Tips & Tricks
Schooled in SOLIDWORKS: Mattias Robertsson Reveals Tips to Slash Manufacturing Costs
Level-up your SOLIDWORKS skills as our inside experts reveal features you never knew existed. In this month’s webinar, find out how you can use SOLIDWORKS Simulation to slash manufacturing costs by testing your product without creating expensive prototypes.
... ContinuedStump the Chump: Can a Sketch Profile Change as a Function of the Length of the Sweep Curve?
This is the first in a series of blogs that will delve into common questions or problems that users encounter daily and present answers from other users as well as a weigh-in from a SOLIDWORKS expert.
... ContinuedSchooled in SOLIDWORKS Series: Shockingly good tips from a SOLIDWORKS Electrical Technical Manager
Level-up your SOLIDWORKS skills as our inside experts reveal features you never knew existed. In this month’s webinar, find out how you can use SOLIDWORKS Electrical to slash manufacturing costs through automated routing. The best way to learn is
... ContinuedSchooled in SOLIDWORKS Series: Quick tips from our UK Technical Manager
Level-up your SOLIDWORKS skills as our inside experts reveal features you never knew existed. In this month’s webinar, find out how you can use SOLIDWORKS MBD to improve quoting, CAM, CMM and more.
... Continued6 Things You May Not Know About Engineering
Engineering isn’t just physics and mathematics. It’s a discipline that covers almost every aspect of modern life and every industry: sports, medicine, architecture, theme parks and anything you can think of in between. So reach for your set-rulers as we
... ContinuedBuilding General Notes from the Bottom up
There’s many old rules in Drafting. Some rules have obsolesced since the popularization of CAD. Other rules are now less common, but still have value for those who employ them. One such rule states that notes and tables may be
... ContinuedWhat’s The Recipe For A Great Engineer?
Great writers have a strong inner monologue. Great illustrators have an eye for detail. Great marketers know how to capture the imagination, but what’s the recipe for a great engineer? If you are considering a career in engineering, here are
... ContinuedHave you seen the SOLIDWORKS World Proceedings site?
Where do you go when you need a quick refresher on how to use that feature you haven’t used in a while? SOLIDWORKS Web Help? Where do you go when you want to get your feet wet with surfacing? MySolidWorks? Sometimes the hardest part
... ContinuedWamore Streamlines Inspection and Goes Paperless with SOLIDWORKS Inspection
Quality control can be a cumbersome process especially when you have a large assemblies and you’re working with pages upon pages of documentation. You can spend nearly a day ballooning each dimension with a red pen and circle template and
... ContinuedDrawing View Labels enhanced in SOLIDWORKS 2014
As of SOLIDWORKS 2014, labelling of your drawing views has gotten easier and more consistent with new functionality. A few releases ago, functionality was added to control the font for each text element of the view labels for section views.
... ContinuedRecorded Webinar Spotlight: Unleash the Power of SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Fast, Productive Workflows
Product development is about a lot more than simply designing products. It encompasses all the tasks necessary to take a new product idea from fruition to production, which requires tools to conceive, collaborate, visualize, test, document, and innovate. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS solutions
... Continued5 Ways to Increase Your Productivity and Improve Your Time Management
Have you ever been so bogged down with meetings or emails that you had no time to work on your design projects? Has the work day ever passed by so quickly that you didn’t notice it go by? The truth
... ContinuedRecorded Webinar Spotlight: Winning Principles for Better Design
We all know that there is more to design than drawing lines and arcs. It’s a rare mix of art and science collaborating on a process that combines concepts, specs, parameters, costs and available manufacturing to achieve a designated objective.
... ContinuedRecorded Webinar: Project-Based Learning with DraftSight
On Wednesday, July 9, join DraftSight for a project-based learning webinar! (note: the recorded webinar is now available by clicking here) What’s a project-based learning webinar? It’s an opportunity for you to learn while designing in DraftSight. Led by our
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2014: Ballooning
Balloon annotations have been improved in SOLIDWORKS 2014, with several formatting and behavioral enhancements. Moving the arrow instead of the drawing view Selection of the geometry within a drawing view tells SOLIDWORKS you want to move the entire drawing view. Normally, this is
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