Designed in SOLIDWORKS: Solar Filters for Binoculars
Happy #Eclipse2017 month! Everyone in the continental United States will see at least a partial solar eclipse on August 21, so even if you’re not traveling to experience “totality,” you’ve got something to look forward to. Here at GSC, all employees have been issued
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS SNL Options File Guide
The Options File can be used to return a license back to the pool when the SolidNetwork License manager (SNL) sees inactivity on a client machine. This is especially helpful when administering PDM, giving a company a tremendous amount of flexibility on how
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: 8-Track Tape Tutorial
8-Track Tape: Rock on with an old school example of music history. This is a multi-body solid created with mostly solid body features. There are few surface features used to create the magnetic tape. The internal tape is shown twisting using
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Composer Quick Start Guide #3: The Digger
Hello and welcome to the third episode in our new series, the SOLIDWORKS Composer Quick Start Guide. This guide is intended to orient new users in SOLIDWORKS Composer and walk them though the basic features of the software. SOLIDWORKS Composer
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS PCB – Shortcuts You Need to Know
Sometimes you come across tools that unfortunately skipped out on an intuitive User Interface or easy to use commands, which could have been easily implemented to exponentially increase productivity. SOLIDWORKS PCB is not one of those tools. On top of
... ContinuedCustomizing SOLIDWORKS Inspection Reports – Part 2
How to Add a Report Footer Row Using the Template Editor Written by: Gordon Pursel, Application Engineer, DASI Solutions Miss Part 1 introducing the Inspection Report Editor? View it here. When creating a FAIR form, a common consideration is allowing for
... ContinuedImprove your SOLIDWORKS Weldments with Configurations!
Author: Colin Murphy; CSWE – Javelin Technologies Using a combination of SOLIDWORKS Weldments and part configurations, you can easily generate and update cut lists for various frame sizes. In this case we’ll look at an example using a basic wooden
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Composer Quick Start Guide #2: Using the Translate and Exploded View Tools
Here is the release of the second episode of the SOLIDWORKS Composer Quick Start Guide. This guide is intended to orient new users in SOLIDWORKS Composer and walk them though the basic features of the software. SOLIDWORKS Composer is a
... ContinuedIs This a Good FEA Mesh? Here’s How to Answer Yes, No, and All-You-Need-to-Know About Meshing Infographic
Meshing a model is an integral step in performing any simulation. There’s no getting around it – it has to be done. Thanks to many improvements over the years, meshing has transformed from a very tedious, manual process into a
... ContinuedPower Surfacing for Automotive Applications
Let’s face it – we all wanted to be car designers from our earliest days, many of us have drawn all manners of cars and imagined all sorts of fantastical vehicles – mainly ugly ones in my case! Designing car bodies
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