SOLIDWORKS Design intent
Ever hear of the term “design intent” and wonder what it means, or how it pertains to design? In SOLIDWORKS, we refer to design intent as your plan as to how the model should behave when it is changed. This really begs for a demonstration,…
Okay, so you’ve spent some time designing a part and then you go to make a change and realize that your Design Intent has changed. Changing design intent involves changing SOLIDWORKS dimensions. Let me give you an example: So in the above example, I thought…
There are people who say that while SolidWorks excels in creating a new model from scratch, sometimes it is quite complicated to use for modifying an existing part. Let’s consider three of the most frequent questions: What if you want to do a radical change to a shape? What if you need to completely modify the whole “manufacturing” process of a specific part and for that would even have to change the type of the existing features (i.e. replace a Boss-Extrude with a Revolve)? What would happen with the children of the features that get deleted? What if you want to do complex changes to existing bodies (even “dumb” solids or surfaces)? Good News! In the last 5 years, SolidWorks introduced amazing functionality for addressing these needs. SolidWorks…