Hey everyone!
I’ve been quietly following this community for quite a while, and I just wanted to say thanks for all the great content, help, and support you guys share here. I thought it was about time to introduce myself and share some of my own work with you.
I’m a mechanical engineer and have been working with SolidWorks since 2008. I’ve pretty much taught myself everything over the years, from standard part modeling and sheet metal to weldments and surface modeling.
But my real passion is rendering, especially vehicles!
Both vehicles you see here are based on real vehicles that existed in the past. I modeled and rendered both of them entirely myself.
If you have any questions about my work or workflow, feel free to ask. I’ll do my best to answer them!
Looking forward to sharing more of my work with you all!

How do the dimensions look? its a beginner class so its nothing too crazy id just like feedback if theres anything to say abt it

due to the way that the bending machine operates here, the dimension that the operator would need is the one shown on the first picture (from outside to the center of the bend). I was wondering if there is any way that i can make this dimension directly on the flat pattern.

i know that i can just change the value manually on the drawing or make different drawings, but i would like an easier way if possible.

I have macro at work that exports sheet metal parts from the assembly as DXF. And with every single part it opens this piece of garbage window that annoys the sh* out of me, bc I have to click "Save all" like 20 times. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?

In some assemblies it doesn't promt me to Save anything though. I have no clue what causes it :/

Currently going through a solidworks practice problem book and came across this problem. I am able to make the simple parts of the model but I’m confused on how to even approach the helix, I am teaching myself so if I’m not looking at a tool please let me know.

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My coworker is having an issue, and I've never used this particular path so I'm not sure how to help them troubleshoot.

They make a multi-body part and add an exploded view of the bodies in the part. Then they add two multi-body parts into an assembly to make a combined exploded view of those two parts. They use the "from part" button and, in theory, it should show the same exploded view that was in the part. However, it doesn't always work correctly. Sometimes bodies are left behind. They were moved in the part's exploded view, but show up somewhere else entirely in the assembly. Sometimes SW crashes entirely when trying to edit the exploded view in the assembly.

For example, they moved 3 rectangular bodies in a part, all in one step. When the exploded view was pulled "from part" into the assembly, each of those 3 rectangular bodies were somewhere else in the assembly.

This feels like a SW bug, but I wanted to see if anyone else has experience with this happening, and what they did to fix it (other than not using "from part")

Hello everyone, I recently bought the SW for Makers edition and selected the LOCALLY installed (standalone) version. You have to login at least every 30 days though to verify your installation.

But SW forces me to login EVERY time, I open the program. Lately I was on the train without internet connection and wasn't able use SW because of this sh*t.

I have not found any solution for that. Maybe anyone of you has an idea of how to dissable this behavior? I have a paid version, and don't look for a solution to circumvent the login at all. but NOT EVERY TIME I open the program.

Thanks for your ideas/help.

I’m running into an issue with an assembly that has two different PCBAs in it. The PCBAs are imported as STEPs with multiple bodies contained within. Each component on the board is a body that is named according to the schematic, ie ‘R17’ or ‘C3’ or ‘board’. The naming is done by the ECAD software doing the export.

For just a resistor, this isn’t a huge deal. As you can imagine, two different PCBAs are probably also going to have different PCBs.

If I import one PCBA and then import the other, everything is fine. As soon as I save and reload, however, all duplicate names are combined. This means one of the imported PCBAs suddenly has all of the wrong components - including the PCB.

How is everyone managing this? Are you manually renaming STEP bodies during import to avoid duplication?

I have a step file a client sent. When I drag it into edrawings it opens as a full assembly but when I import into solidworks it is missing a few parts. I have tried importing with the 3d interconnect on and off but no luck.

I have had this happen before when client's send files is there something I am missing?

Thanks!

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