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
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“I had mentioned in a previous post that I was working on a motion study using a model of a pair of friction grabs. Here I have a short video of that motion study, demonstrating the use of friction when defining 3D contacts for motion analysis.” …
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“As I had mentioned previously, and also in a comment to my last post, I’m currently teaching myself SolidWorks Motion, with the aid of the official 2009 training manual. I’m really enjoying the exercises and examples provided in the book, and the way everything always turns out as predicted in the lesson. My problem began, [...]
“What’s cool about SolidWorks 2008 and 2009 is using RealView when you’re modeling. A nice background scene makes the experience all the more special. Unfortunately, you typically need the PhotoWorks Scene Editor to add Scenes with different backgrounds. (PhotoWorks is a SolidWorks add-on available in Professional and Premium versions.)
Well, it just so happens, that you [...]
“This is a short video I put together on using SolidWorks Motion to simulate the movement of an arbor press. This is really my first try on animation, I mean, besides the examples and exercises on books and tutorials. I’m currently learning at my own pace using the SolidWorks Motion training manual. There’s also a [...]
“Well this turned out to be a two part post, instead of one. It all started with me venturing into SolidWorks MotionManager, which is used to create little animations of assemblies as they are exploded and/or collapsed, rotated, dragged around, or just made to have their components move and interact with each other in the [...]
“No, that’s not a typo. Almost half of all the SolidWorks issues that I have seen is related to file management. Someone moves a file or two using Windows Explorer and then their assembly blows up. Or worse yet, a part in your assembly inexplicably changes to a totally different part.
“A key [...]
“SolidWolks Design Checker is a tool included with SolidWorks Office Professional or higher. Design Checker is a tool for checking SolidWorks files to see if they are in compliance with your organization’s standards.” …
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By admin | April 27, 2009
“This is part 1 in a series just on Toolbox. It has started from the series on CAD Admin. Toolbox is not a topic that you can talk about in a single long blog post, there is just too much there, if you’re gonna do the topic justice.” …
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