Hi guys.
This is my first visit to the SolidWorks Forums, so please
bear over with me if I'm doing something wrong here.
Last year, I started in a new job, requiring me to start
using SolidWorks, instead of Autodesk Inventor, which
I'd been using for the past three years.
I've been working with SolidWorks for the past year now,
and there's a couple of options/possibilities that I used
quite often in Inventor, that I'm missing in SolidWorks.
1. The possibility to make a point where an axis intersects with aplane.
In Inventor you just click on a plane and an intersecting axis andvoila,
you've got yourself a nice little point. This is very useful whenyou've got
bolts or shafts passing through a plate at an angle, and you wantto cut
out the clearance hole perpendicular to the plate.
2. In the drawing layout I would like the possibility to mark a
dimension as "theoretical dimension" (A regular dimension with a
rectangle shape around it). I've already noticed that you can have
parenthesis and "inspection dimension" added this way in the
dimension menu/dialogue box.
3. I sometimes use TOO much time and energy on picking the rightlines
when dimensioning in the drawing layout. Sometimes I just cannotseem
to pick a line at all, and other times the wrong lines are picked.Is there
an improvement on this just around the corner?
4. I often need to cut out (revolved cut) in shafts and so on. Imiss the
possibility to convert cut edges and use them for dimensioning.Let's say
I need a revolved cut inside a hollow shaft. I place a sketch inthe center of
the shaft and use the section view. I can now clearly see the lineswhere
the plane cuts my model, but I cannot use them neither to dimensionfrom
nor relate my sketch to. It would be of great help if a futurerelease/SP would
add this option to SolidWorks. It would really boost myperformance, not having
to use a lot of work-arounds.
That's about it for now, I guess.
Stig M. ThuSolidworksGeneral
This is my first visit to the SolidWorks Forums, so please
bear over with me if I'm doing something wrong here.
Last year, I started in a new job, requiring me to start
using SolidWorks, instead of Autodesk Inventor, which
I'd been using for the past three years.
I've been working with SolidWorks for the past year now,
and there's a couple of options/possibilities that I used
quite often in Inventor, that I'm missing in SolidWorks.
1. The possibility to make a point where an axis intersects with aplane.
In Inventor you just click on a plane and an intersecting axis andvoila,
you've got yourself a nice little point. This is very useful whenyou've got
bolts or shafts passing through a plate at an angle, and you wantto cut
out the clearance hole perpendicular to the plate.
2. In the drawing layout I would like the possibility to mark a
dimension as "theoretical dimension" (A regular dimension with a
rectangle shape around it). I've already noticed that you can have
parenthesis and "inspection dimension" added this way in the
dimension menu/dialogue box.
3. I sometimes use TOO much time and energy on picking the rightlines
when dimensioning in the drawing layout. Sometimes I just cannotseem
to pick a line at all, and other times the wrong lines are picked.Is there
an improvement on this just around the corner?
4. I often need to cut out (revolved cut) in shafts and so on. Imiss the
possibility to convert cut edges and use them for dimensioning.Let's say
I need a revolved cut inside a hollow shaft. I place a sketch inthe center of
the shaft and use the section view. I can now clearly see the lineswhere
the plane cuts my model, but I cannot use them neither to dimensionfrom
nor relate my sketch to. It would be of great help if a futurerelease/SP would
add this option to SolidWorks. It would really boost myperformance, not having
to use a lot of work-arounds.
That's about it for now, I guess.
Stig M. ThuSolidworksGeneral
