You might have seen a thread on the SolidWorks Forum yesterday. Someone had the situation shown below. A hole partially covered up by a fillet. This kind of set me…
Author: matt
The history of history-based modeling is not that long, really. We can talk about all sorts of variations, but it boils down to two things: Pro/Engineer, and then SolidWorks and…
John Stoltzfus is a guy that I, like a lot of you, I assume, met on the SolidWorks forum. Helpful guy, full of information that he’s willing to give away.…
For those of you who weren’t aware, or possibly just didn’t care, I was away for 4 years while I learned about other tools and other users. Prior to that…
For some reason, I decided I wanted to model a coaster brake bike like I had when I was a kid. It didn’t turn out much like my bike, as…
Dick Gebhard is a guy I met while working for Solid Edge. He has a lot of energy for a guy who’s trying to not retire. He’s the guy who…
In writing updates for “the book” this time through, Alin Vargatu, the technical editor who has added more to the book than any previous tech editor, pointed out that I…
I took 4 years and did something else, and when I came back to working with SolidWorks, I found that some of my old gripes had been addressed. In fact,…
Here’s another part with some interesting features. On the brake shoe, we used a revolve and a pattern to create ridges on the brake to create friction. On this part,…
The truth is that most people don’t make models that get much benefit from the History-based modeling scheme. For most parts, no one really cares if the computer remembers that…