Author Archives: Jenn Doerksen
23 Years of Model Mania®
Every year, Dassault Systemes hosts one of the largest engineering conferences in the world. Since SOLIDWORKS World 2000, Model Mania® has been an attraction for many engineers and designers wanting to compete and show off their SOLIDWORKS skills. Model Mania, for those
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2022 New Architecture for Custom Properties: Properties Summary Tab
This topic was included with the ‘What’s New’ for Weldments and Structure Systems. This new “architecture” of custom properties affects more than just weldments and structure systems, so I wanted to highlight this topic. Custom properties are the metadata of
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2021 Performance Improvements
Just like every year, SOLIDWORKS has added hundreds of enhancements to SOLIDWORKS 2021. And, one area that the R&D team always focuses on a lot is PERFORMANCE. Over the years, as users create larger and more complex models, SOLIDWORKS has
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2021: Circular Reference Detection
Have you ever rebuilt a model repeatedly and it still doesn’t update properly? Or rebuilds alternate between different results? Or the performance if slow? If so, it might have a circular reference. A circular reference happens when the dimensions or
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