r/SolidWorks

Sharing a bunch of Solidworks Macros that I've developed recently! Hopefully y'all enjoy them as much as I do. See google drive link for download

Summary:

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ZoomFitAllSheets - Author: THS

Macro that scrolls through all sheets of an active drawing, 

and uses the zoom fit to sheet command. It then returns to the first sheet.

Useful as a precursor to saving and exiting a drawing, 

especially drawings with many sheets. If a part or assembly document

is open instead, it zoom fits on an isometric view.



I like to set this macro to a Keyboard shortcut (I use ctrl + spacebar)

for quick use before I save any drawing.

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FindDanglingAnns - Author: THS

Macro that searches all sheets in a drawing for dangling annotations.

On each annotation found and prompts the user to either find the next

annotation or stop at the current one to fix it.

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RemoveBrokenCenterMarks - Author: THS

Macro that removes all broken/dangling center marks from a selected drawing view.

Useful when a hole pattern or part changes, leaving numerous broken center

marks that need to be removed, while keeping other annotations.

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BalloonChecker- Author: THS

Scrolls through all sheets of an open drawing. Looks for the BOM table

and determines the number of BOM items, then collects all BOM Balloons,

and sends the user a message if there are any items missing balloons

or if they are all accounted for.

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McMaster Import

Removes appearances, and threads from a mcmaster part to simplify it

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Change Image Quality

Reduces image quality of an assembly and all components to improve performance (to a user-specified level). Note all components must be checked out for this to work

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I have an HP Z2 Mini Gli desktop running SW2017 and I can't figure out how to get Realview to work. I know there is a RegEdit workaround with the Hex values but none of them work. Does anyone know if there are other options?

I am thinking of buying a X9 388h laptop with iGPU B390. I know that Solidworks doesn't have an official benchmark for Intel Arc laptops but did anyone have the chance to test it?

Hi, im getting this error in Solidworks, i saw some videos online and they said to uninstall VBA and after doing that it works but I am unable to use equations, is there anyway to solve. Thanks

is it possible to prepare for CSWp in 10 days, studying intensively around 6 hours a day? how hard it will be

Same as title need someone who can do this work so that i can produce them using laser cutting

How can i prepare for cswp exams any suggestions and material i have been using sw from last 6 months that too in a company am i capable enough to attend that exam or i must be more pro in sw . And also what does cswp test for is it for assembly or something

Please help me guys! 😭

I have bought a HP z800 without a GPU ( well it has one but it's not great ) and no HDD

Here are the specs :

Dual Xeon 3.30ghz water cooled

96GB RAM

My intended use :

Solidworks

Catia

Ansys

My question :

What's a good choice GPU, that will also fit inside it ?

I was thinking a DDR5 QUADRO P4000. But perhaps there is better ?

Also should I get a SSD or HDD or both ?

Budget for the GPU is say 200€ ( I will buy it used )

A few weeks ago I signed for a free CSWA with my school and also with the free Instagram one, but I haven’t received anything yet.
Anyone know if it takes longer or if there’s anything I should do?

Hey everyone, we’ve recently started experimenting CAD parts/assembly generation using a fine-tuned AI model and macros, mainly for fun and to explore what’s already possible today with parametric CAD creation in Solidworks.

The idea is simple: give me an object, a mechanical part, or even a small assembly, and we try to see if our AI can turn that into a SLDPRT/SLDASM parametric CAD model.

Right now, it’s just an exploration of what works, what breaks, and what kind of crazy outputs we can get from relatively simple prompts. The result will not be manufacturable or perfectly fully defined.

If you want to take part, feel free to send:

a mechanical part
a random everyday object
a simple mechanical assembly
or anything you think would be interesting to try in CAD

I’ll reply with the generated result / a short video showing how it came together.

Looking forward to your ideas 👇

https://preview.redd.it/0gqybtx6vj2h1.png?width=565&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdaf37558afda22edab2dee19903fbc73f52420f

I am working on a multibody part and I have a hidden body in front of another, however everytime I want to select the edges of the surface body I am working on, the hidden body (that is in front of it) is being selected. Do you know any reason for this?

I work on an Engineering team and use Solidworks daily. Some of our assemblies are full robotic cells with thousands of individual parts. Our work buys us Dell Precision 7680 laptops with 32GB of RAM. I believe that isnt nearly enough. I think we should be running at a minimum 64-128GB of RAM.

I currently have Solidworks 2023 installed on my laptop.