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I'm having a brain fart here. If I use exclude from BOM on a part in an assembly, is that control for that part all the time or just for that particular assembly? Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

Derrick, What happens when the feature is deleted, not suppressed? If done correctly, you should get a dangling dimension. If they go dangling, this is simple to fix. In your SW system options: Document Options/Detailing select the "Hide dangling dimensions and annotations". Hope this...

I can see that there is an audience just drooling with anticipation. I must please my people, so here for your entertainment is an arrogant, self centered and narcissistic display of my immence intelligense. Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto...

Actually, after a discussion with tech support, they guided me in the right direction. I was able to achieve exactly what I was looking for with a lofted bend. This worked like the "bee's knees". It's being fabricated as I write. Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

That's a great tip. I always forget where I was last night, but I digress... Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

CorBlimeyLimey, Yuuuuuuup! But, we are holding off for a bit on the upgrade, so I will make due with what I have to work with. I thought there might be a trick that I wasn't aware of with 2011. Anxiously waiting for the new functionality! Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

I have a "V" shaped cover that goes around a given radius. I have modeled the cover with two bodies and am now trying to flatten them, but with no luck. I realize that the resulting body is based on a conical surface. I'm wondering if this is where the software limitation is kicking inby not...

Depending on the situation, high image quality can also have an effect on file size. Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

One other thing to remember, if the plane does not contain any geometry it will not automatically resize. I use a lot of reference planes for DriveWorks and have found this to be the case. Please feel free to let me know if I am missing something. Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto...

Using the alt key when dragging a component in assembly to reorder it will prevent it from falling into a subassembly, if you are placing it near that subassembly. Use the alt key to move a drawing view without having to be super close zoom on the view. How about shift + arrow keys to rotate...

So the PITA solution was to calculate where the holes land in the flat state and add a feature. I had to trick the holes though. Since a round hole going through a curved surface will create a spline in the flat state, I had to make the curved holes just a smidge under size so that they would...

I have a curved sheet metal part, a simple arc, that holes on the curve. When I flatten the part, I can't add ordinate dimensions to the holes. They translate into slpines when flattened. Any suggestions on how to add dimensions for the drawing? Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto...

Well, actually opening a can of worms. I'm working on a fact finding mission. We are struggling with a best practice in our company as it relates to mirroring parts. Some will mirror a body in a part and some will mirror the part in an assembly. Some say, "What does it matter?" That's well...

It turns out out that it was the end of the day and I was getting googly eyes. After paying attention to the selections offered by the reference list box, I come to the realization that I was looking at the flat view instead of the nested view. This helped to determine where the link that I...

Maybe I am little bit thick to today or just slow. I'm not quite sure. I go to File/Find References and get the listing of references. Is it just me or does anyone know how to find exactly what the reference is pointing to? It tells me what model, but can I find out what thing in that model...

If you review the files in the attached zip file, you will see that I am trying to construct a sheet metal part that is curved and has a hem on the curved edge. The trouble comes when I want to flatten the part. I get two different results based on modeling techniques, neither of which creates...

Is there a parameter that has to be activated to get the ordinate dimensions in the parent to show in the detail view? Reference the What's New PDF page 81. Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

Alt + 216 Ø will make a large(capital) symbol. Alt + 0248 ø is lower case. FYI Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario

These are all valid points and are understandable. I have used property links extensively. I have also drawn the lines manually and hidden the dimensions. My reasoning deals mainly with the fact that I can be OCD with the appearance of the text and position. I would like to control it better...

That's understandable, but I am trying to use it as the title block for the drawing itself. I'd prefer it to be on the format. Christopher Zona - Product Designer Loretto, Ontario