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SolidWorks Crashes & Slowdowns – The End, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | June 9, 2009

“What do you do when things have come to a grinding halt and you’ve tried all the tricks that you know, that you’ve read online and that your cubicle-mate told you about? You call your VAR. Before you do, there’s a couple of things you should do.” …
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SolidWorks Crashes & Slowdowns – Part 5, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | June 4, 2009

“In this week’s post, we’re going to talk a bit about how you go about creating, and working with, assemblies. Remember, these aren’t hard and fast rules, they’re more guidelines. As anyone who has used SolidWorks for any length of time knows, there are multiple ways to get from point A to point B.” …
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SolidWorks Crashes and Slowdowns, Part 3, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | May 6, 2009

“Today, we’re going to discuss installing SolidWorks.”
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Published by Jeff Mirisola on 5/5/09 on Jeff’s Tool Shed

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3DContent Central – Have you been lately?, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | May 1, 2009

“When was the last time you meandered over to 3D ContentCentral®? Have you ever been there? Whenever people jump onto one of the forums looking for a model, 3D ContentCentral is where they’re inevitably sent.” …
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Published by Jeff Mirisola on 3/23/09 on Jeff’s [...]

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Dealing with imported data, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | May 1, 2009

“Have you ever imported a non-native SolidWorks file only to see errors?” …
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Published by Jeff Mirisola on 12/16/08 on Jeff’s Tool Shed

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Let’s Talk Sheetmetal, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | May 1, 2009

“I really like the Sheetmetal functionality in SolidWorks. I like that it’s fairly intuitive and does a nice job of creating your part. There is one aspect of it, however, that many people seem to miss. That would be the unfold/fold commands.” …
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Stumbling onto “new” things, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | May 1, 2009

“First, have you ever brought a huge piece of equipment into a new assembly only to find that the assembly template’s planes are miniscule? Did you know you can right click on the plane and select ‘Auto-size’? I stumbled across that one two days ago.
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Dangling Command Manager?, by Jeff Mirisola

By admin | May 1, 2009

“If your 2008 command manager looks like the one in the picture, here’s a fix I stumbled across:” …
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Published by Jeff Mirisola on 11/29/07 on Jeff’s Tool Shed

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