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Well the problem is fixed. Guess what the problem was? It was either video card, RAM or both. I put in two more GIGs of RAM for 3 GIGs total and swapped out the video card for one that is more application specific and the thickness flipping went away. We have a real video card coming, the...

I don't know if you are still looking for an answer, but what i do is to use thickened surfaces or extrusions that are constrained to sketches or planes to get the desired shape. the last step in the piece is "insert bends" which will make it a sheet metal part.

Tick, with respect to the origin I would say yes. The top plane is the top surface of the assenbly and no material should be above this plane. When the thicken flips, there is one metal thickness above the plane.

I have a large table driven assembly. I am making the parts using 2 extruded surfaces, a surface loft between them, knit, thicken and insert bends. The problem I am having is that the direction of the thicken keeps flipping on pieces. I can't find any pattern to it. pieces will change the...

COR, Fill pattern is perfect. I guess I need to read the "What's new" LOL

Gil, I think you misunderstand. Picture a box that bolts together at the corners, say there are a minimum of three bolt holes at equal spacing. As the box gets taller, more bolts are needed, the distance between the holes is constant. As it gets taller more holes are popped in.

cor, thanks for the suggestion, I ended up putting a dummy part in and putting the hole patterns on that part at the assembly level. Then I linked the values of the assembly hole patterns to the part hole patterns with equations.

I think I have seen this but I am having a syntax issue. For example, I have an equation; "numholes 1"=4 in an assembly. Can I change that number four using a design table and what is the syntax in the design table to do so? That equation controls the hole pattern in four parts where they all...

Cor, The press brakes we have, you input the finished flange length and the formed angle, not the sweep. so we like to put the number on our drawings that the operators need to input. A small thing that eliminates a lot of expensive mistakes. What I have done is edit the bendnoteformat.text so...

I started using 2006. When you place a flat pattern in a drawing the bend direction and angle are placed on the bend lines. The problem is the angle is the sweep of the bend rather than the resulting angle of the bent piece. For example, a piece that ends up with a 45° bend, calls for a 135°...

My two cents. We looked at Inventor, Solid edge and Solid Works. Inventor is incapable of doing what we need, solid edge migh be capable but thier people couldnb't figure out how to make it work. Solid Works work well. We make sheet metal and I use alot of spreadsheet driven assemblies. In...

colombo, I am using SW 2005 sp1.0. I have tried importing it several ways and it doesn't work. I think it's a combination of very little experience at both ends. and the assembly not exporting correctly.

I have a client that has a medium sized assembly in Pro-E. We are going to make an option for his product so tp speed up our development they have sent us thier assembly in IGES and Step formats. I couldn't open the STEP file and the IGES files is a collection of surfaces, no solids at all. Any...

Just a thought, it may be what you are viewing the DXFs with. I usually use ACAD to view and manipulate the DXFs. If I don't use the "regen" command the circles will look like octagons, and they will be read that way by our machines. Use "regen" and they all turn into circles.

Try the manufacturers or distributors websites. I get a good amount of part models that way.

Here's a good set of pics http://www.zcar.com/forums/read.php?f=3&i=199697&t=199697

here's my $0.02 worth. kroth, you said "I am generally concerned that Solidworks would not give me this rapid reliable insight capability (at the start of the invention/development chain), which is critical to me as an engineer, and might cripple my imaginings, make me work too hard in...

I usually only work with assemblies and open the part if needed. ctrl-Q seemed to have straightened it out, I'll have a closer look at it later, What exactly does CTRL-Q do? Is it possible that converting these files from 2004 to 2005 that the flat patterns went a little haywire? This is a...

I am having a recurring issue in 2005. the flat patterns are not updating. I am having to open each part individually, go to the configurations tab and click back and forth several times between default and flat pattern to get it to update. All parts are made in context of the assembly. Any...