When you click on a non planar face using the reference geometry>plane option, you can create a tangent plane. This tangent plane will be placed arbitrarily until a second reference is selected. By using a sketch point, these planes can be easily positioned in the desired orientation. In the case above, you can see that… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Quick Tips
The Bigger the Better: Scale a Part in SolidWorks
Perhaps you want a larger version of your part, or that imported model you brought in has the wrong units. Whatever the reason, the scale feature, in SolidWorks, is a quick and easy way to resize a part. SolidWorks didn’t want to make it too easy though, so it hid the tool in the insert… Read more »
Speed up Your SolidWorks Modeling Process with Contour Selection
Reusing sketch geometry can save you quite a bit of time in SolidWorks. Rather than creating multiple parallel sketches to produce different features, you can create a single sketch which can then be used for multiple features. This can be achieved using the contour select tool or the select contour box, in the property manager,… Read more »
SolidWorks Quick Tip: Save Your Settings
The settings and toolbars that you customize in SolidWorks are stored in the Windows registry key. SolidWorks being what it is, from time to time your registry settings will become corrupted, and the program will crash inexplicably. This means you’ll have to reset your registry, losing all of your settings in the process. It is… Read more »
SolidWorks Quick Tip: Delete Hole
The Delete Hole command is specific to surfaces within SolidWorks and is especially useful with surfaces that have been imported. It allows you to select a hole that lies on a surface, which doesn’t have to be round, and use the delete key to remove out the hole. It is similar to using delete and… Read more »
Combining Parts in SolidWorks
Combining parts within SolidWorks is a fairly simple process. Two methods are to save your assembly as a part file or to use the insert part command to combine parts into one file. The first, saving an assembly as a part, replaces the parts with surfaces that represent the bodies within an assembly, eliminating any… Read more »