Tips & Tricks
Breaking a sheet metal loft so it shows bend lines
Lofted bends are great way to create specialized sheet metal parts where you need a high degree of transition from one profile to another – think square to a circle duct work. The lofted bend requires two open contour profiles
... ContinuedFree 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
... ContinuedThe Magic 8-Ball in SolidWorks
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
... ContinuedNew in SolidWorks 2013: Change Your Life with Search Options
One of the great things about SolidWorks is that each new release is chock full of new functionality and improvements. The challenge of knowing where the settings are located that govern the behavior of all that functionality, unfortunately, becomes larger
... ContinuedSolidWorks Simulation Time Saver: Sub Modeling
Submodeling transfers the displacements from a global model to the border of selected submodel bodies. This is available for linear or nonlinear static studies.
... ContinuedHow do I learn how to use SolidWorks?
Here at SolidWorks we often get asked the same question: “Where can I find materials to help me learn how to use SolidWorks?” Well, we have many resources for SolidWorks users of all levels to check out. If you’re a
... ContinuedForget the Cavity search–use the Intersect command for filled volume (SolidWorks 2013)
The Intersect tool in SolidWorks 2013 is very powerful with many different uses. In the following exercise, we’ll use Intersect to quickly create a filled volume from negative space in order to determine the amount of liquid in a bottle.
... ContinuedEditing Legacy Electrical Data with SolidWorks Electrical
Did you know that SolidWorks Electrical contains a full set of 2D drafting tools for editing electrical drawings? Here are just some of the features that will help you easily maintain your legacy data while also reaping the benefits of
... ContinuedAllowing 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
... ContinuedThe Final Frontier: How Copenhagen Suborbitals Took Off
It’s no mistake that a New York Times headline from last September read "Space Tourism is Here". While the human race has already reached the final frontier, the majority of people have probably never ventured into space, let alone traveled
... ContinuedReduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Sketches
By CAPINC Applications Engineer, Laura Weismantel One of the ways you can save time while building a model in SolidWorks is to never model the same feature twice. There are many tools that can be used to achieve this objective,
... ContinuedSolidWorks World 2013 technical presentations are now available on our proceedings website
Maybe you couldn't make it to every session you wanted to attend at SolidWorks World 2013. Or maybe you couldn't make it to SolidWorks World at all, but saw a session on the schedule that you really wish you could
... 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
... 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.
... 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
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