EPDM Tech Tip: Hyperlinking to Documents in the Vault
(Note: The links listed are meant to be examples only, and will not work unless you have a vault that mirrors the vault the links were created from.) There are times when you want to use document links. Perhaps you are sending an email to a colleague. Maybe you have a master list of specifications [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Even Better than “Normal To”
Have you ever needed a custom drawing view of an odd shaped part but couldn’t figure out how to orient the model correctly? Here is a fast easy way to use “Normal To” to get the job done. First open the Part/Assembly you want the view of. Here is my part in the Isometric Orientation: [...]
Simulation Tech Tip: Using Color and Deflection Scale to Make Your Point
I’ve often said that post-processing is the single most important step in any analysis. If you can’t effectively interpret your results, or communicate them to others, your entire analysis was a waste of time no matter how clever your setup was! There are a myriad of ways to plot and visualize your results in SolidWorks [...]
SolidWorks with an iPad
So every now and then we come across really amazing add-ons for SolidWorks that we just have to share with all of you. Check out the video below about an app that lets you drive SolidWorks with your iPad, and some of the great things you can do with it. (It’s also a chance to [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Showing all assembly mates between 2 parts
It’s easy to see where a single mate is located. Just mouse over an item in the Mates folder, and that mate highlights in the graphics window: What if you’re interested in seeing all the mates between two specific parts? If there are a lot of mates in the folder, the method above is hit-or-miss, [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Hole Patterns Without the Hassle
So one of our recent Essentials training classes finished early because all the students had a lot of CAD experience and were quick learners, and I asked the class what else they’d like to learn beyond the curriculum. One of the questions that came up was “When I make a lot of vent holes in [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Color Assigned to Features
Here’s a common problem that is hard to diagnose, and easy to solve, both for the same reason: It involves a setting in TOOLS > OPTIONS that is so infrequently used, and so little-known, that one tends to invoke it only by accident. Here’s the problem: You have several colors assigned to a part file, [...]
Dassault Systèmes Announces North American HQ
Dassault Systèmes North American Headquarters Are Now Located in Waltham, MA It’s official, the DS North American headquarters are now located at the award-winning 27 acre campus in Waltham, MA . The campus showcases sustainable innovation, lifelike 3D experiences and of course, it’s LEED-certified. The campus brings together employees who had previously been split between [...]
SolidWorks EPDM Admin Tech Tip: Undo Checkout
Hopefully your users will remember to check in their documents regularly, and particularly when they will be out of the office. What happens when this is not the case and someone else needs to work on them? Enterprise PDM protects documents from update if they are checked out by another user. Here I’m logged in [...]
SolidWorks EPDM User Tech Tip: Remember to check your documents in!
Enterprise PDM provides a secure vault for your documents and the check-out / check-in process prevents more than one user from making updates at the same time. Until you check your changes back in, other users are unable to see them and they don’t have the ability to apply other changes. Since one of the key benefits of Enterprise PDM is multi-user collaboration, documents that are unnecessarily checked out can introduce bottlenecks.
