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SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys, and Engineers Week 2016

By Josh Altergott April 14, 2016
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SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys, and Engineers Week 2016

The week of February 21st – 27th was National Engineers Week; according to the NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers) and DiscoverE websites National Engineers Week is observed on the third full week of February. It is observed by more than 70 engineering,

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SolidWorks Modeling Methodology: Part 3

By Josh Altergott August 30, 2013
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SolidWorks Modeling Methodology: Part 3

In my previous articles we started with the different items we need to consider before we start building our model such as the Manufacturing, Features, Assemblies and Drawings. For the second article we explored the first few features of our

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SolidWorks Modeling Methodology – Part 2

By Josh Altergott July 25, 2013
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SolidWorks Modeling Methodology – Part 2

In my previous article we talked about all of the items we need to consider; Manufacturing, Features, Assemblies and Drawings. For our part that we are going to design we had some knowledge of the Manufacturing and Features of the

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SolidWorks Modeling Methodology: Before You Start Your Design

By Josh Altergott June 20, 2013
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SolidWorks Modeling Methodology: Before You Start Your Design

When we were taught SolidWorks it was in one of two ways–we were either self taught or we took a class through a local SolidWorks reseller, or maybe at a local college. In either case, when we learned SolidWorks we

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Creating Section Views in SolidWorks 2013

By Josh Altergott May 15, 2013
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Creating Section Views in SolidWorks 2013

One of the questions we have seen a lot in the Technical Support department today is about some of the new functionality that has been added in SolidWorks 2013. There are generally two questions that users ask and the first

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Free SolidWorks Certification for Subscription Service Customers

By Josh Altergott April 17, 2013
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Free SolidWorks Certification for Subscription Service Customers

Are you looking for a way to test your skills in SolidWorks or maybe you are in the hunt for a new job and want to make yourself more marketable, then trying one of the SolidWorks Certification Exams is a

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Allowing SolidWorks to Perform

By Josh Altergott March 20, 2013
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Allowing SolidWorks to Perform

For the 4th year in a row Adrian Fanjoy and I have done one of our favorite SolidWorks World presentations, “Allowing SolidWorks to Perform”.  The presentation was well received and we thought it would be a good idea to share

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SolidWorks Dismissed Warning and Error Messages

By Josh Altergott February 21, 2013
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SolidWorks Dismissed Warning and Error Messages

One call that we get on a regular basis on the support line is a question of “I used to get this warning message when I did…. and now thing are not happening the way they did before–why?” More often

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SolidWorks Hole Callouts for Hole Wizard Holes on Cylindrical Faces

By Josh Altergott January 16, 2013
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SolidWorks Hole Callouts for Hole Wizard Holes on Cylindrical Faces

A question I have seen come into support lately is how to get a Hole Callout on a SolidWorks Drawing for features created with the SolidWorks Hole Wizard Tool. Problem: When you try to select what looks like the edge

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Creating Drawings for SolidWorks Multi-body Parts

By Josh Altergott December 19, 2012
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Creating Drawings for SolidWorks Multi-body Parts

When you have a multi-body part in SolidWorks the question that comes into play at some point is how do I make a drawing for each of the different bodies “parts”. The answer to this is like many items in

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Customizing SolidWorks Flyout Toolbars

By Josh Altergott October 17, 2012
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Customizing SolidWorks Flyout Toolbars

The other day while watching a video on some of the new SolidWorks 2013 features, I noticed that one of the Flyout Toolbars for Annotations had a command for Cosmetic Threads that I did not have in my Flyouts, so

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Increasing Performance in SolidWorks Patterns

By Josh Altergott September 25, 2012
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Increasing Performance in SolidWorks Patterns

I had a customer send me a file recently because they were having issues with the performance of their part file that had several pattern features in it. When you look at the file from the surface you do not

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SolidWorks’ Hidden Document Properties

By Josh Altergott August 15, 2012
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SolidWorks’ Hidden Document Properties

Most all of us who use SolidWorks know that for each document whether it is a Part, Assembly or Drawing that we can modify the Document Properties for each of these files. In the Document Properties we can change items

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Maximize SolidWorks Performance White Paper

By Josh Altergott July 18, 2012
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Adrian Fanjoy and myself began doing performance testing for SolidWorks four years ago. We have presented those results at SolidWorks World each year as we have continued to refine our tests. This past year we partnered up with BOXX Technologies

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SolidWorks Defeature: How to Increase the Performance of Imported Parts

By Josh Altergott June 20, 2012
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SolidWorks Defeature: How to Increase the Performance of Imported Parts

One tool that I think gets overlooked for it abilities is the Defeature tool, which was introduced in SolidWorks 2011 and has the ability to remove details from part or assembly files. Where I find this tool especially useful is

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