Tips & Tricks
SOLIDWORKS 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
... ContinuedSave Time and Money with the Hole Wizard Customization Tool
There is nothing more frustrating for us at Alignex then hearing our customers are struggling with a project. It’s even worse when we find out the problem is easily fixable with a feature already hidden within the SOLIDWORKS interface. This
... ContinuedGame of Thrones themed Chess Set
Celebrating the new Game of Thrones season with a Fire vs Ice Chess set.
... ContinuedUsing Excel filters on an Excel BOM with thumbnails
SOLIDWORKS 2019 introduced a new option to include a thumbnail of each component when you export a Bill Of Materials to Microsoft Excel. I noticed that a lot of SOLIDWORKS customers are using this Excel BOM to group their components
... 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 Support Monthly News – April 2019
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 Inspection Integration with SOLIDWORKS PDM By Nicole Phillips With
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Electrical Fast Tips Part 1: Interface Configuration, 2D Footprints & Row Marking
Find fast tips and tricks to up your electrical game through our baseball Spring Training theme! Welcome to GSC’s SOLIDWORKS Electrical Spring Training How is SOLIDWORKS Electrical like everyone’s favorite game (ahem, Baseball), and a nation getting through Spring Training,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News – March 2019
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. The justification for the Yield and Tensile Strength values for
... ContinuedAutomate PDFs of SOLIDWORKS Drawings
PDFs are a ubiquitous requirement in daily engineering life. You might have Purchasing or Sales asking you to send out PDFs of drawings for a vendor to quote or to a customer for approval. Wouldn’t it be nice to set a
... ContinuedHow to Customize Your Drawings with the Line Format Toolbar
The Line Format Toolbar can be used in drawings to change an entity’s appearance. Using this toolbar, we have the ability to control an entity’s color, line thickness, and line style. These appearances can be managed through layers to maintain
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