There are quite a few CAM updates with SOLIDWORKS 2022. Let’s take a look. Assembly Support for Turn – SOLIDWORKS CAM Pro 2022 SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional has always supported programming in SOLIDWORKS assembly mode for milling. Now in SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional 2022, programming a turn part in assembly mode inside SOLIDWORKS for a 2 axis lathe is now supported. An example is shown below for a part being programmed in a SOLIDWORKS assembly for 2 Axis turning. NOTE: The new […]
In SOLIDWORKS CAM and CAMWorks you have the ability to import and export tool data from your Technology Database (TechDB) with the use of Excel. One example, you can easily export your existing tool data from your TechDB into an excel file format for mass editing. Once you have made the desired edits to your tool data while in Excel. You can then import the Excel.csv file format back in to your TechDB. Default locations for the TechDB for SOLIDWORKS […]
CATI and InFlow have been working side by side for the last 20 years. They work together day in and day out in the same offices across the United States. Together, CATI and InFlow have grown to become the Nation’s go to resource for product development solutions. Last week, we announced our decision to merge the InFlow Technology brand into CATI. This change is in name only. Our commitment to PDM and PLM remains high. We believe that these solutions are key growth drivers for many of our clients as well as our own. In […]
The Computer Aided Technology blog is an amazing repository of in-depth, insightful, and inspiring technical content. There’s a wealth of content on nearly any software topic you can think of for SOLIDWORKS, Simulation, Composer, Visualize, Inspection, and more. During our training classes we try to make sure our customers are aware of this great resource, but sometimes we need to remind ourselves to highlight another great resource for technical content: our CATI YouTube page. Our YouTube page has tons of […]
As a DraftSight Enterprise or Enterprise Plus customer, you are aware that the software uses a network license model. This gives customers flexibility to share licenses between multiple part-time users. As user starts up DraftSight, a license is reserved from the server to complete the work, they shut down DraftSight, and the license is automatically released for another user. This works great until someone forgets they have an application open and continue to consume a license although they are not […]
SOLIDWORKS has always had many ways to create dynamic, powerful pattern features. Buried in the options since almost the beginning of time, and sometimes forgotten, has been a “Vary Sketch” option. Let’s explore this option a bit to show you some interesting ways to use it. For a little bit of background, for the Vary Sketch to work it does require that the Pattern feature use a dimension from the seed feature sketch as a direction reference. That dimension is […]
3D sketching can be very challenging to do quickly. Whether you struggle with dimensioning, over-defining, or not sketching on the correct plane, I have a simple trick for you to try. I am going to show you a way to speed up the 3D sketching process and still work with-in the comfortable realm of 2D sketching. Here is how I took a single sketch entity and quickly made a 3D sketch of a decahedron. First, I placed a single line […]
Macros in SOLIDWORKS are a great way to save time from having to perform repetitive tasks. A single macro can range anywhere from performing a few simple tasks to complex programs that will change depending on user input. This guide will walk you through how to get started creating macros and how to assign your macro to a button on your user interface for easy access. CREATING A NEW BLANK MACRO To create a new blank macro in SOLIDWORKS, go […]
To increase our productivity in SOLIDWORKS, we use those handy pop-up menus to: A single click can launch a pop-up menu, or, Control-select multiple items and releasing Control launches the pop-up menu. Inevitably, we move the mouse and that handy pop-up menu disappears. Rather than starting over… Instead, move your mouse back to the same general area of the lost pop-up menu and press/release the Control key again. This will re-display that elusive pop-up menu. Here is a short video […]
Have you ever needed a similar pattern of an object, but needed a dimension to slightly change? Or maybe increase in value every time it was patterned? There is a way to do this in SOLIDWORKS, and it is quite easy once you know the tool is there and maybe a little knowledge about how to use it. We are going to try and keep this as simple as possible to get the base understanding, but I am sure you […]