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Aha! The 3D sketch option was right in front of my face the whole time and I never saw it. Thanks! And it seems you can manually insert a hole callout annotation and it'll work; no need to use the insert > model items if you don't want to.

Dievant and academix, I've tried these things you mention and can't figure out how to get them to work. Do you do this successfully? Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what you're saying to do. So far I've always done what ctopher says and manually change the callout instances number on the...

I agree it's probably the mirror command, or perhaps the way the flange was modeled, maybe it's not exactly on the center. For the people commenting on units: there are exactly 25.4 millimeters in 1 inch. 20" is exactly 508mm. There's no rounding there. If you're using the inverse of 25.4mm to...

Another way to do each of the things you want: To move the section line arrows closer to the edge of the part, click on the section line to select it, then hover over the corner where the line and arrow meet. When the cursor shows a green dot with a tiny section line icon near it, click and...

I have a similar question. Once I right-clicked a face on a part I was working with and selected "change transparency" so I could see through it. When I was done, I couldn't figure out how to change the face back to not transparent. How do you do that? I could select the face by right-clicking...

BTW, I did contact our VAR and he had me use the SolidWorks Rx tool to capture a video of me suppressing and unsuppressing the Split feature that was causing the planes (and bounding boxes) to blow up. Upon running this tool, the problem immediately went away, and I was no longer able to...

Thanks for the crop view recommendation, but it won't work on detail views, or views that have detail views on them, which consist the majority of my views. I don't have any notes attached that then enlarged the boxes. I also don't have any stray sketch elements, hidden parts, or reference...

I'm doing a print for a multibody part that has an exploded view, and every drawing view has a huge bounding box (the dotted line thing you grab to move the views around.) In order to get all of the views on the print, the boxes are overlapping, and it's really difficult to select and move a...

I don't understand the hatred for external references. They can be a pain in the ass when you're working with someone else's model and you don't know how things will update, but when modeled well, they're very handy. I'll make an assembly with anywhere from 4 to 40 components, run it by the...

Thanks guys, both methods work well!

When doing a BOM for an assembly, is it possible to make it so that some of the subassemblies have all of their components show up, but other subassemblies show up as just one line?

Thanks. I downloaded the latest driver from Solidworks and it is working better. As in no crazy artifacts, anyways... It's still a pain to animate. Maybe I just don't get it or need a better tutorial...

SW2011 SP2.0 System: Dell Precision M6600 w/ I7-2820QM, 12GB DDR3 1600MHz, FirePro M8900 I've always dreaded any project using Solidworks Animation. I don't know why, but it never works right for me. I can use their wizard to rotate my part/assy, but when I try to do more complex animations, it...

I tried some with the flex fuction but wasn't able to really get what I want. I need the bent wire piece to remain planar with the surface that represents the fabric, or at least need to be able to create a surface to represent the fabric that's planar with the bent wire piece. And the wire...

Anyone? Is it possible?

I'm working on a beach chair model and the fabric will attach to the frame with lacing to a zig-zag bent wire welded to the inside of the frame. See here for an example of a chair that uses this kind of fabric attachment...

I ran into that problem just today with SW2011. I made a weldment part (with clearances here and there for manufacturing) and went to apply some weld beads for show, and low and behold, I couldn't stick weld beads in the areas where I'd left a few thousandths clearance.

Excellent, thanks! That sure was an easy fix.

When creating section and detail views Solidworks automatically names the view with the next letter in the alphabet after the last view it named. However, if I delete one of the views, Solidworks doesn't "recycle" that name, so every time I create a view from then on I have to manually rename it...

Oh yeah, I am running the proper drivers, as well. I just shut everything, restarted Solidworks, and now it's working properly.