By admin | August 17, 2009
“Everybody knows how to use the Fillet tool to create radii on parts, at least I hope they do. 99.9% of the fillets you will create in your daily usage of SolidWorks only require you to click an edge and enter a value. I will not be showing you how to do this kind of [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Yay, it’s Friday! You know what that means…Beer! Oh, and of course another component of our stapler is about to be modeled. I hope you enjoy the modeling tutorials as much as I do. It gives me a chance to play with my favorite design tool SolidWorks (like I need an excuse). Last week, we [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“The other day I received an email from a reader by the name of Zac. Here is an excerpt for his email:
‘One thing we just can not figure out how to do is this: We often want to draw a single part, and then split it into two separate halves as separate parts, as opposed [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Another week is upon us, it’s time to knock those cobwebs out of your head and get ready to learn some more cool stuff. Last week, I went over a couple of fillet tricks that I hope you enjoyed and this week I am doing more of the same. One of my favorite fillet tricks [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Today on this very happy Friday, we are going to continue building our virtual stapler with the Anvil Spring. Over the past couple of weeks we built the Anvil and Anvil Rivet, now we will make a configured spring without a design table. The spring we make today will have three configurations: Default, As Assembled [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
After missing a week, we are finally back to building our stapler. The last time we were here, we made a multi-configured spring for the anvil without using a Design Table. Today we are going to make another spring but this time we are going to be creating a simple design table to configure the [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Last week, I introduced you to making derived sketches to save time in duplicating features on your part. Today is all about using the Insert Part command to create a derived part. A derived part is an extremely useful technique for adding features to a part without affecting the original part. When the original part [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“One of my favorite new features in SolidWorks 2008 is the addition of Shortcut Bars. Shortcut bars are customizable floating bars that pop up in the graphic area near your mouse pointer. By default each environment has its own shortcut bar that you can then customize just like another toolbar. With Shortcut Bars in addition [...]
By admin | August 17, 2009
“As the title describes, you may have often come across a situation where you need to import the motion loads on any one of the component/part and the moment you click on simulation-Import motion loads, you do not see any part mentioned in the “Available Assembly Components”. This might lead you to think whether – [...]
By admin | August 12, 2009
“My last few blogs discussed the two rebuild command in SolidWorks: standard rebuild (the “green light” icon) versus forced rebuild (CTRL-Q). Regardless of which command is used, it is important to understand what is happening when SolidWorks is building a feature.” …
Keep Reading: Graphics Systems SolidNotes: Verification on Rebuild.
Published by John Setzer on 8/10/09 on [...]
By admin | August 9, 2009
“In SolidWorks 2007 drawing mode, the ability to change the size of individual dimension arrows so that they were different than the drawing was limited to a tricky use of favorites. Starting with SolidWorks 2008, that situation improved. SolidWorks now allows the user to set the size for individual dimension arrows.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion [...]
By admin | August 8, 2009
“Here is a old podcast but still relevant on how to use the weldment features to make wooden frames like a deck.” …
Keep Reading: SolidMentor – SolidJott tips and tricks – SolidWorks Tutorials – News.
Published by Ben Eadie on 8/5/09 on SolidMentor
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 [...]
By admin | August 5, 2009
“Design Tables with Lou Gallo of the SolidWorks Heard podcast” …
Keep Reading: SolidMentor – Design Tables in SolidWorks – SolidWorks Tutorials – News.
Published by Ben Eadie on 7/29/09 on SolidMentor
“Circular references are some of the most heinous problems to crop up in assemblies this side of ancient feudal Japan. The two worst things about these type of problems is that they’re not shown as errors and you have to dig them out of the miry clay of SolidWorks features. Two items no amount of [...]
“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 [...]
“With a show of hands, how many are guilty of faking leaders in drawings? How many times have you or someone you love made a copy of a balloon or annotation and placed it on top of another? Just for the second or third leader, you sacrifice the integrity of the drawing. Come on, be [...]
“How many of you after switching over to SolidWorks 2008 couldn’t figure out how to hide an extension line? There was a small change to how you hide or show dimension and extension lines that seemed to be made under the radar. The first time I needed to hide an extension line I was shocked [...]
“ASME Y14.5M-2009 has been out for a little while now (after almost a year’s delay). There are significant improvements and clarifications. One addition in particular caught my attention, the ALL OVER symbol. When applied to a Profile of a Surface, it pretty much defines the entire shape of a part in every direction (not just [...]
“Earlier this month for Standards Tuesday, I spent a couple of weeks describing BOMs per ASME Y14.34-1996. If you missed them I highly recommend you go back and read those post since they cover a lot of information that would be helpful in creating your own BOM template, see Standards Tuesday – Bill of Materials [...]
