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…
Category: tech tips
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…
The section of Chapter 7 in my new book that covers fillets is 27 pages long. I’ll try to summarize it here in a blog post short enough for you…
There are a lot of different selection methods available in SolidWorks for use in different situations. I’m sure I won’t hit them all here, so feel free to chime in…
This is going to turn out to be one of those multi-part posts. It started as a user group presentation for Daniel Herzberg’s user group in Fredricksburg, Virginia on January…