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Re: New SolidWorks Help Site – SolidJott!

Brian — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:24:24 -0000

Hi Duane,

You have to create a small extruded cut, and that will let you then flatten the pipe.

See https://www.youtube.com/wat..., starting around 0:40.

Re: SOLIDWORKS Subscription Users: Activate MySolidWorks Professional Today

Brian — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:37:16 -0000

This is the most convoluted process I have ever seen to get a product! I have been told a different story on what has to happen to do this at least 3 different times from my VAR, and I'm not sure if they still know what has to happen. I'm a little unclear, but it seems to be a communication issue between the VAR and SolidWorks...

I was really hoping to give the professional product a try, but I'm not sure if it's worth all this hassle...

Re: 5 SolidWorks Tips You May Have Never Seen Before

Brian — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:05:30 -0000

Do the offset/copy surface in context in the part you need the reference in, not in the original part file.

Re: View Selector

Brian — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:50:33 -0000

Thanks for the reply, Jim! This exchanged happened 3 or 4 weeks ago, and I didn't see it in the help when I looked. I meant to post earlier, and I guess I should have checked the help again before posting!

Re: How To Quickly Add Icons To Any Toolbar

Brian — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:01:12 -0000

Shortcut bars are different animals than toolbars...they aren't standard toolbars. SolidWorks has separate interfaces for customizing Toolbars and Shortcut Bars.

This tip will work for the shortcut bars, but you have to be in the Customize dialogue on the Shortcut Bars tab due to the fact that Shortcut Bars are only active immediately after invoking them and dismiss after the first click on anything. I should have included that in the post...thanks for catching that!

Re: SolidWorks 2013 – Previous Version Interoperability

Brian — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:53:20 -0000

Thanks for clarifying that, Vajrang!

Re: ePDM – Is it worth it?

Brian — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:23:14 -0000

Workgroup is severely limited when it comes to revisoning. It incorrectly calls versions "revisions", and as you noted, it ends up rolling a revision if you are using it that way. Working copy is dangerous in my opinion, and I don't use it. I use Workgroup solely as a versioning tool and manually add revisions to the versions that are to be released (pretty much the way EPDM works).

EPDM does versioning/revisioning right - you can assign a revision label to a version that is ready to be released.

Re: Enable Measure In SolidWorks eDrawings

Brian — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:31:54 -0000

Allen,

I am assuming based on your comment that you have vanilla SolidWorks (or the now-defunct SolidWorks Office package). eDrawings Professional is included in SolidWorks Professional and Premium.

I do apologize for not going into those details in the article, as I was writing it from the conversations I have had with my users here. Most users I know have the SolidWorks Professional and Premium packages, and I must admit that I tend to forget that you can buy vanilla SolidWorks.

Re: New SolidWorks Help Site – SolidJott!

Brian — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:21:57 -0000

Hi Kadrozd,

I think I am picturing what you are describing...if I am correct, I have ran into this before.

One thing you could do is put the chamfer feature before the fillet. If this doesn't give you what you want, I think you will have to create the chamfer manually with a Cut-Extrude or another feature.

Re: Enable Measure In SolidWorks eDrawings

Brian — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:01:38 -0000

Hi Chris,

Measurement (along with several other notable tools such as sectioning, markup, and commenting) is not currently available in the new iPad eDrawings app.

Hopefully they will add it in a future update.

Re: CADFanatic’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday – Derived Sketches

Brian — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:20:24 -0000

Hi Nicolas,

It's been a while, but I believe I rotated the sketch by using constraints (in this case, I think I applied a Horizontal constraint to the sketch centerline).

Also, not sure who at SolidWorks you talked to, but if you fix say, a point, of the derived sketch, you can drag and rotate the derived sketch to any orientation you wish.

Thanks for reading!

Re: SolidWorks World 2011 – Wednesday General Session

Brian — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:23:31 -0000

They issued the call for papers for presenting at SWW2012 last week.

Re: Siemens PLM Friends At COFES 2011

Brian — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:11:54 -0000

Mark looks just like I had envisioned him... LOL!

Re: 3D Systems Acquires SYCODE

Brian — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:09:10 -0000

Congrats, Deelip!

Re: March 2011 Meeting Presentation and Links Posted

Brian — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:18:34 -0000

I'm not seeing the March Meeting Presentation...am I missing it somewhere?

Re: Richard Doyle – The Man Behind the (SWUGN) Curtain

Brian — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:48:56 -0000

Great interview, Jeff.

SolidWorks definitely has a treasure in Richard!

Re: Al Dean – Develop3D’s Master Scribe

Brian — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:59:38 -0000

Great interview and write-up!

Re: SolidWorks World 2011 – What’s New in SolidWorks 2012

Brian — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:43:09 -0000

Yeah, I forgot about that! That was one I was really looking forward to seeing in SW2011!

It was great seeing you too!

Re: SolidWorks World 2011 – Monday General Session

Brian — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:28:43 -0000

Thanks, Steve!

Re: Ask the Reader: Should Drawing Revisions Be Letters or Numbers?

Brian — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:13:07 -0000

Amen! That's what I was just about to say...

Re: SolidWorks 2009 SP3 Removes Display State Option?

Brian — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:51:16 -0000

Hi Paul,

I am not sure if it was restored in SW2010, but it is not in SW2011...

Re: A Long Conversation With Bernard Charles

Brian — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:15:23 -0000

Another great interview, Deelip! Thanks!

Re: A Long Conversation With Jeff Ray

Brian — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:10:05 -0000

Interesting interview, Deelip!

Re: Ask the Reader: Are Cubicles the Best Office Environment?

Brian — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:19:47 -0000

My preferences, from best case to worse (I've done them all):

Office
Cubicles in a large office (currently sitting in a large office subdivided into 6 cubes)
Cube farm

I think if I had to just sit in a large open area with other folks, I would be looking hard for another job...

Re: CADCrap.com. It's a Load of CAD… Crap.

Brian — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:03:05 -0000

These are crapalicious! I want one of each!