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SOLIDWORKS Electrical: Importing Title Blocks
Changing a tried and true — if perhaps inefficient — the process is always a risky endeavor with many potential pitfalls. One of the first things people worry about when switching anything from their...
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SOLIDWORKS: A “New Window” to Productivity
We all know that each document that’s open in SOLIDWORKS is displayed in a separate window. But have you ever wanted to view the same part, assembly, or drawing file in multiple windows at the same...
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SOLIDWORKS: Lost Dialog Windows
Many of us have multiple monitors for our computers, but if you are like me and sometimes need to travel and go from multiple monitors to just a single screen you may have run into an issue with not...
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SOLDIWORKS Composer Pro-Tips: The Correct Way to Import Any CAD Model – Part 1
The most important step when working within SOLIDWORKS Composer is the first step, importing your models correctly. This blog will help smooth out the edges when it comes to the best way to import any...
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SOLIDWORKS Composer Pro-Tips: The Correct Way to Import Any CAD Model – Part 2
The most important step when working within SOLIDWORKS Composer is the first step, importing your models correctly. This blog will help smooth out the edges when it comes to the best way to import any...
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SOLIDWORKS: Adding Text to Drawing Dimensions
If you have ever dimensioned a drawing within SOLIDWORKS, you know how simple a task it is. Whether you are using the Model Items tool or manually inputting the dimensions with the Smart Dimension...
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Can’t Access SOLIDWORKS Simulation Studies for Network License Install?
Are you trying to access your Simulation Professional or Premium functions (e.g. advanced study types such as Fatigue or Nonlinear) but they are not available? Are you on Network Licenses? When you...
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation: Introduction to Motion Analysis
Thanks for stopping by! The goal of this article is to give you an overview of time-based motion analysis. Motion analysis is a powerful tool that’s available if you have SOLIDWORKS Premium or...
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Community – Hawk Ridge Systems at Kate Smith Elementary STEM Career Day
Hawk Ridge Systems partnered with Kate Smith Elementary school in Reno, Nevada for their STEM career day. STEM is a growing field in today’s economy, and studies are showing that many of those jobs...
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SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal: A Beginner’s Guide, Vol. 1
SOLIDWORKS 3D allows you to quickly create sheet metal part designs using a simple design process, saving you time and development costs, thanks to specific sheet metal features. We can use these...
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SOLIDWORKS Rollback Bar: More Than Just A Price Cutter
SOLIDWORKS Sketch A rollback bar is a tool that is often overlooked. It has many uses, such as suppressing features, reducing rebuild time, and showing how a model was created. It also allows us to...
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SOLIDWORKS: Skipping Pattern Instances with Window Select
For years, SOLIDWORKS users have been forced to skip pattern instances by manually clicking each instance they’d like to remove, leading to frustration paralleled only by rush hour traffic. This tends...
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SolidWorks: Modifying Line Fonts for Components in Drawings
When creating drawing views in SOLIDWORKS, it may be desirable to display assembly components or certain edges of a model using different line styles, thickness, or colors. Maybe you want to emphasize...
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Modifying View Label Tags in your SOLIDWORKS Drawings
Most companies, no matter how small or large, have their own set of preferences or standards regarding how and what they want to communicate in their 2D drawings. Some nice enhancements to view labels...
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SOLIDWORKS: Controlling the Roll
Introduction Have you ever prayed for a specific number while rolling some dice because I know I have? With lots of roll playing games using dice of various shapes and sizes I decided it would be fun...
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation: Is SimulationXpress Enough?
If you own any version of SOLIDWORKS, you already own SimulationXpress, but will it be enough for your next simulation project? In this article, we’ll have a look at the key capabilities of the...
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Data Management: Managing Legacy Data with SOLIDWORKS PDM
As a PDM administrator, the most time-intensive task you’ll be faced with as you set up your vault is cleaning up your existing data so you can start with a clean slate. In this article, I’ll be...
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation: Finding Accurate Stress Results Around Singularities...
Introduction Stress singularities are an unavoidable occurrence in any theory of elasticity regardless if the calculations are done by hand or simulated using software. An artificial stress...
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation: Energy Norm Error Plots
In this article, we are going to be taking a look at a Simulation Results plot that helps to determine if you have sufficiently refined the mesh in critical areas of your model. The plot is called the...
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation: Finding Accurate Stress Results Around a Singularity...
Example 2: Sharp corner on L Bracket Location of Singularity Figure 14: L Bracket Displaying Sharp Corner for Singularity For this example, I am going to use a model almost all SOLIDWORKS simulation...
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