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22Mar10 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (or maybe just Planes…)

SolidWorks 2010 overhauled the Reference Planes tools so that they work like familiar and easy to use Mates. By implementing this new way of developing Reference Planes, it doubles the amount of planes that you can create in one step. Here’s how it works: Go to the Reference Plane tools in the [...]

1Mar10 To Derive or not to Derive, that is the question…

One of our Application Engineers pointed put a often overlooked function in SolidWorks called “Derived Sketch”. This tool derives a sketch from another sketch that belongs to the same part, or derives a sketch from another sketch in the same assembly! When you derive a sketch from an existing sketch, you are assured [...]