Managing SolidWorks Favorite Materials Add, remove or rearrange your favorite list You can add materials you often use to your favorite list for faster access. This option is oftentimes overlooked, even though it resides in a window you probably use frequently. To access the window, just right-click on material in the feature manager tree, shown below. Customizing your list will make adding material to every 3D CAD model you have much simpler. To manage your favorite list, click on “Manage […]
With the release of SOLIDWORKS 2012 service pack 3 many are just now ready to upgrade to 2012. One way to keep up on all the new features is to turn on the interactive what’s new guide inside of SolidWorks.
The basics behind surface modeling is that you must create each face or surface of the model individually. For very simple models like the cylinder shown below that
Ironically, you probably will not find how to do this from the SOLIDWORKS help files, so I will provide it for you here. Note: I was able to discover the answer to this by posting this issue to the SOLIDWORKS forums*. It took a few days for someone who knew the answer to generously provide it. But it saved me hours of manual note editing.
By default Decals are fully opaque so they’ll block all of the model behind them. Decals have controls to adjust their overall transparency but what if only a portion of the decal is transparent, this is where a Decal Mask file come to play. A Decal Mask is a black and white image of the original decal where the black areas of the decal are transparent and the white areas are opaque.
Using weldments for woodworking is actually very effective and extremely fast in comparison to normal modeling methods. The added benefit is that when you
SOLIDWORKS Tutorials Need SOLIDWORKS Training? It Is Not That Hard To Find .. More than ninety percent of all design and drafting jobs in today’s market require the use of some computer aided design application. In some cases that application is Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks, but most commonly it is SolidWorks. With a good market share, SOLIDWORKS is probably the best application a prospective job hunter can learn. Courses in the software can cost several hundred dollars. For someone out […]