What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2019 – Tables to Excel and Default Saving Locations

In SOLIDWORKS 2019, You can include a thumbnail of each component when you export a table-based…

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2019 – Creating Partial Chamfers and Fillets

In SOLIDWORKS 2019,You can create partial chamfers and fillets with specified lengths along model edges. The…

How to Create a Custom Weldment Profile in SOLIDWORKS

Within SOLIDWORKS you have the ability to create your own custom weldment profiles, which can then…

SOLIDWORKS Hints & Tips – Adding custom material properties to Toolbox Components

You can create a list custom property that is linked to the SOLIDWORKS Materials library. The…

New Tab and Slot Feature Streamlines Manufacturing of Fabricated Designs

A costly part of manufacturing fabricated designs (designs made up of components that are welded, glued…

SOLIDWORKS Modeling Challenge – Measuring Imported Fillets

* This is one of a series of modeling challenges you can use to test your…

Understanding Sheet Metal and Transformed Sketches and How They Behave

Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the Folded and the Flat Pattern states (Fig. 1) Sketches…

SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Utilizing Curve Driven Patterns

While some of the common patterning commands like Linear Pattern and Circular Pattern can accomplish your…

Can’t Find a Model You Need? Request it on 3D ContentCentral

You’ve scoured 3D ContentCentral’s millions of models, you’ve completed all search fields, but you still haven’t…

SOLIDWORKS Modeling Challenge – Drafting Curved Surfaces

Just like previous modeling challenges, give this one a shot on your own before scrolling down…

SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Offset Entities

How do you offset entities? Did you know there are a whopping seven options in the…

Excluding library parts when using SOLIDWORKS Pack and Go

SOLIDWORKS Pack and Go gathers all related files for a model design (parts, assemblies, drawings, references,…