A View From All Angles
Most SolidWorks users are content, when modeling or assembling components, to work in a single view. Most certainly because SolidWorks makes it very easy to navigate using standard views, convenient mouse button commands and other efficient techniques. But for some
... ContinuedMaking Friends in the SolidWorks Community
Devon Sowell of 3D Design Solutions in Carlsbad, CA registered early for the SWUGN Summit. While that’s not unusual, the Summit event he registered for was Boston, nearly 2600 miles from home. I asked Devon what made him decide to
... ContinuedLittle Time Savers
Often times, when spending long hours working on a CAD model, there are times when you will need to do many repetitive operations, one after another. It would be good if CAD systems could just read our minds and “know”
... ContinuedMotivational video?
Evan Yares writes about marketing tactics. A friend of mine in the industry said it best: "I’m speechless" Richard
... ContinuedDynamic Editing of Your Designs
Users often want to dynamically update sketches and observe the result in the feature that it produces. It can be used in one of two ways. First, once the Move/Size Icon is clicked, you can then single click on a
... ContinuedSection Views in Your Designs
I was speaking with a 2D user who was looking at SolidWorks. He asked me how he could get a better understanding of a 3D design. Section view helps the SolidWorks user to understand where they are in 3D space.
... ContinuedSWUGN Summit – Denver
The SWUGN Summit series continues to gain momentum, this time with more than 90 participants in Denver, Colorado. Bolstered by four presentations from local SolidWorks users, the session schedule was very well received. The most popular session? Kevin Van Liere’s
... ContinuedSolidWorks Customer Portal Announcement
In our continued effort to supply a much higher level of service and increased value to our subscription customers, we are happy to announce the availability date of the new Customer Portal. This site will be available the week of
... ContinuedSolidWorks’ new PDMWorks Enterprise gives global manufacturers streamlined product development
PDMWorks has been focused on secure revision management for the single site workgroup. This product has delivered a significant amount of value to SolidWorks users. What become clear to us was that a segment of our customer base have needs
... ContinuedA real world view
SolidWorks users can now define a camera view which is an alternative to our standard perspective view. This new Camera view is treated like an actual camera object that the user positions in their SolidWorks scene and give them viewing
... ContinuedSWUGN Technical Summits
The next set of SWUGN Technical Summits are set to take place. These are one day user group events For more information visit, https://www.swugn.org/pages/summit/SWUGN_Technical_Summit.html. Here is a listing of the dates and cities: Denver, Co – May 23rdBoston, MA –
... ContinuedMy favorite time of the year – SolidWorks World
Anticipation gets started early this year, the SolidWorks World 2007 call-for-papers has been announced. I’ve written about why I attend SolidWorks World, I would like to hear why you attend. Richard
... ContinuedSolidWorks and Catia – again
Roopinder Tara talks about Dassault and SolidWorks not "talking", raising the question for the ten-thousandth time. John McEleney answers it for the ten-thousandth and first time (read his comments).
... ContinuedFrom Artist’s Concept to Production Design
Often times, designs originate as a sketch on a napkin or as a marker rendering. Sketch Picture, allows you to easily capture this information and build a 3D concept, referencing this information. What is even more powerful is the ability
... ContinuedMultiple Display States for Configurations Speed Up Large Assemblies
Do you currently make assembly configurations just so you can see the assembly in different display states? Well you’re not alone. But now, in SolidWorks 2006, you won’t have to do it anymore. Now you can toggle between display states
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