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  1. is it not on the File menu - Find references.
  2. I created the pattern of holes in 2d, in CAXA, as about 70% were regular, it was just that 30% that spoiled the party. So I imported the dxf back into a sketch, thats when my troubles began. Essentially their seemed to be multiple issues with the sketch. Deleting duplicates worked very well , I like that tool within the sketch toolbar but their still seemed to be erroneous issues with the sketch which should not have caused a problem. So in trying to fix it resulted in multiple regens. Cary - this was using the new pattern feature. in fairness I have tried this number of holes in the past with ProE Wf4 , and it just fell in a heap... thanks
  3. Is the code for the pattern feature multi threaded ? I have a large part with 5000 holes in it and the regeneration speed is killing my productivity. I notice that when I create several new holes in this part, IronCAd goes away and thinks about it for 5 or so minutes using only 25% of the processor, i.e. one core of my i5 chip. but doing a similar operation and using a bilinear feature pattern, I noticed that the cpu utilisation jumped up to 100% for about 10 seconds and then fell back to 50% for the remainder of the processing time. Are their any tips for improving the regen speed of a large part. I've knocked the surface smoothness back to 20, and I'm dumbing down the part at various stages, by exporting and reimporting back in. thanks Nick
  4. No, thats not quite what I'm after, the video shows you adding in another part into the assembly feature scope. Rather than use a hole block as an assembly feature removal tool I want to use a sweep shape hole tool. thanks Nick
  5. How can we create a assembly feature from a sweep shape ? I have had a few goes and I cannot seem to create such an entity. I have tried creating the sweep feature to drag into a new catalogue and then right click and drag out but it does not work. It has lead me on to the fact that I cannot even create a fresh hole block and drag it into the catalogue. I managed to find the "set operation" command hidden away, and set a simple block as a negative , but dragging this into the catalogue it does not behave in the same manner as a hole block, i.e. it does not subtract. Nor when I set the catalogue intellishape to "remove material" from the edit feature options it still adds a new part to the scene. I have also tried adding an assembly feature and then editing the intellshape hole block but you can't do that . So I'm stumped an ideas ? (obvious workaround is to manually apply this sweep subtraction to each part.) thanks Nick
  6. Chuck three blocks in as seperate parts. Boolean them together (union) to form the one part You end up with Part 1, and then under that, there is the intellishape for Part 1 and then part 2 and 3 are "parts" at the intellishape level with their relevant intellishapes under them i.e. an extra level down. If I now right click on the intellishape for part 3 , - edit feature options and set as remove material it dissapears. The "part" icon changes to a red wireframe one, and it becomes unselectable in the scene. Right clicking on this red "part" I don't get the usual menu, all I get is a few view options and the parameter and intellishape properties, i.e. nothing to get it back - the only option is to undo. tested on 2014. So is this a bug a quirk or intended behavoir? thanks Nick
  7. are you working within the same scene with all of this. I find quite often, copy and pasting my top level assembly into a new scene sorts out the gremlins. obviously you loose all your configurations... Nick
  8. hmmm, thats a shame , I find that tool a pain, having to define a 2d section to define the position is fairly cumbersome in comparison to the drag and drop functionality of the Custom hole tool in the catalogue, and then postion with the triball. I think we'll create a catalogue of BSP holes. Thanks
  9. is this still a bug? I have just tried to edit the Customhole.txt file and it does not make any difference. (v2013) We would like to add BSP (Bristish standard Pipe) threads into this functionality.
  10. they seems to be stacking up a bit now, it would be nice to recieve something different, I always like mugs, but they are bit less transportable. At the end of the day I like something useful, our ansys bags are tens years old now and used all the time. I like the image on the mat, but I have never used the calander.
  11. Just got a mail from Mecsoft this morning, they are pushing a free version of their software. http://www.mecsoft-europe.de/freemill.html?&L=1 Nick
  12. we keep them in a dedicated folder on our network and direct CAXA to that path Tools / Options / Path / template path and click add
  13. what do you mean by "digitising tablet"... is that a posh name for a "tablet" If so I'm using the old Wacom Graphire 4 here at work, and its fine and at home I'm using a newer intuios, I forget exactly what model it is. It alls works just fine, to honest I never gave it a thought, I pretty much treated it like a mouse.
  14. Yeah, I'm using the Wacom intious, and CAXA works fine.
  15. can you not export parasolid (keeps colours, assembly and linking info, (loose textures)) and reinport that and create an animation from this dumbed down model. Might be a bit quicker? Nick
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