Locking a SOLIDWORKS Concentric Mate
Author: Scott Durksen, CSWE, Javelin Technologies Starting in SOLIDWORKS 2014, you have the ability to lock rotation of concentric mates. This can help avoid additional mates required if you didn’t want the components to rotate. How to quickly tell if
... ContinuedReduce Product Weight with SOLIDWORKS Simulation Optimization
Reducing product weight and improving performance are key goals in most design projects to minimize costs and differentiate your products. SOLIDWORKS design optimization allows you to quickly size your design to meet performance needs without using excessive amounts of material.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Composer: Preparing Your Models for Asset Generation – Viewport Properties & Property Pane Controls
In today’s blog, we’ll be going further in depth to prepare your model for asset generation by diving into Viewport Properties in SOLIDWORKS Composer. With Viewport Properties, we’ll go through how certain Lighting properties affect your actors. In addition, we’ll
... ContinuedDid Your Cut List Folder in Your Design Tree Go Missing?
Where is Your Cut List Folder? Here in tech support, we were in communication with a worried customer that thought his master weldment model (which accounted for most of his business) had become corrupted. His highly valued cut list went
... ContinuedRegistering a DLL in SOLIDWORKS
Have you ever tried to perform an action in SOLIDWORKS and suddenly receive an error similar to this one? Have no fear! This error message likely appeared because the DLL dependency has either been broken, overwritten, or upgraded to a
... ContinuedUse Your Own Materials in SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Virtually testing designs is an integral part of the design and innovation process. With a 3D model in SOLIDWORKS it’s easy to find out how strong or durable your design is using Simulation. But for a Simulation to be accurate,
... ContinuedWho Needs Mesh Controls Anyway?
The quality of your mesh is critical to obtaining accurate results from your analyses. You’ll often hear the term “convergence analysis” tossed around in the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) world. “Convergence analysis” means we want to ensure the mesh in critical areas
... ContinuedUsing SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation to Simulate Aerial Fireworks Display
In honor of America’s Independence Day, we decided to simulate an aerial fireworks display in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation. We wondered just how closely we could recreate the effect, and we also had a few specific questions to answer; such as
... ContinuedCustomizing SOLIDWORKS Inspection Reports – Part 1
An Introduction to SOLIDWORKS Inspection Report Editor Written by: Gordon Pursel, Application Engineer, DASI Solutions SOLIDWORKS Inspection can streamline the FAI ballooning and reporting process, but you can also further customize the Excel based FAI reports for both requirements and
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Wonder Woman Tutorial Series – Part 2
Hi SOLIDWORKS users! Welcome back to our 4-part Wonder Woman tutorial series where we are honoring all you female warriors out there by modeling Diana’s Tiara and Indestructible Bracelets. In part 2 of this series, we’ll finish up modeling Diana’s
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