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Celebrate the 12 Days of DraftSight

By Meaghan Murphy December 13, 2022
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Celebrate the 12 Days of DraftSight

To celebrate the holidays, the DraftSight team will be sharing a video series of the 12 days of #DraftSight over the next 2 weeks.

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Take Your DraftSight Drawings on the Go with New Offline Mode

By William Liu August 10, 2022
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Take Your DraftSight Drawings on the Go with New Offline Mode

What if you could work on your drawings anytime, anywhere without worrying about an internet connection? With new offline mode you can. This is a great new, flexible feature in the latest version of 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight.

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My Top Five Favorite Enhancements in 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight from 2021

By William Liu January 19, 2022
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My Top Five Favorite Enhancements in <b>3D</b>EXPERIENCE DraftSight from 2021

Learn the five reasons why you should be super excited about the enhancements in 2021 in 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight, our professional 2D and 3D drafting solution with cloud-based capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

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Taking 2D to a Higher Level—the Cloud!

By SOLIDWORKS November 4, 2021
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Taking 2D to a Higher Level—the Cloud!

See how despite the growing use of 3D parts and assemblies, many companies continue to rely on 2D drawings.

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Increase your Productivity with the New Features in DraftSight 2022

By Lynn Allen October 20, 2021
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Increase your Productivity with the New Features in DraftSight 2022

Lynn Allen shares her list of the best new enhancements and functionality that’s being offered in DraftSight 2022.

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Technology Preview: SOLIDWORKS 2021

By Kurt Anliker February 14, 2020
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Technology Preview: SOLIDWORKS 2021

Hear about some of the cool new enhancements coming in SOLIDWORKS 2021 in this Technology Preview blog.

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3 Reasons to Upgrade to SOLIDWORKS 2020

By Brad Williamson November 20, 2019
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3 Reasons to Upgrade to SOLIDWORKS 2020

Learn about the reasons why now is the right time to upgrade to SOLIDWORKS 2020.

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How SOLIDWORKS Turned Ernesto Mosqueda’s Life Around

By Connor Burke October 22, 2018
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How SOLIDWORKS Turned Ernesto Mosqueda’s Life Around

Some people do not realize what they’re truly passionate about until much later in their lives. You might think you want to be in a certain industry or field for the rest of your life, until that back fires and

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Custom Designs in Half the Time: Paranthaman Exporters goes from 2D to 3D

By SOLIDWORKS August 2, 2016
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Custom Designs in Half the Time: Paranthaman Exporters goes from 2D to 3D

PRD Rigs, an award-winning Indian manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, has designed, manufactured, and exported more than 350 drilling rigs to more than 30 countries around the world through its Paranthaman Exporters division. However, as the

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Building General Notes from the Bottom up

By Matt Lorono July 28, 2016
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Building 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

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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DON’Ts – Don’t Skip Critical 3D Dimensions and Tolerances (Part 2)

By Oboe Wu March 22, 2016
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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DON’Ts – Don’t Skip Critical 3D Dimensions and Tolerances (Part 2)

Part 1 of this topic covered four benefits of calling out critical 3D dimensions and tolerances explicitly in Model-Based Definition (MBD), or the downsides of not doing so. Here let’s look into two more. Downstream data consumers may not be

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Powerful Tools for Complex Products – Visualize, then Realize with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD tools

By Alyson Savelle March 14, 2016
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Powerful Tools for Complex Products – Visualize, then Realize with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD tools

Promotion of Integrating Design for Manufacturing eBook Chapter 2

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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and DON’Ts – Don’t Skip Critical 3D Dimensions and Tolerances – Part 1

By Oboe Wu March 4, 2016
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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and DON’Ts – Don’t Skip Critical 3D Dimensions and Tolerances – Part 1

Missing critical dimensions and tolerances is one of the major complaints against MBD in production, especially among suppliers. Some machine shops dismiss MBD as “irresponsible laziness” because their clients provided only 3D models with no 2D drawings, 3D dimensions or tolerances

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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DON’Ts – Upgrade infrastructure

By Oboe Wu January 14, 2016
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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DON’Ts – Upgrade infrastructure

In a previous blog on Drawingless or Paperless, we clarified that MBD Implementations don’t require heavy upfront investment on digital equipment. However, there are indeed MBD manufacturers around the world who are also very successful with paperless processes. This post will

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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DON’Ts – Don’t Rely on 2D Drawings as the Master Anymore

By Oboe Wu December 15, 2015
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MBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DON’Ts – Don’t Rely on 2D Drawings as the Master Anymore

My last post on Model-Based Definition (MBD) implementation, “Measure progress” touched upon NIST’s MBD capability assessment, where drawing-centric or model-centric is a key distinction between level 0 and level 1. In this blog, let’s expand this topic a bit further

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