You’re new to Weldments in SolidWorks and excited to start using structural members, only to find that the default weldment profiles are limited to a sample of the ISO standard. Then you ask, where are all the weldment profiles? Presumably to save space, SolidWorks made all of the weldment standards downloadable from the design library… Read more »
SolidWorks should have added an option to output an image with a transparent background, in Photoview 360. At least Photoview creates an alpha channel that can be saved out along with the colored image. This allows you, if you have Photoshop or a similarly equipped image editing program, to manually remove out the background. This… Read more »
It’s one thing to create a complex shape with SolidWorks Sheet Metal; It’s an entirely different thing to get that shape to flatten. The sketch bend tool allows you to create multiple bends in a single feature by adding multiple lines to your bend sketch. If you combine this with the unfold and fold features,… Read more »
SolidWorks has quite a few shortcuts built in, a lot of which aren’t immediately apparent. In quite a few features, if you select an entity, you’ll see a mouse icon with an image for either the right or left click, something like a green check mark, arrow, or eye glasses indicating that if you right… Read more »
Even the most simple looking products, can present a problem when you are trying to recreate the same geometry within SolidWorks. If you are well versed with SolidWorks Sheet Metal, the chair shown above, from Yanko Design, can be designed in several different manners, but if you’re new to sheet metal tools, this may provide a… Read more »
(Photo Credit:mattbossons) I haven’t made the switch to a smart phone. I’m currently putting up my last stand before the inevitable “upgrade.” Don’t get me wrong, I love technology as much as the next guy and probably spend upwards of 50 hours a week just using SolidWorks. But, SolidWorks doesn’t create metal chips when… Read more »