Editing the SolidWorks Custom Property Name List

When setting up custom properties in your SolidWorks parts, assemblies and drawings you have no doubt…

Exploring the SolidWorks Property Tab Builder

The SolidWorks Property Tab Builder is a stand-alone utility you use to create a customized interface…

Getting the most out of your SolidWorks graphics–with help from NVIDIA

SolidWorks recently held a Technical Training summit for North American resellers.  About 75 technical leads from…

Customising SolidWorks Spell Checker

SolidWorks has a spell checker?  Yup!  It’s called Spelling Check and can be invoked on most…

SolidWorks: Assembly Visualization – the search for the missing file properties

Releasing your drawings to the machine shop with missing information makes a machinist angrier than a…

Demystifying the Color Settings in SolidWorks Parts and Assemblies

Applying colors to parts and assemblies in SolidWorks is not a difficult task, but one must…

SolidWorks: Using Curvature Combs to Inspect Curvature

One of my favorite ways to inspect curvature is to use curvature combs. These are graphical…

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…

SolidWorks Defeature: How to Increase the Performance of Imported Parts

One tool that I think gets overlooked for it abilities is the Defeature tool, which was…

Clean Up Your SolidWorks Drawings With Auto Arrange Dimensions

One of my favorite enhancements to drawings over the past couple of years has got to…

Tip: Using SolidWorks Alternate Position Views

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