SOLIDWORKS Composer
The Digger is Your Friend!
In SolidWorks Composer, the Digger is a great tool to use for highlighting various components in your assemblies. Just like a detail view, the Digger can be used to zoom in on components in relation to your entire assembly. However,
... ContinuedSolidWorks Composer in the Pump Industry
I just talked with a SolidWorks Composer customer with a pump, pipe, and valve company. He is a service manager who needs to create and conduct training with hundreds of reseller field service members who directly support their end users
... ContinuedHow to Replace the Viewport Compass with your Company Logo
Have you ever wanted to replace the boring viewport compass with something else like your company logo? First import your 3D Company logo (if you have one) into Composer and then save it as a Project (.smgXml), this will create
... ContinuedExploded Views Made Easy with SolidWorks Composer
In our customer surveys, we’ve noticed the importance of creating exploded views, particularly for manufacturing assembly instructions and user manuals. For some, creating exploded views can be an extremeley tedious–and ultimately costly–process. However, Composer’s explode tools make the process of
... ContinuedImproving Tech Pubs With SolidWorks Composer: Integrating Color
So, we talk to a good number of customers about improving their internal pubs to reduce assembly errors and assembly time, and usually, the customer’s work instructions start off looking something like this: That’s the image the assembler has to
... ContinuedJL Marine Drops Anchor With Help From SolidWorks
Summer is back at the office in Waltham, MA – we can finally enjoy the warm, sunny outdoors. Some of you may be busy firing up the grill or planning your next fishing adventure on the lake. Even though my fishing
... ContinuedIntroducing The New SolidWorks Composer YouTube Channel!
SolidWorks Composer is an powerful, easy to use tool that can help you create all kinds of technical communications, assembly instructions, animations and more very quickly. To go along with all of the great features packed into SolidWorks Composer, we
... ContinuedCreate Better Assembly Instructions for Your Customers with SolidWorks Composer
Have you ever bought a piece of furniture and then had to assemble it yourself? If you have, chances are you’ve come across the hieroglyphic-esque assembly instructions that came in the box. Whether it’s the hard to understand text, or
... ContinuedQ&A: Keeping up with the U.S. Department of Defense Design Requirements
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has implemented a standard practice called MIL-STD-31000, that requires proper technical documentation to build, repair and maintain critical tools and equipment. I spoke with Rich Eckenrode, president of RECON Services Incorporated, Ed Miller,
... ContinuedLearn how USSC Group developed a breakthrough product in just four months after switching to SolidWorks
USSC Group is a leading manufacturer of world-class seating for many types of specialty vehicles, such as buses, locomotives, and fire trucks. To maintain its industry-leading engineering capabilities, USSC periodically assesses the effectiveness of its design and engineering tools. In
... ContinuedJL Audio is creating assembly instructions that go BOOM!
Like most SolidWorks users, I love technology. I love to see what’s next, and get excited when I see our customers create something truly original. For example, at SolidWorks World 2013, Dr. Vijay Kumar’s presentation on micro-robots was my favorite
... ContinuedSolidWorks Composer: An Easy Way to Rotate Actors
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
... ContinuedInteractive Scalable Vector Graphic Files from 3DVIA Composer
3DVIA Composer has long had the ability to save Views as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files viewable with a web browser. However, there is a trick to getting nicely formatted SVG files to show on HTML web pages, and it
... ContinuedThere’s got to be a better way of creating owner’s manuals
There got to be a better way of owner’s manual! Here we are: Universal Cycles, a mountain bike producer in U.K. They print a QR code on their bike body leading to a Youtube assembly instruction video created in 3DVIA Composer by repurposing their CAD models for technical communication.
... ContinuedHow do I buy SolidWorks or get a trial version?
Here at SolidWorks, we work hard to make our products easy to buy, learn and use; however, two of the most common questions we receive are: How do I buy SolidWorks? How do I get a trial version of SolidWorks?
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