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John 1. Use insert - features - cavity. 2. Part splitting is much improved in 2001+. You can now split a single part into multiple parts. SW will reassemble the parts in a new assembly if you want it to. Regards Kevin

Hi I only know of one site. Download is a mimnimum of 130MB Regards Kevin

Hi Minerluke This functionality has just become available in SW2001+. Just select the dimension, select break lines and the dimension crossing the original dimension. Regards Kevin

Hi Seedie54 I have installed 2001Plus. A new function SketchSegment.GetLength ( ) is now available in 2001 Plus Best Regards Kevin Batty kevin@ketd.co.uk

Hi I have just created a sheet metal C shape by drawing a C shaped sketch, extruding it and then converting it to sheet metal. I added a cut by drawing a sketch on a plain and extruding it thro one side wall it flattened without a problem. I was also able to flatten the part and then add a cut...

Try menu Tools-Options-Document Properties-Units Set the units to Inches and click the decimal Option. Best Regards Kevin

Hi The following code is used to copy the existing settings of a set of custom properties to a form. Hopefully will guide you to a starting point. Sub LoadCustInfo() Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application") ' Attach to or open SolidWorks session Set Model =...

Hi I am not sure I now follow the problem you are trying to solve. The only situation I can think of were the size of an arc is automatically determined is an arc thro 3 points/tangent to 3 faces. If this is the case you could still contruct the arc manually using a sketch, adding...

Hi The solution to your problem is to draw a circle/arc using one of the arc functions. Then using add relations make the arc tangent to all three sides/lines/edges. The arc will now adjust as you adjust the shape. Regards Kevin kevin@ketd.co.uk

I cannot comment on Mastercam, but suggest you might want to take a look at Camworks. I have recently purchased the product and am very pleased with the results so far. The major advantage of Camworks is its ability to recognize features in your 3D modal and apply past used machining method to...

Hi All Take a look at the utilities page of trimech.com. http://www.trimech.com/trimechtech/Utilities.htm They have a sample program that allows global editing of custom properties even thro sub directories. I have not looked at the program so I cannot comment on how good or bad it is, but...

Emerson you could create a dummy dimension and use this dimension to hold your variable. I.E if you create a sketch and draw a pair of construction lines 60mm apart and then dimension them you can use the dimension as you variable. Change the dimension and your equations will change. Regards...

Joe This functionality was added in SW2001 SP5. If you open help and select index. Then type cam in the keyword field it should point you straight to cam-follower mates. If you have downloaded the service packs but not updated your help files you may not have this information. Regards...

Hi See Solidworks help for cam-follower mates. This is a reletively new feature (SW2001). Regards Kevin kevin@ketd.co.uk

I believe this is due to the fact that SW stores Open GL information of the part in the part drawing. By creating a simple shape the Open GL portion of the file becomes very small. Hence the great saving on file space, particulary with a complex Open GL feature such as helix's. Best Regards...

MadMango I do not manually draw Centre Lines. Regards Kevin kevin@ketd.co.uk

Hi All Most of my designs involve a large number of parts. I have just looked at the statistics for one of them. It is an 8 sheet GA including 4 ISO views 2 plan views section views and BOM's. The original assembly contained 890 Parts (87 unique parts). The drawing file is 12.7 MB. I do not...

Mike I have looked at your file, to make it work I had to do two things:- 1. Include swconst.bas into my program. You may have already done this I cannot tell from your post. swconst.bas is a file that contains all the solidworks constants such as SetUserPreferenceIntegerValue all you need...

Hello All SP7 is now available on the SW web site Regards Kevin kevin@ketd.co.uk

Scott and all I remembered the source of the problem. If you add features after the assembly cut they are not included in the feature scope of the cut. To include them just right click on the assembly cut and select feature scope. Then select each of the patterned parts that the cut needs to...