What’s New
SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News – June 2019
Hello to all, Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News! This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Technical Support teams worldwide. What’s New in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 2019 SP1.0 and 2.0
... ContinuedWhat’s Old Over the Past Decade – The 40 most memorable enhancements from 2007-2017
Since you’ve had a month or so to play around with all the newest features in SOLIDWORKS 2018, let’s take a step back and revisit all of the coolest enhancements over the last decade as we showcase “What’s Old from 2007-2017.”
... ContinuedQuicker Assembly Modeling in SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS is constantly adding new tweaks to the software in an effort to make our lives easier. However, sometimes we fall back to the way we’ve done things in the past. Let’s step outside of our ingrained methods and take a
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018: The Bounding Box tool
The Bounding Box fits a virtual cuboid over each unique (non-structural member) solid body and returns the thickness, width and length values and collates them into a description that you can display in your cut list. These values update automatically
... ContinuedWhat to do with your new Extended Reality (XR) File
Welcome to SOLIDWORKS Extended Reality – a method to transform your CAD data and bring it to life, virtually – opening the future of design and engineering.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS PCB – Board Layout 101
SOLIDWORKS PCB —powered by Altium— is a new software solution focused on integrating electrical and mechanical design. SOLIDWORKS PCB enables the productivity you need to design Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) quickly along with unique collaboration between electrical and 3D mechanical design teams.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018: Making Magnetic Mates Even Snappier
Introduced in SOLIDWORKS 2017, ‘Magnetic Mates’ was arguably one of the best new features, but as the Beatles put it: “It’s getting better all the time!”. With SOLIDWORKS 2018, things are not only getting better, snapping objects together is getting
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018: Topology Study and Some Influencing Factors
In this article I would like to highlight some influencing factors when dealing with the new Topology Study in SOLIDWORKS 2018 (as part of Simulation Professional). Let’s have a look at the example of a girder loaded with a distributed
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018: Touch Mode Overview
Touch controls have been introduced in SOLIDWORKS 2018 in the form of the all new ‘Touch Mode’. All you need to try these out is a touch enabled screen, Microsoft Windows 10 and a license of SOLIDWORKS 2018, so let’s give it
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018 Hole Wizard Update
Author: Bryan Sprange, CSWE, Javelin Technologies Much like when SOLIDWORKS made your first sketch dimension auto scale your whole part back in 2014, with the release of SOLIDWORKS 2018, they have added another feature that users have asked for which makes modeling
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