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 | August 6, 2009
“After taking a long look at it, I went back to SolidWorks to try to find some information on how to use the universal joint mate, but I couldn’t find much in the help. I guess it’s because it’s not really such a complicated mate? So, I put together my own universal joint assembly to [...]
“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 [...]
“Buried deep in the advanced mates lies a hidden treasure. The Width mate is a little known mate that makes mating tabs and slots possible without calculating distances or using reference geometry. This is not one of the many new mates in 2008, in fact this mate made its debut appearance in the 2006 release. [...]
“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 [...]
“Now we have finished and learned the techniques of making a SLOT, the second question comes up in the mind is “How to Mate with a SLOT”. Again there can be several ways to achieve this and one may adopt the method which he/she finds easy and quick to use. In this chapter let’s discuss [...]
“I was actually planning on posting about friction coefficients and the way it all works using an example of a simulation of these tong grabs, but before I do that, I thought I should share with you about a little problem I ran into while trying to use a special option available for the hinge [...]
“Last November, I posted a tip on how to more easily mate components using an Alt-Drag technique. A reader had a question about it, so I thought I would create a video demonstrating it. I hope it helps.” …
Keep Reading: An Easier Way To Mate, Part Deux (With Video!) | CADFanatic.com.
Published by Brian McElyea on [...]
Also posted in CADFanatic, Mate | Tagged CADFanatic, Mate |
“Unless you are completely new to SolidWorks, you have more then likely used the Coincident mate. It is probably the most common mate used when building assemblies. Today, we are going to look more into using the coincident mate to limit the degrees of freedom in your assemblies. If you are familiar with the Coincident [...]
“If you have spent anytime with assembly configurations in SW 2007, you would know how many steps it took to set up components for each configuration. Then if the component had configurations as well, it added even more steps. I don’t want to go on about some of the horror stories I have encountered but [...]
“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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“In Design Faster with Design Library and Mate References Pt1, I described the process for creating components with Mate References to be used in the Design Library. The Design Library is a great place to store assembly components you use most often in order to streamline the assembly process for new assemblies. This example will [...]
“You’re driving down a winding road and suddenly your car goes flying off a cliff into a den of wild boar. Not a good situation to be in.
While getting some parts to stay on track in SolidWorks is not nearly as morbid, it can be a pain in the neck, especially when it comes to [...]
“You’ve been working on a 13,000 part mega-assembly with the most well thought out top-down assembly structure ever devised by man. The next morning, you gingerly sip your coffee as the model ooooopens, and then… something doesn’t look right. Suddenly, that pastry looses it’s sweetness as you come to grips that all your parts are… [...]
“Or rather, errors force determining a solution. The hitman’s hitman to keep that cool analogy steaming along.
You have to figure out what happened, where it happened and how to prevent or get around it undetected. It’s when your senses are honed and you learn the most.
You could say there’s two laws to follow. One by [...]
“A lot of people fear having to open a large assembly. I didn’t want to feel like that when I had to make a change to one part that affected an upper level assembly, so I came up with 5 ways to cut that silliness out.” …
Keep Reading: How to Improve SolidWorks Large Assembly Performance [...]
“Dealing with small assemblies is easy right? Why not talk about the large ones that seem so difficult? Well, sometimes you can get some perspective by scaling back a little and setting things up for the smaller situations.” …
Keep Reading: 3 Easy Tips for Tiny SolidWorks Assemblies | SolidSmack.com.
Published by Josh Mings on 3/13/08 on SolidSmack
Also posted in SolidSmack | Tagged Assembly, SolidSmack |
“Computer errors pretty much feel like being hit repeatedly in the face. Errors in a SolidWorks parts and assembly feel like the repeated face hits but with missing the face and popping you square, and very annoyingly, in the ear.
But look here. There are ways to get rid of those errors quickly and dodge a [...]
Also posted in Align/Check Sketch for Feature, Check, Dimensions/Relations, FeatureManager, Repair Sketch, Sketch Tools/SketchXpert, SolidSmack | Tagged Assembly, Check, Check Sketch for Feature, Dimensions/Relations, FeatureManager, Repair Sketch, SketchXpert, SolidSmack |
“Some of you have a bunch of tips for new users, and some of you wish those people would stop the flow of info for a few minutes while you catch up. So, I stopped, sat down and wrote out my top 12 favorite SolidWorks tips. The first tips I thought of that I would [...]
Also posted in Component Pattern, ConfigurationManager, Design Library, Dimensions/Relations, Drawing, Mate, SolidSmack | Tagged Component Pattern, ConfigurationManager, Configurations, Design Library, Dimensions/Relations, Drawing, Mate, SolidSmack |
“SolidWorks comes with the ability to assign almost every command to a keyboard shortcut. However, there’s no keyboard shortcuts for Mates. Here’s two macros for the most common mates and how to reduce the amount of that annoying mouse button clickin’ to speed up your assembly construction.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Tip: How to Speed up [...]
