Top 10 Reasons why SolidWorks is better with EPDM
They say it takes 3 things to keep that Crazy little thing called “love” strong in a relationship: Hard work Passion Always remembering the reason for why the love started in the first place. At CAPINC, our Sales and Engineering teams love our customers! We always remember that YOU and your success are why we [...]
SolidWorks 2012 News!
Yesterday Amanda Gates, CAPINC marketing manager, and I attended the media day for SolidWorks 2012 at the corporate headquarters in Concord, MA. SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot began the morning with an overview of where the direction of the company is headed. His main focuses are: Listening to the users Keeping it simple Making sure the [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Fit Spline (you CAN have it all)
Splines are versatile. They define the complex, organic shapes that are important in industrial design. But there’s a price to pay: controlling splines usually requires moving spline points, dragging control handles and editing tangent influences. That’s a lot of work, although often it’s necessary. Fortunately, there are times when you can get the smoothness (“curvature [...]
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: Derived Sketches
A derived sketch is a sketch that is a linked copy of a regular sketch. In other words, if you change the original sketch, the derived sketch will update. The changes will only update from the original sketch to the derived sketch, not the other way around. You may wish to use a derived sketch [...]
Art-to-Part-by-Art
Sometimes opportunity doesn’t knock, it rings… The CAPINC team of nit-picky perfectionist engineers is at it once more. They say “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This time, the mother of Elba-Gloria LaFleche-Erazo (EG), Applications Engineer, presented her with a need that insisted upon an invention! It was a routine visit when EG spotted her mom’s cell [...]
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: 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 [...]
