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How to Scale Your Drawings 1:1 in SOLIDWORKS & DraftSight

Creating drawings is a key part of the design process. With SOLIDWORKS Drawings, documenting your designs so that you can communicate those designs to other people is a cinch. But sometimes when...

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Getting Started with Industrial 3D Printers: What You Need to Know

When exploring the world of industrial 3D printers, it can be challenging to understand what benefits can be gleaned from systems and resources involved in operating and maintaining sophisticated...

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3 Strategies for Reducing Shop Floor Downtime with Industry 4.0 Tech

Industry 4.0 relates to the ongoing automation and digitization of the engineering and manufacturing sector. With big data technology progressing at alarming rates, modern systems can process large...

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SOLIDWORKS Ultimate: The Best CAD Solution for Advanced Product Development

SOLIDWORKS has long been a leader in computer-aided design (CAD) solutions, offering a range of powerful tools for engineers and designers. With the introduction of SOLIDWORKS Ultimate, the entire...

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8 Ways to Optimize SOLIDWORKS for Fast Performance (2024)

Optimizing performance in SOLIDWORKS can be a game changer when it comes to creating and working with our CAD models. Like with any tool, using SOLIDWORKS efficiently means less time and effort spent...

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3 Steps to Easily Import CATIA Files into SOLIDWORKS

If you’ve worked with one CAD software while a client or supplier used another, you understand the difficulty of accurately transferring data. While perfectly seamless data transfer may not be...

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The Top Software & Hardware for Industrial Equipment Manufacturers

Industrial equipment manufacturers design, build, and deploy high-performance heavy mobile equipment for rough, tough, complex jobs. Manufacturers in this vertical also design and build robotics for...

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3 Biggest Reasons Companies Use 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA to Program Robots

Machine tending is one of the most common uses for robots and cobots in today’s market. Whether you’re looking to fully automate a system or to have a cobot work collaboratively with an operator, the...

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Why the Artec Spider II Is the Next Generation of Handheld Scanning

New and Improved – The Artec Spider II Artec3D has become an industry name for people looking to do targetless 3D scan of objects for Reverse engineering, quality control, and archiving. One of their...

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How 3D Scanners Revolutionize Industrial Manufacturing and Repair 

3D scanners have rapidly gained popularity within several industries as a go-to tool for creating high-accuracy measurements and high-quality digital twins for designing. Each industry has unique...

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How SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Is the Perfect Fit for Industrial Equipment Design

If you use SOLIDWORKS to design large complex assemblies, such as with industrial equipment, you know that designing robust and reliable machinery requires more than just basic CAD tools. This is...

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10 Things I Wish I Knew About SOLIDWORKS as an Engineer in Industrial...

As engineers, we dream of building complex machines, and solving critical problems that involve new ideas while following the laws and rules of math and science.   There are many factors to consider:...

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Making Desktop 3D Scanning Simple with the Artec Micro II

The Artec Micro II 3D scanner takes high-resolution, compact 3D scanning to a new level, bringing even greater precision and ease of use to your desk like many of the easy-to-use portable Artec 3D...

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DIY Sheet Metal Car Organizer Using SOLIDWORKS

Road trips can be messy. Below is an example of what my car can look like during a road trip. Between camping equipment, climbing gear, and food, things can get real disorganized real fast. I wanted a...

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4 Incredible Ways 3D Printing & Scanning Enhance Product Design

At this year’s Design to Manufacturing (D2M) event, we explored several ways 3D printing and scanning boost designs, making your projects even more innovative.   In these four breakout sessions, our...

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Top 5 Sessions from D2M 2024

Hawk Ridge Systems’ Design to Manufacturing (D2M) digital conference brought together experts and users to explore the latest advancements in SOLIDWORKS and related technologies with featured speakers...

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How the SOLIDWORKS Suite Refines Industrial Equipment Design

Industrial equipment is usually made for specific tasks and is often used in harsh and demanding environments. From specialized robotics, generators, pumps, and compressors to various heavy machinery...

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Going Metal? Here’s What You Need to Know to 3D Print Metal 

Metal 3D printing — or additive manufacturing — enables the creation of complex, customized metal parts with unique geometries not possible with traditional manufacturing. If you’re a manufacturer or...

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How to Recycle 3D Printing Filament to Maximize Sustainability

3D printing is known as one of the most sustainable manufacturing methods. It’s an additive process unlike traditional methods like milling or turning, which are subtractive. In subtractive...

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Parametric & Sub-D Modeling: Optimize CAD Modeling with SOLIDWORKS and xShape

SOLIDWORKS Desktop has long been the go-to tool for CAD modeling in the world of engineering and design. In the age of cloud computing and collaboration, we now also have SOLIDWORKS cloud-based apps...

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