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.” …
Keep Reading: Building [...]
By admin | October 14, 2009
“Today we are going to take a look at perhaps one of the most underrated new features of SolidWorks 2010, the Mouse Gesture Wheel. While this new tool has gotten some good press in recent weeks, its hard to gauge how useful this command can be until you actually use it.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks 2010: [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“SolidWorks Corp has been working hard to improve the user experience. SolidWorks 2010 has examples have several innovative interface additions. The one addition that is sure to get a lot of attention is Mouse Gestures.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » SolidWorks 2010: Mouse Gestures.
Published by fcsuper on 9/9/09 on SolidWorks Legion
By admin | September 16, 2009
“While checking out the 2010 Beta, I ran into this new option available for Motion Studies, when you have SolidWorks Simulation added as well. You can find it listed as Structural Simulation Analysis for Motion in the What’s New Guide. It simply means that in SolidWorks 2010, and with Motion and Simulation added, you can [...]
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
“Just as promised, here is the video of the second part of what was going to be my presentation at the local SWUG. This one deals with Free Motion, changing component properties and changing the orientation and camera views during the animation. By the way, I added a new option to the controls of the [...]
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
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
“Here we are at the beginning of another fine week in the blogosphere. I hope each and every one of you had a great weekend. I also hope you got some rest because I have tons of tips and tricks to throw your way this week. Today we will start with our continuing exploration of [...]
By admin | August 18, 2009
“Now that we added a feature to the Design Library, we can now add it to a new part. Adding features from the Design Library are as easy as drag-and-drop, so easy even an AutoCAD user can do it ( I Kid). There are two types of features you will drop into a part; features [...]
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 8, 2009
“In my last post, I discussed how to create PDFs automatically through SolidWorks Task Scheduler using the print function. This post discusses how to use the export functionality to create PDFs.” …
Keep Reading: Graphics Systems SolidNotes: How to use SolidWorks Task Scheduler to create PDFs – Part II.
Published by Gerald Go on 8/5/09 on Graphics [...]
By admin | August 8, 2009
“Many of us have heard of terms like cluster computing or server farms and once you begin to apply these resource harnessing techniques to CAD and CAE tools, you end up with a huge amount of CPU capacity at your disposal. A couple of weeks ago I did a revised show on the SolidWorks Task [...]
By admin | August 4, 2009
“When working in assemblies, you are mostly dealing with adding and assembling mates. However, by default in SolidWorks, when you expand a part or subassembly in a main assembly, you see the features of the part or the components of the subassembly. The mates that exist in the main assembly are grouped in a folder [...]
“Disclaimer, you need either or RealView activated and or Photoworks for the lightweight stuff in this video.” …
Keep Reading: SolidMentor – Knurling in SolidWorks – SolidWorks Tutorials – News.
Published by Ben Eadie on 6/26/09 on SolidMentor
“Most users of SolidWorks Electrical Routing use the product to determine wire & route lengths. This video is a direct followup to the Part 1 video. In this segment, we will take the 3D Electrical Harness that we created in Part 1 and make some modifications to the route itself to better fit our design [...]
“After talking about it for quite some time here on the site, today marks the first installment on a series of posts on SolidWorks Electrical Routing. In this first example I guide you halfway through the creation of an Electrical Harness using what I call the “on the fly” method. This particular method is often [...]
“Welcome back to a new week filled with SolidWorks tips and tricks. Over the next couple of post we’ll be concentrating on SolidWorks Bill of Materials. SolidWorks 2008 brought some changes on how one uses BOMs in the drawing environment. A lot of the controls for BOMs that were previously available in the PropertyManager are [...]
“This is for the little known and under utilized design library in SolidWorks.” …
Keep Reading: SolidMentor – The Design library in SolidWorks – SolidWorks Tutorials – News.
Published by Ben Eadie on 7/11/09 on SolidMentor
