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 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 [...]
“This may not have been desired, to have some components suppressed. This is a performance thing and in this case it may not have really helped. Manually unsuppressing each item is tedious. You could shift or ctrl select the multiple items in the Feature Manager Tree and unsuppress/set to resolved.” …
Or, better yet, get it [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“We have all had them, extraordinarily large assemblies that brings your computer to it’s virtual knees every time you open them. Sometimes you just want to work on a small area and opening an assembly is painfully slow. In 2008, SolidWorks introduced a new tool to help you in these situations: Quick view / Selective [...]
“If you’ve been using SolidWorks for more than a couple hours you know you parts are created by stacking up a bunch of features on the left side of the screen. It’s a veritable tower of sand, held together by the spit of fully-defined sketches.
Based on what you do in that stack, the FeatureManager Tree, [...]
“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 [...]
“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, Assembly, Check, Dimensions/Relations, Repair Sketch, Sketch Tools/SketchXpert, SolidSmack | Tagged Assembly, Check, Check Sketch for Feature, Dimensions/Relations, FeatureManager, Repair Sketch, SketchXpert, SolidSmack |
“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: [...]
“Should it matter what you do?
Today, I’m going to say ‘yes’ to that question. What you slap across the screen can affect performance. So, let’s talk about some of the initial options you have in SolidWorks that make your models suck the ever-living resources out of the pit of ‘puter processing power and what you [...]
“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
“We’ve put together 12 features you can turn off right away to get better SolidWorks performance and a faster machine. Some of these options are useful, some never will be, but it always comes down to what kind of performance you expect out of that fancy workstation.” …
Keep Reading: 12 SolidWorks Features to Turn Off [...]
Also posted in CAD Administrator, Keyboard Shortcuts, Options, RealView Graphics, SolidSmack, Status Bar, Task Pane | Tagged FeatureManager, Keyboard Shortcuts, Options, RealView Graphics, SolidSmack, Status Bar, Task Pane |
“I have been accused in the past of being sort of any organizational freak. I am one of those people that usually does not like stacks of papers on my desk and have more labeled hanging file folders than you can shake a dead squirrel at. This is why I have become a [...]
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
By admin | April 28, 2009
“What could these powerful features be? Drawing features, accessed directly via the FeatureManager in a Drawing.
But the drawing’s FeatureManager is useless… just shows the sheets, right? Ahhh, NO. It’s packed with ways to make drawings easier to manage and here’s how you can use it.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Tips for Improving Drawing Creation Using the [...]
