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Celebrating International Women’s Day with our Top Sales Award Winners
Today is International Women’s Day, a 101 year old holiday commemorating women’s role in society. Women’s growing contribution to science, technology, business, the arts, politics, and economics exemplify the holiday’s mission. This year, International Women’s Day is especially important here
... ContinuedIt’s easy to convert that old legacy data to SolidWorks!
A lot of cutomers don’t realise how quick the process of converting legacy files into SolidWorks format has become recently. By using the tools incorporated into SolidWorks such as Import Diagnostics, Feature Recognition, and Fully Define Sketch, Legacy files can
... 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
... ContinuedSnapshots of PhotoView 360: Viewpoint
Photoview 360 gives the user the option of using a standard named view for the orientation of the rendering or a camera.
... ContinuedUsing the Intersect tool in SolidWorks 2013
A new powerful tool introduced SolidWorks 2013 is Intersect. Intersect enables you to perform complex operations to quickly combine surfaces, faces and solid bodies in practically any way you need without the need for multiple cut, trim and fill features. The tool’s visual interface allows you to…
... ContinuedDonn McKinney’s U.S.S. Missouri Propelling Forward with eDrawings
Since 2011, when we first featured Donn McKinney’s U.S.S Missouri project, our friend Donn has further progressed in his work. To give some background to those of you who are unfamiliar with Donn’s project, Donn, a fan of World War
... ContinuedNew “Bounding Box” in SolidWorks 2013 (it’s not just for weldments!)
If you attended a “What’s New in SolidWorks 2013? rollout or even if you were a good user and read the “What’s New” guide for 2013, you hopefully saw something about the new automatic Bounding Box that gets created for
... ContinuedRevisiting Your SolidWorks Copy Settings
Most users run the SolidWorks Copy Settings Wizard after they have initially set up the SolidWorks interface to their liking. The problem with this is you turn on all the possible options you may use and leave them at that.
... ContinuedSolidWorks 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
... ContinuedAnd The Award Goes To… SolidWorks!
Roll out the red carpet–awards season is upon us! This February, we are pleased to announce that SolidWorks products such as SolidWorks 2013, SolidWorks Electrical, and SolidWorks Plastics have been recognized for three different awards: Control Engineering’s Engineers’ Choice Award,
... 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
... ContinuedNow available: eDrawings for iOS with Augmented Reality
We've all been there. Your manager or customer has been looking at 3D images of your latest product design for months on your computer. But when the first prototype is put on the table in front of them, they say
... ContinuedSolidWorks Simulation Tech Tip: Initial Temperatures
A friend recently emailed me an article that CERN researchers had ‘discovered’ that materials could be brought down to temperatures BELOW zero Kelvin. And I thought, “That’s gotta be against the law”. But it also reminds me of a common
... ContinuedSnapshots of PhotoView 360: Lighting
There are several different types of lights that can be utilized in SolidWorks.
... ContinuedSolidWorks World 2013–My Take by Chris Scott
Four days have come and gone so quickly. From guest speakers, roller coasters, new technology, inspiring stories, and an artificial flying bird, SolidWorks World 2013 delivered. For me, this was the first time I have attended SolidWorks World, and
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