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Cor Blimey, Just the job! Thanks a lot :)

Hi, I'm starting to use table-driven designs, and playing around with DriveWorksExpress looking at automating as much as possible. We create lots of similar drawings. Creating the models we use has now become quick and easy, and I'd like to know if I can somehow speed up adding the annotations...

Never mind. Right clicking the greyed out mate, and hitting 'unsuppress' did the trick. Don't know how or why those mates got suppressed, but doing this seems to have had a more permanent effect than changing thetype of mate and changing it back again, unsuppressing the mates in all 3...

Hi, I'm just learning to use equations and design tables. I've got an assembly, and added some global variables that control the dimensions of parts within the assembly. I've got three test configurations that I can view to check that changes to variables in the design table are working OK...

Thanks for that. The view angle doesn't need to change so I didn't need named views (but can see that will be handy in future). Adding another configuration was easy! Cheers!

Hi, I've created an assembly and moved it to a position where I get the particular display I want, and added that to a drawing sheet using the current view. I want to move some parts of the assembly, and display it on another sheet. However, as soon as I change the assembly, the drawing on...

Great. Thanks very much.

I have tried drawing the rudder mechanism of my boat. The rudder is supposed to tilt up when it hits the bottom, but it isn't designed right - the tiller just hits the deck and prevents the rudder from tilting high enough. I'm making a drawing I can send to the boat designer for his advice. The...

Hi, I have drawn a simple sketch on a drawing sheet, and I want to lay a view of a part on top of the sketch. Trouble is, the sketch always appears to overlay drawing view - lines of the sketch cross right through it, and hatch/fill areas completely obliterate it. I'd assumed all I'd have to...

Thanks for the help folks. I've now got the balloons sorted, and the BOM - but one problem left. Some of the weldments are using home-drawn profiles. With these, no description shows up in the BOM. I've gone back to the profiles (which are added to my library), and checked that they have a...

The balloon symbol with the lightning flash is the one that is greyed out in the annotations menu. However, I've found that right-clicking on a drawing view, then clicking on annotations leads me to an auto-balloon symbol that works. So, problem solved, but this quirkiness and other little...

Hi, Playing around with BOM tables for the first time. The tables show up fine, but there are no balloons showing in my drawings. I can add balloons one at a time, but I've got lots of pieces - I want auto balloons. Auto balloons is jst greyed out. Tried help and read all the balloon-related...

Great - so I was missing something simple. Works lovely. Cheers!

Hi, I've made few hinge assemblies, just like the one in the SW 'Advanced design' tutorial. When I add the hinges to another assembly, they don't move any more. The only mates I have used between the hinges and other parts are constraints on the one half of the hinge that is fully defined (it...

Exasparated! My sketch is a 2D sketch. What do you mean by create a 2D sketch? If I click on Sketch, the Property Manager for Edit Sketch tells me to 'Select a plane, planar face or and edge...' etc . If I click on anything, everything but one line is selected. If I then deselect, and just...

I'm getting there, but slowly. I've managed to create a surface (Boundary-Surface) in one area, and then it's easy enough to add an appearance, and that works fine. But adding that part to my final drawing, the surface or the appearance doesn't show up. Instead, the area is just bounded by a...

'in your posts you mentioned the problem was with a drawing, yet the part you posted is a sketch within a part.' Now you mention it, I appreciate the difference. I've created a 3D model of a new fish pass that will be built into this weir (at least that part went well!). The sketch I posted...

Sorry - maybe I'm being a bit thick here! I see your drawing in colour, and I've seen other SW drawings with colour, so what's up with my drawing? I've filled a couple of areas in green, and they display as green while I have edit sketch enabled, but it shows as grey when I click out of edit...

'All sketches in part are grey when you exit sketch mode. In drawing they will be black. ' Can't I use colour with SW?? !

Ooooh boy! Just spent £150 on a quadro fx580. The graphics are nicer and quicker, but I still get the same effect on my hatched areas! I'm attaching my drawing so someone else might take a look at it. Hopefully, the next suggestion won't be so expensive! (Kidding - I was thinking of getting...