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…
Category: tech tips
I wanted to put the myths to rest for good. This is a head-to-head comparison between the new-to-2008 Instant3D and the tool called Move/Size Features which is very similar and has existed…
The name Relationship Counseling is of course playing off of the marriage counseling bit, and is doubly funny to me, thinking of my self as any sort of relationship counsellor.…
Why do SolidWorks users as a class of CAD users need more relationship counseling than, say, Pro/E users? The answer is going to sound sarcastic, but I honestly believe it…
The entire Open Source movement is truly a font of optimism. I have to admit that many of the core beliefs of the technological religion called Open Source are very…
Well, I hope you all are recovering from your holiday. All of the craziness of the season takes a bit of an emotional toll on me, and in the first…
SolidWorks 2008 is going to be a really fantastic release for people doing work with assemblies. What I have listed here are just some of my favorites, or potential favorites.…
This is a question that came up in comp.cad.solidworks, and I thought I’d pass it along. A fillet can only be made between separate surface bodies when the Face Fillet…
I haven’t done much technical how-to yet on this blog, so I guess it’s time for a surfacing tutorial. Folks ask for this sort of stuff, and there is precious…
There are as many urban legends and crazy misconceptions surrounding the SolidWorks software as anything out there. There is a lot of apocryphal information which isn’t verified and is often…