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SOLIDWORKS Composer Top 5 Things You Should Know – #3: Default View
This is part 3 of the 5 part series for the Top 5 Things You Should Know About SOLIDWORKS Composer. It covers the important steps for creating your Default View, which contains all your custom...
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SOLIDWORKS EPDM 2015 – Our Favorite New Features
Web2 New in SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM 2015 is the Web2 client. This is exciting news for a lot of EPDM customers! EPDM has always had a web client, but it only worked with Internet Explorer and had...
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CAMWorks Quick Tip – Backing Up and Restoring your TechDB
Anyone who has experienced computer issues ranging from a full-blown machine meltdown to mysterious “lost documents” understands the importance of creating backups of valuable documents. Your...
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SOLIDWORKS Quick Tip – Combine, Cavity, and Indent: What’s the Difference?
Often the most time-consuming parts of an analysis isn’t setting it up or even waiting for it to complete, it’s the simplification of a CAD model for analysis. We do this for a specific reason:...
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Derby the Dog Teaches the Importance of 3D Printing
Working for a tech company, I spend the majority of my day sitting at a computer. The other day, during one of those rare occasions where I had a few minutes between projects, I was browsing a news app...
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SOLIDWORKS Composer Top 5 Things You Should Know – #4: Properties Pane
This is part 4 of the 5 part series for the Top 5 Things You Should Know About SOLIDWORKS Composer. It covers the important areas within the Properties pane. The entire video series can also be found...
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U Can’t Touch This… I Mean, Mold This – SOLIDWORKS Plastics
A while back, I kicked off this informational series on SOLIDWORKS Plastics with a blog article on why clamp force is an important factor when designing plastic parts. Afterwards, I presented a webinar...
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SOLIDWORKS Composer Top 5 Things You Should Know – #5: Publishing Images
This is the final blog in a 5 part series for the Top 5 Things You Should Know About SOLIDWORKS Composer. It covers publishing images and compiling them into a completed publication. The entire video...
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Design Rule Checks – An Introduction
Since the advent of CAD software in the design and engineering world, one of the main advantages touted by developers and users has been the ability to check for errors and mistakes during the design...
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Do I Need Analysis Consulting?
When you need to perform analysis on a design, you must decide whether to: Purchase analysis software and perform the analysis in-house Hire a consultant to analyze the design for you Which should you...
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Creating Custom 2D Image Library Components
Using the 2D Image Workshop is a great time saver in SOLIDWORKS Composer, but the 2D Image Library that come with SOLIDWORKS Composer doesn’t come with an extensive available library. Not to worry –...
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EASY MACROS 2 – Query Face Geometry
Easy Macro Introduction This is the second article in a series that teaches API programming through macro examples that are simple, fast to write, instructive and useful. Rather than spending a lot of...
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Houston, We Have Contact! – Managing Contacts in SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Managing contacts is something that comes up constantly when working on customer projects in SOLIDWORKS Simulation. I recently had a project that involved a large and complex assembly with numerous...
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How to Assign BOM IDs and Edit Tables in SOLIDWORKS Composer
In SOLIDWORKS Composer, there’s often a need to use Bill of Material IDs and to display Tables. I’ve found a few workflows to share for doing these. There are two ways to assign a BOM ID: manually, or...
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CNC Boring an Engine Block with CAMWorks
If you’re a pistonhead like me (that’s a gearhead to you North Americans), chances are you have or will be trawling the for-sale ads in the forums, eBay, or Craigslist at some point in your life. I...
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Good Vibrations: Frequency Response Graphs in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2015
Making sense of your frequency study results is easier than ever in SOLIDWORKS 2015 with the help of the new frequency response graphs. Though we’ve had access to information like the Mass...
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Varying Render Modes: Main Model and Digger
Here’s two quick ways to get the Digger tool in SOLIDWORKS Composer to generate a Detailed View that is in a different render mode than the main model: The first thing you will want to do is to make...
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4 Cool Features From SOLIDWORKS EPDM 2014 You Might Not Know About – But Should
Way back when SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM 2014 was released, there were quite a few enhancements that made working inside EPDM easier. I’d like to share with you my favorite four enhancements of that...
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Equipotential Conflict – SOLIDWORKS Electrical Design Rule Checks Pt 2
This is part 2 of our Design Rule Checks (DRC) blog series covering Equipotential Conflict. You can find part 1 here. Ask yourself, have you ever accidentally crossed a pair of wires that shouldn’t...
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Basics of the Sweep Feature in SOLIDWORKS
If one just looks at the name “sweep feature”, it’s not readily apparent what this actually is. In my mind I hear “Sweep the leg!” from the first Karate Kid, which can’t possibly be correct. In all...
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