The industry's top engineers, designers, and additive manufacturing experts offer their best advice, research, how-tos, and insights—all in the name of helping you level-up your 3D designs and engineering skills.
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional is fantastic for managing your CAD workflows, revisions and history, but we often find ourselves wanting to accomplish more than just CAD file management. With SOLIDWORKS Manage, we can capture processes that go beyond the documents themselves, or do not have documents at … [Read more...] about Building on PDM Professional With SOLIDWORKS Manage
At the height of the pandemic in May of 2020, Quest Integration wanted to help the community. Before being acquired by Hawk Ridge Systems, they launched a grant program. STEM The Tide was designed to encourage students to produce personal protection equipment (PPE). What is STEM the Tide? The kits … [Read more...] about Washington Students STEM The Tide with 3D Printed Face Shields
The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Subdivision Modeling With 3DSculptor Subdivision (Sub-D) modeling is all about making organic modeling easy. If you are a fan of push-and-pull control points (nurbs) we got you covered. SOLIDWORKS has always been an analytical parametric modeling software and that has … [Read more...] about Subdivision Modeling Made Easy Using 3DSculptor
With Markforged being most widely known for their hardware and range of printable materials, it can be easy to forget that they are also heavily software-focused as a company. After all, their cloud-based Eiger slicing software is easy to use, scalable and is the only 3D printing slicer to obtain … [Read more...] about Announcing In-Process Laser Inspection With Markforged Blacksmith
Building on PDM Professional with SOLIDWORKS Manage SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional provides the SOLIDWORKS CAD community a robust, highly configurable environment to manage your complex CAD documents, inform your colleagues of changes, and automate the creation of deliverables, like PDF drawings, … [Read more...] about Solving the Top 4 Challenges in PDM with SOLIDWORKS Manage
According to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, women comprise about 47 percent of the overall workforce. When it comes to science and engineering, however, only 14 percent of engineers are female. While a gradual increase of women in engineering has occurred in recent decades, there are … [Read more...] about 8 Influential Things You Didn’t Know Were Invented By Women
How often do you wait until you have a physical prototype in hand to start your wire harness design? Do you see revisions to your mechanical assemblies that force changes to your wire harnesses? Have you seen delays to product launches due to waiting for your wire harnesses to be designed and built? … [Read more...] about How to Integrate Wire Harness Design in Your SOLIDWORKS Assemblies
As your design nears completion, you might be concerned with how it’ll perform during a physical test or in a real-life environment. As we know, physical testing can be a costly and time-consuming process and many design issues can be predicted using software like SOLIDWORKS Simulation. With these … [Read more...] about Which is Better: Simulation Consulting vs In-House Simulation Tools?
