Design
Creating Art, as an Engineer
Join a SOLIDWORKS LIVE Design episode that demonstrates that engineers do have an artistic side which can be explored by leveraging the power of 3D Sculptor’s app called xShape.
... ContinuedMaking Small Scale Electronic Devices – SOLIDWORKS Live Design
SOLIDWORKS Champion Kirby Downey demonstrates how you can tackle making small-scale electronic devices (such as soundboards) using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and 3D Sculptor.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Remote Solver (Network Solving)
Author: Scott Durksen, CSWE @ Javelin Technologies SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software provides the ability to share the calculations of a project over a network connection to a SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Remote Solver. Resources are then freed up on the local
... ContinuedEvent-Based Motion Analysis
Motion analysis is a tool to help us simulate and analyze the movement of the mechanism in the assembly. In the motion analysis, we can include the effect of various kind of element, such as forces, springs, dampers, and friction,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS How-To: Add Relations with Shared Sketch Endpoints
Did you know that some sketch relationships can be added simply by selecting a shared point common to 2 sketch entities? While we are all familiar with selecting 2 lines to make them perpendicular to each other or selecting a line
... ContinuedBuilding Up Your 2D Layout Library in SOLIDWORKS Electrical – Part 2
You’ve begun working with the 2D cabinet layout feature in SOLIDWORKS Electrical. Now you wonder, “Where do I get the part graphics to place in my 2D layout?” The first place to look is the SOLIDWORKS Electrical content portal. On any
... ContinuedInstances to Vary Option in Pattern Feature
Did you use the ‘Instance to Vary’ option in a pattern feature before? It is a useful option to help you change the dimensions and locations of instances in linear or circular pattern. Let’s look at this option in details. Part 1: Direction
... ContinuedHow to fix Empty SOLIDWORKS Drawing Views
Are you seeing empty views when opening a SOLIDWORKS Drawing? Where did the Views and Annotations go? In this tech tip I’ll describe the blank view problem and provide a solution. Why are my Drawing Views empty? If the urge
... ContinuedCreate Your Own Flexible Component (Part 2) : Basic Flexible Component
[A New Balloon Air Pump Design] Welcome! Here we are again! This is Part2 of Flexible component, for those who seeing this blog for the first time, you can go to the “Introduction of Flexible Component – Part1” for better understanding. To
... ContinuedExtended Reality XR for SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE
From SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020, we can export Visualize project to Extended Reality GLTF and GLB file formats. What are these formats and how can we make use of them? Graphics Language Transmission Format (GLTF), is a 3D file format using
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