SOLIDWORKS Football Kicker’s Tee Part 1
We are deep into one of the best seasons in sports – football season! So, this month we’re bringing you a 3-part tutorial series on designing a kicker’s tee using a combination of surfacing and essential modeling features. Plus, we’ll
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Rocket Surgery
Do you know how to utilise multiple solid bodies within a single part file? This example uses the first and second stage of a rocket to look at volume ratios between the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen and the
... ContinuedDesign Binder : Smart way to store intellectual data to your Parts and Assemblies
Creating, Storing and Re-using our intellectual design documents can be challenging at times. DFMEA document – a repository for Design Knowledge and Considerations – should always be made available with the Design data with appropriate security and control. Design binder
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS PCB Rookie Camp: Wire or Bus Entry
SOLIDWORKS PCB gives you a winning formula by providing options when entering a bus! A bus carries multiple signals on a single line to help keep your drawings clean and concise. I use 2 options when adding a signal to
... ContinuedSketching in xDesign – Part 4
Defining Dimensions in xDesign As we’ve seen, one way to define the size and relationships between sketch objects is through constraints, which allows them to be adjusted in specific ways, depending on how the geometry is updated. Adding dimensions is
... ContinuedFlow Simulation’s Thermal Analysis Capabilities – Part 3
For thermal heat transfer analysis, choose SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation over the Thermal solver in Simulation Professional, Part 3 of 3 Meshing With the exception of very few scenarios, when considering a thermal analysis solver for SOLIDWORKS, you should choose to
... Continued3D Printing a Mechanical Water Droplet
Designing and 3D printing a mechanical water droplet with the help of Solidworks Assemblies
... ContinuedSketching in xDesign – Part 3
Sketch Entity Relations in xDesign Here, we have a sketch in xDesign that doesn’t have any dimensions added. This sketch is intended to create a mount for a vertical rod, which would be revolved around the left edge to create
... ContinuedHow to Export Motion Studies to SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional has some great tools for going beyond plain static renders. You can create custom animations within Visualize using the keyframe-based Timeline. As of 2017 version, you can also export Animations and Motion Studies created in SOLIDWORKS directly
... ContinuedFlow Simulation’s Thermal Analysis Capabilities – Part 2
With the exception of very few scenarios, when considering a thermal analysis solver for SOLIDWORKS, you should choose to use Flow Simulation, which is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code.
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