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 [...]
CAPU DimXpert TolAnalyst Fundamentals
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 particular [...]
Custom Hole Wizard Holes circa SW 2009 and beyond
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 [...]
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 [...]
SolidWorks in Mold Design Part 1: Is my part moldy? I mean moldable…
SolidWorks has quietly become a great tool for mold design. Did you know that nearly 1/3 of our customers use SolidWorks in the tool/die/fixture industry? In this series of blog posts, I will design an entire moldbase, from fixing an imported part, to running mold filling analysis, making design changes, drawings, waterlines, graphite and wire electrode creation, [...]
SolidWorks 2010 – See What’s New
SolidWorks 2010 is out of the box! You can preview the featured videos from a link on our website: http://www.capinc.com/SolidWorks2010, or signup for one of our “What’s New” open house events in October. While I’m typically the type of person who fears change, our Engineering Manager, Jason, has always said that new SW releases should be [...]
Renaming Configurations
Hey, they have been sneaking a lot of cool things into the SolidWorks service packs during this 2009 release. One of them is the ability to rename configurations. You can rename a configuration in a part or subassembly even when another open document is referencing the configuration. Previously, you had to close the parent document [...]
