dowel hole simbol in solidworks 1

Netshop21,

First thing I have to say is, that you and the rest of your colleagues must realize SW is a different beast than ACAD. So don't force SW to follow in ACAD foot steps. You will have to find the right path with SW as you first did with ACAD back years ago. I say this because I work with a whole bunch of ACAD workers here. They feel the same way and I keep telling them the same things. We have 60+ seats of ACAD and 4 seats of SW and we are only utilizing 1 seat which is the one I'm using. So you can imagine the grief I recieve from them since I am the only 1 using SW.

So with that in mind, here is the answer to your question.

1) Open the drawing in question or a new drawing with the part already inserted.
2) RMB on the view that has the Dowel hole you want and click "Lock view focus" to that view.
3) Zoom into the area that you want the dowel hole placed at.
4) Go to your sketch toolbar and pick circle and sketch a circle anywhere.
5) Now go to your line icon and sketch 4 lines coming from the center of the arc you just made, out to all 4 quadrents, or to 0, 90, 180, 270.
6) Trim the lines to the arc.
7) Trim the arc between 90 and 180, then 270 to 0
8) add relationship from the arc to the hole. Pick the arc and the hole and pick "Coradial"
9) Now pick a section of the arc and the 2 attached lines.
10) Go to Insert/Area Hatch
11) If the hatch is not the correct pattern simply RMB the hatch and go to the properties of that hatch and change it there.

RMB = Right mouse button

Hope that helps, Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

I heard through the grape vine that this is added to SolidWorks 2001Plus. We should see the pre-release some time in the beginning of November. Again this was heard through the grape vine. SolidWorks does listing to request, especially simple ones that do not take to much programming efforts. Everybody should remember to enter your enhancement request, out on the SolidWorks website, no matter haw simple or difficult the enhancement may seem. This will help SolidWorks grow an in turn help us be more productive. BBJT CSWP

BBJT is correct. I attended a demo of 2001plus today, and this is one of the many enhancements. Some of the other cool ones are a user configurable large-assembly mode - greatly increasing performance, a command to greatly ease the process of converting 2d cad data into a solidworks part, a command for inserting assembly trails (yes! finally!), and many more. I'm barely scratching the surface here.

Charley Leonard
CSWP

Hey guys,

I think we should try an keep a lid on things like this and others till SW01+ is released.

My opinion, Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

If 2dto3d has seen a demo of SW2001+ I am assuming SolidWorks or his VAR has opened the lid. I do agree with you though. Even though you saw it in a bata demo SolidWorks could remove it form the released version because of some problems they maybe having with it. BBJT CSWP

According the the VAR who domoed 2001+ yesterday in front of a hundred or so local users, 2001+ was a big secret until yesterday, the fist time they were allowed to show it or talk about it. The whole thing yesterday seemed to be aimed at generating excitement about the new release. They didn't say anything about not telling anyone about these cool new features. That would seem contrary to the purpose of the event. If I'm stepping on toes here, let me know. I didn't mean to.

BBJT has a good point about the fact that enhancements in beta versions could end up omitted from what gets released. A good thing to keep in mind.

Thanks for the feedback.

Charley Leonard
CSWP