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No power tools required, SolidWorks Toolbox Shortcuts

SolidWorks Toolbox has a plethora of available mechanical hardware for machine designers to choose from. In fact, the estimate is that there are over 2 millions distinct sizes of hardware to grab. In playing around with Toolbox today, I rediscovered a trick to rapidly insert screws into an assembly. The normal process [...]

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 [...]