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.
In March, SOLIDWORKS started offering a new product called SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer. There’s a lot of marketing information out there, but not much information about how this new tool fits in with the other simulation offerings from SOLIDWORKS and SIMULIA. So let’s take a look at what … [Read more...] about New SIMULIA Product: Structural Simulation Engineer (SSE)
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of opening a SOLIDWORKS document, only to find that your last eight hours of hard work have just been wiped out by the intern. Anyone who has experienced data loss certainly knows what true pain feels like, and while SOLIDWORKS PDM is our number one … [Read more...] about Managing Read-Only Access in SOLIDWORKS
When General Pattern Company started in 1922, it was a pattern shop that made tooling for the foundry industry. Nearly a century and multiple generations later, the company has evolved into a trusted rapid prototyping, tooling and production company.When the foundry industry began to shift … [Read more...] about How HP Technology Gave a Minnesota Molding Company a Competitive Advantage
Planetary gearing is a compact alternative to standard pinion-and-gear reducers and is used in a wide variety of applications to provide high torque. We are going to go over the setup of a planetary gear assembly in SOLIDWORKS that will allow us to demonstrate the motion of the three drive types of … [Read more...] about How to Set Up a Planetary Gear Motion with SOLIDWORKS
Discover a few simple additive manufacturing practices that can help to enhance your Markforged experience, including:A few tips and tricks that will change your additive manufacturing game; A look at breaking up and re-assembling larger parts or assemblies; And a demonstration of how … [Read more...] about Getting the Most Out of Your Markforged Composite 3D Printer
In the world of 3D printing, one file format has dominated the industry for decades – the STL file. It has reigned supreme and has been around since the inception of 3D printing. Developed in 1987, the STL (Stereo-Lithography) file format was created by 3D Systems for use on their first SLA 3D … [Read more...] about 3MF: The File Format for the Future of 3D Printing
Anyone who has ever had a pop-up camper knows how tedious it can be to raise and lower the roof.For those that haven’t had the pleasure of completing this arduous task, there is a receptacle on the side of the camper that you plug the hand crank into and get to cranking like a kid spinning an … [Read more...] about Crank It Up: Creating Custom Drill Bit With Markforged Technology
In 2017, Hawk Ridge Systems partnered with the 3D printing company Markforged. Since their founding in 2013, every product that Markforged has released follows one simple design principle: grant users access to strong, end use 3D printed parts. Now, Markforged has taken another step toward that goal … [Read more...] about The Markforged Metal X: An Introduction to Metal 3D Printing
