{"id":26785,"date":"2020-07-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=26785"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:13:31","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-the-formation-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/07\/solidworks-tech-tip-the-formation-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip &#8211; The Formation Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26779\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg 1728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-615x364.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-1536x910.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/the20formation20tool20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-728x431.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional makes it incredibly easy to lay out copies of your product using the handy Formation Tool. In only a few clicks, Visualize will place your models into a variety of patterns (circular, line, diagonal, vee, etc) allowing for quick and easy display of design iterations or product variants like different colors. In this week\u2019s Visualize Quick Tip, we\u2019ll show you how to use the Formation Tool to rapidly arrange several models in a single Visualize project.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sw1r2L9GuhQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Check out this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNIakhZ87GzttyJbNDkt-_mZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube playlist<\/a>\u00a0more helpful Visualize videos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/community\/visualize\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USE THE VISUALIZE FORUM<\/a>\u00a0to connect with the global Visualize Community for self-help support with common questions. Don\u2019t forget to share your Visualize images and animations on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/thread\/111941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a>\u00a0Forum thread!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to use the Formation Tool to rapidly arrange several models in a single Visualize project.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/07\/solidworks-tech-tip-the-formation-tool.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":26780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1577,35],"tags":[60,1041],"class_list":["post-26785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks-visualize","category-tips-tricks","tag-tech-tip","tag-visualize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions\/26786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}