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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 2: Instant2D & Instant3D

By Lennart Tinndahl August 6, 2020
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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 2: Instant2D & Instant3D

In “Dabbling in Dimensions – Part 1” I briefly covered the “Modify” dimension box, or “the classic look” as i called it. In this blog post I will cover the Instant version of the dimensions. Within SOLIDWORKS you have 2

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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 1

By Lennart Tinndahl July 2, 2020
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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 1

When working in SOLIDWORKS you have a few options when working with the dimension box. You have the classic dimension box and you have the Instant2D (introduced in 2016) and the Instant 3D. Which one you wish to use is

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Why are my symbols missing?

By CADimensions July 17, 2018
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Why are my symbols missing?

<MOD-DIAM>?!? What is this? Where is my diameter symbol? Sometimes when updating SOLIDWORKS, the file locations can get mixed up. This is usually due to running multiple versions on the same computer.  SOLIDWORKS will take the file locations for the

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15 Quick Steps to Setup a Design Library Feature

By Alignex, Inc. April 20, 2017
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15 Quick Steps to Setup a Design Library Feature

Are you finding yourself generating the same feature every time you create a new part? Would you like an easy way to stamp your company logo into your products? Then the SOLIDWORKS Library Feature is meant for you! Library features allow

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How to Hide/Show Dimensions in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing

By Javelin Technologies April 14, 2017
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How to Hide/Show Dimensions in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing

In some cases instead of deleting a dimension, you might decide to hide SOLIDWORKS Drawing Dimensions. Now the question is how to make a hidden dimension visible again? This article demonstrates how to hide and then show dimensions in the drawing

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Five Great Smart Dimension Tips for Sketch and Drawings

By CAD2M March 27, 2017
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Five Great Smart Dimension Tips for Sketch and Drawings

While every SOLIDWORKS user knows how to dimension lines, arcs or circles, I noticed that some engineers do not know the full power of Smart Dimension. So, in this tech blog I want to show you five handy tricks to

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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Move and Copy Dimensions Between Drawing Views

By SOLIDWORKS March 9, 2017
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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Move and Copy Dimensions Between Drawing Views

Creating dimensions in drawing views can often be a time consuming process. This is especially true when there’s a lot of views included in the drawing. To make it easier to add dimensions to views, SOLIDWORKS can move or copy

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How to change Part Dimensions from Drawings?

By FEA Training Consultants Inc. September 26, 2016
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How to change Part Dimensions from Drawings?

The process flow for SOLIDWORKS usually starts with modeling a part / assembly and then afterwards creating a drawing from the model. Usually changes are made to the model and they are reflected across all the drawings. However, it is possible

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What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2016: DimXpert’s Basic Dimensions

By Matt Lorono January 5, 2016
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What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2016: DimXpert’s Basic Dimensions

DimXpert has always given you the ability to add basic dimensions to your model’s PMI scheme.  However, this ability was directly tied to GD&T feature control frames created with DimXpert.  The setting that allows you to add basic dimensions for your feature control

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What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2016 (and 2015, 2014 and 2013): Leader attachment and alignment

By Matt Lorono December 1, 2015
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What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2016 (and 2015, 2014 and 2013): Leader attachment and alignment

Over the years, SOLIDWORKS has made substantial quality improvements to annotations in drawings.  One of the areas of improvement focuses on leader attachment to callouts and notes. In SOLIDWORKS 2013, bent leader attachment of radius, diameter, chamfer and hole callouts were updated to

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