Mate for Center Distance of Optical Lenses (Spherical Surfaces)

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A bit of Assembly Practice - a geodesic dome, only two parts needed, both parts supplied via link in comment (also as parasolids for backwards compatibility)

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One more exam and I can take my CSWE!

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How can I start sketching this

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is there a hotkey or easy way to collapse all tabs in the tree?

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How to Model those cylinders that are attached to the Body? is it possible using Fillets?

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Westinghouse J34 Turbojet Engine 11 Stage Axial Compressor

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What does this in yellow mean?

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I’m lost, how can I start on this ?

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how do I create this embossing in the sheet metal?

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Got hooked to chess because of lockdown. I'm almost done making a chess set!

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How to apply the hole to all the rectangle faces?

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How can i create a circular pattern?

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Is it bad practice to make individual drawings of structure members instead of cut lists? Which one should i prefer? Or should i do both? What about miter joints? How to specify them on cut lists?

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Can you use revolve to make a 45 degree elbow?

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Does anyone have any idea on how can we create this kinda design for a wase in solidworks?

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There's 16GB of DDR4, use it, I beg you

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How do I make a cut that follows the curved surface (elliptical curve, not circular) -- blue circle shows an example of where the cut would start

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Quick 2D Puzzle - Both rectangles have the same dimensions and are constrained to a semicircle as shown. What is the angle at 'A'? . . . Only answers with a screenshot are valid.

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Is this pinching / converging boundary surface corner going to cause issues?

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Weldments - Structural Members. How do I fill these? I tried using weld beads but did not get the result I expected.

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How to make a curved object based on a 3D-scanned part. See comment

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Getting it free though school and I have a code and put it in when it asked me now it won’t open?

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Hi, I'm still learning and I was wondering what I should change to fix where the water meets the glass? Is it render passes or just a setting I need to change? Please help and thank you to those that do and already have.

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How do I select all exposed faces of a single component?

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How do I smooth out these surfaces?

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Is there a way to automatically add these horizontal and vertical relations when making a new circle for example? If it was wired to a hotkey it would save tons of time

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Passed my CSWA with a perfect score!!!!

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I was ridiculously nervous the whole time but very happy I did well

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Need help rotating the block around the center of the hole

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I’m pretty rust on drawings, any changes you’d recommend I’d make to this one?

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Enjoy

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How to make this tab go away forever. I can drag to minimize it but it reappears every few minutes and drives me crazy.

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I DID IT. Thanks guys, and the memes on here are pretty fire

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Just discovered PhotoView, I'm blown away!

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What would you call this type of joint? The outer parts slide in with a press fit.

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How do I create this mesh pattern that gets progressively increases the shape size in Solidworks?

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Render Time!

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New rig day. Freelance gig is up and running. Wish me luck!

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Which command/process is best for engraving a linear pattern onto the side of a cylinder?

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How do I go about drawing rounded rectangles

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Can somebody help whit leg, what tool to use and how to do it?

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Best way to deal with 47000 possible combinations?

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Crashing constantly.

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Any clues as to why this loft won't execute?

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Adding tolerances to a “Hole Callout”

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Just Passed the CSWPA Drawing Tools! :)

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I updated the video card driver and this is what happened. Before the update I can use the real view and the app was faster. What is the cause of this and how can I fix it.

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Mirror component issue.. Mirroring one part over the Right Axis and instead of just mirroring, its also mirroring upside down.. All 4 of the the advanced mirroring isnt working. I can get it to work if im creating an opposite Hand version. but i dont want it to be a new part..

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Struggling to sketch this...my main struggle is the arcs...I can’t ever get them to look like that

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Need help on how to make this on SW.

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How to remove this lines after surface knit command?

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Is there a solution built in Solidworks for this?

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I need help with Solidworks technical drawing. Where can I learn how to read GDTs (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing)? Most people say, it is automatic and solidworks just does it based on the GDT standards but couldn't understand and interpret it from the technical drawing

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How do I mirror this edge flange over to the other side?

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My Fat-Bike Frame

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3D scan iPhone app?

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Was bored, so I drew this little guy

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Not very familiar with modeling organic shapes on SW, any suggestion on how to approach this?

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The Struggle is real

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How fo I find from this the taper's largest diameter

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I’m a hobbyist trying different CFD projects on solid works, I was wondering if I can calculate total heat produced by a home water radiator. I’ve created the exact model , if water inlet temperature is known, how can I calculate the heat produced by the radiator?what would be your approach?

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Is it bad practice to use vertical relation in the midpoints of the lines instead of construction lines to center the sketch? I do it this way because it looks cleaner and makes my life easier when making a boss extrude by selecting the contours.

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A bit of Surfacing Practice this time - pretty sure this can only be done using surfaces, feel free to prove me wrong. All must be knitted into a single solid at the end to get the mass.

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Just passed the CSWP after getting about a 100 the first time.

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Why does this cut extrude effect the round part? Doesn't make sense to me.

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Beginner help understanding cad drawings

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Me: Scale 100% please. SolidWorks: Okay I'ma go ahead and scale that 250% bruh

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How can I repair this SW part to perform some low level analysis? It is a 3D scan that I cannot seem to make into a body.

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I made a german WWI plane in solidworks (Albatros d xi)

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A SOLIDWORKS Challenge For Your Enjoyment (see details inside)

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Solidworks has terrible monitor support.

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Quick Practice Challenge, with target mass supplied (lowest-feature-contest if you prefer)

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Any ideas for sketching this out?

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How can I select this edge when in section view? It is normally hidden from direct line of sight which seems to prevent me from selecting it, even when in section view

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Solidworks Default Drawing Sheet Color Code - For anyone who [accidentally] changed it and wants to change it back. I did a while back and couldn't find the color code anywhere for the default sheet so here it is.

