Articles by: Robert Gemmell

Robert is a SOLIDWORKS Training and Process Consultant

Drawings: Dimension Precision Troubleshooting

SOLIDWORKS Drawings

Drawings are crucial for communicating the precise dimensions of your part and/or assembly. Understanding and controlling precision is therefore critically important. Users can easily find it frustrating and confusing when trying to manipulate these values. In this blog, we will look at some dimension precision…

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Smart Mates, Smart Approaches!

SOLIDWORKS Smart Mates

When people are using smart mates in SOLIDWORKS for the first time, they often don’t see an immediate improvement in their mating speed and may revert back to their comfort zone. I wanted to touch on some considerations that will hopefully change your mind about…

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Are you smarter than a SOLIDWORKS Smart Component?

SOLIDWORKS Smart Component Auto Size Editing

Imagine we have an assembly with multiple, differently sized, pipes and we need to add bushings to the end of all of them. Now imagine this is something we are doing regularly, frustrating right? If this sounds like you, I hope you’ve been taking advantage…

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