In SolidWorks 2010, there is a new option relating to creating new in-context components in an assembly that may reduce the blood pressure of many SolidWorks users. The new option is “Save new components to external files”. If selected, SolidWorks prompts you to name and save new in-context components to external files, like it [...]
21Jan10
I’ve got the power!
In my webcast today on Event-Based Simulation I showed how SolidWorks revolutionizes the way controls and CAD modeling work together. This approach allows you to directly integrate your models with the behaviors you desire, bringing mechanical and electrical design to the forefront while maintaining machine controls flexibility. EBS accomplishes this in a novel [...]
13Jan10
Create a new view in a Drawing
Have you ever wanted to to change the orientation of a view in a drawing after you have inserted a view? There is a little know function that allows a user to rotate / pan or zoom in a model view in a drawing. Typically one can use this function to add a [...]
12Jan10
Be a CTRL Freak: Part 2
One of my customers contacted me and gave me a great CTRL key tip when it concerns the user interface. It turns out that you can add a toolbar on top of docked toolbars without docking it, just hold the “CTRL” down and drag any toolbar from graphical area to the empty [...]
Have you ever wanted to have a nice equal mitre cut on the corner of a weldment? This is possible since SolidWorks provides tools to group weldment profiles together in one feature. The try this out yourselves, create a 3DSketch of your frame structure, insert a weldment feature, then insert a [...]
11Jan10
What’s new in CircuitWorks 2010?
“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.” – Charles Givens. How true, but where do we begin on our quest to design the next generation of products and solutions that we all depend upon? How do you consider the mechanical and the electronic parts of your designs [...]
7Jan10
Be a CTRL Freak: Part 1
There is a tremendous amount of productivity to be gained when implementing the use of keyboard shortcuts in SolidWorks. The ones I use most commonly are below:
Ctrl+TAB+ Cycle between documents-forward
Ctrl+SHFT+TAB+ Cycle between documents-backwards
I use these when I an working on a drawing and I need to go back to the part to make a change, as [...]
I have just posted the PowerPoint slides for the CAPU presentation that Shuvom Ghose and I performed this afternoon for our customers. Anyone who currently performs “manual” tolerance stack-up analyses, designs high precision components that require strict adherence to tolerances to function properly or anyone who must correctly dimension and tolerance designs because of [...]
A customer asked be today if one can add more holes to the SolidWorks Hole Wizard database. My first answer to him was yes, it can. Remembering how to accomplish this in the past, by going into the SolidWorks Tools… Options one could go to the Hole Wizard / Toolbox folder and directly edit the [...]
26Oct09
SustainabilityXpress
SustainabilityXpress is part of SolidWorks 2010 and available for SolidWorks 2009 on SolidWorks Labs. It is a compelling illustration of SolidWorks Corporation’s revolutionary effort to promote eco-friendly design. If you’re a skeptic of the green design movement, you might still find the software useful for its ability to suggest similar materials.
I have just uploaded my [...]
