Design
Creating a Custom Engagement Ring- Part 3
Though rings are often associated with marriage, this isn’t always the case. Rings are versatile in meaning, and have held symbolic value in humanity for centuries. From personal expression to granting invisibility to physical declarations of love, rings really have
... ContinuedCreating a Custom Engagement Ring- Part 2
Though rings are often associated with marriage, this isn’t always the case. Rings are versatile in meaning, and have held symbolic value in humanity for centuries. From personal expression to granting invisibility to physical declarations of love, rings really have
... ContinuedCreating a Custom Engagement Ring- Part 1
Though rings are often associated with marriage, this isn’t always the case. Rings are versatile in meaning, and have held symbolic value in humanity for centuries. From personal expression to granting invisibility to physical declarations of love, rings really have
... ContinuedCreating Custom Decals
Occasionally when solid modelling with SOLIDWORKS, we need to add graphics to our models. The process is actually quite simple: we drag a decal onto the model, position it and size it appropriately and we have our image on the
... ContinuedDesigning for 3D Printing with Cosplay Artist Kirby Downey
Like all manufacturing processes, your design considerations of your products are made to fit in with the guidelines of that process. This helps getting a clean product without any technical issues. 3D printing is now fast becoming more a manufacturing
... Continued5 Steps to GD&T Enabled Drawings for Higher Product Quality and Lower Cost
First Time Right is becoming mandatory for the manufacturing industry to save costs and increase profitability. Add to it the requirement that ideas need to be translated to product and brought to market faster, the situation looks untenable. There is
... ContinuedBenefits of using Derived Configurations in SOLIDWORKS
Configurations allow you to create multiple variations of a part/assembly model within a single file. They provide a convenient way to develop and manage families of models with different dimensions, components, or other parameters. Another underused area of configurations is derived configurations. The
... ContinuedThrowback Thursdays: Sheet Metal
I enjoy seeing people post pictures from their past on Thursdays throughout social media platforms such as Facebook. It always reminds me that however immature we were in our youth, the characteristics that make us who we are grow and
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Ring Tutorial
Ring: This single body part has an example of a Wrap feature using text and has curvature continuous Face Fillets. This part has an example of an equation driven layout sketch to help visualize the text “unwrapped”. Download the file and modify the text to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Sheet Metal Part 1 Tutorial
Simple Sheet Metal Part 1: This sheet metal part has a feature that determines the thickness and bend radius. A 14 Gauge Aluminum was used for this model. The Sheetmetal part is symmetric with respect to the right plane except for the
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