Articles by: Moe Younis
GrabCAD Shop has been a very useful tool that allows many users to save both time and money but was missing an important feature – calculating the cost of print jobs. Recently, a new cost calculator feature was added which gives the operator the ability…
Properly maintaining a Stratasys polyjet print head, not only increases the life of the print heads, but also keeps you from having down time and keeps your parts looking new. The head cleaning wizard takes less than 20 minutes and can save you hours, if…
Importing SOLIDWORKS Views, Cameras, and lights into SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2018
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2018 has now made it easier to create real view renderings, since we can now import all custom saved cameras, views and even the physical lighting straight into Visualize from SOLIDWORKS 2018. NOTE: These SOLIDWORKS Visualize Import Options ONLY work when importing from…
When Repairing SOLIDWORKS Installation pick the Windows Start button > Settings > Apps. What you will do next is right-click on SOLIDWORKS 20XX and select Change NOT Uninstall. Once this is done you will select OK: Then select Repair the individual installation (on this computer) and…
When teaching the SOLIDWORKS Essentials course I often get asked “Can you make a SOLIDWORKS Detail View that is not a circle?” The answer is yes, you can! First create a closed contour sketch where you want the detail view using either an ellipse, spline,…
Working with assemblies we sometimes have holes that are slightly misaligned, especially when working with imported parts from a supplier. Even though they are still within spec and will work for the intended use, we get the Over Defined ketchup and mustard in our feature…
Having the ability to rotate your linear pattern as its created is something that would have previously required two or more features. Now with SOLIDWORKS 2018 this can be done with just an extra click of the mouse. In the SOLIDWORKS 2018 Linear Pattern PropertyManager…
Select the outside of an Arc rather than the center when adding a dimension in SOLIDWORKS
When adding arc dimensions, you should always select the actual arc rather then the centre point. Doing so will give you more options for the dimension. As you can see in the image below, under the leaders tab after selecting a dimension, we can select…