When creating a First Article Inspection report, it’s sometimes necessary to specify characteristics that will be inspected on a pass/fail basis. This may result from inspecting with dedicated tooling or gauges like a Go/No Go thread gauge, or by performing a functionality check with other mating … [Read more...] about Pass/Fail Criteria for Characteristics in SOLIDWORKS Inspection
SOLIDWORKS features a powerful set of Mold Tools for tackling complex mold designs, but it’s not always necessary to use them. If you’re just trying to make a simple cavity and mold split, you can easily accomplish this using the procedure outlined below.Note: You can use a similar procedure … [Read more...] about How to Perform a Simple Tooling Split in SOLIDWORKS
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
