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Consumer Product Design with SolidWorks

Many times, an industrial product designer will sketch out the design either on paper or on software like Adobe Illustrator. These designs are very stylized and a lot of thought is put into these drawings. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use these designs more readily? SolidWorks has all [...]

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 [...]