By admin | October 15, 2009
“Let’s just say for arguments sake that you have a drawing with multiple sheets. On one of those drawings you have your standard 3 views with an isometric thrown in for good measure. Youre running out of room and you have a few 3 detail views that you have decided to put on another sheet. [...]
By admin | August 4, 2009
“When working in assemblies, you are mostly dealing with adding and assembling mates. However, by default in SolidWorks, when you expand a part or subassembly in a main assembly, you see the features of the part or the components of the subassembly. The mates that exist in the main assembly are grouped in a folder [...]
“I reciveved a question on support again today about the display of cosmetic threads. I thought that this would make a good topic to blog the possible soloutions to. I searched our database in support to come up with the followig list of item to check.” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: Cosmetic Threads Missing.
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“Have you ever opened an assembly only to find the fasteners in it are huge? This happens a lot when working in a multi-user environment and a network toolbox is not in use.” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: Huge Fasteners!.
Published by Leslie Lougheed on 7/8/09 on CATI Tech Notes
“Did you know that it is now possible to use negative dimensions in a sketch? If you want to move a feature from one side to the other, you no longer have to delete the dimension, just move the feature to the other side and add the dimension back in.” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: [...]
“We had a couple of calls today regarding the addition of an area/hatch pattern on a cylinder in a drawing.Should be simple enough right? NOT!! You get this message instead!” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: Knurl 2D Style!!.
Published by Todd Werginz on 6/15/09 on CATI Tech Notes
“This may not have been desired, to have some components suppressed. This is a performance thing and in this case it may not have really helped. Manually unsuppressing each item is tedious. You could shift or ctrl select the multiple items in the Feature Manager Tree and unsuppress/set to resolved.” …
Or, better yet, get it [...]
“Want to have extruded text follow a curved surface? The Wrap command will do this for you.” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: Wrap It Up!.
Published by Leslie Lougheed on 6/1/09 on CATI Tech Notes
Also posted in Text, Wrap | Tagged CATI Tech Notes, Text, Wrap |
Information about installing DWG Editor on a stand-alone machine or using a network license.
CATI Tech Notes: DWG Editor Installation Tips & Tricks.
Published by Josh Altergott on 5/14/09 on CATI Tech Notes
“I think one of the great features added to the 2009 SolidWorks release is the ability to include a cut list in your top level assembly BOM.” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: CUT LIST IN YOUR BOM.
Published by Todd Werginz on 5/14/09 on CATI Tech Notes
“If you are trying to run the new Activation Based SolidNetwork Licensing and you get an error of “Invalid SolidNetWork License serial number (29)” when installing or activating and have followed all of the steps listed in our previous blog posting (http://blog.cati.com/2009/04/coming-soon-solidnetwork-licensing-with-no-dongle-no-file-no-fuss.html) about how to use SNL Activation then you will want to read on.” [...]
By admin | April 27, 2009
“When putting together assemblies, many times you will have a bunch of parts that are all mated the same to one part. For example, you might have a bunch of parts that are concentric to the same shaft, or a bunch of parts that are coincident to the same surface. Instead of adding [...]
Also posted in Assembly, Mate | Tagged CATI Tech Notes, Mate |
