How to use Indent Feature for making complex bodies in SOLIDWORKS 2021?
Have you created any Complex shapes in SOLIDWORKS? Do you know how to use multi-body techniques in SOLIDWORKS? The indent feature creates an offset pocket or protrusion feature on a target body that exactly matches the contour of a selected tool body, using thickness and clearance values to create the feature. Depending on the […]
Drawing Detailing Mode Improvements
The top enhancements for SOLIDWORKS 2021 provide improvements to Detailing mode Introduced in SOLIDWORKS 2020, Detailing mode provides a way to open massive drawings in seconds but is not limited to just viewing the drawing. Viewing performance is super-fast, thanks to the performance improvements added in SOLIDWORKS 2021. Detailing mode allows you to perform typical […]
Setting Root Marks in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
Whenever you place a symbol in SOLIDWORKS Electrical, it will automatically assign it a component designator. The designator by default is made up of a root mark, followed by an order number. The default root marks are determined by the class of the symbol. For example, motor symbols are in the motors class, which has […]
SOLIDWORKS PCB – Board Layout
SOLIDWORKS PCB —powered by Altium— is a new software solution focused on integrating electrical and mechanical design. SOLIDWORKS PCB enables the productivity you need to design Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) quickly along with unique collaboration between electrical and 3D mechanical design teams. To efficiently manage your PCB design workflow, it is important to be thorough and detailed […]
Revision Management in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
A lot of people want to know-how SOLIDWORKS Electrical revisioning works with PDM. However, SOLIDWORKS Electrical has a revision control built-in. You’re going to want the revision notes to be a part of the title block on the cover page and individual drawings, so it has the capability to annotate who drew, approved, and validated […]
How to Change the SOLIDWORKS PDM Client License Type
When installing the SOLIDWORKS PDM Client you can select from 3 different license types: Editor, Contributor, or Viewer. It is very important to make sure that you select the correct license type for the PDM licenses that you own, otherwise, you will receive an error when trying to log into the vault SOLIDWORKS PDM Editor […]
Solving Bucket challenge with SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
For all the SOLIDWORKS designers and engineering enthusiasts out there, We’re sure you have seen something like this come across your social feeds at one time or another because we know we have. The question is which bucket will fill up first if the water is poured continuously into the first bucket. We have spent […]
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Virtual Circuits
SOLIDWORKS Electrical tends to take the Electrical concept of a circuit and apply it to the back end of how this application works. Every connection point of a component is part of a circuit. Keeping that in mind there are few circuits available that can be used while creating the symbol connection points and setting […]
Understanding Spreadsheet in SOLIDWORKS PDM
The use of $PRPSHEET can be confusing since it can be used in more than one way and can interact with SOLIDWORKS PDM or be independent of PDM. $PRPSHEET is intended to get information from one document, such as a part or assembly, into another document, such as a drawing. In order to understand how […]
Installing SOLIDWORKS PCB with PCB Services
The new SOLIDWORKS PCB design tool, powered by Altium, combines the power and usability of Altium with the 3D expertise of SOLIDWORKS. PCB Services is the key to the collaborative features in SOLIDWORKS PCB, SOLIDWORKS PCB Add-In, and the PCB Connector for Altium. The following should help get the central element installed. SOLIDWORKS PCB is a printed […]