Three Key Points to Bear in Mind When Reusing Sketch Dimensions in Model-Based Workflows
SOLIDWORKS can help you reuse sketch dimensions. However, here are three areas to consider with this practice.
America’s Next Top CAD Modeler
An interview with Tom Smith, winner of SOLIDWORKS World 2018’s Model Mania.
Unlimited Tomorrow: Making Prosthetics Accessible and More Functional
A prosthetic device startup is on the verge of changing its industry thanks to an ambitious business model and the acceptance of advanced technologies.
How to Reuse Sketch Dimensions in Model-based Workflows
Some manufacturers define dimensions and tolerances in sketches, so would like to reuse them in the 3D space. Let’s find out how.
Neri Oxman—Vision for the Future of Engineering
Can Neri Oxman’s vision of computational design, additive manufacturing and biomimicry lead to a new product design paradigm?
Amazing Mechatronic Exoskeletons Making Headway Towards FDA Approval
Newer lightweight robotics wearable to help patients with limited mobility.
Your Place for All Things SOLIDWORKS
The many resources of MySolidWorks helps users and prospects alike.
For Technical Documentation, Animation is Worth Way More Than a Thousand Words
Most people would agree that a great product starts with a great design, but what makes a great design? Some descriptive terms that might come to mind may be: innovative, useful, functional, aesthetically pleasing, long-lasting, and manufacturability, just to name a few. Looking at your product through the end user’s eyes, however, there are some… View Full Story
Managing Appearances—Making Your Parts and Assemblies Stand Out
We take a look at how to best alter the appearances of parts and assemblies.
Performing Topology Optimization: A Step-by-Step Guide
A tutorial covering the basics of topology studies for CAD.
My 5 Favorite Little Things about SOLIDWORKS 2018
EngineersRule.com explores five of the most useful features of the newest version of the popular CAD software.
Ensure Solid GD&T Datum Practices with SOLIDWORKS MBD
Datum features are the foundation of sound GD&T definitions. As the basic references of dimensions and tolerances, they guide the machining and inspection procedures. SOLIDWORKS MBD has built GD&T rules into the software to automatically ensure solid datum practices.
Three Wheels, 3,000 Watts and an Ingenious Designer
Founder of Icon Wheelchairs, Christian Bagg, describes the design behind his motorized, articulating tricycle for disabled athletes.
Three MBD Advantages over 2D Drawings in GD&T Compliances
GD&T is an engineering language widely used in both 2D drawings and MBD. Are there any definition differences in these two approaches? This article will illustrate three MBD advantages over 2D drawings in GD&T compliances.
What’s New in Inspection: Extract Key Characteristics from 3D Annotations for Inspection Reports
After annotations are defined on 3D models directly, rather than in separate 2D drawings, how can a quality inspector extract the key characteristics to generate inspection reports? SOLIDWORKS Inspection 2018 answered this need to support model-based workflows.
Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work in CAD Design
SOLIDWORKS ramps up AI in CAM 2018 and in the forthcoming Xdesign.
Assembly Model Performance in SOLIDWORKS 2018
New tools in SOLIDWORKS 2018 to determine which part files are slowing down your assemblies.
What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2018: Tolerance-Based Machining in SOLIDWORKS CAM
New in SOLIDWORKS 2018 is a dedicated CAM package. To automate the Numeric Code programming, it reads the tolerance information from the 3D annotations directly attached to models. SOLIDWORKS calls it a game changer. How does it work? What can you do with it?
Thanks to CAD, Building an Aircraft Kit Has Never Been Easier
Sebastien Heintz, Zenith Aircraft Company CEO, Discusses How the Company Uses CAD and CAM to Make Aircraft Kits.
What a Fine Mesh We’re In
Until recently, the number of SOLIDWORKS users who needed to import mesh files in SOLIDWORKS was relatively small. They would have typically needed to reuse geometry created in an artistic modeling software, such as Maya or 3DS Max, or import point cloud files representing scanned data. The process of importing and converting these files to… View Full Story
What’s New with Drawings in SOLIDWORKS 2018
We explore the new drawing features available in SOLIDWORKS 2018.
Ringbrothers Uses CAD/CAM to Bring Classic Cars into the 21st Century
Engineer Matt Moseman lets us in on how Ringbrothers uses modern machine tools and advanced CAD software to pull off some of the most exciting car mods on the road today.
What’s New in SOLIDWORKS MBD 2018: Build a Bridge Between MBD and 2D Drawings
Many manufacturers are moving toward Model-Based Definition (MBD), but the daily productions cannot run without 2D drawings. How can you accommodate both approaches? SOLIDWORKS MBD 2018 built a bridge in between.
Why and How You Can Create Self-Locating and Self-Fixturing Designs Using SOLIDWORKS 2018
Pairs of tabs and slots are widely used in self-locating and self-fixturing designs such as food processing machines and furniture. Up to now, it has been time consuming and repetitive to manually create multiple pairs of tabs and slots, as well as to maintain the relationships between them. SOLIDWORKS 2018 adds a way to automatically create associative pairs.
What’s New in SOLIDWORKS MBD 2018: Update Configuration Specific Propertiesin One 3D PDF Document
Configurations are very popular among SOLIDWORKS users, but how can you present multiple configurations and associative properties in one 3D PDF document? SOLIDWORKS MBD 2018 now provides the answer.
SOLIDWORKS CAM for Free?
For SOLIDWORKS users on subscription, a lot of CAM now comes at no extra cost. 5 axis and turning is extra, however.
Automotive Adventure with SOLIDWORKS and Trakka
The story of how an Australian motorhome company boosted its business with SOLIDWORKS.
What’s New in SOLIDWORKS MBD 2018: Define Semantic Default Tolerances
Laborious 3D annotations and their overwhelmingly busy displays present constant challenges to MBD implementations on both the authoring and consumption sides. Let’s see how SOLIDWORKS MBD 2018’s can help.
You’re Connected. What Do You Get Out of That?
Welcome screen has links to MySolidWorks content. Alerts, updates about the product. What benefits to being online?
SOLIDWORKS 2018 Gets Touchy-Feely!
The latest release of SOLIDWORKS has got a bunch of great new sketch features all designed for boosting productivity and usability. Read on for more details.
Topology Optimization Comes to SOLIDWORKS
Optimization algorithm uses simulation to improve weight-to-stiffness ratios.