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.
You may have heard talk of polishing Markforged Metal X parts but haven’t actually seen a sample part, much less how this can be accomplished. In today’s blog post, we are going to remove the veil and show you how to achieve a near-mirror like surface finish on your Markforged Metal X … [Read more...] about The Secret to Polishing Markforged Metal X Parts Like a Pro
A compliant mechanism is a flexible device that achieves force and motion transmission through elastic body deformation. A compliant mechanism gains its motion from the relative flexibility of its members rather than from rigid-body joints. The fact that a complaint mechanism uses the elasticity of … [Read more...] about Understanding a Compliant Mechanism Using SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Whether you’re looking to try SOLIDWORKS for your first time or you’ve used it in the past and want to try it again, SOLIDWORKS has options that allow you to take a test drive. Does SOLIDWORKS Have a Free Trial? Yes! With the SOLIDWORKS free trial, you can access the latest versions of … [Read more...] about 5 Frequently Asked Questions on the SOLIDWORKS Free Trial
This blog post will reveal how you can automatically generate serial numbers for your 3D printed parts using HP Jet Fusion and Materialise Magics. In an additive manufacturing environment, traceability is a big deal. How can you monitor when a part was made? What material or what revision was a … [Read more...] about Serialization of 3D Printed Parts with Materialise Magics and HP Jet Fusion
SOLIDWORKS Network Licensing (or SNL for short) relies on a lightweight server component to handout licenses to client PCs. As users load SOLIDWORKS products, the appropriate licenses are checked out from the license pool. When a user closes SOLIDWORKS or unloads an add-in such as SOLIDWORKS … [Read more...] about IT Considerations for SOLIDWORKS Network Licensing
In this article, we’ll be discussing First Article Inspection (FAI) reports and covering a basic strategy for creating them in the SOLIDWORKS Inspection standalone program. But first, what is FAI all about? FAI utilizes an industry set of standards, it typically consists of three sections … [Read more...] about 4 Easy Steps to Create a First Article Inspection Report
In this article, we’ll be covering all the SOLIDWORKS resources available to you through Hawk Ridge Systems, including our technical support team, our YouTube channel and everything in between. This is a great place to start if you’re currently waiting to receive your SOLIDWORKS serial number, … [Read more...] about Getting Started With SOLIDWORKS: Hawk Ridge Systems Resources
In this article, we’ll be covering all the capabilities of your new SOLIDWORKS ID account, from MySolidworks to the Customer Portal and everything in between. If you don’t have a SOLIDWORKS ID yet, be sure to read our "Getting Started With SOLIDWORKS: Registration and Installation" prior to … [Read more...] about Getting Started with SOLIDWORKS: MySolidWorks and the Customer Portal
