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And speaking of SolidWorks Motion (New in 2010), by Gabi Jack

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:58:46 +0000

“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 perform your stress, deformation or factor of safety analysis automatically from Motion, without having to go through the process of setting or importing loads, setting up boundary conditions, etc. And then you can watch the results as you run the animation.” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » And speaking of SolidWorks Motion (New in 2010).

Published by Gabi Jack on 9/9/09 on GabiJack.com

New Video: Simple Animations (Part 2), by Gabi Jack

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:10:12 +0000

“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 video. If you notice, there’s a button in the video control bar that will allow you to select from a floating table of contents and choose exactly what part of the video you want to watch. I hope someone out there finds this video useful. There’s a third and last part coming soon. Enjoy!” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » New Video: Simple Animations (Part 2).

Published by Gabi Jack on 9/14/09 on GabiJack.com

solidworks 2010…dfmxpress, by Jason Raak

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:03:27 +0000

“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 for and finds areas of your design that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture.” …

Keep Reading: solidworks 2010…dfmxpress « rocksolid perspective – jason raak.

Published by Jason Raak on 9/14/09 on RockSolid Perspective

SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 2, by Ricky Jordan

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:30:58 +0000

“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 intent. Along with that we’ll show you how you can add wires to your electrical route which will give you accurate cut lengths for the individual wires and/or cable conductors that make up your harness. The method shown is the “manual” method which is necessary when you create a route “on the fly”. Click on the image below to play the video.” …

Keep Reading: SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 2 | Ricky Jordan’s Blog.

Published by Ricky Jordan on 7/13/09 on RickyJordan.com

SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 1, by Ricky Jordan

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:27:51 +0000

“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 used when you don’t have any electrical wiring information to import in the form of a “From/To” list. In this example we have an electrical enclosure that contains several connectors along with some terminal block connections. We know in general where the signals are routing from and to, but don’t yet have any detail on the number of signals or any pin to pin connections. This is a quick way to get some accurate wire lengths.”…

Keep Reading: SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 1 | Ricky Jordan’s Blog.

Published by Ricky Jordan on 7/7/09 on RickyJordan.com

Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008, by Alex Ruiz

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:59:33 +0000

“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 now available in the BOM. Using the BOM template we created last week on Creating Your BOM Template with a few further tweaks, we will go over the changes that applies to BOMs in 2008. Feel free to use any BOM template you choose since there is nothing custom about what we are going to do today.” …

Keep Reading: Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008 – The SolidWorks Geek.

Published by Alex Ruiz on 6/30/08 on The SolidWorks Geek

Up for grabs!, by Gabi Jack

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:25:55 +0000

“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.” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » Up for grabs!.

Published by Gabi Jack on 7/11/09 on GabiJack.com

Is there a bug in Motion?, by Gabi Jack

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:21:37 +0000

“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, however, when I tried to use Basic Motion to run some examples of my own.” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » Is there a bug in Motion?.

Published by Gabi Jack on 5/27/09 on GabiJack.com

SolidWorks Tip for Custom Scenes without PhotoWorks, by Josh Mings

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:23:13 +0000

“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 don’t need PhotoWorks at all, and it’s extremely easy to create your own Scenes with your own backgrounds. Here’s all the files and the steps you need to make it happen.” …

Keep Reading: SolidWorks Tip for Custom Scenes without PhotoWorks | SolidSmack.com.

Published by Josh Mings on 10/21/08 on SolidSmack

Animating an arbor press with SolidWorks Motion, by Gabi Jack

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:54:36 +0000

“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 book called The Step by Step Self-Study Guide to SolidWorks MotionManager.” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » Animating an arbor press with SolidWorks Motion.

Published by Gabi Jack on 5/10/09 on GabiJack.com

Rack and Pinion Motion, by Gabi Jack

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:26:25 +0000

“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 way they would do in real life. I’m working on a little video about it, using this assembly of an arbor press.

That’s the subject of my next post, but for now I wanted to tell you about the spur gear and the rack that form part of this assembly, if only because this is something I hadn’t tried before, because it required a bit of extra effort, and because displaying this information here might benefit someone else that is trying to do the same.” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » Rack and Pinion Motion.

Published by Gabi Jack on 5/4/09 on GabiJack.com

File Manglement, by Brian McElyea

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:21:52 +0000

“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 to file management with SolidWorks is to understand exactly how SolidWorks manages file references.” …

Keep Reading: File Manglement | CADFanatic.

Published by Brian McElyea on 7/23/08 on CADFanatic

Validate Your Designs Using Design Checker, by Brian McElyea

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:16:46 +0000

“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.” …

Keep Reading: Validate Your Designs Using Design Checker | CADFanatic.

Published by Brian McElyea on 7/28/08 on CADFanatic

What is SolidWorks Toolbox?, by Matt Lombard

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:29:05 +0000

“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.” …

Keep Reading: Dezignstuff SolidWorks Blog » What is SolidWorks Toolbox?.

Published by Matt Lombard on 4/5/09 on Dezignstuff

Shell Elements Then and Now, by Gabi Jack

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:21:24 +0000

” … I decided to put together this little video comparing the way to create a mesh using shell elements in COSMOSWorks and in SolidWorks Simulation.” …

Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » Shell Elements Then and Now.

Published by Gabi Jack on 4/3/09 on GabiJack.com