Working from home? Need something to fill the gaps? Maybe you should take some initiative and learn something new. Maybe surfacing. Or maybe you’re just interested in some advanced techniques…
Category: tech tips
SolidWorks terminology gets all messed up when they start talking about “curves”. They have formal curve features, which include Projected Curve, Composite Curve, XYZ Curve, Reference Points Curve, Helix/Spiral. But…
The other day I was modeling this bicycle, and I was trying to remember how to make a chain. I’ve made chains before, and knew there was a hard way,…
A few days ago there was a discussion on the SolidWorks forum about some very old videos showing some simple functionality of Synchronous Technology in Solid Edge. It looked like…
Today I posted a YouTube video of what it looks like inside the Surfacing Episode site. I know not many of you have seen it, so I thought I’d give…
The word degenerate conjures a lot of different images for different people. For me, it was mostly Bevis and Butthead and that sniggling little laugh. Even in the grunge 1990s…
I have long called the Fill surface the “magic wand” in SolidWorks. It enables you to create a great range of stuff and does things it shouldn’t. This aircraft model,…
One time I heard someone disparagingly complain about SolidWorks fillets. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not above griping now and then (ahem), but generally not about the fillets. Fillets have…
There are some features in SolidWorks that don’t get much love. Some of these things are really amazing time savers, or help in getting you where you’re going more quickly…
Sometimes I get people who email me SolidWorks technical questions. You know, like I’m tech support and get paid for this. Worse yet, they send me complaints. Like I can…