“In this week’s post, we’re going to talk a bit about how you go about creating, and working with, assemblies. Remember, these aren’t hard and fast rules, they’re more guidelines. As anyone who has used SolidWorks for any length of time knows, there are multiple ways to get from point A to point B.” …
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“You’ve been working on a 13,000 part mega-assembly with the most well thought out top-down assembly structure ever devised by man. The next morning, you gingerly sip your coffee as the model ooooopens, and then… something doesn’t look right. Suddenly, that pastry looses it’s sweetness as you come to grips that all your parts are… [...]
“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 [...]
“Dealing with small assemblies is easy right? Why not talk about the large ones that seem so difficult? Well, sometimes you can get some perspective by scaling back a little and setting things up for the smaller situations.” …
Keep Reading: 3 Easy Tips for Tiny SolidWorks Assemblies | SolidSmack.com.
Published by Josh Mings on 3/13/08 on SolidSmack
Posted in Assembly, SolidSmack | Also tagged SolidSmack |
“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 [...]
Posted in Align/Check Sketch for Feature, Assembly, Check, Dimensions/Relations, FeatureManager, Repair Sketch, Sketch Tools/SketchXpert, SolidSmack | Also tagged Check, Check Sketch for Feature, Dimensions/Relations, FeatureManager, Repair Sketch, SketchXpert, SolidSmack |
“So, you love your cushy design engineer job, but part, assembly and drawing creation is an assembly line of repetitive horror and the screams are about to come blasting out.
If you’re like me, you love the design process, but starting everything from scratch, especially on similar components uses up a lot of extra time that [...]
“I’ve decided to totally revamp the former SolidWorks Success post and put them in all together.
It lacks the detail I originally determined I wanted to put into the points, but the angst about not having the list all together was more than I and some others could bear. Fear not, it’s all here, in one [...]
By admin | April 28, 2009
“Ok, someone has asked me what my single greatest SolidWorks tip for large assemblies is. That, all you SolidWorks Pros may know, is a large request in itself.
So, are ya ready? I’ll let you know what it is and why it starts here and how to move on. My single greatest SolidWorks Tip for dealing [...]
Posted in Assembly, SolidSmack | Also tagged SolidSmack |
By admin | March 12, 2009
“If you overslept or forgot to feed your hairless cat the past couple weeks, you may have missed the newest SolidWorks Service Pack (SP) that not only fix’z a bit o’ broke stuff, but also give you a handy new feature. In fact it was #4 Enhancement Request from users this year.
Charles Culp discovered it [...]
