Can someone please help me with this? I've had this happen for a long time and I can't for the life of me figure out why the 3 point center rectangle tool just doesn't work like it should.
I make the outline:
http://www.victorlinphoto.com/downloads/sld1.jpg
But then it just turns to this...
I'm new to CAD design and I'm wondering how you guys organize your files and what are the best practices?
Do you put assemblies, parts, drawings, in separate folders?
C:/Solidworks/Project1/parts
C:/Solidworks/Project1/drawings
C:/Solidworks/Project1/assemblies...
Sorry, I meant to say that my Search Path IS set to C:/solidworks and it still has the same problem.
Question: Does solidworks need to index the locations first before the parts can be moved safely? How do you tell Solidworks to begin indexing?
Thanks for the reply!
I'm a little confused though:
Say that I have Assembly 1 that references these two parts:
C:/solidworks/stuff/part1
C:/solidworks/stuff/part2
And now I change the "stuff" folder name to "things."
C:/solidworks/things/part1
C:/solidworks/things/part1
But what I've...
I wasn't very smart when I made my parts and assemblies and the organization of the part/assembly files are atrocious. I use the built-in solidworks explorer to move the part files to new folders, but this breaks the assemblies that rely on the part files because now the part files are not in...