Author Archives: GSC
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2017: Connection Dots
There’s no need to lament any further over missed connections thanks to the SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2017 Connection Dots feature. Missed Connections – Somewhere on Craigslist Prior to September 2016 Have you ever read those “missed connection” posts on Craigslist? I learned of them
... ContinuedCreate Custom Cutting Threads in SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS 2016 introduced the Thread feature, which allows you to easily create standard threads as actual, fully-modeled geometry. What if you have non-standard threads you want to use? The answer is to create your own thread profiles. The process is
... Continued5 Habits Of Successful SOLIDWORKS Power Users
We all get busy and when you’re rushing to get a job completed, it’s easy to form some bad SOLIDWORKS habits along the way. We polled some of our SOLIDWORKS power users to see what helped them break the bad
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect: Seamless Collaboration Between CAD Platforms
SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect is a revolutionary technology that allows a user to directly open files and use models from other native CAD systems in their native format. This groundbreaking new capability, introduced as part of SOLIDWORKS 2017, allows you to
... ContinuedFatigue Analysis: The General Process
Running a fatigue analysis is a growing trend in mechanical parts and assemblies. You must already familiar with stress analysis, as it is the basis for fatigue analysis. Stress or strain information from a stress analysis is the basis for predicting
... ContinuedTwo Hidden Settings for Spline Display in SOLIDWORKS
Splines in SOLIDWORKS are crucial to creating organic and free-form geometry with sweeps, lofts, and boundary features. There are a couple of hidden System Options that pertain to how splines display in SOLIDWORKS, and this tip will be useful as
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Simulation: What is Stress and Strain?
Stress and Strain are the two building blocks of structural analysis. They are what we use to understand where a component is in relationship to material failure, sharing a close relationship. So close that sometimes their definitions both contain each
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