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Tech tips, tutorials, and best practices for dimension from the Javelin technical team

SOLIDWORKS Drawings

Managing Annotation Visibility in SOLIDWORKS Drawings

In our earlier article, we demonstrate how to hide and show dimensions: How to Hide SOLIDWORKS Drawing Dimensions and make…

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Changing SOLIDWORKS Dimensions to reflect changing design intent

Okay, so you’ve spent some time designing a part and then you go to make a change and realize that…

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Get a list of all the parametric dimensions and variables in a SOLIDWORKS Part

With users migration to SOLIDWORKS from so many other CAD systems, one of the…(Ahem..) “deficiencies” we hear about is the…

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SOLIDWORKS 2016 New “Equal Curve Length” Sketch Relation

This is the second article from the “What’s Really New in SOLIDWORKS 2016” series, where we continue to extensively test…

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Unmanned Aerial System

3D Printed Aircraft designed by two-person team through trial-and-error approach

Inspired by an Air Force defense program, SelectTech Geospatial proved that an innovative company could make a UAS (unmanned aerial…

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The Greatest Time Saver – Auto-Sketch Scaling in SolidWorks 2014 [VIDEO Tutorial]

Auto-Sketch Scaling in SolidWorks 2014 will save the world about 2,500 user-years annually!!! It is a bit ironic that you will…

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Dimension Input History: Love it? Hate it?

SolidWorks 2013 introduced hundreds of enhancements creating a big stir of excitement in the user community. Most of the enhancements…

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Marble Roller Coaster Create Straight Segment (Part 5 of many) [VIDEO]

Create Straight Segment To read the previous article of this series, CLICK HERE. To create a new part from this…

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How to Reverse an Offset Dimension [VIDEO]

Reversing sketch dimensions is one of the best time saving enhancements introduced by Solidworks 2009. It applies to 99% of…

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Show Properties with Linked Dimensions on a BOM in Different Units

Using linked dimensions from properties on a BOM is very useful.  They are all linked so everything will update together….

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