Have you ever struggled with placing fasteners in your SOLIDWORKS assemblies? We will dive into the functionality of Smart Fasteners, how to use them, and how they work with the rest of the Toolbox.
McMaster-Carr has an enormous catalog of components often used in engineering design, fabrication and manufacturing. To help users navigate and use parts from its catalog, McMaster-Carr has developed its own free SOLIDWORKS add-in.
In this blog post, we will explore the McMaster-Carr add-in for SOLIDWORKS to discuss what it does and how to install and use it.
When designing in SOLIDWORKS, often the easiest (and most comprehensive) way to include and track fasteners in our designs is to use actual CAD models. Thankfully in SOLIDWORKS, we have a dedicated way to include fasteners in our designs with a built-in tool called the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox.
In this blog post, we will dive into what the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox really is, how it brings efficiency to our workflows, and explore how we can make use of it in our own designs.
