Bridging the Gap between Engineering and Manufacturing
You pull up to the drive-through to order your coffee: “Medium Coffee, nix the cream and sugar.” The dangers of poor communication will soon be clear. Whether you are designing and manufacturing products or ordering coffee in the drive-through, if your intentions are misunderstood, the results can be disastrous. You take that first sip and [...]
DXF Entity Mapping for SolidWorks
Is there any way to alter the output line color of a DXF save for sheet metal parts from white to any other color? The answer is yes and you don’t have to be Magellan. Use the SolidWorks DXF Entity Mapping to save your company many hours of time. To export a DXF file of [...]
Can my part be manufactured?
As a mechanical designer or engineer, have you ever wondered what it will take for the shop to manufacture youre design? I bet you may have had the machinist come over to your office and say, what are you crazy? We can;t make this make this part! The design stage is considered the most crucial [...]
SolidWorks DXF Output for 2010 – for Sheet Metal parts
This is the second blog post in my manufacturing series. This scenario of outputting parts to DXF format for laser, waterjet, punching and so on should be used for parts with sheet metal bends. When creating parts using the Sheet Metal functions, SolidWorks will calculate the flat pattern. New in SolidWorks 2010, users have the [...]
SolidWorks DXF Output for 2010 – for Waterjet, Laser, ect…
In working with several customers and preparing for my webcast on SolidWorks for Aerospace Component Manufacturers (watch recording here), I realized how powerful the new DXF/DWG output capabilities in SolidWorks 2010 were. Simply put, a manufacturing engineer can output a DXF file from a SolidWorks model without the need to make a detail drawing. This [...]
