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SolidWorks World 2011 Day 2 General Session Presentation
By Rod Mackay on January 25, 2011DS SolidWorks have posted a video for the SolidWorks World day 2 general session on their YouTube channel and we have it available in this post for our readers. The second day general session includes: Richard Doyle, who manages the SolidWorks User Group Network, presenting awards to SWUGN leaders SolidWorks founder Jon Hirschtick introduces some…
The World Series Report – Day one of SolidWorks World 2011
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on January 25, 2011
Information overload after the first day of SolidWorks World 2011. A few facts that stood out: Attendees: more than 5000– a few hundred more than last year. Everybody is in high spirits. At 7:30am a…
SolidWorks World 2011 Day 1 General Session Presentation
By Rod Mackay on January 24, 2011DS SolidWorks have posted a video for the SolidWorks World day 1 general session on their YouTube channel and we have it available in this post for our readers. The first day general session includes: A farewell from former SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray. A presentation from the new SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot. An introduction to…
The World Series… (SolidWords World that is)
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on January 20, 2011
Are you as excited as I am? SolidWorks World 2011 starts this Sunday, the 23rd! This is the first instalment in a series of articles covering SolidWorks World 2011 Not too long ago, when we…
Windows User Account Controls (UAC)
By Scott Durksen, CSWE on January 17, 2011
Windows includes a feature called User Account Controls (UAC) which prevents applications from making changes to your system. This can help protect your computer from possible security breaches trying to make changes that are unwanted….
Updating Changes To Your Custom Weldment Profiles
By Andrew Lidstone, CSWE on January 10, 2011
Have you created a library of new custom weldment profiles for use in SolidWorks, or have you added custom property information to some of the pre-existing weldment profiles? You may have noticed that if you’ve…
Presenting the Javelin SolidWorks ‘Cool’ Design Contest Winners for 2010
By Rod Mackay on January 5, 2011
Javelin is proud to announce the winners of the 2010 SolidWorks ‘Cool’ Design Contest. We had a lot of amazing entries and it was a tough decision to pick an overall winner, which is why we…
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By Jeff Sweeney, 3DVision Technologies. I’m very glad to be posting here as my chance to give back to the Javelin team. Back when I was first starting to learn SolidWorks, I worked with a…
Javelin is now accepting entries for the 2010 SolidWorks Cool Design Contest
By Rod Mackay on November 9, 2010
The 2010 SolidWorks Cool Design Contest is now open for entries from Javelin Commercial or Educational Customers. You have the opportunity to show off your cool designs created with SolidWorks, plus the chance to win…
Introducing Guest Bloggers from the SolidWorks Blogosphere – A new series of articles
By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on November 8, 2010
This month we are launching a new series of articles exploring the stars of the SolidWorks Blogosphere. Once a month we will be introducing you to a SolidWorks blog and invite the owner to post…
How to substitute a custom elbow into a Pipe Route
By Rob Greer, CSWP on September 30, 2010
When Pipe Routing you may need to have an elbow that has a drain or weldolet on it. This is actually easily accomplished. Simply model the modified elbow and use the replace fitting command to swap…
Notes on combining multiple Routing library files
By Rob Greer, CSWP on September 30, 2010
To speed up the Pipe Routing process or simplify your library, it may help you to combine similar routing parts into one file. You can make configurations with different Material Properties for example. Just make sure…
Pipe Routing using only one elbow file with multiple angle configurations
By Rob Greer, CSWP on September 30, 2010
In SolidWorks Pipe Routing we can only specify one default elbow for the route subassembly. Historically this meant that if we have more than one angle of elbow in the route, we had to browse each…
Using and Customizing SOLIDWORKS Mouse Gestures [VIDEO]
By Andrew Lidstone, CSWE on September 22, 2010
With SOLIDWORKS 2010 a new productivity tool was introduced called SOLIDWORKS Mouse Gestures. Once you get used to using them, Mouse Gestures can be a real time saver when using SOLIDWORKS to bring your designs to life….
Speed up your sketching with “on screen numeric input on entity creation”
By Andrew Lidstone, CSWE on September 22, 2010
Introduced in SolidWorks 2009 is the option to “Enable on screen numeric input on entity creation”. Though it’s name doesn’t do it justice, this feature can really have a big impact on your ability to…
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