SOLIDWORKS Electrical: Do I Need Training?
Many people buy SOLIDWORKS CAD and are able to get pretty proficient without buying training, due to the plethora of youtube videos out on the interwebs, as well as the […]
SOLIDWORKS eDrawings – Save to Web HTML and How It’s Like the Swiss Army Knife® of CAD Viewers
Mention that something is like a Swiss Army Knife® to someone and the association is immediate – versatility. The Swiss Army Knife doesn’t just have a knife but can do […]
Polyworks Airfoil Gauges
Airfoils (such as wings, propeller blades, turbine blades, and hydrofoils) are very complex and optimized shapes. Each airfoil design will have a large amount of unique and hard to measure […]
How to Insert and Scale a Sketch Picture
When designing something in SOLIDWORKS, it’s often useful to import a rough idea of a project in the form of a 2D image and then trace over it instead of […]
Hot Air Goes Up Right? Confirmed With SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
Warm air rises, and Cold air descends. This is a simple concept that we learned early on in life. We can feel it if we place our hand above a […]
Clear Up Your Drawings in SOLIDWORKS with Break Lines
Drawings can range from very simple, with just a few dimensions, to extremely complex, with multiple views and sheets and too many dimensions to count. If yours fall into the […]
SOLIDWORKS: Assembly Patterns Using Pattern Driven Components
In SOLIDWORKS, we always suggest reusing your data and one way we can do that is by using patterns. In part documents, it’s widely accepted to use them whenever possible […]
Toolbox Default Search Location
What Happened to my Toolbox parts?! When SOLIDWORKS introduced a feature to help users open models with missing Toolbox references in 2011, there was much confusion on what the option […]