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  1. mjcole

    Product of Inertia Direction/Sign Incorrect in Creo 2 and 3

    There is a config option for show_dim_sign Yes/No but I think that is only used in dimensioning. For instance you could enter a -20 distance and flip length or direction of offset. If options were set to show_dim_sign no The - sign would be dropped from the dimension and just show the value of...
  2. mjcole

    3D Sketch Pipe - Fixture

    You may create additional 3dSketch planes within your 3d Sketch which may be used to draw a 2d internal sketch in the 3d sketch feature. These may be hidden separately from standard planes and will all hide if you hide the 3d sketch itself. You can sweep a line along the path as a reference...
  3. mjcole

    Create a new Gesture Wheel

    If SolidWorks allowed them or even it's basic Options to be reconfigured w/o restarting SolidWorks then They'd be nice. I'm trying to see if loading in a .reg export of the saved portion of the gestures commands will allow this if not Maybe SolidWorks developers can. A long time ago in a world...
  4. mjcole

    Double Clicking

    Good to know, your signature looks great. Somepeople come up with funny names and or signatures because being boring isn't fun unless you're into boring things. I came accross this forum while working at a Company using Unigraphics or NX as it's now named. I had a ton of information about Catia...
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    Pro/E losing market share to SolidWorks?

    Weldments are cool but Advanced Framework Extension of Pro E is tons more expensive With a custom Sketch pallete you can achieve much of the weldments with saved library features Creo forces companies to pay support for life of product and make you buy new licenses in order to upgrade...
  6. mjcole

    Pattern of a pattern?

    You can do a pattern table but it's not too simple. The better choce is to do a copy & Paste use Edit Paste special or Right click if that's been added. Copy paste allows you to make the compies tied to original dims but can be modified later if you choose to. which allows you to...
  7. mjcole

    Double Clicking

    In my use I usually MB2 click and select Properties. I think in WF5 They added an option Value on pop-up menu that would just change the value like in sketch when you select 1 or more dims and hit the Modify DimValue icon. The other thing that may be causing the difference is what your...
  8. mjcole

    Annoying sketcher problem

    In the good old days you had the option to turn off intent manager. I'm a big fan of no longer needint to Shift+RClick (MB3 click) to activate. Not sure if everyone knows this. Right Button toggles ( )Active /Inactive constraints. Tab Key cycles thru available detected constraints. Imho...
  9. mjcole

    datum planes

    Mark, The best thing I could suggest is to make a csys that is offset from the default one. You can also make a moved copy (Copy & Paste Special) of the existing DEF_PRT_CSYS and apply Translations along X,Y,Y and rotations about x,y,z I'd apply any rotations first because if the traslations...
  10. mjcole

    Drag angles in Pro E

    Peter, Depending on the version of Creo/Proe you are running you can setup an analysis either saved or a Feature. The saved analysis would be the way to go. You can create a live updating annotation which can be shown or hidden from the Saved Analysis dialog. There are options to hide all saved...
  11. mjcole

    Solidworks property manager editing

    Mark, You could probably Access this capability thru the use of BOM or Design Tables in SolidWorks. As of the 2008 release of solidworks, users have had biderectional editing capabilities on Parts & Drawings that huse linked parameters in their title blocks. Prior to this any information in...
  12. mjcole

    Multiple user configurations

    Ted, Great questions and Eend great input. One of my biggest gripes with SolidWorks is their dependence on the registry for user and system settings. Many softwares use the simpler config settings based on user accessible text files that don't require local adm accounts with registry...
  13. mjcole

    Rotate Plane view

    SolidWorks orients planes based on a mathematical calculation of the kernal based more on relation to origin. Because of that even a plane created by 3 points will not have it's horizontal direction between points 1 & 2. The only way to achieve the orientation you want easily is to create a...
  14. mjcole

    Help with Solid Geometry from Facet Features

    Try blender out it's freeware and has a quite impressive list of importer exporters and works on Linux, Mac an Windows. Blender can also open Wavefront .obj types that creo and most other CAD packages do. "It's not the size of the Forum that matters, It's the Quality of the Posts" Michael Cole...
  15. mjcole

    Key to snap to standard view? (Creo 2)

    The default sketch view would be closest way but would resoftquire you to statt a sketch feature and pick a face then select default sketch orientation. Most software's normal to icon do what you're asking. "It's not the size of the Forum that matters, It's the Quality of the Posts" Michael...
  16. mjcole

    Set Default File Location

    Ken, Usually You can configure your SolidWorks shortcut icon which has a "Start In" option below target location that lists path to SolidWorks executable sldworks.exe. That will probably be the closest to what you want since solidworks has no working directory option like proe/creo and other...
  17. mjcole

    SWW14

    Glad you could make it this year. I was hoping on going but couldn't make it I'm sure you had a blast. San Diego is a great place for world. Did any of the presentations you saw stand out above the rest? Did you meet any of the top tier Dassault People? I was checking out some of the past...
  18. mjcole

    Opening STL file as part file (as solid body)

    Did you try it with SurfaceBody option. In addition to the import solid body needs to try to fix up boundaries and merge the faces into a closed body which is more difficult than importing just surfaces. "It's not the size of the Forum that matters, It's the Quality of the Posts" Michael Cole...
  19. mjcole

    Annotations constrained to view

    Double click on the view's border to Lock View Focus. You will se the border highlight which will make any notes placed move along with the locked focus view. You can also create a blank view to do this with or make a saved orientation where the note is easily distinguishable. "It's not the...
  20. mjcole

    New to Solidworks and my company will not get us training.

    I'd suggest weekly meetings of your team to discuss things learned and still unknown about the software. Also I suggest looking up any nearby SolidWorks UserGroups or Swugs that meet in your area. Www.swugn.org It's a great way tonetwork and learn new things about the program...

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