I'm about to set out on a quest to model involute teeth on an elliptical (or other non-circular) gear. Does anyone know of an easy way to model involutes, and is curve-pattern my best bet at getting teeth to follow the perimeter?
I don't know specifically why that happened, but I did see something similar. When sharing assemblies with an off-site user, he got the same huge fasteners. It was a problem with his software recognizing the toolbox parts, so they reverted to the generic size.
I'm importing a parasolid, and it comes in as an assembly with 30 components. I don't want all those components as seperate files, I just want 1 part file.
I can not merge the component parts, because some of the geometry is flaky and is not solid (it's surfaces). How can I make this just a...
Thanks everyone. Charley, that's what I ended up doing, though I'm not happy about it... it's not clean (if I add a view later I have to remember to reposition it).
Here's an idea
Embed an Excel sheet with =NOW() in a cell. The sheet won't reevaluate until you access it, so create a macro that accesses it, then prints the drawing. All you have to do is then run the macro.
Ahhh Help! I created a whole bunch of drawings in 3rd angle, now I need to change them to 1st. Changing the property of the sheet works, but the drawings are useless (because the projected views each keep their dimensions, and most are now on hidden surfaces).
Is there a way to switch to 1st...
Yes, that's actually how I first created it (and it works), but I want to be able to move the mechanism by dragging the components (so I can check clearances). Components aligned to a sketch won't animate.
I've got an assembly with with hundreds of sub-assembly configurations. Each top level assembly is a configuration of the various sub-assembly configurations. In the top level assemblies I can move the interconnected 4-bar linkage configurations.
The problem I'm having is that Solidworks...
