Recent content by TheFerruccio

I've had such a thing happen more than once, and it seems repeatable on the installation of SolidWorks we have here. But, thanks for the suggestion. I'm now using a reference axis, as suggested, and things are working much better. I suppose the nuances of this installation seem to prefer just...

Additionally, when I try the "bodies to pattern" (if I have the extrude as a separate body and do a subtraction), it lets me select the sketch, but only the entire 3-D sketch, and not just the axis on that sketch. Thus, it seems to just pick an arbitrary axis through the sketch on which to take...

The axis indeed shows after the feature pattern, so I changed the order in the tree so the axis occurs before the feature I want to pattern, and it still does not work. Additionally, I tried to 'select other' and the option to even select the axis in the sketch, or the sketch itself for that...

It does not look like we are.

Oops, that's strange. I definitely uploaded it, but it seems to have not posted to my previous post. Let me try again. Here:http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=91ce6cc6-07d4-42e0-89c6-081748dabd37&file=TestPart.SLDPRT

Gupta65, both of your options look the same to me. I want to do, basically, that. I have a bunch of objects and drawings that have a certain property called PartNo or Drawing Number, and I want to rename the first part of the string for all those parts. If I cannot do that, I want to at least...

I am not sure what you did differently with making your 3-D sketch. What did I do wrong with my part?

I was basically hoping that I would not have to generate hundreds of new files doing this. Doesn't pack and go do just that? It recreates everything.

I am not sure if I can use a pack and go, because I just want to modify the drawings at this point. I will do another pack and go to see if I can group the drawings together and link them up with the parts a little bit better.

I think I might need a macro for this, because I have done extensive searching and I have not found precisely what I want. I have parts with the PartNo set to XXX-XXXX-M001 and I want to, say, rename them all to something like CAT-DOGS-M001, changing the first 8 characters in the string. I am...

Here, Updraft, I made a customized part where you can see what I want to do, though this is a simplifed version. I tried to make a 3-D sketch with the axis in it, but that did not work. Attempting to pattern it about the sketch just patterns the body the wrong way, and there is no option to...

Right, Updraft, I'd definitely post if I was allowed to do so, which I am not. I will look at CorBlimeyLimey's post.

Thanks for that info! I'll give that a try when I continue tomorrow.

I made a line and turned it into a construction line. Unfortunately, this file is on a network that I cannot distribute out to the public. Is a construction line not an axis? (Construction Geometry)

I should note that I did create a feature (a cut on one side) and I was trying to pattern this feature about the axis I drew.