Articles by: Matt Campbell, CSWE
When you purchased SolidWorks you might not have realized that you received a free version of DriveWorks. DriveWorksXpress comes with every license of SolidWorks. In this blog, I am going to show you how to start using it and how to automate your modeling process….
While teaching a SOLIDWORKS Essentials training course, a customer attending the class asked for the best practice on how to add a virtual intersection point to a part so that you can dimension to the point. His method was to insert a sketch point using…
While teaching a SolidWorks Essentials course, I had a student show me a drafting trick that I had not seen before.
In an older blog I showed how to get your models on your iPad using 3DVIA.com http://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2011/06/how-to-display-sw-models-on-your-iphone-and-ipad/ Now I want to show you that once you have your files on 3DVIA.com you can do more than just view them on your iPad. You can make…
While sitting in on a SolidWorks Essentials training course, there were some really good questions from the students that I think everyone should know the answer to. Therefore, I am going to write a couple of fundamental knowledge blogs. I have seen this issue a…
When mirroring a component or sub-assembly in an assembly you have to remember that SolidWorks mirrors relative to the center of mass of the component or sub-assembly. If you are not aware of this you can get some unexpected results. I have created an unsymmetrical…
How to display SolidWorks 2011 models on your iPhone and iPad
Have you ever wanted to share a 3D model you have built, but you are not around a computer… it does happen! Well, you can now use the 3DVIA app from iTunes.
You might have noticed that it is no longer an option to save eDrawings files as a .exe file in eDrawings 64-bit. This is because a 32-bit computer would not be able to open the file. The good news is that saving as a .exe…
Have you ever imported a model from a vendor, customer, etc. and the part orientation does not make sense? You can change the default view to any rotation that you like. When your part is in the part or assembly environment, press the spacebar to…