SOLIDWORKS Sketch
Dimensioning a sketch in SOLIDWORKS is one of the most common and repeated operations when drawing a sketch. Therefore, employing different shortcuts for the dimensioning process can help you save time and make sketching an effortless experience. This blog presents the most valuable set of…
Whether you have been using SOLIDWORKS for a long time or are a new designer, you might find that drawing lines for a sketch can become repetitive and time-consuming. Nonetheless, this blog will present tips and tricks for line drawing in SOLIDWORKS even avid users…
One of the benefits of using contour sketches in SOLIDWORKS is that it provides users with the ability to not only add multiple features from the sketch but also a separate part body as well. In this example, I need to create the two end…
Traditionally when working with SOLIDWORKS Sketches, one of the axes is ignored to allow for a simpler method of creating feature profiles. However, when working in a three-dimensional space as opposed to traditional two-dimensions, your sketching may become difficult without the right knowledge or skills….
In this blog, we’ll take a look at a few SOLIDWORKS Sketch Options that will make your work much easier and save you valuable time by reducing tedious clicks. The time-saving sketching techniques and options we’ll cover in this video blog include: Auto-Rotate View Create…
First off, SOLIDWORKS is made specifically for Windows. When the first release of SOLIDWORKS came out in 1995, it was designed to be fully compliant with Windows. This is beneficial to anyone who is proficient in Windows File Explorer as it means you already have…
In this video tech tip we’ll cover five SOLIDWORKS sketching techniques that you can incorporate into your workflow so you can optimize your sketch creation process and significantly reduce time when working in SOLIDWORKS. We’ll be taking a look at Quick Relations, Symmetry Relations, Virtual…
Have you noticed that sometimes your SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text is upright going left to right but sometimes the text is upside down and is reversed right to left? This is not a bug or a mistake in the program but rather an intended behaviour. The…
If you are reading this article then you have most likely tried to use Convert Entities on SOLIDWORKS Sketch text and was not able to?! Although we cannot use Convert Entities on Sketch text (at least for now…SPR shown at end of article) we can…