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For the tessellation there are a couple of places to change settings to increase it.
and in every file they have their own graphic settings too.
As for the video of your broken assembly. That bug happens to us pretty often. Usually a restart of solidworks is enough to get the selection back. I can't remember what causes it off the top of my head, I always remember after it happens though. Very annoying! Especially when you start getting assemblies that take 10 minutes to save/open.
Also:
Whenever you restart SW you should get in the habit of killing all of the SW processes. When SW starts getting crazy like that a lot of times it won't close all of its processes and you will end up with a bunch of zombies processes that will still affect your next SW open.
There are a bunch of rebuild commands buried in there too, each does something slightly different.
Rebuild, Force Rebuild, and redraw I use the most
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Believe me, when we get around to implementing this functionality, we won't only have "Rebuild" and "Force rebuild", we'll leapfrog the competition by adding "Force force rebuild" and even maybe "Force force force rebuild"!
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Great, still have the issue of settings not saving even after skipping a year...
Only had 2021 installed for a week, and we've all had bad experiences here so far.
I'm mean look at this mess..
Don't do it, tell your boss and plead. This is their last ditch effort.
Plus what's going on here with planes from the top part file (the one using 10 GB of RAM) appearing in the bottom part file as weird phantoms?? Some wires seem to have crossed internally! They are present there in 3D, but I can't select them (rebuilding with Ctrl Q doesn't do anything).
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Hell, just this last week I've had to restore the backup of files on 6 occasions already. It used to only be a few times a year.
Got this from my customer over the weekend.
What sucks is it took an hour just to get the two pdf's and a step file to him
Guess I can get a nap in this morning while it exports again... 🥱😴
Edit:
Pffftt: Second attempt failed too...
Funny ONSHAPE OPENED THE STEP NO PROBELM! ... stupid F'ing SW
It looks like the version of SolidWorks Onshape in able to save parts in too old.
After opening the part and letting a newer version of solidworks update the file it works
Why would you not make your viewer open any version that your software is capable of creating is beyond me!
So the earlier versions of SW did not have this extra data for eDrawings to open.
What I find stupid is you can't open a newer version of solidworks parts with and older version of edrawings.
There hasn't been anything groundbreaking in eDrawings in years. So there can't be much in the way of incompatibility. . .
SolidWorks is well know for being version Nazis though. So it's par for the course.
I have a pattern in SW, that defines the stroke of a drawer so I can see the open and closed position.
I went to put a stop block in position by mating to the detent arm. And just look at this garbage...
The gif here shows the part is indeed patterned and fully defined. It even says so in the pop up tool tip.
But as soon as you move the stop block I was trying to position, The pattern is flexible.
I really don't know what to say, but Damn... That is BAAAAD
One of my guys just got back to work today from having covid, and to put salt on the wound 3 of his files were corrupt again.
Not real time/Onshape-like and you still never want two people to edit the same file, but it's good for both small and large projects without the hassle of a full check in/check out system (but it does let you optionally lock files for edits if it's critical to check something out). We're using it at a couple of student groups at the UW with about ~50 active CAD users (~100 total users incl. viewers/passive users) working on a single project without too many problems.
Don't trust its web viewer though. While it does display models accurately, the measurements are somehow incorrect and it often fails to load models for viewing, particularly heavy ones.
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