Category Archives: Mike Puckett's Blog

Are Your Shadows In Your Model Just Not Right?, by Mike Puckett

“Do you ever create a model and the shadow that gets projected onto the floor isnt in the direction you would like? Well its simple to fix this graphical issue in two steps.” …
Keep Reading: Mike Pucketts Blog: Are Your Shadows In Your Model Just Not Right?.
Published by Mike Puckett on 7/8/09 on Mike Puckett’s [...]

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Using The Weld Feature in SolidWorks, by Mike Puckett

“I promised to do a tutorial on the weld tool to someone who left a comment a few weeks back, so here is the first installment of weld tools in SolidWorks.” …
Keep Reading: Mike Puckett’s Blog: Using The Weld Feature in SolidWorks.
Published by Mike Puckett on 6/2/09 on Mike Puckett’s Blog

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Now Let’s Configure Features, by Mike Puckett

“On Monday I wrote about Configuring Dimensions. Today I will show you how to configure features.” …
Keep Reading: Mike Puckett’s Blog: Now Let’s Configure Features.
Published by Mike Puckett on 5/14/09 on Mike Puckett’s Blog

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Configuring Dimensions To Create Multiple Configurations, by Mike Puckett

“There are a number of handy tools that get under utilized, but can be huge time savers. Configuring dimensions is one of them. If your creating parts with multiple configurations this will be a great tip for you to try out.” …
Keep Reading: Mike Puckett’s Blog: Configuring Dimensions To Create Multiple Configurations.
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Using Guide Curves in a Sweep Part 2, by Mike Puckett

“After posting last weeks example of Using Guide Curves in a Sweep, I received a comment and an email with two very good suggestions.
The first was a comment asking if I could have simply used a Full Round Fillet and achieved the same result.” …
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Using Guide Curves in a Sweep, by Mike Puckett

“While recently creating a model for an upcoming Certification exam, I ran across the use of a function that may or may not be widely used when creating sweeps in SolidWorks.” …
Keep Reading: Mike Puckett’s Blog: Using Guide Curves in a Sweep.
Published by Mike Puckett on 4/17/09 on Mikescadblog.com

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