By admin | October 19, 2009
“When using Standard Views in SolidWorks, the resulting view of the model is normally Zoom to fit. This is regardless to the zoom level of the current view. So, if I’m zoomed in on a very long part, when I change from Front View to Rear View, the model will be resized to fit to [...]
By admin | September 16, 2009
“SolidWorks Corp has been working hard to improve the user experience. SolidWorks 2010 has examples have several innovative interface additions. The one addition that is sure to get a lot of attention is Mouse Gestures.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » SolidWorks 2010: Mouse Gestures.
Published by fcsuper on 9/9/09 on SolidWorks Legion
By admin | September 16, 2009
“Adding dimensions to parts on drawings is now quicker in SolidWorks 2010 with the addition of Rapid Dimension. Once the user enters the Dimension command, Rapid Dimension allows the them to quickly position dimensions (almost automatically) as they are added. Not only will dimensions automatically space out correctly as they are inserted, they will be [...]
By admin | August 9, 2009
“In SolidWorks 2007 drawing mode, the ability to change the size of individual dimension arrows so that they were different than the drawing was limited to a tricky use of favorites. Starting with SolidWorks 2008, that situation improved. SolidWorks now allows the user to set the size for individual dimension arrows.” …
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“ASME Y14.5M-2009 has been out for a little while now (after almost a year’s delay). There are significant improvements and clarifications. One addition in particular caught my attention, the ALL OVER symbol. When applied to a Profile of a Surface, it pretty much defines the entire shape of a part in every direction (not just [...]
“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 [...]
“ASME Y14.5M-1994 paragraph 1.8.10 and figure 1-35 provide three methods for the dimensioning of slots, with no stipulation regarding which is preferred for particular scenarios. (Note: all three methods require the insertion of a non-dimensioned “2X R” note pointing at one of the slot’s end radii.)
“In one fashion or another, SolidWorks 2009 supports all three [...]
“The Part 2 article in this series discussed how to make, place and size Empty Views. Part 3 now discusses how to use them once they are created.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » Using Empty Views (Part 3: How to use them).
Published by fcsuper on 6/18/09 on SolidWorks Legion
“SolidWorks is able to save drawings and current model views as a PDF format file. There’s been a lot of macros written over the years that cut the process of saving as PDF down to as few steps as possible. One of the long standing requests for this type of macro (and many similar types [...]
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“I recently conducted a small poll on SolidWorks Yahoo! Group asking who was using SolidWorks Spelling Check. To my surprize, almost half (so far) have never even hear of Spelling Check.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » SolidWorks Spelling Check (who’s using it?).
Published by fcsuper on 5/6/09 on SolidWorks Legion
“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 29, 2009
“Here’s a quick tip to view both sheets of two-sheet drawing at the same time.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » View two drawing sheets at same time.
Published by fcsuper on 4/29/09 on SolidWorks Legion
By admin | April 27, 2009
“SolidWorks’ Spelling Check can be fairly useful when proofreading a drawing. It’s not extremely powerful, but it is as functional as one might expect from a manually initiated spell checker.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Legion » SolidWorks Spell Checker or Spelling Check.
Published by fcsuper on 4/13/09 on SolidWorks Legion
