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Watermark Indicates SOLIDWORKS Files from Educational Version
The watermark ‘SOLIDWORKS Educational License – Instructional Use Only’ appears on a printed SOLIDWORKS drawing that references a file created using educational license, or using a template from an...
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How to find Parent View of a Section or Detail View located on a different...
With all of the information you need to show on your drawing sheets they get rather full and complicated. You might want separate sheets with the Section and Detail views. If you try creating a new...
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How to access SOLIDWORKS Add-ins three different ways
There are multiple ways of enabling or disabling your Add-Ins in SOLIDWORKS. Method #1 – Tools Menu If you’ve always been using the Tools > Add-Ins method, this is not the most efficient way as the...
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Solving SOLIDWORKS surfacing challenges when designing a Golf Club head [VIDEO]
On September 11th, 2015, Javelin and the Professional Engineers Ontario – Oakville Chapter are hosting the Slide Rule Classic Golf Tournament to help the New Oakville Hospital. Since I’m pretty...
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How to update SOLIDWORKS Annotations linked to the wrong Model [VIDEO]
In a SOLIDWORKS drawing that references multiple models, annotations sometimes get linked to the wrong part or assembly. In the example shown below, the title block is linked to the top-level assembly...
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Using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and Composer to Create the Ultimate Mini-Putt Golf...
For this golf themed tech tip I have designed a Mini-Putt Golf Course using both SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and SOLIDWORKS Composer 2015. First, I’ve created the 3D design of the mini-putt hole layout...
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SOLIDWORKS Online Training Done Right!
Online Training I’m a big advocate of video based online training and having created a lot of this type of courseware over the years I’ve witnessed the benefits that this style of training provides to...
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How to Copy & Paste SOLIDWORKS Custom Properties between documents
Greetings fellow SOLIDWORKS users! Perhaps you work for a company that makes use of SOLIDWORKS custom properties. Of course you use them, they’re terrific for populating your BOM automatically and can...
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How to Animate Spring Motion with SOLIDWORKS [VIDEO]
SOLIDWORKS models are generated as rigid bodies so animations cannot take into account flexibility of movement. To accurately calculate and animate deformation based on the material properties, a...
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Suppressing SOLIDWORKS Sketch Relations
Greetings, fellow SOLIDWORKS user! A neat trick that not many users are aware of is the ability to suppress a sketch relation. While this may not seem like the type of thing that needs to be done very...
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What to try when a SOLIDWORKS Assembly File will NOT Save
When a SOLIDWORKS assembly file will not save the first workaround is to try and save the assembly with a new name, to a different folder, or to a local drive. If that doesn’t work then here are two...
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SOLIDWORKS Hatch Pattern Customization
SOLIDWORKS has a good amount of standard hatch patterns that you can use in your drawings. But there are some occasions that you may need to customize some of those standard hatch patterns or even make...
View ArticleSOLIDWORKS 2016 New “Equal Curve Length” Sketch Relation [TUTORIAL]
This is the second article from the “What’s Really New in SOLIDWORKS 2016” series, where we continue to extensively test the new functionality introduced in the latest version of SOLIDWORKS. For the...
View ArticleSOLIDWORKS 2016 Dimensioning Pre-Selected Entities [TUTORIAL]
This is the third article from the “What’s Really New in SOLIDWORKS 2016” series, where we continue to extensively test the new functionality introduced by the latest version of SOLIDWORKS. I always...
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Make any Complex Pool Design Simple using the New PoolWorks Template...
If you are in the pool design industry and you manufacture pool liners and covers there is a good chance you have heard of or are using PoolWorks. If you haven’t heard of PoolWorks then today is your...
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SOLIDWORKS Quick Trick: Sketching Lines using Ctrl and Shift
Okay, sketching lines may not seem like a particularly advanced trick, but there are a few subtle things you can do while sketching a line that can change the behaviour. You are probably already aware...
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How to Add a Watermark to your SOLIDWORKS Drawing
Perhaps there are times when you want to add a watermark to your SOLIDWORKS Drawing. Let’s say you want to have a “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp on your drawing. When you add a note to your drawing view you may...
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SOLIDWORKS Library Feature Warning
Some time ago, I wrote a blog article about how to create a library feature. In it, you will notice that when I create a new part, before I do anything else, I save it as a Library Feature Part. At the...
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SOLIDWORKS Derived Part Template Units
If you’ve ever created a derived part in SOLIDWORKS before, then you may have come across this dialog window: Derived Part units dialog Not an error message It seems like an error message, but in fact,...
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What Happens When You Repair SOLIDWORKS?
Repair SOLIDWORKS You are likely familiar with the process to repair an installation of SOLIDWORKS, but it is not immediately clear what is happening in the background during this repair. So I’m going...
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