Shuvom Ghose
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Rotate in a snap
Everyone knows that you can left click and drag floating parts in an assembly, but did you know that you can right click and drag to ROTATE them? Right click on the part, (don’t let go or you’ll get the pop-up menu!) and move the mouse, next time you need to spin a part “just [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Color in Drawings
Since there are so many ways to control the color of your lines in drawings, let’s try to clear the confusion. The technique used most often is Layers. Very familiar to AutoCAD users, or anyone who’s recently peeled an onion, Layers are a way to organize information in groups that can be turned off or [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: File Properties in a Snap
If you’ve ever watched someone drag a view into a blank drawing sheet and seen the ‘Mass’, ‘Revision’, ‘Material’, ‘Part No.’ and ‘Drawn By’ notes populate in a flash, you know how useful and magical File Properties in SolidWorks can be. But entering them into each part is a pain, right? Every time you make [...]
How to Annoy Your Co-Worker
Want to really annoy your co-worker? Re-set his ‘Delete’ key! Delete isn’t a hard command in SolidWorks, just a function mapped to a key. Go to Tools… Customize… Keyboard… and search for ‘delete’. It’s mapped to a certain key in the Shortcut column. Remove the shortcut or set it to a completely different key! Hours [...]
“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 [...]
How do I render something 1:1 scale?
Photoworks (and the young up-and-comer, PhotoView 360) are great tools to make images for a marketing brochure, website, or just to show off your cool product. But what if you need an image rendered 1:1 scale at exactly a certain size, let’s say 8.5″ x 11″, for printing out? It’s not immediately obvious how to do this, [...]
SolidWorks 2010 – See What’s New
SolidWorks 2010 is out of the box! You can preview the featured videos from a link on our website: http://www.capinc.com/SolidWorks2010, or signup for one of our “What’s New” open house events in October. While I’m typically the type of person who fears change, our Engineering Manager, Jason, has always said that new SW releases should be [...]
