Author Archives: Solid Solutions Technical Team
Showing Global Min and Max Values of Results in Flow Simulation
This week a customer asked me a simple question about Flow Simulation: “How do I know where the minimum and maximum values are on my model?” This is a good question as it can be very useful to see exactly
... ContinuedRouting Tips and Tricks
SOLIDWORKS Routing allows you to completely automate the process of routing pipework, tubing or even cabling. This add-in enables you to save many hours of modelling against traditional methods. In this blog, we’ll share our top Tips and Tricks for
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Routing
What is SOLIDWORKS Routing? SOLIDWORKS Routing is an add-in that allows you to completely automate the process of routing pipework, tubing or even cabling, saving you many hours of modelling against traditional methods. In this article we want to show
... Continued3DXpert for SOLIDWORKS
What is 3DXpert for SOLIDWORKS? 3DXpert for SOLIDWORKS gives you a direct path to additive manufacture by allowing you to prepare, optimise and modify your designs. The 3DXpert add-in sits inside your software, takes the native SOLIDWORKS data and imports
... ContinuedPHOTOVIEW 360: Final Render Quality
PHOTOVIEW 360: what is it? PHOTOVIEW 360 is a rendering package included in both SOLIDWORKS Professional and SOLIDWORKS Premium. It allows us to take our 3D designs and quickly turn them into a photo-realistic image. This allows us to show
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018: Making Magnetic Mates Even Snappier
Introduced in SOLIDWORKS 2017, ‘Magnetic Mates’ was arguably one of the best new features, but as the Beatles put it: “It’s getting better all the time!”. With SOLIDWORKS 2018, things are not only getting better, snapping objects together is getting
... ContinuedGift Wrapped with SOLIDWORKS Visualize
It’s that time of year again and people are putting up decorations. So that means fairy lights and baubles. Baubles come in all sorts of colours and with Visualize we can explore these in depth. But not everything is a
... ContinuedPower Surfacing for Automotive Applications
Let’s face it – we all wanted to be car designers from our earliest days, many of us have drawn all manners of cars and imagined all sorts of fantastical vehicles – mainly ugly ones in my case! Designing car bodies
... ContinuedCreate Interactive Content with SOLIDWORKS Composer
One of our favorite things about SOLIDWORKS Composer is the way you can take your images to a whole new level, with the ability to create content that you can navigate quickly and easily. So how can we do that? The
... ContinuedSOLIDCRAFT – Using SOLIDWORKS API for Fun and Games
What is SOLIDWORKS API? SOLIDWORKS API is a gateway to automating your design process and data management. Using .NET compatible languages (VB, C#, C++) one can write small macros or build full-blown add-ins for modelling, routine edits and feeding data
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