Tips & Tricks
Shortcuts for SOLIDWORKS Beginners
With the various projects you have to complete, no one has time to do things “the long way.” That’s why we have shortcuts! If you look under each pull-down menu in SOLIDWORKS, you will notice that the keyboard shortcut for
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: Two Time Saving Tips for Project Setup
Save time on project setup in Flow Simulation by utilizing the techniques listed in this blog and companion video – propagating setup definitions across component instances, and importing setup from child components. Setting up Flow Simulation projects can involve repetitive
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Baseball Bat Tutorial
Baseball Bat: This part comes just in time for the baseball playoffs. This part uses a revolve to create the overall shape but sprinkles in a few surface features to create the handle wrap. The surface features include thicken, offset surface,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Inspection Supports More File Formats in the 2018 Release
SOLIDWORKS Inspection 2018 sees a lot of great enhancements and a big part of the new features is being able to support many more file formats! Let’s first start off with the add-in, the add-in works great when it comes
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Electrical – The Fruit Pastille Cable Clip
Having been using SOLIDWORKS Electrical and Routing for some time, I have finally decided to rectify the major omission of the lack of a fruit pastille cable clip. So how did I go about adding this important component? First I
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Juice Dispenser Tutorial – Part 1
It’s that time of year, the kids have just head back to school and they are growing like weeds! In an effort to teach the kids a bit more independence, we are designing and 3D printing a custom juice dispenser
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News – October 2017
Hello to all, Welcome to this new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News, coauthored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Technical Support teams worldwide. SOLIDWORKS 2018 can tell you when an available hotfix or service pack solves a crash you
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Electrical Data Reuse Capabilities: Part 2
This is the continuation of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Data Reuse capabilities (Part 1) SOLIDWORKS Electrical always helps the designers with the ease of automation and intelligence. There are different design re-use techniques in SOLIDWORKS electrical which cover all the essential needs of
... ContinuedSmart Drawing – View Location Labels in SOLIDWORKS
Written by: Gordon Pursel, Application Engineer at DASI Solutions A great way to cross reference the sheet and zone location to and from the parent and child views is using Location Labels. This can especially helpful on multi-sheet drawing packages
... ContinuedRouting Components: From Supplier to SOLIDWORKS
You’ve been tasked with laying out the piping route for your current project and the design requires a very specific valve to be included. There’s a problem though – you’re not 100% sure how to get from the suppliers’ 3D
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