Spell Check for SolidWorks

Hi,

I know it was probably asked and answered somewhere before but is there
a spell check for SolidWorks? I was used to that when working with
AutoCAD, now I have to open a Word doc in order to check my spelling.

Thanks again,
Stefan

 

If you look in the API section of the SW website you can see they have
a Spell check sample it shows you how to use Word's spell check
programatically to spell check a single note. You could modify it to
loop through the notes in each view of your document programatically
without too much work.

 

Hang in there, SW2006 has Spell Check!

 

Thanks for the response. I downloaded the file but don't know hot to use it.

 

Ok, one man's opinion, but really, spell check? In my CAD app? Do I
*really* need this? Really? I'd much rather see the tools in there
work as they should than have a function of my word processor rolled
in.

You know, "Billy" eats this stuff up... Soon, there will be no such
thing as an OS and seperate apps... it'll all be "one big piece of
code" that does everything...

Maybe a way to get "paint" in there as well... and a good version of
"DOOM" , with WAD editor...yippee!

MT

 

Surely we can get along better without a spell checker than we can get
along with all the bugs remaining in SolidWorks version as of the last
service pack released, not even to mention the first few service packs
released against new versions. Do we really want the SolidWorks
programmers to be working on fluff like that?

Learn to spell, Stefan, or use a spell checker already built in to
myriads of other wordprocessing programs and email clients (lazy ass).

'Sporky'

 

Thanks God that the SolidWorks policy is decided not by narrow minded
jerks as you Sporkman

 

"> Thanks God that the SolidWorks policy is decided not by narrow minded

No, It's not, but if was it'd be alot better CAD tool than it is today.

SW policy is decided by marketing and sales people who don't know shit about
trying to use a CAD system to actually design things.

I guess this is better huh ???

You must really be a noob

Mark

 

Ahh, so Mr. Lukov responded to my post. I wouldn't know otherwise
because he's now killfiled on my news reader. But in this case I think
maybe Mark M exaggerates a little (to make a valid point, however). In
actuality, practically everyone there in management at SolidWorks in
Concord has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, almost certainly even
the heads of marketing and sales if not most of their departments.
Unfortunately, though, an ME degree doesn't necessarily mean a person
has shit for sense. It does look as if the tail is (still) wagging the
dog as is the case with MANY companies where marketing dictates the
direction that allows sales to spin something that seems like it will
create more market share, and project managers shove the products out
the door before they're ready for prime time. Perhaps it's a more
American problem than it is a European problem -- I don't know -- but
something about Western society has created some backasswards values in
an outrageous number of corporate cultures. Mike Tripoli's story about
the electron microscope company is a good example, and all too typical.
Sadly, it doesn't seem to me any more that our 'Tres Amigos' meeting
with the corporate guys has had a lasting effect . . . if it ever
actually had any effect.

And Stefan, go pound sand.

'Sporky'

 

I'm with the Sporkman on this.

Come on guys, wouldn't you rather see subscription go on fixing serious
SPR's rather than adding a spellchecker?

 

Thanks CS and Double Ace for responding. I think I found something on
that place: http://www.qtecad.com/freestuff.htm

 

It's not the spell checker per se; it's the integration of features
that, for (I'm guessing) 98% of the users, simply don't need, or more
to the point, don't understand. My point is, what could one possibly
be doing in their CAD app that requires spell check? I could probably
count on one hand the words that one might use in a drawing (i.e.
"tolerance", "dimension"), two hands if going for full sentances. Much
more than that, and I have to ask why are you using SW as a word
processor?

A little off-topic, but related, is the fact that spell check has been
used by most, wrongly. How many times have you read a document and
found grammatical errors or words that don't belong, simply because
spell check "fixed them"? People think spell check releases them from
proof-reading thier own writing (it doesn't).

I think that, should SW have proven to be more stable with the
release of service packs, no one would take issue. It's not unheard of
that a company release a bad update (Win 3.0!, got worse with 3.1,
only to be "fixed" with 3.11). But in this case, it looks like things
that worked got broken, and things that are broken, stay broken.
Meanwhile, we get more "features" (mostly broken) that were never
asked for, or worse, asked for by a few, and because they were "easy",
got done first. SW has to come back to the idea that the reason that
people moved to SW was because it offered a better UI than Pro/E
(please, don't start the "Pro/E, SDRC, Ideas, Catia, etc." stuff being
better; they're all tools, some that work better than others for
people), at the time, was more stable, etc. Now, for the most part,
and in reading other threads, people that have been involved for a
long time, are distancing themselves due to many, many issues.

Bottom line, and this is true of not just Sw, but other high end apps
as well, the people responsible for making the decisions as to the
future of a product need to stop, take a deep breath, and return their
products to the point that they are stable and useful as a tool. I
think that they will find that "word of mouth" about how much people
LIKE working with their tools will far out-weigh the publicity they
get by advertising 250+ new features that make life harder for the day
to day user.

Mike Tripoli

 

Well it looks like if I install this free program, I'll have made my SW2005
version into 2006 without all the extra bugs! Maybe that's all SW is doing,
installing programs into their software that other people write!

Bluebeam is a prime example of a real dud of a pdf writer we would be better
off not having. So many better one's out their for free or cheap. If they
add other peoples software to the package, it should be top notch and not a
dumbed down version of something you need to pay extra for to get it so it
has reasonable functionality. Otherwise it's just filling your hard drive
with crap.

 

Mike,
I hate to jump in here at the risk of being flamed, but I think you
could use a spell checker in your e-mail program.
I agree that there needs to be a balance between new features and
clearing out the bugs. I don't think the new features should be
eliminated though. Does SW ever take a survey and let users vote on
which new features they want to see?

Brian

their

 

Thank you Brian... ! I was wondering if anyone was going to cetch
this! No flame!

Miek Tripolui

 

Guys,


I just unzipped this spell checker and took a look at some of the files
inside.

It contains system files, COMCTL32.OC_, OlePro32.dl_, and others dated as
early as 1997. This would be in the NT4-win95/98 time frame. If the
installer overwrites your existing system files with these old ones, you may
have serious problems.

Proceed with caution,,,!

Mark

 

Try before you buy.
QuicSspell buy Fornada software. http://www.fornada.com
Best $25 bucks I ever spent on software.
Quirky sometimes but so am I.
Works in every dialog box in windows including "file save as".

Matt B.