[PhillyCyberJoe]

Folks,
I hoping someone out there can help me out. I just got a new copy of Solidworks Student Edition 2007-2008 and I'm having great difficulty in understanding where my splines are.

If I select New/Part then choose front plane and then sketch, I should be all ready to go. Any of the other tools works fine (e.g. lines, rectangles, circles or whatever) but splines simply will not work. When I select splines, I do get the pencil cursor with the wavey spline looking line. When I click and drag, I get nothing. I have tried everything including re-installing the software and still no splines. The splines property box on the left side of the screen remains grayed out as if no spline have been drawn.

Did I forget to enable something? Is there an option that is turned off by default that needs to be turned on?

Also (maybe this is a clue) everytime I start Solidworks, I get a message that I have no license for COSMOS. I just haven't gotten it yet. Is this related at all?

Please help before I go nuts!!!

Thanks much,
Joe

[d8432]

Hmm. COSMOS is just a FEA plugin for SW. To draw splines just click on the tool, select some misc points on the sketch then press "Esc".

I have seen some PC's that don't have a good video card and can't work with SW, you could try opening some SW samples like parts or assemblies and see how it works. If it isn't a video card issue, i guess that you could try on another software (like SEdge or Rhino) or contact SW.

[PhillyCyberJoe]

Hey d8432,
Thanks for the reply. I did a lot of stuff to my PC like updating video drivers, uninstalling SW and cleaning out the registry. After re-installing SW I seem to have found my splines.

Doing it the way I did, I have no idea what fixed it but I'm back in business.

Again, thanks for the reply,
Joe