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Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Enhanced Viewport Orientation (1)
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 3, 2012There are so many modifications done to the interface for the viewport orientation in SolidWorks 2013, that I decided to present them in three different articles. The video you will watch today concentrates on the new View Selector tool. While I believe that SolidWorks can still improve the functionality of this tool in the future, by making…
SOLIDWORKS Convert View to Sketch
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 2, 2012I have to confess, this is one of the new enhancements in SolidWorks 2013 that, at the first sight, I considered less important than the others. Why would I ever need to convert a drawing view to a sketch??? Well… guess what! The other day a customer of mine called asking if there is any…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – The Bounding Box Saves Money (2)
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 1, 2012As I wrote in the article introducing the new functionality for creating Bounding Boxes in SolidWorks 2013, companies involved in 3D Printing can now save support material and printing time by determining the smallest stock size needed by the model. The same advantages will be enjoyed by machine shops by saving machining time and reducing waste. In…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Conjuring a Solid Out of Thin Air with the Intersect Tool
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on September 27, 2012People who have seen it in action say that the Intersect Tool is a Game Changer. Imagine you take existing surface bodies, solid bodies and even planes and throw them in a boiling pot. Let them intersect themselves for a while (about half a second), then pick and choose whatever pieces or combination of pieces you…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – The Real History = Flat Tree View
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on September 26, 2012SolidWorks’ User Interface is one of the most intuitive in the CAD world and that is probably the reason why SolidWorks is so easy to learn and understand. Personally I like the God-like powers I have in the SolidWorks Universe, especially the time traveling which allows me to change the design intent on the fly by editing…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day – Varying Dimensions Patterns
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on September 25, 2012This is one of the new enhancements in SolidWorks 2013 that has the potential to save you, the designer, anywhere between minutes to hours. I am not exaggerating! You can now automate your designs like never before! You will replace tens or even hundreds of features with one smart feature pattern just by varying sketch…
SOLIDWORKS 2013 Video Series
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on September 24, 2012
There is no secret that I am delighted with the new enhancements introduced by SolidWorks 2013. I explored the new functionality quite a bit during the Beta period and I was pleased to notice that…
Some very sad news: this past week-end, the SolidWorks Community lost one of its most passionate members, an enthusiastic and charismatic SolidWorks User Group Leader, Wayne Tiffany. Wayne was a Sheet Metal guru and a…
Using the Wrap Feature to Create a Barrel Cam
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on August 21, 2012
Let’s model together a barrel cam. Watch this video first:
SOLIDWORKS Command Search is a great time saver
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on May 3, 2012
I have a feeling that the SOLIDWORKS Command Search function will become your new best friend. No more wasting time trying to find the icon or menu item for a particular SOLIDWORKS command. Just start typing the…
NO MORE “Parasitic” Points in the 2012 Hole Wizard
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on May 2, 2012
In my opinion SolidWorks has the best user interface from all CAD programs. Have you noticed how it is always trying to read our thoughts? And most of the time it does a pretty good…
Windows Aero Themes and SolidWorks Performance
By Andrew Lidstone, CSWE on April 27, 2012
Starting with the release of Windows Vista and continuing with Windows 7, Microsoft has included Aero themes with the several editions of the operating system, from Home Premium up to Ultimate. The Aero themes are…
Controlling SOLIDWORKS Warning and Error Messages
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on April 16, 2012
On top of adding a lot of new functionality and enhancing the user experience for the latest release of SOLIDWORKS, the developers dedicated some time to address some little quirks in the interface that did not make too…
Using the SolidWorks Fill Pattern Feature
By Rod Mackay on April 15, 2012The Fill Pattern Feature is an excellent, yet little known patterning tool in SolidWorks. In this video, I explain how fill patterns can be used to quickly create complex types of patterns. The fill pattern feature can even create its own hole features! SolidWorks will automatically pattern a feature and space it fit within a…
3DVIA Composer Plug-in for SolidWorks: How to Configure Default Export Settings?
By Rob Greer, CSWP on April 2, 2012
For those users of 3DVIA Composer that periodically need to ask a SolidWorks designer to export files into the native Composer file type, this tip is for you! This is a very specific scenario where the users…
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