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Solidworks Option File
Do you need the ability to control your Solidworks Network licenses? Then the Options file is the solution. The options file can control many variables. Some of the most requested include Reserving specific licenses for specific users Returning a license when…
Bianca
23 June 2021 -
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Silhouette Entities
SOLIDWORKS introduced the Silhouette Entities in 2020, it allows you to create multiple sketch entities by projecting the outline of the bodies in a part or components in an assembly onto a parallel sketch plane. To create silhouette entities: Create a…
Tianshuo Sun
29 April 2021 -
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Edit Registry on a Secondary Hard Drive
SOLIDWORKS settings are stored in registry files. You can find a lot information in the registry files about your current SOLIDWORKS installation. But what if the computer crashed while the hard drive survived and you need to recover your SOLIDWORKS serial…
Tianshuo Sun
21 April 2021
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Supercharge Your DriveWorks Rules Filter
In any reasonable size DriveWorks project it doesn’t take long before you have a lot of rules to work with. Finding…
Bill
27 May 2016 -
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Displaying textures in eDrawings
So, you’ve spent all that time applying the required textures to your parts in SolidWorks and they look perfect. Then you…
Bill
19 May 2016 -
Tips and Tricks
“Hiding” specific lines in a drawing view using a blank line style
Recently a customer wanted to hide just a few lines from a drawing view. The view was set to the usual…
Bill
11 May 2016 -
Tips and Tricks
Weldments Global variable
Hi There, Today I would like to talk about a rarely used feature in SolidWorks We are all familiar with weldments…
Marketing
27 April 2016 -
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Pre Flatten Cuts
HI There, Today I would like to talk about doing Pre flatten Cut features. Now we know that in sheetmetal, we…
Marketing
19 April 2016 -
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Convert EPS files to SOLIDWORKS Sketch
Hi there, As Designers and Engineers, we sometimes receive files from clients that cannot be read by SOLIDWORKS. An example is…
Marketing
13 April 2016 -
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IC3D Steel and SOLIDWORKS Simulation – working together perfectly!
IC3D Steel , developed by Central Innovation allows users to easily create structural designs with all the required connection detail, publish drawings in…
Prasad Bhonsule
11 April 2016 -
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Insert Toolbox items
A quick way to insert toolbox items into an assembly
Marketing
6 April 2016 -
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Which Document Properties are Stored in a Drafting Standard?
I bet you thought when you saved a “Drafting Standard” in SOLIDWORKS ALL the document properties were saved in it. I…
Bill
22 February 2016
