Tips & Tricks
How Strong is Your LEGO® Piece Really? Find Out With SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Growing up and playing with LEGO® as a budding engineer, had you ever thought about how strong your LEGO® pieces were? We shall investigate this thought using SolidWorks Simulation, an FEA module that runs natively within the SolidWorks User Interface.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Tech Tip – Sunlight Environments Part 1
Learn how to use the Sunlight Environment and set up your scene using this photorealistic lighting tool.
... ContinuedUnderstanding SOLIDWORKS File Compatibility
If you’re a SOLIDWORKS user then chances are high you’ve seen the dreaded “future version” file error. Perhaps you’ve even caused this grief for another user. So how does one avoid this problem in the future? In this quick article
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wooden Truck
Wooden Truck: This is a simple wooden toy truck utilizing lots of shared contour sketches with extrudes and revolves. “Offset” from Sketch Plane and the “Vertex” offset are used to create multiple pieces by reusing multi-contour sketches. Shared sketches for
... ContinuedCopy & Mate by CTRL-Drag & Drop: SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip
You may know that you can copy a component in an assembly by doing a CTRL-drag and drop. You may also know that you can create mates with the SmartMate tool by doing an ALT-drag and drop. But did you
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News – June 2020
Hello to all, Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News! This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Technical Support teams worldwide. SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks “Working with in-context feature and derived
... ContinuedOnline Licensing – Bring SOLIDWORKS back home
Working at home is becoming more common with the recent situation. Most likely for designer or engineer, you will also need to have SOLIDWORKS with you back home. After you have installed and open SOLIDWORKS, have you ever seen an
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Zipper
Zipper: This is a model of an Insertion Type Zipper, It contains lots of precise shapes and intricate bodies related to the zipper slider. Learn more about the inner workings of a zipper. See inside the slider, what happens inside
... ContinuedAnswers to commonly asked surface and advanced modelling problems (Part 2)
Continue from our last model, now it is time to divide the shelled model into two pieces using split feature and a plane: (Note that split feature [insert > feature > split] cuts a solid body into pieces based
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News – May 2020
Hello to all, Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News! This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Technical Support teams worldwide. SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020 Quick Search Tool By Nicole Phillips We
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