Michael LaFleche
Simulation Tech Tip: Hidden Gems in 2012
There have been several sneaky enhancements to SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the 2012 release. Even some hidden gems that have appeared in Service Pack 1 and 2, which was just released recently. Enhanced Meshing Technology in SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2012 SP0: New meshing technology improves the CAD geometry representation by the computational mesh. As a [...]
Sustainable Design with SolidWorks
I recently ran a webcast on Tuesday about SolidWorks Sustainability, which is an incredibly powerful tool inside SolidWorks that enables us to gain insight into our design and its environmental impact. More importantly, it provides us with a very efficient way of evaluating design changes to minimize the impact our design will have on the [...]
DimXpert: Believe it or Not
Did you know that you can actually get the title block in your drawing to display “Unless Otherwise Specified” tolerances from your Part model? I was working with one of our CAPINC SolidWorks customers and found some really interesting things relating to this using DimXpert technology. For several years now, SolidWorks has offered DimXpert for [...]
Rev Control on Multi-Sheet drawings or Configurations
Is it possible to Revision Control a SolidWorks or AutoCAD Drawing with multiple sheets with different revisions, versions or workflow states? The answer to this question is yes, this is possible. The reason to do this is most prevalent on process sheet drawings. A company may execute a workflow that approves each process of making [...]
“Plotting” revenge with SolidWorks Motion Simulation
How do we find out how fast an “object” is traveling so as to inflict the most damage on your enemy using a trebuchet? We would need to create a plot of how fast that “object” is traveling when it reaches its intended victim. Well, to answer that question, we can use SolidWorks Motion Simulation. [...]
Vortex Street on SolidWorks Flow Simulation
Recently I was asked a question regarding how to get SolidWorks Flow Simulation to display an animation of a flow over two cylinders. The flow would produce a vortex after the second cylinder that would peel off at certain rates of speed as the simulation ran over time (Sometimes called Vortex Streets). To set this [...]
InspectionXpert for SolidWorks 2011
For SolidWorks 2011, InspectionXpert has completely revamped the way quality departments can ensure proper inspection report documentation. In case you have not seen it, InspectionXpert for SolidWorks is a SolidWorks Partner Product add-in that automates the ballooning of SolidWorks drawings and creation of Inspection Sheets for quality control inspections. InspectionXpert eliminates the manual creation of [...]
Convert your files to SolidWorks 2011 format
When you are ready to upgrade SolidWorks and Enterprise PDM 2011, the number one thing that comes to mind for most users is that when SolidWorks 2010 and prior version files are opened in SolidWorks 2011, SolidWorks and Enterprise PDM think that some change has occurred to the file. This is indeed the case, as SolidWorks 2011 has [...]
Exchanging Pro/ENGINEER Data with SolidWorks
Why can’t we all just get along? Trading files back and forth is an issue that plagues engineers often. However there are some things that can alleviate the problem. Take exchanging Pro/ENGINEER parts and assemblies with SolidWorks. This works relatively well with the robust feature sets that SolidWorks offers for either handling the Pro/ENGINEER features natively as [...]
