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What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Color-Coded Folders in FeatureManager Design Tree
We’ve had the ability to add folders to the FeatureManager Design Tree for quite some time now. If you’re not familiar with this practice, folders can be added to your FeatureManager Design Tree to...
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SOLIDWORKS: Embed A SOLIDWORKS Model on Your Website
Have you ever wanted to post your 3D models on a website for your customers to view? Or better yet – have an interactive 3D model where your customers can fully grasp your design? SOLIDWORKS allows...
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What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Measure Tool Enhancements
With each annual release, SOLIDWORKS looks to streamline their tools to make the designer more productive. One of the most commonly used tools is the Measure Tool! We can use it to measure the lengths...
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What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Mesh Modeling Workflow
SOLIDWORKS 2018 introduces a number of enhancements for working with imported mesh designs such as .STL and .OBJ files. These files are most commonly imported into SOLIDWORKS as Graphics bodies,...
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What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: 3D Interconnect Imports Custom Properties and...
New enhancements to 3D Interconnect in SOLIDWORKS 2018 allow for the import of custom properties and materials of third-party CAD Files. For those that don’t know, 3D Interconnect is an awesome tool...
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SOLIDWORKS: Utilizing Equations to Help Automate Your Design
Maintaining good design intent is critical to the overall success of your project, however it is often easy to overlook. Equations can often help maintain your original intent by making sure that your...
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What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2018: Touch/Pen Input for Sketching
Hi everyone! In this blog, I’m going to showcase a brand-new feature available in SOLIDWORKS 2018 to help you design faster! Have you ever had an idea and either not had a mouse or wanted to sketch it...
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SOLIDWORKS: Continuity and Curvature
I like nice curves and I cannot lie. And in SOLIDWORKS we can control exactly how smooth our curves are. When it comes to curves in SOLIDWORKS, there is a difference between what is smooth and what...
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What’s New SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2018: Improved Realism With Temperature-Driven...
Any plastic part designer knows that one of the biggest worries in an injection molding process is a mold that won’t properly fill- commonly known as a “short shot.” While there are a handful of...
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Useful Keyboard Shortcuts and Workflow Customizations in SOLIDWORKS
Using the standard SOLIDWORKS tools and features from the CommandManager is already an extremely efficient method to quickly bring concepts into a three dimensional model. However, many users prefer...
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What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2018: How to Set the Material for Individual Bodies...
There are numerous benefits for creating your part design as a multibody part ranging from performance to file management in SOLIDWORKS. However if you have tried to apply a material to a multibody...
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A SOLIDWORKS Holiday Ornament Design Challenge is On
Hawk Ridge Systems engineers were put to a challenge – who could design the most interesting Holiday Ornament in SOLIDWORKS 2018. Check out the following ornaments and let us know your favorite. The...
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HawkLive 2018 – Module 1: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Overview
Every year, Hawk Ridge Systems offers live Launch events for its customers to introduce the new enhancements of that year’s release. What if you were unable to make one of the 2018 live sessions?...
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What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Unconsumed Sketches in 3D Interconnect
3D Interconnect made its debut in 2017, providing users with a fantastic new method for importing and collaborating with non-SOLIDWORKS models. Without the need for translation, models imported via 3D...
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SOLIDWORKS: Improving Assembly Performance with Simplified Components
One way to increase assembly performance is by using simplified configurations that can be selected when opening an assembly. Simplified configurations reduce the amount of data that must be loaded...
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3D Printing: Creating Fully Functional Medieval Armour Part 1
Here at Hawk Ridge Systems, we have three digital manufacturing labs which are a great place to experience additive manufacturing. The lab’s house some awesome technology in the form of 3D Scanners and...
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SOLIDWORKS: Dual Graphics Cards Causing Issues with SWX Graphical Display
Note: This blog is intended for users who have a combination of either onboard Intel HD Graphics + NVIDIA graphics cards or onboard Intel HD Graphics + AMD graphics cards on their computers. Let’s...
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HawkLive 2018 – Module 2: SOLIDWORKS 2018 User Experience and Sketching
Every year, Hawk Ridge Systems offers live Launch events for its customers to introduce the new enhancements of that year’s release. What if you were unable to make one of the 2018 live sessions?...
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SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: Solving the Bucket Challenge
For all the SOLIDWORKS designers and engineering enthusiast out there, I’m sure you have seen something like this come across your social feeds at one time or another cause I know I have. The question...
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SOLIDWORKS: Continuity and Curvature Part II
In Part I of this series, we looked at how the smoothness of curves can be analyzed and controlled. Now we’ll be taking a look at some additional analyses tools to further evaluate our surfaces as...
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