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Rotating Textures in SolidWorks [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on November 16, 2012In the video below I am going to show how to manipulate textures in SolidWorks. You can also learn how to rotate textures in 3DVIA Composer.
Replace and Merge Appearances using the SOLIDWORKS Appearance Filter
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on November 15, 2012My SOLIDWORKS 2013 Pick of the Day and the topic of the 21st video from this series is the new SOLIDWORKS Appearance Filter. Now that we established that appearances can be used to create and manage selection groups, the SOLIDWORKS Appearance Filter is exactly what you need in order to replace or merge appearances with ease. I am…
How to Copy & Paste Appearances in SOLIDWORKS [VIDEO]
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on November 9, 2012
Creating realistic looking 3D parts is only one of the reasons for applying different appearances on your models. Equally important is using appearances for creating SOLIDWORKS selection groups which will increase speed and streamline your modeling process….
Save time when Finding and Opening SOLIDWORKS Sub-assemblies [VIDEO]
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on November 4, 2012Sometimes you just need to change the techniques in your existing workflow in order to reap huge benefits from SOLIDWORKS. As a rule, you are more productive when paying 100% attention to what’s happening in the graphic area and not breaking your concentration by having to select items from the SOLIDWORKS FeatureManager Design Tree. Because of that, my SOLIDWORKS tip deals with the assembly…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day: Envelopes Simplify In-Context Design
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on November 1, 2012Building new parts directly in the context of an assembly is a very powerful technique that has been available in SolidWorks for a long time. Watching such components update in sync as the user intended, just by modifying a few dimensions in the assembly, is magical. A properly built top-down assembly is a thing of beauty….
SOLIDWORKS Top Level Assemblies Filter [VIDEO]
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 29, 2012SOLIDWORKS is all about saving time and reducing or eliminating user’s frustration when performing frequent tasks. Little things like finding and opening the top level assemblies from a given folder used to be quite time consuming in SOLIDWORKS 2012 or previous releases. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS 2013 introduces the ability to filter for top assemblies with a simple and elegant addition…
What Combines Mills, Museums & Mummies?
By Katey Gatta on October 23, 2012Javelin’s SolidWorks 2013 Launch Events, of course! From costing enhancements and conics to nested folders and the oh-so-powerful intersect feature, SolidWorks 2013 prompted Javelin’s own SolidWorks guru Alin Vargatu to deem this “the most impressive SolidWorks release ever“. To celebrate, Javelin decided to take your favourite engineering software on the road and show over 250…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day: Subfolders – Powerful Time Savers
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 22, 2012Looks like this year, the Development Team at SolidWorks dedicated a lot of attention to the Feature Manager, since it received a lot of new enhancements. We have already discussed the Flat Tree View and the Favorites Folder as time savers for fast changing the design intent or for troubleshooting a model. Another important enhancement is the…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – You Decide: Fast or Small…
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 16, 2012The 14th video from the What’s Really New in SolidWorks 2013 series presents one of the most popular SolidWorks enhancement requests of this millennium: give the user the ability to control the file size of a SolidWorks model. SolidWorks 2013 offers users for the first time a degree of control in this matter. Now users can decide where is the…
SOLIDWORS Favorites Folder
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 15, 2012SolidWorks 2013 empowers users with the ability to create shortcuts to almost any type of tree items (sketches, features, reference geometry, components) and group them in a Favorites Folder right at the top of the tree. Not only it will save designers a lot of time, but will enable better team collaboration. Without even being familiar with a given model,…
SOLIDWORKS Center of Mass [VIDEO]
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 11, 2012The new SOLIDWORKS Center Mass feature is parametric and will not only save you design time, but also will insure that your product is build right from the beginning. Moreover, you will see the Center of Mass updated instantly after each model rebuild. In this video I am showing ways for using the Center Mass feature in…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Fill a Baby Bottle Using The Intersect Tool
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 10, 2012When designing a bottle for your newborn baby, one of the main parameters you need to control is the bottle’s volume. While apparently a simple task, calculating the volume of an open recipient has never been an easy task in SolidWorks. The new Intersect Tool introduce by SolidWorks 2013 is a game changer in this…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Fast Edge Selection
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 9, 2012When applyIng a fillet feature to a lot of edges, the most time consuming part is selecting them. In SolidWorks 2012 and prior, selecting edges based on rules was available only when using the FilletXpert. Because of that, the user’s options were restricted to applying constant radius fillets only. Starting with SolidWorks 2013, this functionality has been…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Enhanced Viewport Orientation (3)
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 5, 2012This is the last video of the three part miniseries on Viewport Orientation tools in SolidWorks 2013. I have to confess that the techniques I am presenting today are not new, but I had to include them since they are extremely powerful, allowing for fast and precise orientation of the viewport. It is very possible that you…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Enhanced Viewport Orientation (2)
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 4, 2012This is the second article of the 2013 Viewport Orientation miniseries, concentrating on the new previews and global (system) views in the orientation dialog box. I see the global views as the perfect tools for achieving consistency across all models and drawings from a given project. They will free the user from the need to pre-save…
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