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What’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
... ContinuedMBD Implementation 10 DOs and 10 DONTs – Drive from Top Down
In my previous Introduction blog, I listed 10 DOs and DONTs in MBD implementation from three key aspects: People: organizational structure and mindset. Process: methodology, procedures, and tools. Product: product design and manufacturing. People always comes first. Without people,
... ContinuedSee What You Missed: Top Webinars of 2014
I’ve been guilty of binge media consumption. If I get hooked on a TV or book series, I cannot stop until I’m caught up. I went through Breaking Bad in a week, the Winds of Winter arrived in no time
... ContinuedGoals in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
One of the key technologies in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is a concept in the software called Goals. My hope in the post is to attempt to clear up any questions that you may have about Goals by breaking it down into
... ContinuedNovember’s Top 5 SOLIDWORKS Blog Posts
November has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Chances are it moved so fast that you may have missed some of the month’s most popular blog posts across the SOLIDWORKS network. The good news is that we’ve
... ContinuedSigmund: Seven Steps to Guaranteed Product Quality in Design
Today, 3D CAD technology has matured to high levels of building complex designs. Validating the design for Fit, Form and Function (F3) are now completed with great care, upfront. Yet, Superior Assembly Build Quality, Consistent Performance and Low Cost Objectives
... 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
... ContinuedDramatically reduce design errors by using SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology
As the complexity of your engineering problems, design, and assemblies increases, so do the chances of making a costly mistake that may lead to many hours of re-work and may cause you to pull your product out of production. You’ll
... ContinuedSolidWorks Drawing Tip: Convert View to Sketch
I’ve been asked a couple of times if there was an easy way to tweak, change, or ‘fudge’ a drawing view. Some people want to change a line style, some may want to change a thickness, and some may just
... ContinuedTractor Trailer Aerodynamics in SolidWorks Flow Simulation
As time progresses and fuel prices increase, you might have noticed some changes to the tractor trailers you see on the highway. Fairings on tractors have been common for quite a while; however, side skirts and extended “tails” on the
... Continued5 SolidWorks Tips You May Have Never Seen Before
Chances are if you’ve been around SolidWorks for any significant amount of time, you may have seen some of these before, but I’ll be surprised if more than a handful of seasoned SolidWorks users have seen all 5 of these
... ContinuedWhere is the colour?
In SolidWorks, you can work with colours in different ways. The rule is that the paint is harder the more local it is defined. You can easy see this by selecting the part where you are interested and click the
... Continued3DVia Composer 2012
A new version of 3DVIA Composer has been released with a number of improvements for documentation, animation, interactive directories and publishing on the Internet.Let us address some of the news for creating images and technical illustrations. When creating images,
... ContinuedTips on free software for 2D CAD
Did you know that there is free to download a program for 2D CAD, developed by Dassault Systemes? The product is called DraftSight and can be downloaded here !
... ContinuedSix More Tips for Using Microsoft Excel with SolidWorks
A few months back, we released a screencast that gives you ten tips for using Excel with SolidWorks. It was so popular, the masterminds behind it came up with six more. So if you want to check it out, just
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