Browsing the blog archives for October, 2009

Custom Hole Wizard Holes circa SW 2009 and beyond

A customer asked be today if one can add more holes to the SolidWorks Hole Wizard database.  My first answer to him was yes, it can.  Remembering how to accomplish this in the past, by going into the SolidWorks Tools… Options one could go to the Hole Wizard / Toolbox folder and directly edit the [...]

SustainabilityXpress

SustainabilityXpress is part of SolidWorks 2010 and available for SolidWorks 2009 on SolidWorks Labs. It is a compelling illustration of SolidWorks Corporation’s revolutionary effort to promote eco-friendly design. If you’re a skeptic of the green design movement, you might still find the software useful for its ability to suggest similar materials.
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SolidWorks in Mold Design Part 1: Is my part moldy? I mean moldable…

SolidWorks has quietly become a great tool for mold design.  Did you know that nearly 1/3 of our customers use SolidWorks in the tool/die/fixture industry?  In this series of blog posts, I will design an entire moldbase, from fixing an imported part, to running mold filling analysis, making design changes, drawings, waterlines, graphite and wire electrode creation, [...]