3D CAD

The Business of Engineering? You’re Already Living It. Here’s What’s Next.

The Business of Engineering is a term we’ve used to describe the multiple facets of developing today’s complex, connected products – from the design challenges to the disciplines involved to the type of data and processes that connect them. In essence, it reflects the elaboration…

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3D Printed Architectural Model Part 1: Optimize the Design for Print

Hello everyone, during the past few weeks I have been working hard on designing an architectural model to be 3D printed and displayed at the Javelin Oakville office. The purpose for this task is to show the capabilities of 3D printing architectural models. In this 3…

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SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer is a new way to tackle Concept Design Problems

Innovative conceptual design is the core of any successful product. SOLIDWORKS® Mechanical Conceptual, powered by Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform, removes the constraints of structured design programs and gives you a flexible, intuitive, powerful modeling environment that turns every challenge of conceptual design into your business…

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SOLIDWORKS on a Virtual Machine

Can you run SOLIDWORKS on a virtual machine? Yes! You absolutely can. This is a stark contrast to the past environment for SOLIDWORKS. In the past, SOLIDWORKS was explicitly not supported on virtual machines and there weren’t any options to run a SOLIDWORKS product on…

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How to Create a Movable Spring in SOLIDWORKS

Seeing is believing! What I am talking about is how to make a spring in SOLIDWORKS. While we can create motion with spring forces in SOLIDWORKS, the spring itself is not modeled and doesn’t move. To work around this obstacle, many users ask me how…

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SOLIDWORKS 2013 Video Series

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 most enhancements were picked from popular user wish-lists posted on…

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