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Bill of Materials
SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM) tech tips and best practices from the Javelin team
Top 5 Return on Investment Areas for EPDM
If you’re reading this post, you’ve likely wondered at some point about how you can help rationalize what may be…
Take a look at some cool entries for our 2011 SolidWorks Design Contest
Our SolidWorks Cool Design Contest is still open and currently accepting entries from commercial and educational customers. I thought we…
SOLIDWORKS BOM (Bill of Materials) management and best practices [VIDEO]
The Bill of Materials (BOM) is such an important report yet it is surprising the number of users that do…
Mayday! – The Customer Sent a New STEP File in the 11th Hour
You spent a lot of time on this project. Everything started with a STEP file received from your customer, file that you…
How to Show BOM Info in the SOLIDWORKS Composer Assembly Tree
In SOLIDWORKS Composer it’s possible to show the columns of the BOM in the Assembly Tree area. This can help…
Time Saver: Insert Sheet Metal Parameters in your Drawings
Before yesterday, I was sure I knew everything about custom properties and how to use them in parametric annotations. After…
Thinking outside the box “101” with SolidWorks
So your company has just made a great investment in one of the premier CAD design tools in the industry,…
Show Properties with Linked Dimensions on a BOM in Different Units
Using linked dimensions from properties on a BOM is very useful. They are all linked so everything will update together….
BOM Magic – The Quick Resize Trick
As a designer, you want to spend most of your time designing, not drafting and this is one of the…
SolidWorks 2012 Teaser
The 3rd day of SolidWorks World 2011 was the day when users were teased by getting a glimpse of some of…
Time Saver – Predetermined Zoom in SolidWorks Drawings
Just a little tip that can save you big time when working with your drawings.
Give the gift of SolidWorks knowledge
By Jeff Sweeney, 3DVision Technologies. I’m very glad to be posting here as my chance to give back to the…
How to add a dummy part to a 3DVIA Composer project
Sometimes in 3DVIA Composer you need to show an item on the BOM but there was no actor in the file to…
Notes on combining multiple Routing library files
To speed up the Pipe Routing process or simplify your library, it may help you to combine similar routing parts into…
Using PDM with SOLIDWORKS can make life a lot easier!
To show you how Using PDM with SOLIDWORKS can make life a lot easier we have created a video on SOLIDWORKS revision control.