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Sign me up for the 2019 Beta. I've got a project that I need to import .stl files for. Should give it a good workout. certainly better than the process I've got to go thru to do it now. (you don't want to know...) Frank Pirz Media Conversions LLC

I'm trying to create, for want of a better description, an engraved sheet metal surface. I've reviewed the posts on Sheet Metal Engraving, but in those examples the cuts are made all the way through the material, and then filled, or thickness is added by joining the sheet metal part with a...

I've imported a .stl file. (attached) it appears to import without any errors/comments. except that it's color is red. (which can be changed - but that's an artifact) an attempt to add this part to an assembly results in an empty part outline (a rectangular box). viewing/analysis -> check part -...

Bigseb I share your mindset. I'm running any number of deskside, dedicated, systems on WinXP.. Normally I buy my systems in parts, assemble & load software on my own. because of Windows poor design features it needs to be wiped and re-loaded every few years. mostly on active systems that get...

the two laptops are approximately the same price. the toshiba is at staples, on sale. the hp is at best buy, refurbished. both come with 12gb ram and 1tb hard disk. biggest difference between the two is that the toshiba has a core i7-5500u (2 cores) cpu mark 3938 while the hp has a core...

Lew Yes agreed! So, when you do an import from a format like autocad, why isn't there a 'tolerance' setting available to basically say that 2 points within <tolerance setting> should be considered coincident. It would all but eliminate the problem when on the rare occasion you have to take an...

except that the "badly created geometry" was created by Geomagic Design. curious that I can create a 2D sketch, extrude it to a part, put the part onto a drawing, export the drawing to (autocad) .dwg and when I import the .dwg and then try to make a sketch out of it I get errors. [Yes, I know...

Nate thanks for the pointer. I'm running DraftSight v1r3 x64 from Dassault Systèmes :-) but I've yet to figure out how to make it work like Autocad LT99 that I cut my teeth on a long time ago. Mike thanks to the pointer to onshape. their package sounds attractive. Wish they were around when...

Nate yes, cutting & pasting in drawing mode sort of works. I keep getting artifacts on the pasted drawing that look like the sheet the drawing is on is being copied as well. will continue experimenting but not optimistic. Another approach is to transfer the imported .dwg into a part file and...

I have a set of autocad .dwg files (or .dxf files) that I would like to manage as a document SET. I can import any ONE .dwg file and it creates a GD.ad_drw file for it. Import creates new .ad_drw files for each file I want to import. what I want is one .ad_drw file with multiple sheets...

Ralf thanks for the response support provided instructions on how to delete 'part52' and where it was located on the design explorer part tree (but not how to find it...) however, following their instructions and deleting the part does not help. I still get the 'file in use error' when trying...

Re: Save Operation Encountered Error: File in Use -ALMOST SOLVED I heard back from tech support. their response was: Solved: 3/13/2015 9:58 AM EDT: Hello Frank, The part that is causing issues is Part 52. . Removing this file will let you save this file. Geomagic Designs intention as a CAD...

Re: Can't bring up GD - Get Cad Viewer Instead - SOLVED Support (and yes, my contract is still active) deactivated all of my (2) licenses and suggested I go thru the key activation process. while that worked I've questioned why it should be necessary. I've also asked if it was a coincidence...

DavidJ thanks I did discover that my MAINTENANCE contract expired today. CORRECTION - I contacted sales. they told me that my maintenance expires 4/25, not today. HOWEVER.. that's maintenance, NOT License... SO-- IS anyone else having problems that might be related to the License Server? I...

Yesterday (3/11/15 - 10am EST) I encountered long delays in bringing up GD. This morning (3/12/15 - 9:45am EST) I'm not only encountering long delays, but when it comes up it's coming up as Geometric Design - CAD Viewer and the 5 options (part/sheet-metal/assembly...) are grey'ed out and have...