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

    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………..

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

     
  • Chrism 8:23 pm on April 8, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: , drawings, system settings

    On a drawing dimension the value name appears in parenthesis after the value and is the name generally used for equations. For each view they are numbered (RD1), (RD2), (RD3) etc. The same values appear (RD1), (RD2) etc on the next drawing view. Word document and image of one dimension included

    How do I turn these off?

     
  • Byron 2:11 pm on January 28, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: , , drawings

    I use a 3d mouse (explorer) constantly. I do have a problem when doing drawings, with trying to use the 3d mouse to pan around the drawing. It will often attach to a view and begin zooming/scaling. Does anyone know if this is a setting I have wrong or some solution beyond “Don’t Do That”? Thanks.

     
  • jaraak 7:05 am on January 27, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: drawings,

    can anyone quickly help me with where the setting is to automatically scale dimension size when you scale a model view in a drawing

     
  • jaraak 5:21 am on January 14, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: ballooning, drawings, sw 2009

    this may sound like a dumb question but it is peaking my interest. when i am ballooning something in an assembly it gives me the option to put the “item number” in the balloon. how does sw assign an item number and what is it? the item number always seems to correspond with the detail number i assign to our components somehow. can anyone give me some insight on this?

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

     
  • JeffM 3:55 pm on December 16, 2008 | 6 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: Detail view, drawings,

    I have a building with two floors. Creating my detail and section views, in the drawing, for the top floor isn’t a big deal, but the lower floor is a PITA. Ideally, I’d be able to create a detail of the detail views of the first floor with the second floor hidden then, in the section views, have the second floor showing. I’m stumped on how to do this.
    If I wasn’t clear enough, let me know.

     
  • Muggs 8:13 am on December 16, 2008 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: batch print, drawings

    Hello All,
    I need to batch print some drawings to PDF. I have PDFFactory Pro and I love it, but what do you guys who do this all the time use for batch printing many drawings?

     
  • MarkKaiser 6:30 am on December 16, 2008 | 9 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: drawings, move text with keyboard arrows

    Prior to 09 I used to move text in drawings with the arrow keys on the keyboard. Now it doesn’t work. Am I missing a setting or is it now broken?

     
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