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Feeling a Draft – Part 2 – Exploring Options in Draft Analysis
Hey everyone, welcome to my second article in a series on Draft Analysis. In this series, I’m going over the basics of a tool that is helpful to anyone working on cast or molded parts. This second...
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Hawk Ridge in the Community – Ladies’ Night at Yakima
On Tuesday I was able to take the journey from Reno to Yakima. As I was flying into Yakima, I noticed it actually looks a lot like Reno, Nevada. I had to laugh a bit – when I got my rental car that was...
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Using a Grid System for Weldments
Spend much time with weldment designs in SOLIDWORKS and you will find yourself making quite a few 3D sketches or offsetting planes to repeat sketches spaced out a certain distance. Let’s take a side...
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical PDM Professional Integration
With today’s unified work environments, we have to think about all aspects of the design process. One common question that comes up is what type of integration SOLIDWORKS Electrical has into SOLIDWORKS...
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Linking Inspection Project Properties to Document Custom Properties
Using the SOLIDWORKS Inspection Add-In has many advantages for quickly creating inspection documentation. Inspection leverages the power of SOLIDWORKS drawings to create ballooned inspection drawings...
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Key Enhancements to the Move Face Command
We all know that when working with a native SOLIDWORKS model, design changes can be easily made by editing the individual features. But what if you’re working with imported 3D geometry such as...
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Hawk Ridge in the Community: Hawk Ridge Hosts Injection Molding Mixers!
Damon Tordini (Product Manager – Plastics & Flow Simulation – Hawk Ridge Systems) and Jeff Osman (Territory Technical Sr. Manager for SOLIDWORKS out of North Carolina) have been making their rounds...
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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip – eDrawings
eDrawings on the desktop has a whole new look since 2015, closely following the eDrawings for Android and iOS user interface made for touch screen mobile devices. Tablets running Windows and many...
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Maintain Appearances When Applying Materials in SOLIDWORKS
So you just finished an awesome design that took you quite a bit of time to model, and you are feeling pretty proud of it. You immediately begin to apply some appearances to the part to really bring it...
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Hawk Ridge in the Community – Rocket Fuel STEM Class
Hawk Ridge Systems has partnered with Rocket Fuel Gives Back once more to present you with the STEM summer classes! On Wednesday, Holly and I were able to head out to Redwood City so Holly could help...
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Customizing Composer Player User Interface
Have you ever used Composer Player before, and had to turn on the Render Toolbar, or the Navigate Toolbar over and over? Prior to SOLIDWORKS Composer Player 2015, any custom toolbars that were turned...
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SOLIDWORKS Deform It – Part 1 – Introduction
Hi everybody! Welcome to my 3-part series on a tool to add complex distortions to your solid or surface parts. What’s the name of this you ask? It’s called the Deform tool. SOLIDWORKS has quite a few...
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HRS Community – Las Vegas Rock CAMWorks Case Study
CASE STUDY: Las Vegas Rock Las Vegas Rock holds 6 Pinnacle awards for their precise elaborate designs in marble. They extract metaquartzite stone from just outside Goodsprings, NV to utilize it for a...
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Assemblies Vs. Multi-Bodies Part 1
It is frequently asked when someone should use multi-bodies as opposed to assemblies. It mostly depends on what it is that you are trying to design, because every project is unique and has its own...
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Assemblies Vs. Multi-Bodies Part 2
This is a continuation of the Article Assemblies Vs. Multi-bodies Part 1 (link to first article here). Using multi-bodies in SOLIDWORKS can be really useful if you need dimensions to be related to each...
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Hawk Ridge in the Community – SOLIDWORKS and Vans Warped
Who’d have thought SOLIDWORKS/CAMWorks would go hand-in-hand with rock music? Vans Warped is the largest traveling music festival in America. Since 2009, Vans Warped has been rocking cities all across...
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Creating and Using Sketch Blocks in SOLIDWORKS
In the first CAD tool I learned to use, it was almost every day that I would reuse sets of shapes repetitively to represent common items such as hardware. Rather than drawing a new hexagon every time I...
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SOLIDWORKS Composer: Views, Camera Views, and Custom Camera Views!
One of the common questions I get in our SOLIDWORKS Composer classes is, “What is the difference between a regular ‘View’ and a ‘Camera View’?” Once the distinction between the two is clear, you’ll be...
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Default Document Properties in SOLIDWORKS Composer
When bringing in SOLIDWORKS files into Composer via the Pull method, there are some very important document properties to set up beforehand. When you go to File > Properties, you’ll see ‘Document...
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Ensure Proper Spacing with Clearance Verification
Certain designs require us, as designers, to be hyper aware of the spacing between components. We have customers in the semiconductor industry, automotive, aerospace, and medical industries. What they...
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