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How to Open (Large) Assemblies Even Faster

By CAD2M January 18, 2023
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How to Open (Large) Assemblies Even Faster

Most engineers have to deal with it: opening, editing and saving assemblies in SOLIDWORKS. The process of opening an assembly can easily take minutes. Frustrating when it comes to a small change or when you only need to check something

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How to set up an automatically updated revision table

By CAD2M April 16, 2020
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How to set up an automatically updated revision table

Being able to have an overview of changes to designs since initial release is an important aspect to time-efficient engineering. Making use of an automatically updated revision table helps with that.  What version are we using? Who has made these

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Using Excel filters on an Excel BOM with thumbnails    

By CAD2M May 11, 2019
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Using Excel filters on an Excel BOM with thumbnails    

SOLIDWORKS 2019 introduced a new option to include a thumbnail of each component when you export a Bill Of Materials to Microsoft Excel. I noticed that a lot of SOLIDWORKS customers are using this Excel BOM to group their components

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SOLIDWORKS 2019 Sheet Metal Tab and Slot

By CAD2M November 8, 2018
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SOLIDWORKS 2019 Sheet Metal Tab and Slot

Sheet Metal Tab and Slot was introduced with SOLIDWORKS 2018 and it gave engineers a great and fast way for a common time-consuming task. But it did not last long or the first SOLIDWORKS users started to demand more functionality,

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PDM: Versions and the exclamation mark

By CAD2M October 21, 2018
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PDM: Versions and the exclamation mark

In this article we will discuss several notifications we see when using the PDM add-in in SOLIDWORKS. These revolve around versions and how each version is used in assemblies or sub-assemblies. During customer support I notice that this question comes

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Creating a colour Layered DXF/DWG export – SW Map File

By CAD2M September 26, 2018
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Creating a colour Layered DXF/DWG export – SW Map File

Laser cutters on the market can automaticity recognize colour layers from DXF files. Based on the colour in the DXF file the machine makes an engraving or cuts the geometry. With a conventional DXF export you would need edit the

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SOLIDWORKS assembly delighters for everyday use!

By CAD2M August 22, 2018
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SOLIDWORKS assembly delighters for everyday use!

Since assembly modelling in SOLIDWORKS is one of the daily tasks of an engineer, I want to share some handy tricks to simplify the workflow of this task. The main focus in this tech blog will be the creation of

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What is a stress singularity in SOLIDWORKS Simulation?

By CAD2M July 16, 2018
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What is a stress singularity in SOLIDWORKS Simulation?

With SOLIDWORKS Simulation it is possible to test your design during the engineering phase of your project. It’s a powerful tool to provide you direct answers to difficult engineering questions. And to get the right answers, it is important that

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Working with SOLIDWORKS files in a multi-user environment without PDM

By CAD2M June 14, 2018
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Working with SOLIDWORKS files in a multi-user environment without PDM

First of all, in a multi-user environment, SOLIDWORKS PDM is the best solution to work together with the same files. And it offers a lot of extra useful functionalities. But when you own a small organisation, or when your organisation

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Easily create opposite-hand versions of parts in SOLIDWORKS

By CAD2M May 31, 2018
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Easily create opposite-hand versions of parts in SOLIDWORKS

Quite often engineers need an opposite-hand version of a part. A commonly used method is the Mirror feature at assembly level. Here you have the possibility to create an opposite-hand version during the definition of this feature. This works great,

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