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 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
“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
“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 |
By admin | September 16, 2009
“This one is my version of the funkey. It doesn’t look exactly the same, but I’m excited no matter what. I know it’s not perfect and there’s probably a bunch of things I should’ve or could’ve done differently. I certainly appreciate comments and corrections, but remember I’m just a novice at surfacing, so go easy [...]
Also posted in 3D Sketch, Filled Surface (Surfaces), GabiJack.com, Project Curve, Split Entities, Surfaces, Trim Surface | Tagged 3D Sketch, Filled Surface, GabiJack.com, Project Curve, Split Entities, Surfaces, Trim Surface |
By admin | August 18, 2009
“Last week, I spoke briefly about the benefits of using the Design library in Why Do I Need to Use the Design Library? . As promised, this week I will show you my favorite way of using the Design Library. Adding frequently used components, with Mate References, to the Design Library allows you to build [...]
By admin | August 18, 2009
“On Friday, I went over the procedure for creating the forming tool for the stapler anvil. Today, as a special Sunday post, I will go over the rest of the anvil. The anvil will be made as a sheet metal component so we can use the forming tool that was created on Friday.” …
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By admin | August 18, 2009
“If you haven’t noticed, people are different. They have different tastes in clothing, food, and music. You say tomato, I say ‘mater.
So it follows that designers will have different modeling methodologies. Sometimes, even circumstances or desired design intent dictate how you model something.” …
Keep Reading: 3 Ways To Model The Same Thing | CADFanatic.com.
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