Hi all,
Did any of you guys manage to snag the plastic gun design that was in all the news recently? The feds shut the site down a few days after it made the news. I've got it, but it is all .STL files made to be sent to the printer directly. I'm going to remodel it in SW so I can make...
I just got bit today by the hole wizard limitations. I wanted a 1-5/16 -12 tapped hole (for a Swagelok) but since it was not in the hole wizard, I put in its place a 1-1/4 -12 tapped hole thinking that I would just modify the callout manually in the drawing. Guess what? I forgot and the part was...
Is there a way to flip the direction of a hole wizard feature? I have created a cylinder with the origin in the center. I place a HW feature on one of the principal planes and tell it to cut up to next. It cuts out thru the cylinder wall on one side. The cut direction seems to always be the...
I've been a SolidWorks user for a lot of years, but I have never had to make a part that is molded by other parts. I've now have an assembly modeled that gets potted after assembly and I would like to model the potting compound. I am familiar with the combine command, but it only seems to be...
I have to confess that I have never used the BOM function in SolidWorks other than to use one of the standard BOM templates. I would now like to automate a custom BOM template for future work. Does anyone know of any free tutorials that cover customizing a BOM template? The help files are not...
Quick question for the Gurus,
Is there any way to change the instance ID in an assembly file? I inserted some parts and then deleted them. When I reinsert them they come in with Instance ID's that numerically skip the deleted items. This makes it more difficult to get a quick count of the...
I cannot seem to get any textures applied to surfaces to show in a drawing. Is this possible? What I need is a nice iso picture of my part with iso dimensions. I bring an iso view into a blank (no format) drawing add the dimensions and set the view to "shaded with edges". All the custom face...
I am designing a kinematic mount using tooling components. I am looking for a rest button with a vee groove to locate a ball nose in one dimension. I looked at the usual suppliers like Carr-Lane and Reid and they only carry plain rest buttons. Does anybody know of a tooling component supplier...
I have a model of an assembly that will have its interior filled with potting compound. I would like to be able to extract the volume from my model so I need the model to be accurate. I looked into the combine comand, but it doesn't appear to work using bodies that are not in the same part...
Is there a search function that I can use to search 3D Content Central. I'm looking at the user library, electrical, connectors and there are over 400 models. Is there a way to do a keyword search rather than paging thru all the models?
Timelord
I haven't loaded SW2006 yet, so I cannot test it but I was wondering if SW has added the ability to sweep a solid yet? I tried to make a barrel cam once but couldn't get the slot so both sides remained tangent to my follower. The only way I can see this being done is to have the ability to...
I've got an assembly made from two subassemblies. I want to move a part out of one subassembly into the top assembly. So far dragging in the feature tree just places it into the other subassembly. Control drag makes a copy and alt drag makes no difference. Is there a way to do this other...
I'm looking for a phase diagram for n-butane. I've searched the web and had no luck. I'm a mechanical engineer, so I don't have all the reference books that you chem guys probably have. Can anybody share this with me or point me to the right book which I may find at the library.
Thanks...
I think I am having a problem using global variables. I built an assembly of a box and I made the length a global variable in my assembly. In the part files for the sides, I establish the global variable and set one length in the sketch equal to that variable.
When I open the assembly and...
I have run up against a unique problem. I have received models and drawings from a customer constructed in SolidWorks. My job is to clean up the drawings and get the parts built. Here is the problem: for some strange reason the drawings with multiple sheets have the seperate sheets in...
We build a lot of specialized test equipment for the products we make. Most of the time this equipment is housed in a 19 inch relay rack. Typically we did not model the rack, but only the front panel we needed to build. Now the marketing guys want a pretty picture of the completed rack. Does...
SW 2004 Sp4.1
Has anybody else have a problem with the Heli-coil drill and tap information in the hole wizard? When I change the length of the heli-coil, the tap depth changes, but the tap drill depth doesn't change. This results in a hole tapped deeper than it is drilled. Does 2004 still use...
My R-4 compressor in my 93 suburban died badly so I have to clean & flush the whole system and replace all the appropriate parts. I have enough R-12 (bought when it was $2/ lb) to redo the system as original. What I need to know is if there is a GM approved oil that is compatible with R-12 &...
I've got to model a wave spring washer and I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions on an easy way to do it. I can think of one or two approaches, but they seem kind of involved (cutting away sections from a thick washer or maybe rolling up a wavy rectangular rod with the sheet metal...
