Javelin / TriMech Author
Saeed Mojarad (CSWE)
Deactivate Selection Through Transparency Option in SOLIDWORKS
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on September 6, 2018
Having transparent faces helps a lot when working with large assemblies with a lot of inner components. When you click on a transparent face, SOLIDWORKS selects the visible opaque component behind it. Although it is a nice feature that can be helpful in many cases…
Shortcut Keys to Change View Orientation in SOLIDWORKS
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on August 17, 2018
There are a lot of different tools available in SOLIDWORKS to rotate and position your model the way you want it. In this short video I demonstrate a few SOLIDWORKS View Shortcuts that can help you to switch between your views quickly and easily.
Use Software OpenGL option in SOLIDWORKS
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on August 10, 2018
First let’s talk about a few terminologies that we hear a lot in computer world including Graphics Processing Unit and Hardware Acceleration that help to understand what OpenGL is and what it does. What is Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? In the early days of computing,…
SOLIDWORKS Configurations are a great way to represent multiple variations of a part/assembly within a single file. Using configurations also helps with managing your files. For example, consider a standard bolt. It has different sizes for the diameter, head, thread length and so on. It…
How to create a Jog in a SOLIDWORKS Weld Symbol Leader
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on March 9, 2018
In this post I will show you how to create a SOLIDWORKS multi jog weld symbol. This is one of those neat options that can help a lot especially when dealing with complex drawings. Usually there are a lot of dimensions, notes, balloons and so…
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Cleaning Utility
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on March 6, 2018
One of the lesser known tools that gets installed along with SOLIDWORKS software is the SOLIDWORKS Simulation Cleaning Utility. This utility tool can be used to permanently delete any simulation data, including simulation setup and results information, from any SOLIDWORKS part or assembly file. There are a…
From the SOLIDWORKS help: SOLIDWORKS Motion studies are graphical simulations of motion for assembly models. Motion simulation assumes all parts to be rigid during the simulation, meaning that during contacts, no deformations will take place. Where to start? To start a motion study in SOLIDWORKS…
SOLIDWORKS exported STEP file only includes one of my assembly components?!
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 26, 2018
You have been asked to send a SOLIDWORKS STEP file of your assembly and you know that it only takes a few seconds. You open your assembly and save it as *.step. Of course, you open the STEP file to make sure that everything is…
Adding Balloons to a Sub-Assembly in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 24, 2018
If you have been working with a SOLIDWORKS bill of material table (BOM) for a while, perhaps you have noticed that there are limitations when it comes to adding balloons to a sub-assembly and its components. For example, if you want to add a balloon to…
SOLIDWORKS 2018 Tab and Slot Feature
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 22, 2018
A costly part of manufacturing is creating the fixtures that are used to hold the parts in position during fabrication. That is why many designers are now turning to self-fixturing design technique to reduce the assembly and setup costs in the manufacturing process. In this…
SOLIDWORKS 2018 includes enhancements to the Performance Evaluation Tool
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on November 7, 2017
One of the lesser known tools in SOLIDWORKS assembly environment is the “Performance Evaluation” tool. This tool is especially useful when working with large assemblies and helps to identify areas that you can work on to improve the performance when working with a large assembly….
SOLIDWORKS 2018 provides Hole Callout features for Advanced Holes
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on November 2, 2017
SOLIDWORKS 2017 introduced the Advanced Hole feature which is a powerful tool for creating complex multi-stepped holes. Now in SOLIDWORKS 2018 you can quickly and easily detail an Advanced Hole using the Hole Callout feature. Furthermore, as you place the callout, new “Reverse callout order” and…
You start your day and open an assembly that you were working on and suddenly you freeze and panic because there is a blank SOLIDWORKS assembly?!!! For sure the first thing you do is try a Rebuild or Force-Rebuild but it doesn’t help. You try Zoom-to-Fit…
Assembly Visualization is even better with SOLIDWORKS 2018
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on October 6, 2017
Without a doubt, one of my favorite tools is SOLIDWORKS Assembly Visualization. It provides different ways to display and sort an assembly’s components in a list and in the graphics area. One area where you can benefit from using this tool is improving the performance…
Manually adding a Part to a SOLIDWORKS Weldment Cutlist Group [VIDEO]
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on October 3, 2017
SOLIDWORKS Weldment functionality is a great tool to make a weldment structure. A Weldment structure is a unit formed by welding an assembly of parts together. Once you start making a structure using Weldment functionality, SOLIDWORKS generates a list of the components in the Weldment…