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 | 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
“DFMXpress was a new tool that was introduced in SolidWorks 2009. In SolidWorks 2010 there have been 3 minor updates to the program that should make this even more valuable to users who are designing in a manufacturing environment.
“DFMXpress is a product delivered by Geometric. This tool is the light version of DFMPro which looks [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“This new SolidWorks 2010 functionality has already gotten some press already but I wanted to take a quick opportunity to point out 3 new functions of the Configuration Publisher.” …
Keep Reading: solidworks 2010…configuration publisher « rocksolid perspective – jason raak.
Published by Jason Raak on 9/15/09 on RockSolid Perspective
“The title kind of sounds like it could be the headline of a relationship article but this post is actually going to be about fully constraining your model in an assembly. When inserting parts inside of an assembly it is really easy to fix the part and continue on. This allows you to fully constrain [...]
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“Just like what triggered my post last weekend “rocksolid tutorial: modeling a variable profile helix cut” I was recently asked a question by a member of my user group about how to simulate the stroke of a cylinder in SolidWorks. So here we go, this is how I would simulate a simple cylinder stroke in [...]
“This week I was sent an email from a member of my user group with a modeling challenge. They needed to model a helix cut that had different widths at the start point and end point. I first thought that this could get pretty involved with different sketches and profiles but after playing with it [...]
“A couple of years back one of the enhancements to SolidWorks was the thumb wheel that appears underneath the dimension in the modify box that appears as shown above. If you are not familiar with this feature and just thought it was a cute and cuddly graphic that they added you need to know what [...]
“I have been accused in the past of being sort of any organizational freak. I am one of those people that usually does not like stacks of papers on my desk and have more labeled hanging file folders than you can shake a dead squirrel at. This is why I have become a [...]
By admin | April 27, 2009
“This week I was asked a question about how to use a barcode on a SolidWorks drawing so that you can scan drawings in. After some investigation and asking the question on Twitter I seem to have found a very easy way to accomplish this.” …
Keep Reading: scan me please…barcodes in solidworks « rocksolid [...]
