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SolidWorks Performance – Ready, Set, Test Your Hardware!
You spend your days in front of your computer, designing diligently in SolidWorks. You take every measure to effectively visualize and communicate your 3D concept. Have you ever wondered if your...
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NVIDIA GRID VCA – What Does SolidWorks Really Look Like?
If you caught my webinar introducing NVIDIA GRID VCA to use SolidWorks in the cloud, around the 18 minute mark you would have seen the issue that I outlined in this blog article: a laggy user...
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SolidWorks Weldment Profiles: Now Configurable!
SolidWorks Weldments has added an excellent enhancement for the 2014 release. The weldment profiles of structural members are now configurable! Previously, weldment profiles were managed on a...
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SolidWorks Quick Tip – Save As Copy and Open
If you’ve been using SolidWorks for some time, I’m sure you have come across this very annoying situation- I know I have: You’re working on a design and suddenly get a great idea that you’d like to...
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Viewing STL files in the SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM Preview Tab
Navigating through your hard drive, you click on an STL… only, there’s no thumbnail preview. What gives? I’ve experienced this a few times. It’s always hard for me to remember what a part looks like...
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical: Update and Replace Part Data
Technological innovation is a never ending process of iterative design. The products we use evolve and change, often incrementally and sometimes drastically, over time. This leaves the engineer with...
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Common Modeling Shortcut Commands in SOLIDWORKS
There are so many great shortcut commands in SOLIDWORKS that even the most common shortcuts often go unnoticed. Familiarization with onscreen navigation, and getting a better idea of what you’re...
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SOLIDWORKS Routing – One and Two-Hole Flange Orientations
SOLIDWORKS Routing is a powerful add-in included with SOLIDWORKS Premium. Routing has a wealth of useful tools to improve your efficiency when designing routes that contain electrical components, tubes...
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Make a Universal Weldment BOM Template Using Nested IF Statements
Suppose you want to make a SOLIDWORKS Universal BOM Template for mixed weldments which incorporates weldment structural members but also sheet or plate and even purchased parts. Suppose you also want...
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5 Reasons I Love My Job at Hawk Ridge Systems
(I’m interrupting your regular tech tip programming with a quick love letter about my job – tech tips will be back on the next post!) A couple of days ago, I read an article on how to avoid burnout in...
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XP Apocalypse – What It Means for SOLIDWORKS Users
Windows XP: Tested, tried, and true. It’s so trusted that when Windows Vista became available in 2007, Microsoft extended XP’s planned lifecycle by almost double the normal length to continue...
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FIRST Robotics: Creating the Next Generation of Engineers
Have you heard of FIRST Robotics? It’s a high school level robotics competition where students are inspired to create a robot from scratch to compete in an arena. The robots contain the same...
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation Night School is Coming!
One of the most important (and enjoyable) things that we do as an engineering team at Hawk Ridge Systems is plan and execute our regular Night School sessions. It gives us a great opportunity to get...
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SOLIDWORKS Beta 2015 – COMING SOON! But First, a Look Back
Back at the beginning of this decade, SOLIDWORKS Beta season was a time for internal competition at the Ridge. The winner for the 2010 SOLIDWORKS Corporate Beta Rendering contest was our own Scott...
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Women In Engineering – Happy National Women in Engineering Day!
It’s National Women in Engineering Day! While the day may have started in the UK to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), I can’t help but jump on the bandwagon....
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Let Your Fans Do the Work in Flow Simulation – A Night School Preview
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from immersing myself in simulation tools for the last several years, it’s that the phrase “work smarter, not harder” is a pretty good advice. Of course, working hard...
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SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual – the Future of Collaborative Design
3D CAD tools have been around for a couple decades now, but old-school techniques are alive and well when it comes to conceptual design. With SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual, there is finally a proper...
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CAMWorks Corner – CNC Machining a Turbo Impeller
With media coverage of the World Cup dominating news and sports sites, you may have missed some other major sporting events, most notably the Le Mans 24hr and the Nürburgring 24hr. Whether it’s...
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SOLIDWORKS Inspection: Streamline Quality Control
The automotive, aerospace, defense, oil & gas, and medical device industries have strict safety regulations and requirements. Most companies working in these industries must provide...
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SOLIDWORKS Quick Tip: 8 Ways to Insert a Component into an Assembly
As you know, SOLIDWORKS is very good at giving us many options for performing certain tasks. A perfect example of this is when it comes time to insert components into our assembly models. Before...
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