By admin | January 29, 2010
“SolidWorks 2010 introduced a lot of great enhancements for drawings. I have personally been using it since beta 1 but we rolled it out for production last week with the release of service pack 2. There was 1 thing that immediately caused shrieks of dislike however amongst our users. The users were noticing that when [...]
By admin | January 23, 2010
“Earlier this morning we starting working on the Arm Bracket for the Stapler. If you missed it, You should go back and read about creating the forming tools needed for the Arm Bracket. Now that we have created the forming tools we can move on to creating our sheet metal Arm Bracket.” …
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By admin | January 23, 2010
“Here we are at the beginning of another beautiful Friday morning and of course you know what that means…this weeks modeling tutorial. Last month when I started the stapler project, I thought it would be fun to model up the stapler sitting on my desk. I never expected it to attract the attention it [...]
By admin | January 23, 2010
“I know, I know… It’s been way too long since I have written an article for the stapler but I am going to make up for it today. Today we are going start a two part article on how to build the staple cradle of the stapler. I don’t know if it is really called [...]
Also posted in Dimensions/Relations, Extruded Boss/Base, Extruded Cut, Offset Entities, Rectangle, Shell, Smart Dimension, The SolidWorks Geek | Tagged Dimensions/Relations, Extruded Boss/Base, Extruded Cut, Offset Entities, Rectangle, Shell, Smart Dimension, The SolidWorks Geek |
By admin | January 23, 2010
“Picking up where we left off on Friday, we are going to be finishing up the stapler cradle today. If you missed the first part of this tutorial, you can find it here. In the first part of this tutorial we started building the staple cradle using standard features that we will then convert to [...]
By admin | January 23, 2010
“In SolidWorks you can apply materials to your solid geometry to get a weight. You can also add your own densities to approximate a weight, so that, based on the volume of, lets say, a robotic ape face, you’ll get a mass that works perfectly to strike fear into the minds of others. In doing [...]
By admin | January 20, 2010
“For the first tutorial of 2010, we are going to create this image of a stack of peppermints using SolidWorks and the new features of PhotoView 360. A few weeks ago I came across an image much like this one on IStockPhoto.com and I thought it would be a fun project to do. After creating [...]
By admin | January 20, 2010
“Earlier this week, I revisited the techniques I discussed in my video Splitting a Part in SolidWorks. I left off at splitting the part into two solid bodies and that is where will be picking up from today. If you missed the first part of this article, I would strongly suggest you go back and [...]
By admin | January 20, 2010
“After I created the video for splitting parts, I was asked by a few of my readers to write an article about splitting parts since some companies block Youtube videos. Rather then rehash the same information over again I decided to take the opportunity to explore another approach to achieve the same outcome. As anybody [...]
By admin | October 19, 2009
“When using Standard Views in SolidWorks, the resulting view of the model is normally Zoom to fit. This is regardless to the zoom level of the current view. So, if I’m zoomed in on a very long part, when I change from Front View to Rear View, the model will be resized to fit to [...]
By admin | October 15, 2009
“Let’s just say for arguments sake that you have a drawing with multiple sheets. On one of those drawings you have your standard 3 views with an isometric thrown in for good measure. Youre running out of room and you have a few 3 detail views that you have decided to put on another sheet. [...]
By admin | October 14, 2009
“Today we are going to take a look at perhaps one of the most underrated new features of SolidWorks 2010, the Mouse Gesture Wheel. While this new tool has gotten some good press in recent weeks, its hard to gauge how useful this command can be until you actually use it.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks 2010: [...]
By admin | October 14, 2009
“Nonetheless, you love Splines, or at the very least have a mild curiosity about them. A curiosity that has led you here. We can’t keep you from upsetting your co-workers with curviness, but we can show you how to control the curves and give you a little better understanding of how these sucka’s work.” …
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By admin | September 16, 2009
“SolidWorks Corp has been working hard to improve the user experience. SolidWorks 2010 has examples have several innovative interface additions. The one addition that is sure to get a lot of attention is Mouse Gestures.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » SolidWorks 2010: Mouse Gestures.
Published by fcsuper on 9/9/09 on SolidWorks Legion
By admin | September 16, 2009
“While checking out the 2010 Beta, I ran into this new option available for Motion Studies, when you have SolidWorks Simulation added as well. You can find it listed as Structural Simulation Analysis for Motion in the What’s New Guide. It simply means that in SolidWorks 2010, and with Motion and Simulation added, you can [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“Here is a tutorial on misc tips and tricks.. enjoy!” …
Keep Reading: SolidMentor – Derived sketches, blocks and scribing – SolidWorks Tutorials – News.
Published by Ben Eadie on 9/10/09 on SolidMentor
By admin | September 16, 2009
“So as is becoming standard on Friday’s I will cover a couple of the other assembly changes that you will see in this year’s release of SolidWorks. Every year there are updates/changes that you will see that are minor in regards to the actual change and who might use them but still are very important [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“Carrying on with the motto of this release which was all about making it quicker and more user friendly and intuitive the mates area of SolidWorks 2010 got some work done to it. There are only a couple changes but these changes are worth the price of admission in my honest opinion. The changes were [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“Adding dimensions to parts on drawings is now quicker in SolidWorks 2010 with the addition of Rapid Dimension. Once the user enters the Dimension command, Rapid Dimension allows the them to quickly position dimensions (almost automatically) as they are added. Not only will dimensions automatically space out correctly as they are inserted, they will be [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“Five minutes from now, you will know two ways to recess a surface in SolidWorks. They won’t necessarily crush your skull, but they may expand it slightly by enriching your mind with the power of sketch, surface and split face features.
“It seems like there should be one feature to recess a surface in SolidWorks. It’s [...]
Also posted in Delete Face, Knit Surface (Surfaces), Lofted Surface, Offset Surface (Surfaces), SolidSmack, Split Line, Thickened Cut | Tagged Delete Face, Knit Surface, Lofted Surface, Offset Surface, SolidSmack, Split Line, Thickened Cut |
