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SOLIDWORKS adds hundreds of new features every single release – and SOLIDWORKS 2019 is no exception. With great improvements in assembly performance, new workflows, and new surface texture features, SOLIDWORKS continues to innovate in 3D CAD. THE BEST OF SOLIDWORKS 2019 RELEASE 1. NEW 3D TEXTURE … [Read more...] about The Top 10 New Features in SOLIDWORKS 2019
SOLIDWORKS adds hundreds of new features every single release – and SOLIDWORKS 2019 is no exception. With great improvements in assembly performance, new workflows with touch and markup, and new surface texture features, SOLIDWORKS continues to innovate in 3D CAD. In this first part of a two-part … [Read more...] about What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2019 – Release Highlights Part 1
Welcome, to our What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2019 on Simulation, Flow, and Plastics. My name is Damon Tordini, I'm one of the project managers here at Hawk Ridge Systems, and along with me as well is Silvio Perez. He is also one of our project managers, and both of us focus on Hawk Ridge Systems … [Read more...] about What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2019: Simulation, Flow, & Plastics
It's Halloween here at Hawk Ridge Systems, and we take the holiday dead serious. To spook my fellow co-workers, I decided to undertake a project I've been mulling over since I read an article about one last Halloween; the Aztec Death Whistle.The Aztec Death Whistle, rather than being a … [Read more...] about Aztec Death Whistle Designed with Hawk Ridge Systems Solutions
Interference Detection is an essential tool that allows you to find where individual parts in an assembly interfere with each other. This helps to check that all of your components fit together before being manufactured. Previously this tool was only available in the assembly environment, leaving … [Read more...] about Exploring Interference Detection with Multi-Body Parts in SOLIDWORKS
Quality of Hardware Matters The better and more expensive the hardware, the faster the rendering will be. Right? Well, that is technically true but what really matters is having the right hardware, not the most expensive.Visualize will utilize both the GPUs (Graphics Cards) and the CPUs … [Read more...] about Operating SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost Server – Part 2
Introduced with SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2018 SP3.0, the new Denoiser allows professional renderings to be made 10x faster. This new ability does require a minimum of 4gigs of VRAM (video ram), however, if you want to use it and doesn’t meet the minimum requirements, if you only have 1gig of VRAM, you … [Read more...] about Operating SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost – Part 1
Has the thought to streamline the design process ever occurred? Where instead of building on top of a feature and using several sketches to build your part an alternative way could be used? The Solution to these questions is to use multiple Contours. Through the Contour select tool, we will be able … [Read more...] about SOLIDWORKS: The Contour Select Tool and Contours
