy the material folder into the material library as the tutorial explains, I usually crash when trying to apply it to a part. Then I tried copying just the .lxp file and it stopped crashing but didn’t show the material either. Anyone have experience with this?

    Also… I had another downloaded material work fine, just the tire tread currently not working.

     

  • ivanl 7:22 am on October 30, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: mating wheels, rolling mate

    I’m trying to mate a round part that rolls on a flat part… best example, a wheel driving on the ground. I thought the rack and pinion mate would do the trick but it ain’t. My flat part is stationary, and the round part rolls and moves forward. Any success with this?

     

  • ivanl 12:54 pm on September 17, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: , go Oilers

    So… I just upgraded to 2009 SP4.1, and if I’m not mistaken I used to be able to single click on a feature or sketch in the FM and have all the feature/sketch dimensions appear. Not so anymore. Has anyone experienced this, is the latest SP the culprit, or is an option turned off, or is my mind just way off in another land… like the dawning of a new hockey season!

     

  • ivanl 8:15 am on September 14, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: ,

    Section view labels in my drawings are now starting at B-B then C-C, D-D, etc… who took A out of the alphabet?… any ideas how to fix my drawing template?

     

  • ivanl 1:10 pm on August 10, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: lofted bends,

    I’m having trouble trying to flatten a ‘pipe clamp half’ when it is a conical design. The important factor is to have the mating faces of the flanges in the correct location, 180 deg apart, or coincident with the front plane in my case. The attached part is modeled correctly but doesn’t flatten. I actually prefer doing a revolved thin part, insert bends, and add the flanges. But if you revolve 180 deg, the flanges add too much material due to ‘bend outside’ flange location. Changing revolve to 179 deg or so may actually work fine for this part, but I’ve had lots of cone parts that have too steep of a slope that the flange still interferes, or is not projecting parallel to front plane. Sorry for the boring Monday read… but does anyone have a better solution for this? Currently I manually (AutoCAD) subtract extra material in my flat pattern when laying out to lasercut.
    Attachment - 2009_8_10_14_10

     

  • ivanl 6:43 am on July 10, 2009 | 14 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: ,

    This is Mr. Su Perannoyed and I’m having some issues in a relationship of mine. It’s an intimate relationship I’ve developed with exploded views that really allows me to see the assembly for what it is, and more importantly, how it works. But how can I balloon items that are mysteriously outside the drawing view? Just not working here. The drawing view (see screenshot) is much smaller than the actual extent of the exploded view………..

     

  • ivanl 11:11 am on June 24, 2009 | 7 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: , mass properties

    I just realized that at first effort it’s kinda hard to start a post without I… I’ve… I’m… :| Ok, I’m wondering if anyone knows of a great way to graphically display the center of mass on a part/drawing. I can setup custom properties to display the value… but how can I simply graphically show it and dimension it… or even dummy model it.

     

  • ivanl 3:00 pm on April 14, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: script error

    Ben, I get this ‘Internet Explorer Script Error’ every time I hit a link or shutdown SolidWorks. Must hit ‘Ok’ 9 times and then it proceeds to the link I hit, like comments or login. Just lettin you know… my apologizes if you’ve answered this already. Tanks

     

  • ivanl 10:46 am on March 6, 2009 | 10 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: mirror bodies, sheet metal part

    Here’s a scenario I’ve always had a little bit of trouble with in a sheetmetal part. I’ve extruded a corner filler pc as a separate solid body (not merged) and then mirrored it to opposite corners. This works well except for the last corner (diagonal one, furthest away). I’m wondering if there’s a reason to the madness? The error message says ‘To mirror a sheetmetal part,….’ but I’m not trying to mirror the sheetmetal part, just the corner solid body. I know there’s a few different solutions to this part (like making an asm) that would work but I like doing these simple fill pcs in the part and it works for our manufacturing process, etc, etc… I’ll try post the part file and see if anyone has a clue as to what’s not making it work. Thanks!           *edit* horray, we have a part->        tub-test

     

  • ivanl 7:46 am on December 17, 2008 | 10 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: automated tasks, , macros, pdf

    I’m looking for a way to setup a one-click process for saving a SW drawing as a pdf and/or dwg file. Seems highly possible since it’s the same sequence of commands… save as, file type pdf (or dwg), ok. Is it done with a macro or what? I’m a little unexperienced in that area.

     

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