This is a chapter I wrote for the SolidWorks Administration Bible about 10 years ago. It is still mostly valid today. There was a discussion on the SolidWorks forum that…
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I’ve learned a lot in my time working with the SolidWorks tools. One thing I’ve learned is that stuff is easy to forget. I’ve forgotten and had to re-learn a…
Have you ever noticed that none of the SolidWorks example files use parts from the Toolbox library directly? I once bought what I thought was a great product, called ProductCenter.…
Toolbox is a piece of SolidWorks software that I have been in the habit of giving very poor reviews. In the SolidWorks releases prior to 2007, these reviews were definitely…
This is part 1 in a series just on Toolbox. It has started from the series on CAD Admin. Toolbox is not a topic that you can talk about…
Conceptually, SolidWorks Toolbox is beautiful. No, really, I mean this without any sarcasm this time. Conceptually, it is beautiful. The idea of delivering thousands of fastener parts in a very…
Somehow I’ve been blogging for about a year now and I haven’t yet written about Toolbox. It is a little dated at this point, but 3 years ago I wrote…
IronCAD is a product that’s little off the beaten path. It had its beginning in a popular but short-lived industrial design product called Trispectives in 1995. Walking through the software…
I’ve been quoted as saying “nostalgia has no place in engineering technology”. And I stand by that statement. You might think from the title that I’m headed for a self-indulgent…
Like most other tools or techniques, subd is good at some types of work and not so good at other types. For example, you might do well to make sheet…