6 Tips for Engineers – Microsoft Office Excel (the sequel)
In this video, we’ll cover 6 more tips for transforming Excel from basic spreadsheet software into a powerful engineering application. Customizable Lists Match Function Index + Match Conditional Formatting Protect Sheet Excel Solver Click here to watch the video! Share: Digg this post Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share on technorati Print for [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Looking under the surface
Contract manufacturers often receive solid models in a neutral format, such as Parasolid, STEP or IGES. These formats preserve the geometry, but they have no feature history. This can make them difficult to edit using normal solid features. A way around these limitations is “direct editing” of the model, and recently there has been a [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Custom Weldment
It turns out that many SolidWorks users have applied their knowledge of SolidWorks for personal projects. For example: An Ultimate Deck. The best way to do this in SolidWorks is to make use of Weldments. However, there is some grunt work involved before we can get creative. SolidWorks Weldments has many standard profiles available to [...]
How to make your QA person very happy
So every now and then we come across add-in products which are very easy to use and which cut huge amounts of time from our customers’ processes. This makes us happy, because they are no-brainers to recommend to customers. InspectionXpert is one such product. InspectionXpert takes your dimensioned SolidWorks drawings and automatically creates a PDF [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Transformers (real ones, not action figures)
SolidWorks has a command to make a circular helix along a straight line. But how do you make a helix that isn’t circular and doesn’t follow a straight path? These shapes are found in many products, such as heat exchanger tubing, springs and wrapped wires. Let’s look at a model of a toroidal transformer where [...]
“Crazy Little Thing Called Cert” – An EPDM Story
We posted a great article last week about the world’s first husband-and-wife team to pass the CPDMP exam together. This fabulous couple is our very own Mike LaFleche and Elba-Gloria LaFleche-Erazo (EG). EG was so pumped about becoming certified that she wrote a song for it, called “Crazy Little Thing Called Cert” based off of [...]
SolidWorks 2012 Improvements (sneak peek)
A bunch of us here at CAPINC attended the SolidWorks 2012 rollout event for the East area at Mohegan Sun in CT on Wednesday. First let me just say, “Wow!” Mohegan Sun has some amazing architecture. I kept staring up at the ceilings when we were walking around. Many of you will be joining us [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Auto Recover and Backups
SolidWorks has two different methods of helping you to recover recent work in case an unplanned event causes data loss. Auto recover settings and Backup settings are both found under Tools – Options – System Options – Backups, and they do two different things. Auto recover helps you if there is a crash or other [...]
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 [...]
