Javelin / TriMech Author
Saeed Mojarad (CSWE)
SOLIDWORKS 2018 Mirror Part now includes Material and Visual Properties
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on September 22, 2017
SOLIDWORKS 2018 provides a variety of new enhancements. One of the new enhancements is the ability to include the material and the visual appearance of the parent part in the derived part when using the SOLIDWORKS Mirror Part command (Insert -> Mirror Part). If you…
Why does my SOLIDWORKS Model look so dark?
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on September 16, 2017
One of the questions that I often receive is “Why does my SOLIDWORKS Model look so dark?”. It gets even worse if you switch to a ‘Shaded’ display style. Our customers ensure they have a supported graphics card and driver, and in most cases there are…
When you are working with SOLIDWORKS you may see the rebuild icon next to some of the features every once in a while. This means that SOLIDWORKS needs to rebuild the model in order for the dimensional changes to take effect. The SOLIDWORKS Rebuild Command…
We receive a few calls on a daily basis that our customers ask us to release a license from a computer. Usually it happens when they are trying to move SOLIDWORKS from one machine to another and they forgot to deactivate the license on the…
In this post I’ll show you how to use the Smart Dimension Tool to add SOLIDWORKS Arc Dimensions. Arc Length Dimension To add an arc length dimension, you have to select both of the arc’s end points first. St this point the Smart Dimension tool…
Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor Tables in SOLIDWORKS
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on June 9, 2017
In this series of blog posts it was discussed what different terms like Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor mean and how we can calculate them for a specific sheet. You can read the previous post: What are Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor? And the post…
Calculating Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction, and K-Factor
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on June 6, 2017
In my previous post I talked about K-Factor, Bend Allowance and Bend Deduction and what they mean in sheet metal design. Now let’s see how we can obtain these values for a specific sheet. As I mentioned in my last post you need to do…
What Are Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor?
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on June 1, 2017
In a series of posts we are going to review the most important sheet metal design terminology — Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor. In this post I will review what these terms mean and in the next post I will show you how to calculate and use…
How to adjust the amount of Transparency applied to SOLIDWORKS Assembly Components
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on May 30, 2017
Have you ever wondered if you can have a different amount of transparency applied to different components in your assembly? I was asked that question recently and fortunately the answer is yes and there is a quick way to do it. In order to have…
How to sort SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Components in your BOM table [VIDEO]
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on March 8, 2017
Have you ever wondered how you can sort your SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials in a way that all of your SOLIDWORKS toolbox components are listed at the foot of the BOM table? That was the problem that one of our customers was facing. If you look at…
Why do my SOLIDWORKS Printed Drawings have Grid Lines?
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on March 1, 2017
In some cases, we may need to show SOLIDWORKS grid lines in our drawings or sketches for reference. To set grid and snap options you can click Tools > Options and on the Document Properties tab, select Grid/Snap. I recently received a call from a customer…
How to create a SOLIDWORKS Property Tab Builder Template for Assemblies & Drawings
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 30, 2017
If you have specific custom properties that should be added to all of your parts, assemblies or drawings, you might realize that this process can be very time consuming if you want to add them each time using the File > Property method. Fortunately, you can…
Why do my Bend Line Notes disappear when a SOLIDWORKS Broken View is applied?
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 27, 2017
Have you ever tried to apply a Broken view to your flatten view in a SOLIDWORKS drawing? If the answer is yes, then you have probably noticed that sometimes the bend line notes disappear when you add the break lines to the view. Also it…
In previous versions of SOLIDWORKS users had limited control over the way they could sort the cut list components. One of these limitations was when you slightly change one of the solid bodies in your part, it was shown as a separate component in the cut list….
Linking a Note to a Table/BOM Cell in SOLIDWORKS 2017
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 3, 2017
We all know that notes are an important part of any engineering drawing and help to transfer vital information. One of the problems when dealing with drawings is to keep these notes up to date. The best solution for that problem is to automate the…