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Good Vibrations: Reverse Engineering A Vintage Turntable Foot

By 3DVision Technologies May 3, 2017
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Good Vibrations: Reverse Engineering A Vintage Turntable Foot

Most audiophiles say that there is something warmer, richer, and better to the sound a vinyl record reproduces, especially compared to modern digital media. Not having listened to an album since I was young, I figured it was time to

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The Secret Enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Electrical

By 3DVision Technologies November 30, 2016
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The Secret Enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Every year SOLIDWORKS makes enhancements to the software, much of it based on user feedback. They publish a “What’s New” document so that you can browse through and read about the hundreds of improvements that they made. There are improvements

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Revision Control in SOLIDWORKS Electrical

By 3DVision Technologies October 1, 2016
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Revision Control in SOLIDWORKS Electrical

A lot of people want to know if they can use SOLIDWORKS PDM to manage revisions in SOLIDWORKS Electrical. There are a couple ways that you can manage your electrical data in PDM. The most common methods are to check-in the

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SOLIDWORKS 2016 Model Based Definition Enhancements

By 3DVision Technologies September 2, 2016
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SOLIDWORKS 2016 Model Based Definition Enhancements

SOLIDWORKS Model Based Definition was a great tool when it was introduced all the way back in 2015.  It is SOLIDWORKS solution to drawing-less manufacturing. Even in its short life so far, there have been a lot of enhancements added

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Decals, Decals, Decals! – How to add decals with SOLIDWORKS Visualize

By 3DVision Technologies July 31, 2016
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Decals, Decals, Decals! – How to add decals with SOLIDWORKS Visualize

For those of you following along, my last few posts have been centered around SOLIDWORKS Visualize.  I’ve previously covered a basic intro to Visualize, when to use Visualize and when to use PhotoView 360, and Visualize Appearances.  For this post

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SOLIDWORKS Xpress tools, FloXpress

By 3DVision Technologies June 24, 2016
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SOLIDWORKS Xpress tools, FloXpress

How often do you take advantage of the Xpress tools in SOLIDWORKS?  Maybe the better question is do you know about the Xpress tools in SOLIDWORKS?  If you’re not familiar with them, they are SimulationXpress, FloXpress and DriveWorksXpress. Each of

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The Power of RELOAD

By 3DVision Technologies May 27, 2016
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The Power of RELOAD

The RELOAD command in SOLIDWORKS is a very underused (or maybe misunderstood) command. Let’s take a look at the correct way to use it… If you have an assembly (or drawing) open and you want to make a change to an

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Nominal Wall Thickness Inside Plastics Simulation

By 3DVision Technologies April 22, 2016
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Nominal Wall Thickness Inside Plastics Simulation

Wall Thickness Wall thickness is a major concern when designing a plastic part. During the injection of the mold the melted plastic flow front will always move in the direction of least resistance. You can think of this similar to

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Creating SOLIDWORKS Library Features From Scratch

By 3DVision Technologies October 5, 2015
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Creating SOLIDWORKS Library Features From Scratch

6 Easy Steps to Create SOLIDWORKS Library Features From Scratch Creating Library Features from scratch is a VERY valuable technique to know. It can save you tons of time when you have “common features” that you want to reuse over

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Multiple Languages in Enterprise PDM Data Cards

By 3DVision Technologies October 4, 2015
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Multiple Languages in Enterprise PDM Data Cards

Recently, I wrote a blog post, giving some ideas on supporting multiple languages in Enterprise PDM. While writing that blog, I determined there are two ways you can “filter” your data cards so users only see their native language. Method

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