By admin | January 29, 2010
“SolidWorks 2010 introduced a lot of great enhancements for drawings. I have personally been using it since beta 1 but we rolled it out for production last week with the release of service pack 2. There was 1 thing that immediately caused shrieks of dislike however amongst our users. The users were noticing that when [...]
“One issue with 3D CAD drawings, in general, that continues to confuse me is how a drawing can be more complicated than an 2D AutoCAD drawing. That’s crazY, with a capital Y and a lowercase c-r-a-z.
Logically, if you have a 3d model, you would think there would be fewer drawing views because the 3D allows [...]
Posted in Drawing, SolidSmack | Also tagged SolidSmack |
“Some of you have a bunch of tips for new users, and some of you wish those people would stop the flow of info for a few minutes while you catch up. So, I stopped, sat down and wrote out my top 12 favorite SolidWorks tips. The first tips I thought of that I would [...]
Posted in Component Pattern, ConfigurationManager, Design Library, Dimensions/Relations, Drawing, Mate, SolidSmack | Also tagged Component Pattern, ConfigurationManager, Configurations, Design Library, Dimensions/Relations, Mate, SolidSmack |
“Getting just the right detailed drawing view of a model can take immense amounts of time. More than they really should for products designed in 3D. When you open a drawing and nothing is there but the dimensions, that can really make you throw blunt objects.
So, you stare real close at the computer screen. It [...]
Posted in Drawing, SolidSmack | Also tagged 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 [...]
“If you create an auxillary view and then drag that view to a new sheet, the definition line gets hidden (I believe this is a bug – it should keep the definition shown by default). To turn it back on, …” …
Keep Reading: Auxillary View Definition – Where Did It Go? | CADFanatic.
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“When calling out holes on drawings, best engineering practices are to dimension holes in true profile views. SolidWorks will only let you place place hole notes on arcs. But sometimes on a complicated drawing, creating an extra auxiliary view just to show a hole callout is not desired and can really clutter the [...]
Posted in Annotation, Auxiliary View, CADFanatic, Dimensions/Relations, Drawing, Equations, Hole Callout, Note | Also tagged Auxiliary View, CADFanatic, Equations, Hole Callout |
“Awhile back, I promised to cover several how-to points regarding Empty Views in Part 2 (this article). However, I’m going to spread this out into three articles. In this article I’m going to cover how to create an Empty View, and the ugly hack for making it a desired size. In Part [...]
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 [...]
