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 | 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 [...]
“You suppress one feature and everything underneath it gets suppressed. You cringe, a volcano erupts under the sea and five babies are born, slapped and all at once and named Llyod. Don’t you wish those ornery SolidWorks Features would just behave sometimes?
Well there just so happens to be, not one, but two single ways to [...]
“After reading Part 1 and Part 2 of The Appearance of Things, I hope you have found it easier to change the appearance of your parts. Now I am going to show you how to tie it all together using Display States. Like Appearance Callouts and the Display Pane, Display States are nothing new but [...]
“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 [...]
“Here’s an easy approach to stop the rot that plagues typical methods of no design practice or too many design practices. I imagine you have your own tricks too, so hit the comments and tell everyone what you and your company do to take on the task of creating the perfect design practice.” …
Keep Reading: [...]
“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, Design Library, Dimensions/Relations, Drawing, Mate, SolidSmack | Tagged Component Pattern, ConfigurationManager, Configurations, Design Library, Dimensions/Relations, Drawing, Mate, SolidSmack |
“On Monday I wrote about Configuring Dimensions. Today I will show you how to configure features.” …
Keep Reading: Mike Puckett’s Blog: Now Let’s Configure Features.
Published by Mike Puckett on 5/14/09 on Mike Puckett’s Blog
By admin | April 29, 2009
“Do you make use of SolidWorks Display States? They really make it easier to work with large assemblies (or even small ones) by allowing you to set the visibilty of parts.” …
Keep Reading: CADFanatic’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday – Display States | CADFanatic.
Published by Brian McElyea on 12/2/08 on CADFanatic
