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3 Customers on How They Use 3D Printing to Speed Up Production

Hawk Ridge Systems is a value-added reseller, carrying all the software and hardware needed to digitally manufacture and post process custom parts. Designing parts from scratch and producing them...

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How to Quickly and Easily Include Spur Gears in Your SOLIDWORKS Assemblies

If you deal with mechanical systems, chances are that you have come across a gear or two in your line of work. Gears come in many different forms including helical, herringbone, worm, bevel, and many...

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How to Determine if the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Spur Gear Component is a Good Fit

In our previous post, “Spur Gears in SOLIDWORKS Part 1: How to Quickly Include Spur Gears in Your Assemblies ”, we discussed making use of the spur gear component in the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox. With the...

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How to Model Accurate Involute Spur Gears in SOLIDWORKS

Welcome to our third and final blog post in our series on using spur gears in SOLIDWORKS! Spur gears are one of the most common types of gears used in a wide range of applications from consumer-level...

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How to Choose the Right Unit System in SOLIDWORKS

When you’re spending as much time in SOLIDWORKS as we all are, you know how important precision is. In this ecosystem, every dimension matters, making the selection of the correct unit system in...

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How to Insert Assets in Facility Layout in SOLIDWORKS

In this post, we’ll cover how to arrange assets in a facility using magnetic mates. Magnetic mates allow assets like robot cells, equipment, and fixtures to be quickly and easily laid out on a factory...

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How To Use Facility Layout in SOLIDWORKS To Optimize Your Factory Floor

Facility Layout is a powerful assembly technique that can be used in SOLIDWORKS to help streamline the arrangement of machinery or equipment on a factory floor. When you’re working with very large...

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How to Scale Your Drawings 1:1 in SOLIDWORKS & DraftSight

Creating drawings is a key part of the design process. With SOLIDWORKS Drawings, documenting your designs so that you can communicate those designs to other people is a cinch. But sometimes when...

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Getting Started with Industrial 3D Printers: What You Need to Know

When exploring the world of industrial 3D printers, it can be challenging to understand what benefits can be gleaned from systems and resources involved in operating and maintaining sophisticated...

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3 Strategies for Reducing Shop Floor Downtime with Industry 4.0 Tech

Industry 4.0 relates to the ongoing automation and digitization of the engineering and manufacturing sector. With big data technology progressing at alarming rates, modern systems can process large...

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SOLIDWORKS Ultimate: The Best CAD Solution for Advanced Product Development

SOLIDWORKS has long been a leader in computer-aided design (CAD) solutions, offering a range of powerful tools for engineers and designers. With the introduction of SOLIDWORKS Ultimate, the entire...

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8 Ways to Optimize SOLIDWORKS for Fast Performance (2024)

Optimizing performance in SOLIDWORKS can be a game changer when it comes to creating and working with our CAD models. Like with any tool, using SOLIDWORKS efficiently means less time and effort spent...

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3 Steps to Easily Import CATIA Files into SOLIDWORKS

If you’ve worked with one CAD software while a client or supplier used another, you understand the difficulty of accurately transferring data. While perfectly seamless data transfer may not be...

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The Top Software & Hardware for Industrial Equipment Manufacturers

Industrial equipment manufacturers design, build, and deploy high-performance heavy mobile equipment for rough, tough, complex jobs. Manufacturers in this vertical also design and build robotics for...

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3 Biggest Reasons Companies Use 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA to Program Robots

Machine tending is one of the most common uses for robots and cobots in today’s market. Whether you’re looking to fully automate a system or to have a cobot work collaboratively with an operator, the...

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Why the Artec Spider II Is the Next Generation of Handheld Scanning

New and Improved – The Artec Spider II Artec3D has become an industry name for people looking to do targetless 3D scan of objects for Reverse engineering, quality control, and archiving. One of their...

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How 3D Scanners Revolutionize Industrial Manufacturing and Repair 

3D scanners have rapidly gained popularity within several industries as a go-to tool for creating high-accuracy measurements and high-quality digital twins for designing. Each industry has unique...

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How SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Is the Perfect Fit for Industrial Equipment Design

If you use SOLIDWORKS to design large complex assemblies, such as with industrial equipment, you know that designing robust and reliable machinery requires more than just basic CAD tools. This is...

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10 Things I Wish I Knew About SOLIDWORKS as an Engineer in Industrial...

As engineers, we dream of building complex machines, and solving critical problems that involve new ideas while following the laws and rules of math and science.   There are many factors to consider:...

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Making Desktop 3D Scanning Simple with the Artec Micro II

The Artec Micro II 3D scanner takes high-resolution, compact 3D scanning to a new level, bringing even greater precision and ease of use to your desk like many of the easy-to-use portable Artec 3D...

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