Author: Matt Lombard
Here are my five top SOLIDWORKS tips and tricks: How to handle top-down design Feature Manager management Interface setup and use Surfacing work Manual file management 1. How to Handle Top-Down Design Top-down design is ...
Dassault Systèmes offers the 3DEXPERIENCE platform of applications, which have been developed to work together using a common interface.
Once upon a time in the CAD world, if you wanted to use your models for some other purpose than making 2D drawings—such as analysis of stress or motion—you would have to buy the separate ...
As people who live and die by software, CAD users and other users of engineering technology form a love-hate relationship with their CAD vendor or reseller for technical support. Here are some tips to make ...
Much has been written on general management techniques but very little of it directly applies to CAD administration and even less applies to mentoring young enthusiasts. CAD Admin is Different from Other Management Jobs Part ...
Data management is a topic that gets written about a lot. However, with so many levels of data management, there are still many people who are lost when it comes to this topic. Some are ...
SOLIDWORKS offers a lot of automation that can be useful for drawings. This starts with metadata in part and assembly documents and can add quite a bit of custom detail to templates, formats, libraries and ...
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When CAD meant 2D AutoCAD, and CAD standards meant naming layers and assigning line thicknesses, the job of the CAD Admin—or more likely, the drafting manager—was a lot simpler. Even more advanced topics around 2D ...
If you work at a company that does not have anyone looking after the engineering software, where do you begin?
If 3D Interconnect does not apply in your situation, or your import has errors, there are several options available to troubleshoot and repair the data.
Engineers are upstream in the product development workflow, so they send their SOLIDWORKS files downstream to the machinists.
The goal is to make everything look easy. This article delves into a few ideas to take the work out of looking lazy.
The SOLIDWORKS Fill surface was added to the software in 2001, after surfacing was added in 1998+. It is essentially an N-sided Coons patch that will fill an opening in a surface that is otherwise ...
Boundary has several advantages and differences when compared to the other interpolating features Loft, Sweep and Fill.
When SOLIDWORKS introduced the Boundary Surface feature in 2008, I was just finishing writing the first SOLIDWORKS Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling Bible. It was a new feature, and it was being added to the ...
