SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual

MySolidWorks Learning: Sketch Booleans will make 3D Object Intersections come to Life in Conceptual Designer

Want to know how to combine the volume of two sketch objects? Try the MySolidWorks Learning Sketch Booleans tutorial and you’ll be able to master the art of sketch object union. Sketch Booleans is the particular function within SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual that allows you to freely intersect, add, and subtract one object from the…

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The Past, Present, and Future of SOLIDWORKS – an Interview with Ken Clayton, VP of SOLIDWORKS Sales

Ken Clayton, the VP of SOLIDWORKS Worldwide Sales recently attended three Ontario SOLIDWORKS User Group Network meetings to present ‘The Past, Present, and Future of SOLIDWORKS’ and answer questions from SOLIDWORKS users. For users who were unable to attend a UGN meeting we were able to conduct an interview with Ken and ask him some…

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Direct Editing, a SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer Tutorial [VIDEO]

I really like the local “Convert to Direct Edit” functionality of SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual. It means that you do not need to lose the whole recipe of the product, but only replace selected feature(s) with direct edit entities. The whole Direct Editing (also called Direct Modeling) process…

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SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer Tutorial: Instinctive Dimensioning [VIDEO]

You do not need to be an expert in order to dimension entities in SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual. Like most everything in this app, dimensioning is an instinctive process. Watch this video and see for yourself how elegant and natural it feels to dimension and constraint…

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SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer Tutorial: Direct Edit for Filling Cavities [VIDEO]

The Direct Edit functionality of SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual is outstanding. It can be used even for tooling creation or reverse engineering! In this video you will see how easy it is to create a solid body to fit in an existing cavity. … and… how…

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SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer is a new way to tackle Concept Design Problems

Innovative conceptual design is the core of any successful product. SOLIDWORKS® Mechanical Conceptual, powered by Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform, removes the constraints of structured design programs and gives you a flexible, intuitive, powerful modeling environment that turns every challenge of conceptual design into your business…

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SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer Tutorial: Best Practices for Defining Features [VIDEO]

This video explores the different outcomes between selecting a sketch object, a sketch, one or more edges, or even a face when defining features in SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual. Looks like old best practices hold true for SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual: Always select the BIGGEST ENTITY you…

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SolidWorks World 2013 – Day 1 [VIDEO]

SolidWorks World 2013 is currently under way at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA. Watch the video below to see everything that happened in the General Session on Day 1, the video includes: The keynote address from SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot. Introduction to My.SolidWorks a new centralized platform for accessing the SolidWorks community, blogs, and social sites. The announcement SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual a new SolidWorks design product on the Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The Red Bull Stratos Engineering Team present their story of breaking the skydiving world record from the edge of space!

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