Medical Device Innovation at CAPINC
There are 25.8M children and adults with diabetes in the US alone. That’s 8.3% of the population! These numbers are increasing every year, which means more and more medical device companies are working to find better ways to make living with diabetes easier. The wife of one of our employees is a diabetic and recently [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Shortcut for Making an Offset Plane
Remember the promotion NBC Studios ran during summer re-runs? “If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you!” Well, after 14 years of supporting SolidWorks I forget which tips and tricks the average user might not know. Here’s an oldie-but-goodie that wowed my students in a recent Advanced Parts class. To quickly make an Offset [...]
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: 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 Tech Tip: Fit Spline (you CAN have it all)
Splines are versatile. They define the complex, organic shapes that are important in industrial design. But there’s a price to pay: controlling splines usually requires moving spline points, dragging control handles and editing tangent influences. That’s a lot of work, although often it’s necessary. Fortunately, there are times when you can get the smoothness (“curvature [...]
The Future of Manuals
So a lot of our customers want to create manuals or assembly instructions of the cool, intricate things they’ve made in SolidWorks, and they try to use what most everyone does: screenshots. Tons and tons of screenshots, saved at mixed and matched stages of a design’s life, cluttering up your folders, and taking up a [...]
