There are a number of great enhancements for eDrawings 2019. We want to cover new features in eDrawings standard (the free viewer) as well as graphical performance enhancements, the new ability to view SOLIDWORKS configurations on native files, and an all-new web HTML export in eDrawings … [Read more...] about What’s New in eDrawings 2019
In order to effectively set up complex studies, it is important to understand the variety of meshing options that are available in SOLIDWORKS Simulation.General solid bodies are automatically meshed using solid tetrahedral elements, which are a great fit in a variety of cases. For geometries … [Read more...] about Shell Mesh Definition in SOLIDWORKS Simulation
How you import your SOLIDWORKS assembly into SOLIDWORKS Visualize matters! This blog and the companion video compare the two most common import methods and provide some time-saving tips. Importing SOLIDWORKS Assembly into SOLIDWORKS VisualizeFirst let us examine the Export … [Read more...] about How to Apply and Manage Appearances in SOLIDWORKS Visualize
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional has some great tools for going beyond plain static renders. You can create custom animations within Visualize using the keyframe-based Timeline. As of 2017 version, you can also export Animations and Motion Studies created in SOLIDWORKS directly into the Visualize … [Read more...] about How to Export Motion Studies to SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional
With the increasing demand to optimize designs for functionality and aesthetics, SOLIDWORKS Visualize provides the most accurate solution to bridge the two together. It enables your design team to leverage your 3D CAD data to create photo-quality content in the fastest and easiest way you can–from … [Read more...] about Streamline Your Render Setup With SOLIDWORKS Visualize
Quickly generate "teaser" style product silhouettes directly from SOLIDWORKS Silhouette images can be a great way to show off a “teaser” of a product or design. I recently used a simple trick for generating silhouette images from SOLIDWORKS in preparation of some other blog articles I’ll be doing … [Read more...] about Generating a Silhouette Image in SOLIDWORKS
This blog and the companion YouTube video will go over the design checks, rendering output, and finished 3D print of an ornament design. For details on the design process check out the first blog and video!Throughout the design process I verified the center of gravity location using SOLIDWORKS … [Read more...] about Design Review of ImpossiBell Ornament – Part 2
As the holiday season approached, Hawk Ridge decided to host a design challenge for a 3D printed tree ornament. Everyone who submitted a design would receive their ornament after being printed on one of our HP 3D printers. All submissions were required to fit into a 2” cube bounding box and the … [Read more...] about SOLIDWORKS: Design Review of ImpossiBell Ornament – Part 1
