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3 Methods of Visualization in SOLIDWORKS OpenGL, RealView, and PhotoView360
In today’s blog, lets uncover some of the methods of Visualization SOLIDWORKS has to offer, take a more in-depth look at RealView, and then we’ll take a look at which option will suit you best! The...
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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids
One of the unexpected and most well received announcements at SOLIDWORKS WORLD was that SOLIDWORKS engineers and designers have been busy creating a collection of apps for their own kids to get them...
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Selection Sets, Selection Tips, and Assembly Selection Mode in Composer – Part 1
In this two-part series for SOLIDWORKS Composer, we’ll dive into what tools the program provides us to easily sort through a large assembly and find exactly what we’re looking for! In the first part,...
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SOLIDWORKS Night School – Hidden Gems revealed!
Wow! The first set of Night School’s for 2016 have been a treasure chest of knowledge. Starting off with Assembly Modeling gems, Assembly Visualization is a tool that is not used very often. You can...
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Selection Sets, Selection Tips, and Assembly Selection Mode in Composer – Part 2
Welcome back! A quick review of what we covered so far: Depending on the information provided, we can use the ‘Sort Alphabetically’ option or the ‘Search Actor’ option: If we know the name of the actor...
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Mate Controller: A New 2016 Feature to Create Multiple Positions and Animations
A lot of times when working with large assemblies with a high number of mates, manipulating the positions of the assembly can make the model move oddly because of the different combinations of mates...
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2016 Enhancements for the Trim Surface Feature
The Trim Surface feature is an essential tool for surface modelers. It is a tool to trim away any surface bodies that are used for reference when creating organic shapes. For SOLIDWORKS 2016, there...
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Automatic Border: A New 2016 Feature to Automatically Create Drawing Sheet...
If you have ever needed to create borders for drawing sheet templates, we all know that it can be a time consuming task. We would need to physically sketch out the border in SOLIDWORKS or we had the...
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What’s New 2016 – Surface Flatten
For many years SOLIDWORKS has had a nifty way of designing sheet metal parts; create them in the formed/bent shape, and then hit a tool called Flatten to get your flat pattern. There are plenty of...
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Coming Soon – SOLIDWORKS Xdesign
At SOLIDWORKS World 2016, DS SOLIDWORKS CEO Gian Paolo Bassi announced SOLIDWORKS Xdesign – a new online, browser-based SOLIDWORKS design product for desktop and mobile devices. During the...
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Compare Features using SOLIDWORKS Utilities
In a previous blog, we used the Compare Geometry tool to analyze two versions of the same part to quickly identify any geometric similarities and differences. This time around, we’re going to take a...
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Cut of Uniform Depth in SOLIDWORKS
Several year ago, SOLIDWORKS introduced the Wrap command – a nice little tool for wrapping a 2D sketch onto a planar or non-planar face. Since then, many improvements have been made to the tool, but...
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RC Helicopter Case Study With SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
In this blog I will be utilizing the amazing SOLIDWORKS Flow simulation CFD (computational fluid dynamics) tool to find out what motor specs I would need to get my RC Helicopter airborne. The Flow...
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Ahoy Matey! Multiple Mate Mode in Assemblies
There are many shortcuts and options in SOLIDWORKS that help users mate components together to create assemblies quickly and easily. This blog describes one such example – Multiple Mate Mode. This...
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Hawk Ridge in the Community – 3D Engineering at Kate Smith Elementary
What an exciting Career Day at Kate Smith Elementary in Sparks, Nevada! Kate Smith Elementary had a STEM focused career day to help inspire the kids to explore the path of 3D Engineering! I spoke to...
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Tech Tip – Mirrored Sheet Metal Parts in SOLIDWORKS
When designing sheet metal parts, it’s very common to have an asymmetric part that requires an exact opposite hand (mirrored) version. SOLIDWORKS has always had a great part mirroring function that...
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Understanding Open Pocket and Boss Features in CAMWorks 2.5 Axis
CAMWorks provides two different methods of creating a “Part Perimeter” feature to remove material from the outside of your part. These methods are the “Open Pocket” and “Boss” types. Part Perimeter...
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Guest Blog – What Challenges with CAD Tools Drive a Change
What Challenges with CAD Tools Drive a Change By Barbara Schmitz April 19, 2016 There’s no question that the challenges of developing products today have increased dramatically over the past decade....
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Hawk Ridge in the Community – 3D Printing at Design 2 Part Tradeshow
It was a beautiful Wednesday morning in Santa Clara when I stepped into the convention center. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. For those of you who haven’t been to the convention...
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Feeling a Draft – Part 1 – Introduction to Draft Analysis
Hey everyone, welcome to my first article in a series on Draft Analysis. In this series, I’m going to go over the basics of this tool that is helpful to anyone working on cast or molded parts. This...
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