Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008

Posted on June 30th, 2008 in Assemblies, Drawings, SolidWorks, System Options by The SW Geek

Welcome back to a new week filled with SolidWorks tips and tricks. Over the next couple of post we’ll be concentrating on SolidWorks Bill of Materials. SolidWorks 2008 brought some changes on how one uses BOMs in the drawing environment. A lot of the controls for BOMs that were previously available in the PropertyManager are now available in the BOM. Using the BOM template we created last week on Creating Your BOM Template with a few further tweaks, we will go over the changes that applies to BOMs in 2008. Feel free to use any BOM template you choose since there is nothing custom about what we are going to do today.

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Drawing Sheet Background in SolidWorks 2008 - Revisited

Posted on June 12th, 2008 in Customize, Drawings, Misc, SolidWorks, System Options, User Interface by admin

The very first post I did when I started this blog was about getting rid of the drawing sheet background in SolidWorks 2008. At the time I was under the impression that there was no way to turn off the ‘crumpled’ paper look of a drawing. I was feeling pretty good about myself when I wrote the post about removing the BMP from the background. Imagine how embarrassed I was when one of my readers, Christian Tjarnberg, corrected me on how to truly turn off the background. To be honest, it really bothered me that I made such a bone head mistake and I decided to do it right…the second time.

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Introducing Standards Tuesday!

Posted on April 30th, 2008 in Drawings, Standards by admin

Doing it by the book

In recent years, I have witnessed a noticeable decline in the quality of drawings. As more emphasis is placed on models and assemblies, good drawing practices are neglected. I cannot not even count how many drawings I have encountered that seemed to not only not follow any known standards but were just plain scary. I don’t have to tell anybody that no matter how much time one puts into designing the perfect part or assembly, if the drawing doesn’t not convey the information correctly the project can fail.

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Adding multiple arrows to leaders

Posted on April 28th, 2008 in Drawings, SolidWorks by admin

With a show of hands, how many are guilty of faking leaders in drawings? How many times have you or someone you love made a copy of a balloon or annotation and placed it on top of another? Just for the second or third leader, you sacrifice the integrity of the drawing. Come on, be honest. Did you shutter a little after doing it? This is the time to be honest. I, myself am guilty of the horrendous crime, that was before I saw the light. That was before someone smacked me upside the head and grumbled “What’s wrong with you?”

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