Hole Wizard Favorites

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by mjlombard, Oct 30, 2006.

  1. mjlombard

    mjlombard Guest

    Hole Wizard favorites started looking like something that were pretty
    cool. Maybe I'm missing something on these, because seemingly obvious
    stuff doesn't make sense, at least to me. Maybe someone can 'splain it.

    First, favorites are created by hole type (cbr, csk, etc), so you have
    to pick the type first to be able to see the favorites of that type.
    Seems to just add a click to a function that was meant to reduce
    clicks. Am I missing something here?

    And then once you make one, and it names it something like "CBORE for
    1/4 Socket Head Cap Screw" (which is the automatic name, and then try
    to save it, you get the error that you cannot save a file with a
    character like "/" in the name, which of course you know, but you
    didn't know that saving a favorite saves a file, I thought maybe it
    saved some text to a file. Is this another example where the defaults
    are designed to not work? Why should it automatically create a name
    that can't be saved? Is automation really benefitting anyone here?

    Where are the other potholes in the road for this feature?
     
    mjlombard, Oct 30, 2006
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  2. mjlombard

    SteveO Guest

    I came across the same type of issue with PDMWorks users/groups. Create
    one with a reserved windows character and it, give it certain project
    permissions and then login as that user. Those project permissions
    aren't there because the text file holding those permissions never got
    created because of the invalid character. But SolidWorks never dinged
    the PDMWorks Vault administrator. It was a little frustrating to say
    the least.

    Also, the Open/Save window not maintaining its previous size. Isn't
    that standard windows operation these days. Finally 2007 does it.

    Steve O
     
    SteveO, Oct 30, 2006
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