SWUGN Summit - Los Angeles

The final SWUGN Summit event of 2008 will be held at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Santa Monica on December 16th.  The lineup of presenters is impressive - Devon Sowell, Casey Gorman, Matt Lorono, Patrick Rainsberry, and Mike Puckett. At a little less than 4 million people, Los Angeles is the USA’s second largest city.  There’s no... [Read more]

SolidWorks 2009… A Great New UI Enhancement

I have read about all of the great new enhancements in SolidWorks 2009 but sometimes you don’t realize how nice they will be until you actually see them in action. As is the case with the above picture. This morning I was working on a component and had added a feature above the chamfers in my FeatureManager tree. Well it caused some errors... [Read more]

A little DOS batch hack: dates for filenames

for /f “tokens=2-4 delims=/ ” %%i in (”%date%”) do copy foo.bat foo%%k%%i%%j.bak Thought I’d save this for reference. I’ve seen more complicated ways to create “yyyymmdd” strings, but this seems to work pretty well for me. Go to Source  Read More →

Hot Tips for Cold Days (Hot Tip Harry AutoCAD Tutorial)

This month’s top tip winner automatically dimensions polylines. Go to Source  Read More →

Edit the URL of WordPress blog for recovery

One of my blogs is down, and for unknown reasons, an automatic URL jump takes place every time. By googling, here is the solution: (original article can be found here) Edit the “functions.php” in your active theme folder; Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial “<?php” line. update_option(’siteurl’,'http://example.com/blog’); update_option(’home’,'http://example.com/blog’); Save... [Read more]

Getting Into the Geography Awareness Week Spirit

Back when ESRI had just released PC ARC/INFO (for the cutting edge DOS) and way before Google was a research project, the United States Congress passed a joint resolution signed by Ronald Reagan proclaiming that Geography Awareness Week would be held in November.   The Great Communicator signs Geography Awareness Week into law Remember, it isn’t... [Read more]

WELDING DRAWING - problems with dims, leaders etc

Dear Colleagues, as you can notice from the picture, I have numerous problems with dimensioning welding in drawings. I use WF4, metric dimensioning. Decimal places are set to 0, lead_trail_zeros are set to std_metric. I would stress three of my problems: 1) Is it a bug in Pro/E, or it is impossible to control decimal places? Somehow I always get four... [Read more]

product origin

One thing in Catia that has always messed with me is the fact that products don’t have coordinate systems and origins. In proe all products have a center. I’m working with a model right now and have encountered something that is bugging the hell out of me. I have a product and inside that product I have assembled a skeleton and a bunch... [Read more]

E-mail large files

Most service providers will allow you to e-mail files upwards of 10 or 20Mb. But it never fails, you have a single file to e-mail a client, the client isn’t comfortable with FTP, or you can’t access your site, and you have no choice but to e-mail it or drive it across town - [...] Go to Source  Read More →

AUTO SPACING OF TEXT

IS THERE A WAY TO AUTOMATICALLY SPACE TEXT THAT HAS BEEN CREATED IN SINGLE LINES? ‘MULTILINE TEXT’ SETS THE SPACING CORRECTLY, BUT I AM TASKED WITH MAKING CORRECTIONS ON HUNDREDS OFDETAIL DRAWINGS THAT REQUIRE CONSISTENCY. THIS IS NOT A DIMENSION LINE SPACING, BUT TEXT LINE ONLY. Go to Source  Read More →

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