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 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
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 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
By admin | September 16, 2009
“This one is my version of the funkey. It doesn’t look exactly the same, but I’m excited no matter what. I know it’s not perfect and there’s probably a bunch of things I should’ve or could’ve done differently. I certainly appreciate comments and corrections, but remember I’m just a novice at surfacing, so go easy on me.” …
Keep Reading: GabiJack.com » Blog Archive » Funkey! (Part 1).
Published by Gabi Jack on 9/15/09 on GabiJack.com
Posted in 3D Sketch, Filled Surface (Surfaces), GabiJack.com, Project Curve, Split Entities, Surfaces, Trim Surface | Tagged 3D Sketch, Filled Surface, GabiJack.com, Project Curve, Split Entities, Surfaces, Trim Surface |
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 assemblies faster then you ever imagined. The steps illustrated today may seem like a lot but a few extra minutes when setting up your library components can save you hours in the long run.” …
Keep Reading: Design Faster with Design Library and Mate References Pt1 – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 8/18/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
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 the benefits of using the Design Library. In the past we explored such topics as creating a notes library, adding forming tools and adding components to the library with Mate references. If you missed any of these post you can go here to find them all: http://www.theswgeek.com/tag/design-library/. Today we are going to cover adding your most commonly used features to the design library to speed up your design process.” …
Keep Reading: Add Features to the Design Library – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 8/25/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
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 with references and without references. Today we are going to concentrate on inserting features without references.” …
Keep Reading: Adding a Library Feature to a Part – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 8/25/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 18, 2009
“On Friday, I went over the procedure for creating the forming tool for the stapler anvil. Today, as a special Sunday post, I will go over the rest of the anvil. The anvil will be made as a sheet metal component so we can use the forming tool that was created on Friday.” …
Keep Reading: Building a Stapler – Anvil – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 8/31/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 18, 2009
“If you haven’t noticed, people are different. They have different tastes in clothing, food, and music. You say tomato, I say ‘mater.
So it follows that designers will have different modeling methodologies. Sometimes, even circumstances or desired design intent dictate how you model something.” …
Keep Reading: 3 Ways To Model The Same Thing | CADFanatic.com.
Published by Brian McElyea on 8/18/09 on CADFanatic
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Everybody knows how to use the Fillet tool to create radii on parts, at least I hope they do. 99.9% of the fillets you will create in your daily usage of SolidWorks only require you to click an edge and enter a value. I will not be showing you how to do this kind of fillet, instead I will show you some fillet options you might not have heard of before. Using Fillet options like Multiple Radius Fillets, Rounded Corners, and Setbacks can really help in achieving the results your parts require. In coming weeks, I will cover even more tricks for fillets that can really make your parts stand out.” …
Keep Reading: Some Fillet Tricks You May or May Not Know – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/1/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
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 modeled up the Anvil for the stapler and today we will stay in the general area of the stapler with the Anvil Rivet. The Anvil Rivet is used to attach the Anvil to the Base and retain the Anvil Spring (Next Week). This week is fun because we also get to build the rivet with two configurations, the free state and and as it is assembled. So lets get started…” …
Keep Reading: Building a Stapler – Anvil Rivet – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/5/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“The other day I received an email from a reader by the name of Zac. Here is an excerpt for his email:
‘One thing we just can not figure out how to do is this: We often want to draw a single part, and then split it into two separate halves as separate parts, as opposed to drawing the two halves independently. Is there some easy trick to do this in SW? Up to this point we are still drawing one part, then draw or try to draw the second one to match up.’
Rather then creating a post like a normally do, I decided to try my hand at creating a video to answer his question. This is my first attempt at creating videos, so please be kind. It this works, I could be doing more of these. Tell me what you think.” …
Keep Reading: Video – Splitting a Part in SolidWorks – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/6/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Another week is upon us, it’s time to knock those cobwebs out of your head and get ready to learn some more cool stuff. Last week, I went over a couple of fillet tricks that I hope you enjoyed and this week I am doing more of the same. One of my favorite fillet tricks is using Hold Lines with Face Fillets. Hold lines allow you to better control how you fillet your part by specifying the tangent lines for a fillet rather then the radius. Today, we’ll look at two ways hold lines can be used.” …
Keep Reading: Creating Fillets using Hold Lines – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/8/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Today on this very happy Friday, we are going to continue building our virtual stapler with the Anvil Spring. Over the past couple of weeks we built the Anvil and Anvil Rivet, now we will make a configured spring without a design table. The spring we make today will have three configurations: Default, As Assembled and Compressed each represent the three states of the spring, with the Default configuration representing the Free State. So let’s get started with all the fun.” …
Keep Reading: Building a Stapler – Anvil Spring – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/12/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
After missing a week, we are finally back to building our stapler. The last time we were here, we made a multi-configured spring for the anvil without using a Design Table. Today we are going to make another spring but this time we are going to be creating a simple design table to configure the spring. So let’s see what we need to do…
Keep Reading: Building a Stapler – Arm Spring – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/26/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“I know last week I mentioned that we were finished with sketch tools, for the time being, but I figured one more couldn’t hurt. I was working on a model for work earlier this week that I had created a few features using Derived Sketches and I thought it would be a great topic to discuss. Unlike when using Convert Entities, Derived Sketches can be moved anywhere on your part and they will still maintain their reference to the parent sketch. As the parent sketch is updated, each derived sketch is updated regardless of it’s location.” …
Keep Reading: Using Derived Sketches in Parts – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 10/8/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“Last week, I introduced you to making derived sketches to save time in duplicating features on your part. Today is all about using the Insert Part command to create a derived part. A derived part is an extremely useful technique for adding features to a part without affecting the original part. When the original part is updated the derived part is updated as well. There a many reasons you may need to use this technique in your usage of SolidWorks. I have seen it used by molders to prepare a model by adding drafts, splits and modifying faces for making the mold tool. I use this technique when I have a purchased part in my design library that I need to make modifications without actually affecting the geometry of the original part.” …
Keep Reading: Using Insert Part to Create Derived Parts – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 10/13/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“One of my favorite new features in SolidWorks 2008 is the addition of Shortcut Bars. Shortcut bars are customizable floating bars that pop up in the graphic area near your mouse pointer. By default each environment has its own shortcut bar that you can then customize just like another toolbar. With Shortcut Bars in addition to the CommandManager & Context menus, you should have no need for additional toolbars.”…
Keep Reading: Improve Productivity – Use Shortcut Bars – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 5/25/08 on The SolidWorks Geek
By admin | August 17, 2009
“As the title describes, you may have often come across a situation where you need to import the motion loads on any one of the component/part and the moment you click on simulation-Import motion loads, you do not see any part mentioned in the “Available Assembly Components”. This might lead you to think whether – did the motion study go through? or is it a bug in the software ? Well the answer is simple.” …
Keep Reading: Graphics Systems SolidNotes: WHERE IS MY PART ? …………….I NEED MOTION LOADS.
Published by Ashish Jaiswal on 8/16/09 on Graphics Systems SolidNotes
By admin | August 12, 2009
“My last few blogs discussed the two rebuild command in SolidWorks: standard rebuild (the “green light” icon) versus forced rebuild (CTRL-Q). Regardless of which command is used, it is important to understand what is happening when SolidWorks is building a feature.” …
Keep Reading: Graphics Systems SolidNotes: Verification on Rebuild.
Published by John Setzer on 8/10/09 on Graphics Systems SolidNotes
