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SolidWorks Composer – Exporting Your Project [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on January 26, 2013Once you have finished your project in SolidWorks Composer (for this example, images for a user manual), you might need to send your images for approval before you export to Microsoft Publisher or Adobe InDesign. You can send your project as an .exe file. This means whoever is looking at your project does not require…
3DVIA Composer – Exporting Multiple Views [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on December 4, 2012In the video below, I am going to export all of my views using the High Resolution Image workshop.
3DVIA Composer – Creating Raster Images with Transparent Backgrounds [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on December 3, 2012In the video below, I am going to show you how to take a view and export it with an transparent background.
Rotating Textures in SOLIDWORKS Composer [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on November 26, 2012
In this tech tip video I am going to show how to use the texture workshop to rotate and pan your textures in SOLIDWORKS Composer.
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.
3DVIA Composer – Using Glow [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on November 14, 2012
In the video below I am going to use glow to give the illusion that the light bulbs are on. I downloaded this model from 3DVIA.com : http://www.3dvia.com/models/0AFCED0012243608/chandelier-barocco
3DVIA Composer: Rotate Actors [VIDEO]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on October 19, 2012In the video below, I am going to show you how to rotate an actor when the pivot point is not in the ideal spot. The tools that I use are under the “Transform tab”. http://youtu.be/57ibfs1Ns_M
How to Change SOLIDWORKS Composer BOM Colours [Video]
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on August 20, 2012In this video I am going to show you how to change BOM colours using SOLIDWORKS Composer 2012x.
SOLIDWORKS Composer Custom Colour Silhouettes
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on July 12, 2012
You can highlight aspects of your image by creating an .svg with Technical Illustrator in 3DVIA Composer.
Adding an Image/Decal to your Model in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on July 10, 2012
When creating an image of your product for marketing or instruction manuals you will probably want to add your company logo to the model (referred to as an actor). A SOLIDWORKS Composer decal can be…
Black Background in SOLIDWORKS Composer .SMG export
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on June 5, 2012
On occasion you will notice that when you export your .smg file and preview it, it will have created a SOLIDWORKS Composer black background. This is obviously not ideal. You will generally only see this…
Changing the default Viewport Ground in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By John Lee, CSWE on May 8, 2012
When working in SOLIDWORKS Composer you will notice that there is a Dassault Systèmes logo on the SOLIDWORKS Composer Viewport Ground. If you want to remove this, or change it to something else you can….
3DVIA Composer: Creating Fast and Easy Renderings
By Matt Campbell, CSWE on April 25, 2012
For this blog post I am going to show you how to take existing CAD data and render it using 3DVIA Composer. For this example I am going to use a model that already has…
3DVIA Composer: Configure Multiple Users to Use Shared Server or Library Location
By Rob Greer, CSWP on April 24, 2012
This tip is especially useful for users with a Floating Composer license! If there are multiple users of 3DVIA Composer that would like to share a common library location, it’s not obvious how to go…
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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