Michael Lord

Today proved most interesting & educational.  It started when I received CAD data from Volkswagen on their new AdBlue system, or more accurate the location of the AdBlue Tank in the Volkswagen Crafter vehicle.   First the files came in as a .ctp format & a Folder labelled ccrypt.   So that took a phone call to work out (a compression encryption program) & a method of extracting the file into the iges files they were suppose to be.  (Drag & drop the file into the entschluesselin.bat file.   See that was easy!

So after sitting around watching the green bar scroll across the screen a few hundred times.
 

I ended up with, well very little apart from the Warning Message & two greyed out Assembly files.

Nothing to be concerned, just Unsuppress.

As a “S”Key, Command Manager, RBM (Right Button Mouse), use the same tools type of guy I did just that….RBM – Unsuppress

and got …….. a whole lot of unsuppressed Sub Assemblies with a whole lot of Suppressed Sub Assemblies & even more Suppressed Parts

I was faced with the prospect of a whole lot of Select & Unsuppress in front of me.  So I entertain myself & tweeted

The SolidWorks Community responded with plenty of suggestions & advice. 

Should be able to Select all  (LBM + Shift – Select)

Which lead to more Suppressed Sub Assemblies & even more Suppressed Parts!

Then Lou Gallo (SolidWorks Heard) tweeted

and as simple as that:

I ended up with what I needed…. (& another 6 files to review)

So a SolidWorks Lesson Learnt

Special Thanks to all my friend, @SteveOstrovsky , @gupta9665 , @MegaHertz604, @JeffMirisola , @gol10dr , @MetalDesigner for the advice & support.

Check out their Blogs:

Lou’s SolidWorks Heard – Weekly Podcast

Deepak Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog

Jeff”s Jeff’s Tool Shed     

Dan’s 6.04 Megahertz