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SolidWorks 2014 Favorites – Rotate Components in Exploded Views
Creating exploded views in SolidWorks is a great way to show the assembly or disassembly of a complex model. SolidWorks 2014 now adds a new level of realism for animating these explode and collapse...
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Automate Design Changes With DriveWorksXPress
Does your product vary only slightly from customer to customer? If you begin a new project by opening your basic or template part and performing a “Save As”, there is a better way! Hidden amongst the...
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SolidWorks PhotoView 360 – Make Big Differences with Small Adjustments
SolidWorks PhotoView 360 tools let you make photo-realistic renderings and animations directly from your 3D model. Small adjustments to your settings can make a big difference in your final result. A...
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SolidWorks Routing – Custom Components and the Piping & Tubing Database
Living in the oil and gas industrial landscape of Alberta, Canada, I use SolidWorks Routing almost as often as I dream of hot summer days (quite often). However, almost all of my experience with the...
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Using SolidWorks Library Features to Create Solid Bodies
Some people consider me lazy, but I prefer to be called “strategically efficient”. I don’t like repeating the same task again and again, so I use automation tools like Library Features to do the work...
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Using SolidWorks Drawings in SolidWorks Electrical Projects
Using SolidWorks drawings in SolidWorks Electrical can be extremely beneficial, and the drawing tools in SolidWorks are incredibly powerful. Typically, we work with our schematics in our 2D application...
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SolidWorks Quick Tip – Global Variables and Equations
Global variables and equations are a great way to capture design intent and add intelligence to SolidWorks models. If you’re new to global variables and equations in SolidWorks, here’s a quick intro....
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SolidWorks Quick Tip – Top 10 Speed Moves for the SolidWorks CSWP Exam
While these SolidWorks speed moves are written for people who are preparing to take the SolidWorks CSWA (Certified SolidWorks Associate), SolidWorks CSWP (Certified SolidWorks Professional), CSWE...
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It Takes Two: Multiphysics Analysis Solutions from Hawk Ridge Systems
If you’re familiar with the world of simulation (and the suite of SolidWorks Simulation tools specifically), you might be aware that in most cases, the real-world scenarios we try to reproduce are...
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SolidWorks Simulation Quick Tip – Incremental Meshing
Introduced in 2013 for SolidWorks Premium, Simulation Professional, and Simulation Premium, Incremental Meshing is available for both solid and shell bodies and gives you more flexibility in refining...
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Render Shell Thickness in SolidWorks Simulation
One of our favorite features in SolidWorks Simulation was introduced in SolidWorks 2013, and it’s the ability to Render Shell Thickness in 3D. This capability makes defining shells more user friendly...
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SolidWorks Simulation Tools – SolidWorks World 2014 Presentation
A little over a month ago I posted this blog about our SolidWorks World 2014 presentation on SolidWorks Simulation. We received some really great questions from blog followers, SolidWorks discussion...
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Sketch Auto-Scale – What’s New in SolidWorks 2014
One big difference between a seasoned SolidWorks user and an entry-level CAD nerd is that the former can get in and out of sketches a lot faster (in fact, that is pretty much the hardest part of the...
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SolidWorks Hidden Commands – These ARE the Commands You’re Looking For
When I began using SolidWorks every day at work, I started picking up all of these extremely useful hidden commands. Then I started to wonder: What other, less obvious SolidWorks hidden commands were...
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SolidWorks Quick Tip – Virtual Sharps in Your Dimensioning Workflow
A common task for us is dimensioning to a point that exists where two edges, lines, arcs, and/or curves would intersect if those entities were extended. This is called a “virtual sharp” in SolidWorks...
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Predicting Injection Pressure with SolidWorks Plastics
Recently, I was able to attend a 2 day plastics seminar at California State University, Chico that covered the chemistry of different plastics, how plastics are used for different applications, and how...
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SolidWorks Navigation – 9 Model Orientation Shortcuts
SolidWorks navigation in the graphics area can sometimes be a challenge. There are some very useful clicks to help you see your model exactly the way you want! Check out the list below: 1. [Space...
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What’s New in SolidWorks 2014 – Replace Sketch Entity
One major benefit of using a parametric feature-based modeler like SolidWorks is that you can build up references in your parts so that as one thing changes, the downstream features will automatically...
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SolidWorks Performance – Ready, Set, Test Your Hardware!
You spend your days in front of your computer, designing diligently in SolidWorks. You take every measure to effectively visualize and communicate your 3D concept. Have you ever wondered if your...
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NVIDIA GRID VCA – What Does SolidWorks Really Look Like?
If you caught my webinar introducing NVIDIA GRID VCA to use SolidWorks in the cloud, around the 18 minute mark you would have seen the issue that I outlined in this blog article: a laggy user...
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