SOLIDWORKS Surface
SOLIDWORKS has a plethora of tools right at your fingertips. Sometimes, when it comes to modeling surface metal, we need to get creative with how to generate unique parts. Let us help you discover the array of surfacing options available in the software with this…
Surfacing in SOLIDWORKS desktop software is a powerful and useful concept. If you are interested in learning about the latest SOLIDWORKS features and functionality when it comes to surface modeling or just want to expand your modeling techniques in general, this on-demand webinar is for…
Every now and then we learn something new in SOLIDWORKS that is so simple and yet so powerful. Delete Hole is one of those. It is a time-saver compared to patching techniques. When working with a surface model in SOLIDWORKS, a hole can be deleted…
Remember that time you tried to offset faces as new surfaces, only to receive an error message that it failed? This can be frustrating, especially when many faces are involved and it is unclear which ones are the culprit. Troubleshooting can become time-consuming as you…
In SOLIDWORKS 2020 you can thicken a surface by specifying a direction other than normal to a face with Thicken and Thicken Cut features. The direction for Thicken or Thicken cut can be a linear sketch entity, two vertices or sketch points, cylindrical or conical…
My architect friend was recently commissioned to design a community center. His client’s mandate was that the building had to be pointing to a monument on the other side of the world. My friend did not see this as a problem and proceeded to design…
Using the SOLIDWORKS Surface Extrude feature, we can extrude the boundary edges of a face of a solid body or edges of a surface body in a customized direction. When we run the Extruded Surface command, two things can happen: Either a sketch is active…
When working with surfaces in SOLIDWORKS you would typically be converting Surface into Solid using the Knit Surface or Thicken Surface feature. But with the latest versions of SOLIDWORKS you now have the ability to create a solid using the Boundary Surface or the Trim Surface features, provided…