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I work for a company that recently started using Solidworks for it's design process. We are considering getting 3D Via Composer to start making more user-friendly manuals and assembies. My question is, does anyone know if the files that are created in Composer are able to be imported back in to...

We care currently in the process of developing a set of standard practices for Solidworks so we can transition all of our designers from Autocad to SW and insure we are all doing things consistently. One method we are trying out is the alternate way of modeling in-context. We create our blank...

This may be a dumb question but I'll ask anyway. We work with assemblies that have a lot of mirrored components. Currently, we create such a component then mirror it. Then we create the next component and mirror that one and so on, resulting in several "mirror component" features in the design...

Hey CorBlimey, That is pretty much what one of my attempts looked like. At first I thought that would do it, but once you start trying a path other than a spiral helix, it begins to distort the channel and develops undercuts. Rob, This is VERY close to what we need. The draw back I have trying...

Several people are trying different things so I don't know everything that has been attempted so far. I do know we have successfully swept cut a solid object (shaped like the endmill)around the cylinder by using a spiral helix as the path and that worked for a visual representation but not an...

My company is running in to a problem trying to model a cylindrical part that has channels running around it in specific paths. The problem we have is trying to maintain that the center of the sweep cut is always radiant to the center of the cylinder and that the walls do not form an undercut...

Ok everybody. I think I got it all to work now. I don't know if I've done it the most efficient way so if someone can correct me, that's great but this is what I did. I did all of the suggestions above, P&G from the assembly drawing,had my search paths set etc... In the file locations box, I had...

Ok, I'm not quite to the alignment of the moon phase yet. Rob, you did solve one of my problems with your last post. I did not have "show all levels of reference" clicked. So that DID find all of the drawings and allowed me to copy them. Now the only problem I'm having is it isn't copying the...

Yup, That's what I am doing. I am using the top level assembly to do the pack and go, but still no go. I guess I will have to pack and go, let that grab all of the parts files. Then copy the drawing files over to the new folders and manually go in a change their associations to the new parts...

Well, now I'm really stumped. I tried what Rob suggested in SW Explorer and it still is only catching the assembly folder drawings. I tried it two different ways just to be sure. I tried it with the search path set to the root folder to see if it would automatically grab the subsequent...

Yes, all of the drawings are in the same folder as their associated parts. So for example, we have an assemblies folder that has the assembly files and assembly drawings. In a different folder called wire cage parts for example, there are all of the associated wire cage parts files and parts...

I've done that and the only drawing files it copies are the ones in the same folder as the main assembly. It will copy all of the solidworks PARTS no matter what folder they are in, but it doesn't find the associated drawings for those parts unless they are in the same folder as the assembly. I...

Hey Guys, I am trying to copy and existing project to creat a "print-run" new project using the Pack and Go feature. The problem I am encountering is that all the individual parts drawings are in separate folders (about 6 different folder for each job) from the main assembly folder. Am I...

Hey all. I have some success with my early attempts of animation. I have been able to get multiple motor actions happening at the same time with pretty decent results. Of course I haven't tried a full Photoworks render of them yet, but I think they will come out. My next problem is how to...

thanks Rockguy. i will definately look in to that. Modo looks like it may be exactly what we need. Now I just need to convince the powers-that-be that it would be money well spent.

Thanks Theophilus! no need to worry about the hair loss, that's happened years ago so I'm safe as far as that's concerned. That is a lot to consider, I need to come up with a general gameplan on how we are going to try to tackle this without bogging down our servers with all the multiple...

Hey all, I'm new here so please bear with me if I ask dumb stuff already covered. My company is now going through the Autocad to Solidworks transition and I will eventually be the guy doing any presentation animations of our products. Without getting in to specifics, the assemblies we work with...