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Reverse Engineering Police Respirator Mask Canister in SOLIDWORKS for Milwaukee Police
The Police Chief of Milwaukee put out a statement March 20th for businesses in the Milwaukee area to donate any Personal Protection Equipment (PPEs) they could due to supply shortages. MPD’s Detective Eric Draeger’s gave a call to us at GSC shortly
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Command, Delete Face: Easily Remove Faces From a Solid or Surface Body
Learn how to easily delete a face from a solid or surface body when modeling in SOLIDWORKS. Our #TechTip this week is by Training Manager John Setzer. Video Transcript Hi and welcome to another GSC tech tip. Today we’re going
... ContinuedUsing SOLIDWORKS’ Smart Dimension Tool When Sketching Arcs & Circles
This helpful #TechTip is brought to you by our Training Manager John Setzer, and covers using the smart dimension tool when sketching arcs and circles. Find more options available to you, when you want to create a dimension and don’t
... ContinuedNavigating the New PDM Quick Search in SOLIDWORKS 2020
One of my favorite new things in the SOLIDWORKS 2020 portfolio is Quick Search in SOLIDWORKS PDM. This tool presents the user with a “Google-like” ability to simply type in search terms across multiple metadata fields, using logical operators to
... ContinuedFinding New Commands in SOLIDWORKS Command Search
To me, one of the handiest SOLIDWORKS ease-of-use functions hides in plain view: The Command Search. Found at the top of the application, the SOLIDWORKS Search box can be set to several different types of search, but the one I
... ContinuedTop 5 Favorite Features in SOLIDWORKS 2020
My “holiday season” begins and ends with SOLIDWORKS. For me, the “holidays” begin with the new SOLIDWORKS Rollout events, and end with SOLIDWORKS (now 3DEXPERIENCE) World. Yeah, there’s some cider, turkey, and twinkling lights in between, but for me, SOLIDWORKS
... ContinuedUsing the ‘Normal To’ Command – A Neat Orientation Trick
This question came up during one of our classes regarding model orientation. The challenge was to orient a model normal to a face but not have the view orientation use default “Y” orientation for that face. There’s actually a very
... ContinuedOptimize SOLIDWORKS PDM Vault Design for Save As & Copy Tree
Preventing Improper Clearing Oftentimes, SOLIDWORKS PDM vaults are not designed to handle clearing of metadata for new files that have been copied from either a SOLIDWORKS Save As or PDM Copy Tree operation. If workflow logic is implemented with variables
... ContinuedTesting SOLIDWORKS 2019 Large-Assembly Performance On Real-World Hardware
As a SOLIDWORKS user since the beginning, I’ve always been interested in the interplay between the software and hardware as technology advances. It’s kind of like the “chicken and egg” scenario being repeated over and over again, and generally speaking,
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