By admin | September 16, 2009
“Carrying on with the motto of this release which was all about making it quicker and more user friendly and intuitive the mates area of SolidWorks 2010 got some work done to it. There are only a couple changes but these changes are worth the price of admission in my honest opinion. The changes were [...]
By admin | August 6, 2009
“After taking a long look at it, I went back to SolidWorks to try to find some information on how to use the universal joint mate, but I couldn’t find much in the help. I guess it’s because it’s not really such a complicated mate? So, I put together my own universal joint assembly to [...]
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“The title kind of sounds like it could be the headline of a relationship article but this post is actually going to be about fully constraining your model in an assembly. When inserting parts inside of an assembly it is really easy to fix the part and continue on. This allows you to fully constrain [...]
“Buried deep in the advanced mates lies a hidden treasure. The Width mate is a little known mate that makes mating tabs and slots possible without calculating distances or using reference geometry. This is not one of the many new mates in 2008, in fact this mate made its debut appearance in the 2006 release. [...]
“Just like what triggered my post last weekend “rocksolid tutorial: modeling a variable profile helix cut” I was recently asked a question by a member of my user group about how to simulate the stroke of a cylinder in SolidWorks. So here we go, this is how I would simulate a simple cylinder stroke in [...]
“Now we have finished and learned the techniques of making a SLOT, the second question comes up in the mind is “How to Mate with a SLOT”. Again there can be several ways to achieve this and one may adopt the method which he/she finds easy and quick to use. In this chapter let’s discuss [...]
“I was actually planning on posting about friction coefficients and the way it all works using an example of a simulation of these tong grabs, but before I do that, I thought I should share with you about a little problem I ran into while trying to use a special option available for the hinge [...]
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“Last November, I posted a tip on how to more easily mate components using an Alt-Drag technique. A reader had a question about it, so I thought I would create a video demonstrating it. I hope it helps.” …
Keep Reading: An Easier Way To Mate, Part Deux (With Video!) | CADFanatic.com.
Published by Brian McElyea on [...]
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“Unless you are completely new to SolidWorks, you have more then likely used the Coincident mate. It is probably the most common mate used when building assemblies. Today, we are going to look more into using the coincident mate to limit the degrees of freedom in your assemblies. If you are familiar with the Coincident [...]
“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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“In Design Faster with Design Library and Mate References Pt1, I described the process for creating components with Mate References to be used in the Design Library. The Design Library is a great place to store assembly components you use most often in order to streamline the assembly process for new assemblies. This example will [...]
“You’re driving down a winding road and suddenly your car goes flying off a cliff into a den of wild boar. Not a good situation to be in.
While getting some parts to stay on track in SolidWorks is not nearly as morbid, it can be a pain in the neck, especially when it comes to [...]
“Or rather, errors force determining a solution. The hitman’s hitman to keep that cool analogy steaming along.
You have to figure out what happened, where it happened and how to prevent or get around it undetected. It’s when your senses are honed and you learn the most.
You could say there’s two laws to follow. One by [...]
“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 [...]
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“SolidWorks comes with the ability to assign almost every command to a keyboard shortcut. However, there’s no keyboard shortcuts for Mates. Here’s two macros for the most common mates and how to reduce the amount of that annoying mouse button clickin’ to speed up your assembly construction.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Tip: How to Speed up [...]
“My son made me promise this was really a model of lip balm… less girly I guess, if you’re willing to overlook the flowers on the decal, that is. Sorry, I couldn’t resist! Not that I usually wear lipstick, err, lip balm, but when stressed out to the max and whenever tossing a 12 lb [...]
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“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 [...]
By admin | April 29, 2009
“So at a SolidWorks 2009 What’s New presentation I gave a couple of weeks ago, I was working in SolidWorks and mating two components together. As I added the mate, literally everyone in the room said in unison, “How did you do that?? Is that a new feature in 2009?”
I was a little [...]
By admin | April 28, 2009
“[W]e are going to start today with a brief overview of what are mates and some of the best practices. Then in coming articles I will go in detail about each available mate in SolidWorks 2009.” …
Keep Reading: Mating in SolidWorks: Introduction – The SolidWorks Geek.
Published by Alex Ruiz on 4/2/09 on The SW Geek
By admin | April 27, 2009
“When putting together assemblies, many times you will have a bunch of parts that are all mated the same to one part. For example, you might have a bunch of parts that are concentric to the same shaft, or a bunch of parts that are coincident to the same surface. Instead of adding [...]
