Virtual Components in the land of PDM
In the land of SolidWorks Assemblies exists a funny creature called the “Virtual Component”. Virtual components are typically used in top-down design when you need to create a new part in the context of an existing assembly. During the conceptual design process, when you frequently experiment with and make changes to the assembly structure and components, [...]
The “Wild Kingdom” of mates in SolidWorks Part II
What’s the fastest way to show mates between two components in SolidWorks? This was a question posed to the tech team here at CAPINC at our internal Beat the Geek challenge last week. Let’s uncover some of the possible solutions: One method is to use the Show Mates function that is part of context menu [...]
“ALT” Reality Part II
Which key do you hold down to “shift” drawing views around on the sheet without having to click exactly on the bounding box of the view or on the edge of a part or assembly in that view? Once, again the “ALT” key comes to the rescue. Simply hold the “ALT” key down then left [...]
