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Assembly
Tech tips, tutorials, and best practices for Assembly from the Javelin technical team
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional: Write Drawing Card With Part Card Variables [VIDEO]
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional is capable of copying values from a part or assembly card and writing them to a Drawing…
SolidWorks 2014 Tutorial: What Was Hard Now Is Easy When Applying Tangent Mates [VIDEO]
SolidWorks has always been a user-friendly software, mostly because 99.9% of the workflows in SolidWorks are natural, like in the real life….
How Many Mates Can Be Created At Once in SolidWorks? One, Two,… Three? [VIDEO]
Watch this video to learn how to create one, two and even three mates at the same time in SolidWorks.
Selecting Configuration When Opening [VIDEO]
Configurations are a great way to control your models in SolidWorks. But when you have an especially large assembly that…
SOLIDWORKS Mate Best Practice #3: Don’t fight with your Mates
Welcome back, fellow SOLIDWORKS users for another installment of our SOLIDWORKS Mate Best Practice series. In the classic Star Trek…
SOLIDWORKS Mate Best Practice #2: Don’t Mate Your Relations
Welcome back, fellow SOLIDWORKS users for another installment of our SOLIDWORKS Mate Best Practice series. Last time, we looked at…
SOLIDWORKS Mate Best Practice #1: Mate Before You Relate
Greetings, fellow SOLIDWORKS users! Welcome to my new blog series on the best practices of mating…in SOLIDWORKS of course! Over…
How to resolve SOLIDWORKS Non-Matching Internal ID Errors
Perhaps you received a different part file that you need to use in your assembly. Or maybe your original file…
Solving Component Appearance Problems in SolidWorks Display States [VIDEO]
When changing a component’s display state in the main assembly does not produce any visible changes to the appearance of…
Solve Errors and Save Time by Replacing Mate Entities in Bulk [VIDEO]
When entities referred in existing mates (faces, edges, vertices, planes) change, the result is often a long list of errors…
Alin’s SW2013 Pick of the Day: Envelopes Simplify In-Context Design
Building new parts directly in the context of an assembly is a very powerful technique that has been available in…
Automatically Insert and Position Multiple Components in an Assembly [VIDEO]
Interesting question on the SolidWorks Forum from James Bailey : The answer is yes. If the components are sharing the same origin…
SOLIDWORKS Advanced Mates Management – 3 Time Saving Tips
Do you feel you waste too much time finding component specific mates in large assemblies? Do you spend more time…
Using the Sketch Pattern to Simulate the Hole Series Behaviour at Part Level
The HOLE SERIES is a powerful time saver that enables the creation of different type of holes, parametrically linked together,…
Time Saving Tip: Find the Exploded Steps of Each Component
The Exploded View in SolidWorks works pretty nice. Not only it is very easy to define each explode step, but…