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Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"To continue adding to my list of frustrations with SC. We are now having problems when we go to save. We get a message that says that we can't save because we have run out of memory. At first I thought this might be legitimate…"

Jul 29, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"I agree. It is very useful. Now if SC would allow broken views... ;-) "

Jun 23, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"Yes, it does appear that you can create multi-detail drawings now, but it seems to be limited to internal parts. It doesn't work with external parts from my experience. Maybe that makes sense though."

Jun 20, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"Are you suggesting duplicating the part geometry into each of these drawings? Doesn't that make it harder to maintain the same geometry across different parts. Or are the seperate drawing designs referencing the original…"

Apr 1, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"Martin - Please help me get my head around the difference between the file name and the name of the content within?. I understand the zip file format and the xml data stored inside. I also noticed that they use zip for the…"

Apr 1, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"I have more info now, as I built a test case for people to try. I built a simple part called block.scdoc. Then I built an assembly called test3.scdoc that uses block.scdoc. Now put the original block.scdoc in a separate…"

Mar 31, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"I save a 2011sp0 SC model as PDF using the "Geometry(PRC-B-REP)" option. When I try to open with adobe reader 9.4.2 I get an error message that says "A 3D data parsing error has occured" If I use the facets…"

Mar 31, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"The problem was that when right-clicking on the "missing component", there was no option to delete or replace component. When loading, it gave us the option to find the component, but locating an old version of the file,…"

Mar 31, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"I think Willem is using the PDF Creator tool to merge the multiple pages together into one document. I have acrobat on my machine, so I could do it with that, still doesn't make it any easier. I used to use a command line pdf…"

Mar 30, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Willem Wagelaar's discussion 'File structure in SpaceClaim failes'

"I also agree about the need to create PDF's of the drawing sheets directly from SC. On that note, I think when I printed them to PDF I could only do one sheet at a time, instead of all the sheets. Maybe I missed an option…"

Mar 30, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Dennis Nelson's discussion 'My Drafting Wishlist for Spaceclaim'

"In addition to being able to modify the geometry and properties in a BOM and then reuse that configuration, I would also like to be able to define tables geometries at the format level that can be used at the drawing instance…"

Mar 30, 2011

Paul Bock replied to Rajeev Lochan's discussion 'How to Customize SpaceClaim API ?' in the group SpaceClaim API

"Has anyone worked with the API from mono?"

Nov 19, 2010

Paul Bock replied to Pascal Morenton's discussion 'New command development' in the group SpaceClaim API

"Sounds like a good enhancement request to file with SpaceClaim. I could use this command if it gets developed by someone. I have an assmbly where if you "expand all", then "select all" and then the "use internal copy"…"

Nov 19, 2010

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Nov 19, 2010

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martin kopplow replied to Paul Bock's discussion 'Forward / backward compatibility'

"That is a very interesting point you brought up. Almost any other software I know of is capable of saving files in older versions, which is useful when you have E.G. a client or supplier who does not upgrade as fast as you do or doesn't have a…"

Apr 13, 2010

Paul Bock posted a discussion

Forward / backward compatibility

I thought I remember reading that because SpaceClaim uses XML based files, not only will future versions of spaceclaim be able to read stuff created in older versions of spaceclaim, older versions of SpaceClaim will be able to read stuff created by new versions. The idea being that the old version trying to read the new stuff would simply ignore the parts it didn't understand. Yesterday, I upgraded to 2009+ from 2009 sp1. (I hope I understand these version naming conventions; is 2009+ like…See More

Apr 13, 2010

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