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 [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: The Re-Orient Xpress
Welcome aboard! Today’s path features several options for positioning and re-orienting your working models. While the features about to be discovered along this expedition are applicable to either fully-featured models or imported geometry, the main focus is on manipulating imported geometry. There are other, arguably better, methods for repositioning fully-featured geometry. Our journey begins with [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Even Better than “Normal To”
Have you ever needed a custom drawing view of an odd shaped part but couldn’t figure out how to orient the model correctly? Here is a fast easy way to use “Normal To” to get the job done. First open the Part/Assembly you want the view of. Here is my part in the Isometric Orientation: [...]
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: Showing all assembly mates between 2 parts
It’s easy to see where a single mate is located. Just mouse over an item in the Mates folder, and that mate highlights in the graphics window: What if you’re interested in seeing all the mates between two specific parts? If there are a lot of mates in the folder, the method above is hit-or-miss, [...]
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 [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Color Assigned to Features
Here’s a common problem that is hard to diagnose, and easy to solve, both for the same reason: It involves a setting in TOOLS > OPTIONS that is so infrequently used, and so little-known, that one tends to invoke it only by accident. Here’s the problem: You have several colors assigned to a part file, [...]
SNL License Order – Doling out a License
What is license ordering? It is the order in which a particular user will pull the various levels of SolidWorks (Pro, Premium, Simulation Pro/Premium) as the user adds-in the different components. For example, if a user adds-in Toolbox Browser, he could pull either a SolidWorks Professional or SolidWorks Premium license. The license flavor is dictated by the [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: The Most Addictive Functionality in SolidWorks… Mouse Gestures
When I first heard about Mouse Gestures, I immediately thought of an innapropriate hand gesture from that loveable Disney character… But it turns out, Mouse Gestures are about this: Introduced in SolidWorks 2010, when you hold down your Right Mouse Button and drag, a magical ring of commands appears! When your cursor passes over one [...]
SolidWorks 2012 Uninstall Changes
It’s like a robot vacuuming your house, it’s that easy now. New in 2012 is the advanced options. It does the tedious clean up you had to conduct previously. As usual the uninstall process begins from the control panel (Programs and Features > Right Mouse Click > Uninstall) which kicks off the process as usual [...]
