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  1. SolidAir

    Hiding solid bodies in a part in the drawing

    Try delete body, the feature is put at the end of the tree and will not affect your mirrors.
  2. SolidAir

    Design Table Open upon Part Creation?

    Is the design table a one time use? If so then reverse the process:open a workbook where after filling in the variables, the workbook opens and creates the model (probably more work up front to get it to work though).
  3. SolidAir

    Customizing the hole wizard

    Where I work, we do not create a new standard, we add the new thread to the appropriate existing standard. We have been doing this for years without any negatives when going to the next version of SolidWorks.
  4. SolidAir

    Select Evaluated Value in Solidworks Properties

    Not selectable but returnable through API calls. However if you are going to do this then you can just get the filename through API calls and parse out what you want.
  5. SolidAir

    SW2016 either snapping issue or sketch is just moving

    If SW2016 is the first release you are seeing issues importing dxf files, then I would consider you lucky. In the 15 years I have been using SW, I very seldom have been able to import a dxf (or dwg) without some type of rounding error. Since I only use this imported geometry for reference, it...
  6. SolidAir

    2016 UI - They actually listened to us

    I have been using SW2016 since beta. While I do not like the lack of color, I have found the changes to some of the toolbar icons more annoying.
  7. SolidAir

    An API Macro to Search Assemblies for a Part and Replace it with a Virtual Part

    Unless I missed something, making the part virtual just makes the assembly file larger so I am not sure what you are gaining in disk space. Virtual parts also bring their own issues. Every time the assembly is open, SolidWorks must create a folder on your hard drive (VC~~), save the virtual...
  8. SolidAir

    An API Macro to Search Assemblies for a Part and Replace it with a Virtual Part

    So you have one part that is used in multiple assemblies (each assembly using a unique configuration of the part) and now you want to split the part into individual models, each used in it's own assembly as a virtual part? Are all the other parts in these assemblies virtual? I guess I am...
  9. SolidAir

    2016 UI - They actually listened to us

    I think you need to be signed up to see them.
  10. SolidAir

    2016 UI - They actually listened to us

    Well Scott, SP3.0EV is out so you can see what the color Icons will look like.
  11. SolidAir

    Cannot edit Hole Callout text

    Since this is an old post, you may have already found your answer somewhere else, but in case you have not... From your description of the problem it sounds like you are using SW2014 or earlier. However, since SW2015, the message does not just apply to this session, it applies in all new...
  12. SolidAir

    Patterns makes everything STOP !!!

    dabiz7: what are you trying to pattern?
  13. SolidAir

    Help rotating a sketch to align with entity...can't believe it can't be done.

    Do not discount blocks, they are a lot more powerful then you give them credit for.
  14. SolidAir

    hole program - setting

    Create a favorite
  15. SolidAir

    Please give me a solution SLDPART

    This looks like a fairly simple part; not a lot of proprietary info in it. I normally go back to the supplier for parts like this and ask if they can send me a model saved using all components. Otherwise if you know how to use the surfacing tools you may be able to reconstruct the parts. I...
  16. SolidAir

    HIde/Show groups of items .... easily ???

    I would have go to my older computer but I believe this may have been possible in older versions. As an alternative, you can suppress every feature contained in a folder but that is probably not what you are looking for.
  17. SolidAir

    Cut-Away View on Sketch Plane

    Try a section view (found on the head's up tool bar or on view toolbar). This may be what you are looking for.
  18. SolidAir

    Show multiple configurations in drawing

    Another way to do this (although not as eloquent as handleman's) is to create two views each using a different configuration. Then you align the views both horizontal and vertical (fixing them in place helps so they move accidentally).
  19. SolidAir

    configuration problem

    Are you trying to change a dimension in the assembly or a part the assembly. If in the assembly, check this configuration only. If it is a part then you must create two configurations in the part with different dimensions.
  20. SolidAir

    API: offset sketch entites to current sketch from assy component

    sygenics, It certainly gets more complicated. What you have to do is parse the value returned by swComp.Name2 (again there is probably an easier way but, I do not know how without more study). For example, if the sketch "fred" was three sub-assemblies deep, swComp.Name2 would return...

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