Ever since upgrading to SW 2008 SP2.1 from 2007 I have had the problem of explorer.exe freezing (all windows become frozen, computer is unresponsive). This generally happens after working in SolidWorks and then closing the program. I can't always reproduce the problem though (I have tried with...
In virtually all of the sheet metal parts that we design, we only care about the final dimensions of the part, not what bend radius, k-factor, etc. were used to get it there. With our in-house sheet metal shop we're lucky if they get within .125" of any dimension on the print. With jobs that...
Does anyone know of a way to control the bend radius using the equations in SolidWorks. For example, I would like to have something like Bend Radius = 2 * Material Thickness. I have not found a way to do this and I have done a good amount of searching and experimenting, but I could have missed...
I realize there is another post with the same content, however when I searched on this forum for "blank dimensions", "hide dimensions", etc. that thread did not come up.
I apologize for the repeat post.
I am trying to blank a sketch dimension in NX 4 so that when I come back into the sketch, it is still gone. All methods I have tried will blank the dimension until I exit the sketch and then come back in.
