Author Archives: GSC
Understanding 2D Cabinet Layouts in SOLIDWORKS Electrical – Part 1
As an engineer, you are on a never-ending quest to efficiently produce meaningful designs to generate amazing and profitable results. On your quest, you must be resourceful and you sometimes must use new methods to get where you’re going! There are
... ContinuedShading in SOLIDWORKS Composer: Story Tutorial
Are you taking full advantage of SOLIDWORKS Composer’s tools, such as shading? If you’re not, dive into this story below to learn more about your custom rendering options. Sol & Sal Story Tutorial Well, it’s been a while since we last visited
... ContinuedTop 5 New Features in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2021
SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE rolled out a little differently this year. If you treated yourself to one of GSC’s virtual 2021 What’s New Recaps, you saw our 25-year veteran Jeff Setzer unveil myriad new features in 2021 through the eyes of
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Advanced Part Modeling: Partial Fillet Option Through ‘Partial Edge’
One of the great things about live training is the interaction between members of the class. As students try things or think of how they might use SOLIDWORKS in their own work, questions come up that allow for learning beyond the book. During my last Advanced
... Continued3D Sculpting a Favorite Character: Designing Rudolph on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
Every year, I try to highlight a holiday aspect of the SOLIDWORKS design platform (in 2019, I discussed 10 key modeling tips in SOLIDWORKS 2020). This year, I wanted to take advantage of the 3D Sculptor role on the 3DEXPERIENCE
... ContinuedHow to Copy a Part in SOLIDWORKS Using Virtual Component
Making Part Modifications There may be times when you’re working on an assembly and decide that one of the parts needs to be modified; however, you don’t want to modify the original, but instead make a copy to be modified specifically
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2020 Electrical Terminations: Rise of the Machines
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Terminations Manager Let’s continue where we left off in our Back to the Future blog and talk about…time travel! Another well known series that sees several time jumps is the Terminator franchise! In order to understand the sequels, you need to
... ContinuedCreating a Custom Tool within SOLIDWORKS CAM
Learn how to create a custom tool within either SOLIDWORKS CAM or CAMWORKS. You’ll start with a SOLIDWORKS part with a single revolve feature. Some notes about the sketch used to create this feature: The sketch must be on the
... ContinuedBack to the Future with SOLIDWORKS Electrical Snapshots
The 80’s blockbuster Back to the Future has stood the test of time (pun intended). And as the years have passed, it has also had some uncanny predictions, including the Cubs World Series (Why couldn’t Spielberg have predicted MY favorite
... ContinuedNew Addition to Thicken Command in SOLIDWORKS 2020: Defining Thicken Direction
SOLIDWORKS 2020 adds a very nice option to one of my favorite surface-to-solid tools, Thicken. Thicken takes a surface body (which has zero thickness) and makes it a solid (making it a volume) by specifying a thickness value and side to thicken.
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