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Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008, by Alex Ruiz

“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 [...]

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Making Intelligent Notes & Equations, by Brian McElyea

“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 [...]

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