eDrawings App for iPad
eDrawings® for iPad® is the first mobile application from 3DS SolidWorks. eDrawings for iPad is the only CAD viewer on the iPad that allows you to view native eDrawings® files, DraftSight® files, and SolidWorks® parts, assemblies and drawings files. Since its launch, eDrawings software has become a successful and much loved collaboration product. In the [...]
Creating DXF Files in SolidWorks
3D (-1) (Exporting 2D DXF files) We design in a 3D world, but many parts are manufactured from flat sheet. The flat pattern of a sheet metal part and flat plates used in weldments are examples. Laser and waterjet cutters of flat parts may want to use a DXF file instead of native geometry. Let’s [...]
How to Simplify SolidWorks Assembly Geometry
Dealing with a large assembly can have its frustrations however SolidWorks has some tools to help. One such tool is called Defeature. This tool lets you remove details from Assemblies, Multi-body Parts, and Parts to simplify the geometry. This in turn will speed up your open/rebuild times. This tool can also be used to remove [...]
SolidWorks 2013 Alpha Testing Begins Soon
SolidWorks 2013 will be here before you know it, but in order to make this release even better than 2012, DS SolidWorks needs your feedback. Alpha testing begins on May 2nd, so you must register soon in order to participate. This will be held at their new Waltham campus, where you will be meeting one-on-one [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Sketches That Enforce Proportion
Sometimes a sketched feature is not intended to produce a particular dimension, so much as to create a chosen proportion. The most obvious way to enforce proportionality between any two dimensions in SolidWorks, is to write an equation. Equations are powerful and useful, and they have their place. But we also teach that Geometric logic [...]
Alpha Testing for SolidWorks 2013
CAPINC would like to invite you to a Sneak Peek at SolidWorks 2013 in the new SolidWorks Waltham Campus. Representatives from the SolidWorks Product Definition team will be available to meet with you one to one to review new SolidWorks 2013 features. Learn which new features will be part of SolidWorks 2013 Perform initial alpha-testing [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Disoriented on the Re-Orient Express
Our customers in the aerospace industry often receive part files exported from other CAD systems which think primarily in terms of “assembly space”. So instead of having a convenient XYZ orientation in the part’s own coordinates, the part geometry imports in an apparently random location and orientation with respect to its Origin and default Planes. [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Bump-in (or out)
It is a rather common industrial design element to have a portion of the contoured shape slightly raised or slightly recessed. In a recent Advanced Parts class, a student asked me how to achieve this “bump in” or “bump out” effect using SolidWorks. I proceeded to show the class 3 or 4 methods using combinations [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Imported Sheet Metal Parts
You may have to work with imported sheet metal parts that have problems. Here’s a roughly modeled part made to look like sheet metal. There are no bend reliefs and the bends are all made with sharp corners. SolidWorks is very good at converting parts like these. Using the Insert Bends command almost finishes the [...]
Medical Device Innovation at CAPINC
There are 25.8M children and adults with diabetes in the US alone. That’s 8.3% of the population! These numbers are increasing every year, which means more and more medical device companies are working to find better ways to make living with diabetes easier. The wife of one of our employees is a diabetic and recently [...]
