Usability
Who Decides What’s New in SOLIDWORKS? Meet the Product Definition Team
Who decides What’s New in SOLIDWORKS? Product Definition team members are a major component in determining and defining enhancements and new functionality included within the SOLIDWORKS products each year. They meet face-to-face with SOLIDWORKS customers to discuss what’s working, what isn’t,
... ContinuedFrom Start to Finish, We’ve Got Product Development Covered at SOLIDWORKS World 2015
SOLIDWORKS offers integrated and easy-to-use solutions for designing and developing innovative products. Our solutions include 3D CAD and simulation, electrical design and schematics, communications, collaboration and data management. There is no better place to learn new skills and get re-energized and inspired than
... ContinuedImproving the SOLIDWORKS Help File
With all the enhancements in SOLIDWORKS each year, there comes a time when the Help file might lag behind new functionality. The SOLIDWORKS team does its best to keep the Help file updated. However, sometimes there is a need for further
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Customer Satisfaction Survey Update
Over the past eight years, we have conducted the Annual SOLIDWORKS Customer Satisfaction Survey. Each year we invite all of our customers worldwide to provide feedback about their experiences working with SOLIDWORKS. We appreciate the time you have taken each
... ContinuedAre you currently using workarounds in SolidWorks Drawings?
In software, a workaround is some extended workflow or trick used to achieve desired results that are not available through standard methods. SolidWorks is easy to use, yet it is our goal to make it even easier and more intuitive.
... ContinuedSolidWorks 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
... ContinuedLarge Assemblies Made Easy with SolidWorks
Imagine this scenario: your manager has tasked you with a project to create a complex 3D model of your company’s product consisting of a variety of components, but you don’t have a tool that’s powerful enough to easily handle a
... ContinuedSimplify Your Models Using the Intersect Tool
Has this ever happened to you? Imagine that you get this super complex model with a lot of intricate internal details from your customer or supplier. The file size is huge and the rebuild times are long, considering that you only need it for any
... 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
... Continued“Set Document Property” for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Users
Most people know that Sldsetdocprop can be used to make a SolidWorks Toolbox part behave like a normal part, but did you know you can use the same tool to make a normal part behave like a Toolbox part?
... ContinuedNew in SolidWorks 2013: Enhanced Enterprise PDM Workflow and User Properties
SolidWorks 2013 includes some great enhancements for Enterprise PDM. You can now route documents and contact users more efficiently with enhanced workflow and expanded SolidWorks Enterprise PDM user properties. Reduce delays and accelerate your time-to-market Simplify process mapping requiring multiple
... ContinuedCutting All Ties: Best Practices for Removing External References
Designing parts using the Top-Down assembly modeling technique can be extremely useful. If a component is designed with the “top-down” technique, this means it is born in the assembly environment and it is designed using references to other parts within
... ContinuedWonders of Weldments
3+ Way Mitres in Weldments When building steel frames, particularly in circular tube you can strange results when 3 or more tubes come together and you and to trim them all back. You could end up with something like this:
... ContinuedAssembly Visualization – the search for the missing file properties
Releasing your drawings to the machine shop with missing information makes a machinist angrier than a baby boomer looking at a teenager that doesn’t have his pants pulled up all the way. As we all know, looking through a large
... ContinuedClean Up Your SolidWorks Drawings With Auto Arrange Dimensions
One of my favorite enhancements to drawings over the past couple of years has got to be Auto Arrange Dimensions. This might be as close as you get to an ‘easy’ button in drawings…
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