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SolidWorks Simulation: Transient Sensors

By Javelin Technologies July 11, 2013
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SolidWorks Simulation: Transient Sensors

In SolidWorks 2013, now you can define sensors which can store transient data from thermal simulations, drop tests, non-linear simulations and dynamics simulation. Due to nature of simulations which support transient data, this new sensor is supported in SolidWorks Simulation

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Enterprise PDM: Indexing the Vault for Content Searching

By Javelin Technologies June 13, 2013
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Enterprise PDM: Indexing the Vault for Content Searching

When you index a vault archive, the search tool can use the content search option to search a document’s contents or properties. The first step is to set-up the Enterprise PDM index server, on the SQL Server hosting the vault

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Simplify Your Models Using the Intersect Tool

By Javelin Technologies May 9, 2013
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Has this ever happened to you? Imagine that you get this super complex model with a lot of intricate internal details from your customer or supplier. The file size is huge and the rebuild times are long, considering that you only need it for any

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The Magic 8-Ball in SolidWorks

By Javelin Technologies April 12, 2013
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After hearing on the radio the other morning that economists are again predicting a recession, I decided that in an effort to save money, I would make my own economist. For those of you unfamiliar with a magic 8-ball, it

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Designing a Standing Desk with SolidWorks

By Javelin Technologies March 14, 2013
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Are you spending most of your day sitting in front of the computer? Does your back, neck and rear end get tired? Or maybe you’ve noticed the weigh scale slowly creep higher and higher. Over the years of technological advancement,

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SolidWorks Composer: An Easy Way to Rotate Actors

By Javelin Technologies February 14, 2013
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I have to credit this trick to Scott Lidgey. When you are rotating an actor in SolidWorks Composer, you can control the amount of revolution and make sure it rotates at a constant velocity. The trick to this is to

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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM – Using the Report Generator

By Javelin Technologies January 10, 2013
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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM – Using the Report Generator

The SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Report Generator can be used to search in a selected file vault for information that you can specify in one or more queries. A number of sample queries are distributed with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM and can be added to the report generator.

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Enterprise PDM: How to Map to Microsoft Office

By Javelin Technologies December 13, 2012
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EPDM variables can be mapped to a Microsoft Office document. This can be used to automatically populate documents such as ECN’s (Engineering Change Notices). The first step is to define variables in EPDM: Right Click on the Variables node in

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Editing the SolidWorks Custom Property Name List

By Javelin Technologies August 9, 2012
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Editing the SolidWorks Custom Property Name List

When setting up custom properties in your SolidWorks parts, assemblies and drawings you have no doubt noticed the list of Property Names that are available when adding a new custom property.  Where does this list come from? And how can you use it to help manage your SolidWorks file information?

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3DVIA Composer: Custom Color Silhouettes

By Javelin Technologies July 13, 2012
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You can highlight aspects of your image by creating an .svg with Technical Illustrator in 3DVIA Composer.   If I want to bring attention to the nose of this part I can use Line Thickness and Line Color to do

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Dissolving Subassemblies for Indented BOM

By Javelin Technologies June 27, 2012
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The Indented Bill of Materials style will list all subassemblies as an item, along with all components of the subassembly.  If you have a subassembly that should only list the parts but keep all other subassemblies as indented, you can dissolve subassemblies

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Top Five Return on Investment Areas for EPDM

By Javelin Technologies May 14, 2012
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If you’re reading this post, you’ve likely wondered at some point about how you can help rationalize what may be perceived by some as “intangible” – the return on your investment for implementing a data management solution.  Many of our

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