Author Archives: Hawk Ridge Systems
What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Bounding Box
The bounding box is an indispensable piece of reference geometry in SOLIDWORKS, representing the smallest area or volume in which a design can fit. While available in weldment and sheet metal models for many years, creating a bounding box for
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Composer: Preparing Your Models for Asset Generation – Viewport Properties & Property Pane Controls
In today’s blog, we’ll be going further in depth to prepare your model for asset generation by diving into Viewport Properties in SOLIDWORKS Composer. With Viewport Properties, we’ll go through how certain Lighting properties affect your actors. In addition, we’ll
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Motion Study: Controlling the Roll
Introduction Have you ever rolled a dice and hoped for a specific number to show up? Because I know I have! With lots of roll playing games, using dice of various shapes and sizes I decided it would be fun
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Simulation Quick Tip: Prescribed Displacements
When setting up an analysis in SOLIDWORKS Simulation, we typically think of applying forces or other loads and calculating the resulting stresses and displacements as our outputs. However, in situations where the forces may not be known, an expected displacement
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS: Bring Your Drawings to Life!
It’s easy to understand the range of motion of an assembly when you’re working with a 3D model. But how can one communicate this effectively in a 2D drawing environment? Well, the Alternate Position View makes quick work of this
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS PDM 2017: 5 New Features You’ll Want to Use
Are you looking to upgrade to SOLIDWORKS PDM 2017? Wondering what new features it has? Well, look no further. We’re going to cover what I think are the top 5 new features that were added to SOLIDWORKS PDM* for the
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2017 – Costing
Hi, everybody! Every year, SOLIDWORKS rolls out a new version with many great enhancements, and this year is no different. In this article, I’m going to show you some of the top enhancements to the costing module in SOLIDWORKS 2017.
... ContinuedUsing Assembly Layout Sketches
Using Assembly Layout Sketches Posted by David Brown Layout sketches in an assembly are typically used for top down assembly modeling. An example of this can be seen in this image of an assembly that contains a layout sketch with
... ContinuedAdvanced Sweep Feature Techniques in SOLIDWORKS
If you have been paying attention to my blogs (it’s okay if you haven’t), you’ll recall that I wrote an article on the basics of creating a sweep in SOLIDWORKS. Since I’m sure you’ve mastered this, let’s move on to some
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