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  1. borsht

    Reference planes offset positions arent affected by Scale Feature-Can I get them to?

    Response to BiPolarMoment: I have a base plate, with multiple nests mounted to it. They are mounted in a grid of lanes and rows. The tool is assembled and in its working mode is heated, there for grows. I use the planes for mating the nests to the assembly. The base plate has 2...
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    Reference planes offset positions arent affected by Scale Feature-Can I get them to?

    I have a base plate that has Reference Planes, constructed as offset distances from the center plane. I have two configurations of the part, cold & hot. Che cold config has the planes at the given distances from center, and a suppressed Scale feature. The hot config has all that and the...
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    Does Solidworks allow making a datum symbol without a triangle to anchor it?

    Powerhound, thanks for the reply. We are not necessarily using Y14.5-1982, but for the minimal amount of GD&T we use, we prefer to keep the drawings conforming to the look of the original datum callout. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001 -Currently using SW2021 Inventor Newbie since 2019...
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    Modify part description by typing it in my Assembly Drawing BOM

    I agree with you both. I just wish the former employees who setup this community library would have been organized and set some standards/naming conventions, on their properties, instead of flavor of the day. I'm just trying to fix the rag-tagged-ness of it the most convenient/efficient way...
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    Modify part description by typing it in my Assembly Drawing BOM

    I have an assembly of common parts, and it's respective assembly drawing with a BOM. I am trying to make all of the like parts have a similar description with only the different sizes listed at the end of the description. What I want to do is to modify the description of each part from the BOM...
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    Does Solidworks allow making a datum symbol without a triangle to anchor it?

    Basically I just want the datum to be a box with the label inside, and attached by one of the box sides to a dimension extension line, part edge, or a geometric control box as shown in the attached picture. I took that picture from my GD&T Fundamentals book. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001...
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    Tolerancing grayed out on drawing when adding & modifying hole dimensions

    I have a part with a hole wizard hole. On it's respective drawing, I'm trying to add a tolerance to the hole. I click on the "Hole Callout" dimension and under the Tolerance/Precision selections, None, and .125(document) dropdowns. Both are are grayed out, and not drop down-able. I've also...
  8. borsht

    Auto Insert Dowel Symbol, is not working on my template.

    We are layerless. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001 -Currently using SW2021 Inventor Newbie since 2019 -Unfortunately Currently using Inventor22
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    Auto Insert Dowel Symbol, is not working on my template.

    I have some new templates that I am using, and when I put in a part view, that has hole wizard generated dowel holes, the dowel symbol is not populating the circles. In the options/document properties tab/detailing/Auto insert on view creation, both dowel symbols-part & assembly boxes are check...
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    Double click dimension in sketch in part doesn't come up scrolling.

    Thanks Deepak Gupta. That was half the fix. I also had to turn off the Instant2D in the sketch menu, at which point the default becomes scroll! And thanks Jboggs for that personal insight into your brain, sick and twisted as it may be. Using the scroll for dimensioning is, for me, a big time...
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    Double click dimension in sketch in part doesn't come up scrolling.

    So when modifying a sketch in my part I have gotten used to double clicking the dimension, and it comes up automatically with the scrolling box so you can modify the value using the scroll wheel on the mouse. That said, for some reason I cant make that happen anymore. Now when I double click...
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    part in assembly automatically replaced by toolbox component.

    3DDAVE, So I found that these particular screw files had different names than the toolbox components, but their feature manager structure was the same. In other words they are the actual toolbox files, copied and renamed to fit into our way of doing things. Hence, like you said, somebody got...
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    part in assembly automatically replaced by toolbox component.

    The company I work at does not use tool box components for fasteners. We have a library of separate screws that we place into our assemblies. The filenames are nothing like those of the toolbox components. Recently we are experiencing in our assemblies that the screws are being automatically...
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    Offset edge onto sketch doesn't show which direction its going

    I've been trying to offset a group of edges to a sketch, and noticed that it's not showing the offset geometry until I finish the command. And then if it's the wrong direction I have to undo and redo with the directional check box oppositized to what it was. I have a memory that it used to...
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    BOM Description, on some parts description doesn't match the part's file property Description

    Jboggs, one of the first things I did to the files was to move any of the fields under the config specific tab to the custom tab, as long as there were no extra configurations. For the files I have encountered with this problem, there is only the default configuration. But after posting I...
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    BOM Description, on some parts description doesn't match the part's file property Description

    I've am standardizing our hardware library. Specifically our data base of screws, (and those who came before did not adopt the SW toolbox). Many descriptions are all over the place as to how the pieces are described so I'm getting those all in line. I've made an assembly model of all the Shcs...
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    "solidworks rename" is missing from right click menu in filemanager? Can it come back w/o

    Solidworks is working fine. I just wanted to rename some files whilst keeping their references connected. And the files I'm trying are all ones I had recently modeled. We have no future version files so that's not an issue. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001 -Currently using SW2017 Inventor...
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    "solidworks rename" is missing from right click menu in filemanager? Can it come back w/o

    Thanks Scott. I do not see the rename option: IT Monster has been summoned. SolidWorks Newbie since 2001 -Currently using SW2017 Inventor Newbie since 2019 -Currently using Inventor19...
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    "solidworks rename" is missing from right click menu in filemanager? Can it come back w/o

    I just went to rename a solidworks part from my filemanager. I right clicked the file, highlighted "solidworks" and it only showed the "Pack and Go" option. Is there a way to get it back without calling the IT monster to reinstall?(network licensing). And Yes I tried it again after full...
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    ordinate dimension to center of forshortened radius center. How can I do this

    Checkerhater: That looks great. (the December 7th post) I cant seem to make that happen. Its not ordinate but it would at least be connected, and easy to understand without fudging. How do you get the linear dim to connect to that center of the foreshortened radius. Jboggs: Thanks for...

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