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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Basket Case
Learn more about using the Move/Copy Body and Combine command, Split Line curves and different ways of creating patterned geometry.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Selection Manager
Do you know how to use the Selection Manager? This tech tip uses two examples, the first makes two lofts where two different sketches included closed shapes needed. Using the section manager we are able to pick out the closed
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Dragon Egg
Dragon Egg: This model goes over an elegant way of creating the egg geometry with a minimal amount of features. The part show how to create a solid body like a single reptile scale and then pattern it in multiple directions. There
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Medieval Battle Helmet
Download Medieval Battle Helmet: This model is intended to highlight several powerful Surfacing Tools in SOLIDWORKS. In addition, this model showcases handy Surfacing techniques designed to save time when adding complex and repetitive details. Complexity: Complex Features: Boundary Surface, Offset
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Bounding Box Tutorial
Hey SOLIDWORKS users! Let’s take a deep dive into a very useful feature – Bounding Box! The Bounding Box is a piece of reference geometry that can be found in SOLIDWORKS 2018 or later and it really comes in handy when
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Wrap
Do you know how to use a scribe instead of a split line or flat surfaces or labels? Split lines, flat and labels aren’t always the best choice when trying to colour in text. An easier way might be to
... Continued3D Scanning Technologies
3D Scanning is an emerging technology but is it worth getting onto?
... ContinuedHex Gear Pendant Part 3
Hey SOLIDWORKS Community! Welcome to the final part of our 3-part series where we’re working through setting up configurations and configuration publisher to make assembling different versions of this geared pendant a breeze. Up to this point we’ve created a
... ContinuedHex Gear Pendant Part 2
Welcome back, SOLIDWORKS community, to part 2 of our 3-part series where we are running through how to setup configurations and configuration publisher to make assembling different versions of this geared pendant a breeze. In Part 1 of the series
... ContinuedHex Gear Pendant Part 1
Hi SOLIDWORKS Community! A while back we provided a tutorial series on designing a functioning geared heart pendant with a rotating message. In that series we showed you how to design the enclosure around a few existing gears using mostly
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