Category Archives: Extruded Cut

Building a Stapler – Staple Cradle Pt1, by Alex Ruiz

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 [...]

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Splitting Parts Revisted Pt2, by Alex Ruiz

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 [...]

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3 Ways To Model The Same Thing, by Brian McElyea

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.” …
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Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs: Option 2, by Rob Jensen

By admin | June 4, 2009

“Sometimes it takes reading a blog post to generate another blog post. Hence, this post.
I had a user group member ask me this same question at a meeting. I got to see exactly what he was trying to do when Mike Puckett and I went on a customer visit. Then today, Anna posts a way [...]

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