SOLIDWORKS Defeature
Fall is fast approaching, and you know what that means! Pumpkin spice lattes, turkey dinners, and weather that makes exercise about as appealing as waiting for your largest assembly to open. Luckily for us, keeping our file sizes under control is easy with the new…
In most cases, neutral formats such as *.stp are used to hide the details of a design. The reason is that this format provides a dumb solid model without providing much information about how it was made. This capability and even more is possible with the…
Do you need to simplify SOLIDWORKS models? Imagine that you get this super complex model with a lot of intricate internal details from your customer or supplier. The file size is huge and the rebuild times are long, considering that you only need it for any…
Use SOLIDWORKS Defeature to Remove Proprietary Information and Reduce File Size!
The SOLIDWORKS Defeature tool was introduced in the 2011 release. This feature provides an easy way to remove proprietary information from your models before sending it to clients for their use. The tool can be found under Tools > Defeature. But this tool can be useful even…