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#Bordertool acheivement affected full

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One request that seemed to get common acceptance is the idea of creating a table of all the bends of a part with their full characteristics, with the ability to highlight each bend by clicking on it within the table.Â When this table is on a drawing, it was suggested that details be added to a specific layer. Others in the group talked about using K-factors to determine the material used by the sheet metal part (for flat patterning), while others disregarded K-factors in favor of bend reduction techniques. The first group I attended was for sheet metal functionality.Â Though attendence was very light, the number of different methodologies and opinions was high.Â My own interest in the topic is the problem with being forced to use assemblies to fully document sheet metail parts with inserts.Â This is an issue because if you start a drawing of a part, you cannot later replace that part with an assembly.Â So, if you create a sheet metal part with no inserts and then you need to add inserts on some later revision, you are forced to recreate the drawing practically from scratch.Â This is a horid time and resource sink.

Author fcsuper Posted on FebruFebruCategories Drawing, News, SWW09 2 Comments on Quantity and Balloons in SolidWorks 2010 SWW09: Focus Groups (Drawings and Sheet Metal)Īs previously mentioned, I attended two focus groups (also called roundtable discussions) this year.Â These are generally held on Sunday before all the major SolidWorks World activities begin on Monday.

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Adding quantities to balloons is something that many of us do when making assembly drawings in SolidWorks.Â This is a very manual and sloppy process which involves adding carefully placed text next to each balloon that points to a part with multiple instances.Â Some people use split balloons, but still manually edit each one for the desired affected.Īlong came Tobin Sparks.Â Tobin was just starting out in the world of macro and API within SolidWorks.Â Tobin was a quick study, learning from the likes of handleman (expert API guy) on Eng-Tips and myself (macro hack).Â Tobin saw a need and filled it by creating the BalloonNote macro.Â This macro simplified the process of adding quantities to balloons.Â The macro does have its quirks, but overall it is very well conceived and executed.įor the past eight months, BalloonNote has really been the state of the art when it comes to adding quantities to balloons.Â OK, that’s a slight overstatement, but the macro is very cool.Įither way, SolidWorks has stepped up.Â At SolidWorks World 2009, the What’s New presentation showed off many new abilities planned for SolidWorks 2010.Â One of those new functions isÂ the adding of quantities to balloons.Â Strangely, there are some eerie similarities between the SW2010 function and Tobin’s macro.Â I cannot get into too much detail beyond the announcement itself.Â I will say that it will be nice to have the functionality built into SolidWorks.