SustainabilityXpress
SustainabilityXpress is part of SolidWorks 2010 and available for SolidWorks 2009 on SolidWorks Labs. It is a compelling illustration of SolidWorks Corporation’s revolutionary effort to promote eco-friendly design. If you’re a skeptic of the green design movement, you might still find the software useful for its ability to suggest similar materials. I have just uploaded [...]
SolidWorks in Mold Design Part 1: Is my part moldy? I mean moldable…
SolidWorks has quietly become a great tool for mold design. Did you know that nearly 1/3 of our customers use SolidWorks in the tool/die/fixture industry? In this series of blog posts, I will design an entire moldbase, from fixing an imported part, to running mold filling analysis, making design changes, drawings, waterlines, graphite and wire electrode creation, [...]
SolidWorks Sustainability
SolidWorks Sustainability is around the corner. This will make it easy for engineers to make decisions about product process, material selection and environmental impact. To see Rick Chin of SolidWorks discuss and demonstrate a preview version of this, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3EtsfM0QM. This is available as a Sustainability Xpress download for SolidWorks 2009 on http://labs.solidworks.com/ if you want to give it a [...]
New CAPINC Customer Portal
This is especially useful for Engineering Managers or internal user group leaders who want to share information across your team.
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 [...]
Doll-House Techniques (Our Most Popular KAP’s Corner Yet)
Have you read Keith Pedersen’s article on how to build detailed design work on welded tanks, sheet metal enclosures, furniture, cabinets, architectural, etc. – in a single part file. It’s a technique he’s been using and teaching for about 4 years, but never could come up with a good name to describe it. [Click the image [...]
Renaming Configurations
Hey, they have been sneaking a lot of cool things into the SolidWorks service packs during this 2009 release. One of them is the ability to rename configurations. You can rename a configuration in a part or subassembly even when another open document is referencing the configuration. Previously, you had to close the parent document [...]
Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud…
A couple of SolidWorks releases ago, the company implemented a new way of licensing software called “Activation”. This will require SolidWorks and Simulation software to be activated each time the software is installed. You can think of an activated license of SolidWorks as a water molecule that is pulled from a central “cloud” in the [...]
My newest custom hotkeys… for Drawings!
I’m a bit of a nonconformist. I like to do things my way. So I guess it’s good that SolidWorks has a lot of customization options. I’m not a big keyboard guy, having grown up in the Mouse Age in terms of CAD, but I’m a big fan of Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Tab to switch applications [...]
Printing to scale, revisited…
If you remember, long ago in a far away place in the land of SolidWorks, one was able to print a drawing selection to scale. The SolidWorks user was whisked to the drawing allowed to move a picture frame on screen to print whatever they wanted to. For some reason this disappeared, for about 6 [...]
