Javelin / TriMech Author

Chris Briand, CSWE

Chris has been educating and supporting Engineers, Designers and IT Personnel within the 3D CAD industry since 2002, and was adopted into the fantastic team of applications experts here at Javelin Technologies in early 2006 and migrated along with his team members to the TriMech Solutions team in 2021.  Chris enjoys the continuous learning driven by the ingenuity and challenges Designers bring forward. Innovation using 3D Printing, 3D CAD and other technologies, combined with a diverse background as a technologist, allows Chris to find solutions that accelerate Designers, and take Design Teams to new heights. Chris is currently being held at an undisclosed location, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Where can I find the latest release of SOLIDWORKS What’s New documentation?

SOLIDWORKS What's New documentation

The SOLIDWORKS what’s new documentation is an infinitely popular request during each product release season, Aside from some light bedtime reading, most SOLIDWORKS users are searching for this guide in order to explore or validate if their organization should update to the latest release of…

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How to enable SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect

Enable SOLIDWORKS 2017 3D Interconnect

If you haven’t yet heard of SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect, you are missing one of the key features of the SOLIDWORKS 2017 Release. The 3D Interconnect utility allows you to import third-party CAD files that were created in other CAD systems. This is done directly without…

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Delete key not working with SOLIDWORKS? Check your Keyboard Shortcuts

Delete key not working with SOLIDWORKS

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 components, it does not seem to matter what we attempt to delete,…

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A list of the default SOLIDWORKS Keyboard Shortcuts

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 for — you guessed it — quick reference! Unfortunately the SOLIDWORKS…

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Navigate to MyPRODUCTS.SOLIDWORKS.com to access a listing of your SOLIDWORKS assets

Review your organizations SOLIDWORKS assets using MyPRODUCTS.SOLIDWORKS.com After recent updates to the SOLIDWORKS online infrastructure the  SOLIDWORKS MyProducts site is now available for use. (https://myproducts.solidworks.com). The SOLIDWORKS MyProducts site is an online interface, which will permit those with Security Admin roles to view a record…

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Get your SOLIDWORKS Service Pack The Safe Way!

You’ve heard the phrase a million times… “Safety First”. Well, I’m here to tell you that this cliché has just as much truth when attempting to Download SOLIDWORKS Service Pack as anywhere else. One issue that many folks seemingly bump into, is the failure of a…

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Why do SOLIDWORKS Assemblies take longer to open over a network?

SOLIDWORKS 2023 Assembly Creator

We have received may inquiries from clients over the years, asking why SOLIDWORKS assemblies open and resolve more slowly when the files are stored upon a network location.  In response, SOLIDWORKS had provided us with some clarity regarding fundamentals of the journey that a file…

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Remove all part features in one easy step with SOLIDWORKS Convert to Bodies

SOLIDWORKS Convert to Bodies

If you go to the trouble of saving a SOLIDWORKS part as a neutral file format in order to remove ALL feature data from your model then you will find that modern releases can save you a few steps with the new SOLIDWORKS “Convert to…

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How to find your SOLIDWORKS Installation Log files

Our Technical teams here at TriMech Solutions will often request the SOLIDWORKS installation log files from clients who are experiencing issues with their SOLIDWORKS Installation. These logs will assist us in determining the corrective actions required for an installation to proceed. Prior releases made it…

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Is the Windows Indexing Service Helping or Hurting your SOLIDWORKS Productivity.

Some of the modern search functionality within the Windows Operating System is absolutely fantastic. I can type fraction of a word and results from my email, start menu and specific locations on my hard drive begin to appear….instantly. I am certain that there are still…

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Adjusting Virtual Memory (Windows Pagefile) for increased SOLIDWORKS Performance

SOLIDWORKS Performance

We use this procedure a great deal when attempting to enhance the performance of systems where SOLIDWORKS is having difficulty with importing or exporting geometry, or handling larger assemblies.

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3 POINT CHECKLIST for Importing Neutral File Formats into SOLIDWORKS

Importing neutral file formats in solidworks

We often receive inquiries regarding the changes surrounding importing neutral file formats within SOLIDWORKS, especially after upgrades to SOLIDWORKS have been completed and settings have been reset to default values.  Some added complications were introduced in the 2019 release of SOLIDWORKS as neutral file formats…

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How to stop Windows from updating your SOLIDWORKS certified video card driver!

DEVICE INSTALLATION SETTINGS

It is a story we hear time and again from customers: They take the time and effort to download the correct certified driver for SOLIDWORKS from the SOLIDWORKS certified list, only to have a Windows update come along and displace that driver with the “Latest…

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Recovering your Windows System Resources with System Configuration (MSCONFIG)

Windows System Configuration

In my last post I discussed all of the unnecessary, auxiliary processes that may be running on your system.  Items such as update utilities, that generally present themselves as Icons within your System Tray or Notification Area (near your clock in the Windows Taskbar). In…

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Master Cut List Property Management while inserting Parts into Parts

A variety of techniques can be employed when building assemblies in SOLIDWORKS. In some cases the weldment module is used as the primary assembly environment, in other cases we see welded bodies being created as individual assembly components before they are placed together at the…

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