{"TOTAL":5000,"ITEMS":{"COLUMNS":["ITEM_TITLE","ITEM_LINK","ITEM_DESCRIPTION","ITEM_SOURCE","ITEM_DATE"],"DATA":[["Noob Question- How to Create a Neutral Plane on a Non Planar Surface to Draft Part?","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/213573","I am very new to Solidworks and I am teaching myself via a ton of YouTube tutorials, so please bear with me if I sound like a complete novice. This model has a taper when viewed from the left or right planes. I need to use the top plane as a Neutral Plane for the origin of my Draft, however I am getting the error that "Non planar surfaces cannot be selected as Neutral plane for draft". I am assuming this is due to the fact that the Top plane has a radius to it?","Forums","5 hours ago"],["Mates Context Menu will not let me near it","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/216854","Recently, myMates context menuhas starting acting buggy. Trying to mate components, such as bolt library items, I have found that the typical method of mate selection for me, "Hold CTRL, select multiple items", then let off CTRL and hover to the context menu --- its no longer working. Solidworks is consistently putting the menu out of my reach, so that itfadesas I get near it with my cursor, whereas the typical response is to get brighter as you near it.","Forums","10 hours ago"],["How to define a zone for penetration, not a fixed port?","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/214582","A pipe fitting elbow has a clear and distinct point where the pipe goes. This is (one of) its connection point(s). Some electrical items have areas where penetration is allowed, without any actual holes to locate and constrain a connection point to.","Forums","10 hours ago"],["I see the points are messed up again...","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/214460","the point system isn't updating again andRichard Doyleis on vacation. Just my luck. I was hoping to catch up with Deepak today.","Forums","11 hours ago"],["Updating Settings via Settings Administrator (.sldsettings files)","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/214746","Hoping to piggy-back off ofa previous discussionon this topic originated byKen Maren. I used .sldsettings for the first time as part of an upgrade to 2017 SP5 for my users.","Forums","11 hours ago"],["Maintain specific direction with path mate","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/216901","Maintain specific direction with path mate The easiest way to explain my situation is as follows:","Forums","18 hours ago"],["Why can't I pattern reference geometry?","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/184874","Having used SolidWorks for a couple of years now, I am surprised I've never come up against this before. It was actually a post in another forum that got me thinking about it. I almost told the guy there that the solution to his problem was just a table-driven pattern of planes. Super easy until I tried it and realized that you can't use any reference geometry as a pattern seed in a part.","Forums","18 hours ago"],["How do you rotate a part and change orientation, should be simple no?","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/91290","So I am rather new to Solidworks. I have used Inventor for a long time though, and while things for the most part seem better in Solidworks, there are times when I cannot do a simple thing that I could in Inventor. I basically want to rotate a part 90 degrees and change that orientation.","Forums","19 hours ago"],["BOM in .slddrw does not update after Pack & Go...Why?","https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/216800","I use Pack & Go to copy existing drawings & assemblies into a new project. I initiate the P&G command from the drawing environment. After the project is Packed & Gone, I open the new drawing and use File>Find References to confirm that the drawing is referencing only the models I want referenced (also to see that referenced files are named & stored appropriately..).","Forums","1 day ago"],["SOLIDWORKS World 2018 - SOLIDWORKS Professional認定試験（CSWP）20周年記念","http://blogs.solidworks.com/japan/solidworks-blog/solidworks-japan/sww2018_cswp-2/","毎年開催されるSOLDWORKS World では,一般プログラムが開始される前日の日曜日に認定試験DAYが設定されています。2018年2月4日（日） ロサンゼルスで開催された今年のSOLDWORKS World 2018の認定試験DAYは,いつもとちょっと違うものでした。SOLIDWORKS Professional認定試験（CSWP）の20周年を記念した特別な認定試験DAYだったからです！ 今回受験可能な試験は,この日のためにリリースされたCSWP試験のみ。合格者には,この日のためだけに作られた20周年ロゴ入りCSWP認定証や20周年限定CSWPグッツ（ノートやチャージャー）が配られるなど,特別感満載のスペシャル試験DAYとなりました！ なんとこの日は新規に受ける方だけではなく,この20周年記念限定の認定証を狙って,すでにCSWP取得済みの方も多数受験され,総勢200名以上のSOLIDWORKSユーザーが会場に集まりました。","Blogs","1 day ago"]]}}