Assembly
Drawings are crucial for communicating the precise dimensions of your part and/or assembly. Understanding and controlling precision is therefore critically important. Users can easily find it frustrating and confusing when trying to manipulate these values. In this blog, we will look at some dimension precision…
Have you ever created an assembly file and thought “wow, this could really use a baseplate?” Maybe it’s a lid or a handle, but either way, your assembly feels incomplete. A part is missing and now you must do calculations on how it fits with…
Before SOLIDWORKS 2016 it was only possible to add a watermark to a drawing. But SOLIDWORKS 2016 introduced new functionality that makes it possible to add a watermark to your Part and Assembly documents. You have the option to display the watermark on top of…
Many times in SOLIDWORKS, it makes sense to create features at the assembly level. Sometimes this can be due to a Top-Down approach to assembly modeling, sometimes you’ve taken a bottom-up approach and you want to make an exception for a single feature. Let’s say…
Often times, in SOLIDWORKS, we will need to apply multiple mates of a similar type in an assembly. There is an option called SOLIDWORKS Multiple Mate Mode that can accomplish this. This process works with all kinds of mates, but it’s easily demonstrated here with…
When loading a SOLIDWORKS Large Assembly did it take so long that you were able to run to the coffee shop across the road and return to a still loading file? Slow load time for large assembly files in SOLIDWORKS is a common issue for…
When a SOLIDWORKS assembly file will not save the first workaround is to try and save the assembly with a new name, to a different folder, or to a local drive. If that doesn’t work then here are two other options for you to consider trying. Note that pattern and mirror…
Last week I showed you how easy it is to fill a cavity at the assembly level using the new tools in SolidWorks. That demonstration generated two questions: What do you do if you have multiple cavities in the assembly, but need the volume of only…
Mate references can be set up in two parts to correspond to each other. When created this way it is up to the user to add the appropriate part, but not to select a location for such a part. Follow the video below to see…