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  1. tclark

    Moving Text Freely in Drawing mode

    You might try holding down the Alt key while moving the text.
  2. tclark

    Solidworks to Illustrator

    I don't use Illustrator myself, but I am under the impression that Illustrator can import JPEG and TIFF files. You can save an SW assembly file in these formets, so it might be worth a try. tclark
  3. tclark

    Ctrl-B vs Ctrl Q

    Forced rebuild (also called forced regeneration) "causes a complete rebuild of all the features in the model" (from page 5-19 of the SW 1999 manual). Ctrl+B only rebuilds new or changed features and their children.
  4. tclark

    Can You "Freezing" Drawings From Updating?

    Something we have been doing from day one is to make a .pdf file of every drawing and archiving it, before we revise a drawing. A paper copy of the .pdf file in attached to the ECN document(s). This gives us an historical record. And now we are starting to use PDM/Works. PDM/Works creates a...
  5. tclark

    Hyperlinks in drawing notes

    We wish to have hyperlinks, in notes on drawings, to standard specification files. SW allows an entire note to be hyperlinked. We want to be able to have just a selected portion of the note (e.g., the file name of a specification) active to access the targeted specification. In fact, it is...
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