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How to Increase System Performance using SOLIDWORKS Decals
If you are designing something in SOLIDWORKS that has moving components, electrical or heat sources, or any other type of hazard, it’s a pretty good idea to apply a warning label to your design to warn...
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Slow SOLIDWORKS Startup? Check the load time of your Add-Ins
Here at Javelin we see all kinds of “interesting” scenarios that people have created for themselves by way of not following the best practices for an installation of SOLIDWORKS. One of the...
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My SOLIDWORKS Detail View Circle is stuck?!
We all have moments where we’re in a bit of a rush and accidentally end up with some unintended consequences. We see this particular issue quite a bit when it comes to drawings and the placement of...
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Hate Retyping SOLIDWORKS Serial Numbers for a “clean” installation? Back them...
DISCLAIMER: The procedures in the following article require access and edits to the windows registry. Any such edits are at your own risk and should only be attempted under the advisement and direction...
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Delete key not working with SOLIDWORKS? Check your Keyboard Shortcuts
On more than one occasion we have had customers contact our support team with what seems to be a benign symptom, the delete key not working with SOLIDWORKS? Sketch entities, Dimensions, or entire...
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A list of the default SOLIDWORKS Keyboard Shortcuts
Once upon a time, all installations of SOLIDWORKS came with a Quick Reference Guide. This wonderfully useful guide was an excellent document to have printed on a few pages and posted in your cubicle...
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Copy Sketch and Maintain the Sketch Relations
SOLIDWORKS has had, and continues to have all kinds of functionality embedded in the most basic of windows commands – Take the “Copy” command for example. In this example we will use simple Copy &...
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How to show a Decal in a SOLIDWORKS HLR Drawing View
Every so often with SOLIDWORKS we run into some great functionality who’s limitations leave us feeling a little flat… (Pun Intended) The use of Decals in our SOLIDWORKS models makes for a fantastic bit...
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SOLIDWORKS Sketch Point will not Delete?!
Have you ever attempted to delete a point from a sketch and the SOLIDWORKS Sketch Point will not delete?! (Just like those relatives who come over for dinner and don’t know when to leave…in any case…I...
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SOLIDWORKS Multiple Mate Mode
Often times, in SOLIDWORKS, we will need to apply multiple mates of a similar type in an assembly. There is an option called SOLIDWORKS Multiple Mate Mode that can accomplish this. This process works...
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SOLIDWORKS and ExactFlat are the Perfect Fit for the Textile Industry
In the textile industry it has always been a tedious and manual process to get a proper material pattern out of a cutter that fits perfectly the first time, this is where ExactFlat shines. Exactflat...
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Link the SOLIDWORKS Save As dialog description field to a Custom Property
Here at Javelin we are witness to a wide variety of ways that customers manage their custom property data. Often, we also get to see which of those values become the most important details to a...
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Why are my SOLIDWORKS Thumbnails and Previews missing?
If your are not able to see SOLIDWORKS thumbnail pictures in Windows Explorer or in the Preview Pane of the Open dialog, there are several reasons that could cause this problem to happen. Listed below...
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STL Imports in SOLIDWORKS 2016 means that Bigger is Better!
Not everything that is bigger, is necessarily better – however we can now open larger and more complex STL imports in SOLIDWORKS 2016 to put that theory to the test if we so desire. STL Import Example...
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SOLIDWORKS licenses will expire in XX days, what does this message mean?
There have been cases where users received a message saying “SOLIDWORKS licenses will expire in XX days” on a SolidNetWork License (SNL) client machine when they start up SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS...
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SOLIDWORKS Quick Trick: Propagate Feature to Assembly Parts
Many times in SOLIDWORKS, it makes sense to create features at the assembly level. Sometimes this can be due to a Top-Down approach to assembly modeling, sometimes you’ve taken a bottom-up approach and...
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SOLIDWORKS Dynamic MIRROR |ЯOЯЯIM
See what I did there? I used Character Map to get a backwards R, then used symmetric letters to make the word MIRROR appear to be mirrored! What a complex process for such a simple trick. Thankfully,...
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SOLIDWORKS Quick Trick: Show Feature Dimensions for the entire part
In SOLIDWORKS, it has always been very easy to show the dimensions for a feature: just double-click on the feature and presto: all the dimensions for that feature are shown. This makes it fantastically...
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Style Spline of Higher Order in SOLIDWORKS 2016
The Style Spline command has had some excellent enhancements in the SOLIDWORKS 2016 release. We have a new PropertyManager which allows you to choose which type of spline to create. You can now create...
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Beer Glove Modeling Challenge Part 1: using SOLIDWORKS
I recently had the honour of attending SOLIDWORKS WORLD (2016) in Dallas, Texas. I’d like to share with you three memories involving a modeling challenge that I had when I was there. SOLIDWORKS...
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