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What is the broke assembly logo?

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Gold is pretty appealing, takes a while to render tho

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How would i approach making this? I'm a begginer and i can find no way to sketch this, in particular the diagonal lines, i can and have done it with two straight lines but i don't know how to sketch the diagonal ones. Any help is welcome, cheers

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Teleporting stabby stab stab. Flying Thunder God Kunai

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How do I permanently turn off ALL shadows?

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Does the downward arrow and 6 indicate depth of tap ?

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How can I put the O-ring in the hole?

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Best way to model loads on this hex? Torque or force on the flanked edges? Teeth are fixed, load on inside hex.

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Made my Legion for my student project in my first year of Mechanical engg, SolidWorks is the best tool for designing I've used so far

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Work colleague sent me this after having to open a shitshow of an assembly made by another department.

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Advice on calculating angles on flange design, info in comments

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Has anyone seen this happen before? I left solidworks running overnight and found my model like this in the morning. Completely ignores any new textures applied. The skin is a window from another program which isn't running.

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So I'm tracing this image using like 200 lines, and i mirrored it so that it would be symmetrical, but its not becoming a shape, so I cant extrude it. What am I doing wrong?

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How do I avoid bulges on the sides of this? This is suppose to be a copper tube but with a drip-edge. I've used three circles as guides but it does not maintain uniformity and thus bulges instead...

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Is there any relation/ tool that I can use to keep the undefined circle perfectly between the two others? I want it to stay central if either of the other diameters change

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how can I split this entity along the horizontal axis to have the upper and lower surface separate? I've tried using the split entities tool but I won't let me select the end points. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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next👏 meme👏

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CSWA yesterday, CSWP today. Might go for my CSWE end of this week if I have time with work.

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Has anyone used this?

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Is there a way to delete a feature safely? ( all other features after that should not go into rollback state)

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How would you reverse engineer from a photo? Perspective is killing me...

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How to create curved loft that grows constantly?

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Was anyone looking for a new drafting table?

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How do I remove the highlighted extrusion without messing with the rest of the design?

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Solidworks headache

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Trying to model a fillet weld between two pipes at an angle, but can't get constant leg thickness

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What is the best way to create perforations in my tubing system that are uniformly distributed on the outside surface?

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Need help with this mechanism. What is this mechanism called and how to design it.( it's a phone mount btw). It makes a click sound when i am adjusting the postion of this mount and it gets locked at that specific angle.

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Hello fellow Solidworks users! Maybe a newbie question, but how would I go about removing the selected blue part from my model? The program has even made it possible to select exactly what I want to delete, but not sure on how to approach it

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CAD / Drafting Ratchet Wrench (Problem 59)

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How would I determine the minimum clearance hole diameter given the information below?

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Does anyone know what this joint is called? Works a bit like a Hirth joint but when tension is backed off between the male and female parts they will rotate into multiple positions?

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Rollbackbar.jpg

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How would I even begin making this crazy part?

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Just wanted to say a huge thank you to this community for having so many useful resources and knowledgeable people. I have just passed my CSWE at 15! And it wouldn’t of happened without this subreddit inspiring me to learn SOLDIWORKS.

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How can I copy the red features to another rotated plane?

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Confused on how to find dimensions in order to model this

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Am I able to dimensions points on a drawing as shown in this image?

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quarantine finally motivated me to go practice in SW, took a advice to model anything you can find at home, the most challenging stuff was finding something interesting to recreate (maybe will make rubber handles later

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Does anyone know how to increase the thickness of these trusses?

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Can't draw the rib

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Using guide curves for surface sweeps

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How to make this drawing fully define? Im so sorry if this question sounds really basic, i am in my first semester in mech engineering degree and I start off my degree with online class. Solidwork is totally something new for me and it is really difficult for me to keep up with my solidwork class :(

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Deform Question

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Access denied?

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I'm a student speedrunning my CSWE since i'm stuck at home, qualified for it in a little over a week :)

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N95 mask model

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how would I go about removing the red hash and joining the two remaining bodies? bit like a break view in a drawing. Thanks!

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First time using Solidworks. I did a little something...

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Annoying pink circle

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This sketch wont fully define and I don't know why, Please help

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How do I perform a fluid flow (water) simulation on this to determine the flow speed of a river needed to rotate the turbine assembly at 300 RPM? Any resources or help would be greatly appreciated.

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HELP!!! How do you create the roof of this chinese pagoda?

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This is what happens when you don't have an SSD!

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How do I remove the teeth from the drawing?

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What is this ?

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Need help cutting spiral grooves in my model

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how to 3d model a desert sand dune topography for 3D-printing / CNC

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How can I create a centerline of this igs model. is there any shortcut? we make pipe bending machines and this igs model is for my training.

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Please tell me how to solve

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TIL that zooming in on a reflective surface in SolidWorks will show you a pretty nice apartment

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I'm playing D&D for the first time so I 3D modeled our first town in SolidWorks. (Basic textures, not quite finished)

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How can I use Shell on this without using something like 0.001 mm, can I fix it so the thickness is at least 0,4 cm?

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Trying to make an expanded end on a tube. Started with a sweep and thin feature on the main section, and then I've tried extrusion, revolve, and loft methods to get this expanded section, but all of them end up with 2 separate bodies in the end. How do I make this work with one body at the end?

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Secondary Mirror Face/Plane Driving me nuts!!!

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Does this mean the SolidWorks file is from a newer version, or is my SolidWorks the newer version?

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After 5 tries, finally passed my CSWPA-SU exam!

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geez

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I thought this was more appropriate here.

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How would you go about creating this model? I'm having a difficult time doing so..

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Something about Mcmaster parts in PDM causes this annotation to appear in an assembly. How can I delete this?

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