SolidWorks Tip: Part Review Instead of Rollback

With the 2012 version SolidWorks nearing the end of its release, and 2013 beta available for…

How to improve the display quality of a circle in DraftSight

DraftSight is a free 2D CAD package available from Solid Applications. When using DraftSight to view…

Tip: Using SolidWorks Alternate Position Views

SolidWorks has many great drawing creation productivity tools, one of which is Alternate Position Views. This…

SolidWorks, Making Holes at an Angle: The Easy Way

Have you ever needed to make a hole that pierces material at a certain point, but…

SolidWorks Sketches That Enforce Proportion

Sometimes a sketched feature is not intended to produce a particular dimension, so much as to…

Free Design for Manaufacturing Feedback inside SolidWorks

It will happen, one day you will receive a part that is nearly impossible to manufacture.…