Shuvom Ghose
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: 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 [...]
The SolidWorks Performance Test
So the next time you feel like your SolidWorks is running a little bit slow, here’s a way to test it: the SolidWorks Performance Test. The Performance Test was introduced in the 2011 version as a way to put numbers to all the different combinations of hardware out there, so that we could compare it. [...]
How to make your QA person very happy
So every now and then we come across add-in products which are very easy to use and which cut huge amounts of time from our customers’ processes. This makes us happy, because they are no-brainers to recommend to customers. InspectionXpert is one such product. InspectionXpert takes your dimensioned SolidWorks drawings and automatically creates a PDF [...]
The Future of Manuals
So a lot of our customers want to create manuals or assembly instructions of the cool, intricate things they’ve made in SolidWorks, and they try to use what most everyone does: screenshots. Tons and tons of screenshots, saved at mixed and matched stages of a design’s life, cluttering up your folders, and taking up a [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: How to totally uninstall SolidWorks 2011
So a customer called our Hotline this week asking for the steps to do a ‘clean’ uninstall a SolidWorks 2011 64-bit version. In previous years we would have done a long GoToMeeting with the customer to uninstall the software, then delete the correct folders, then walk the customer through the computer’s registry carefully removing exactly [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: How DID you make that picture?
So as I travel around to customers, people sometimes comment on my laptop’s background. Then they get really interested when I tell them this came directly out of SolidWorks: The picture was made with the PhotoView 360 add-in found in the Professional and Premium packages, and I figured I’d give away a few of the [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Symmetry vs. Circular Symmetry in Simulation
This question came up on our Tech Support hotline this week and I thought it would make a great quick post, mostly because the title is so fun to say. Many of you already use the Symmetry constraint when running Simulation studies, to cut your rectangular models in halves or quarters and reduce the number [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: The best font for CAM (Part 2)
In a previous blog post, I talked about why CAM users always have trouble finding a font thin enough for their CAM machines to engrave, and how to make your own infinitely thin font out of sketch blocks if you needed to. One of our customers, Alan Dupes from FlexoConcepts (www.flexoconcepts.com) took the example font [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Why would I master model?
So I was at the Boston Area SolidWorks User group about three months ago, listening to a free technical presentation while eating free food and drinking free cold soda with my co-workers. (Yes, I’m trying to sell you on the idea of going to your local SWUG. It’s fun, you’ll make friends and you’ll learn [...]
