Browsing the archives for the Patterns tag

The “Hole” Story – SolidWorks Fill Patterns

Ask a hundred engineers wow they would go about the process of generating a hole pattern with lots and lots of holes, and you will get a hundred answers.  So this is just my two cents, but a penny saved is a penny earned.
The technique that I am going to show you describes using the all powerful “Fill [...]

SolidWorks Tech Tip: Deleting Things

Most people know that you can delete lines from a sketch, or features from the Solidworks feature Manager, by pre-electing the object(s) and then simply hitting the DELETE key. But did you know, that over the last 4 years, the programmers have enhanced the intelligence behind the DELETE key, allowing it to react differently in [...]