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When you have a new installation of SOLIDWORKS on your system you may notice that there are very few Profiles available in Weldments when you select a Structural Member. The reason that SOLIDWORKS have not…
Where can I find the latest release of SOLIDWORKS What’s New documentation?
By Chris Briand, CSWE on October 17, 2023
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…
How to enable SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect
By Chris Briand, CSWE on October 16, 2023
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…
Delete key not working with SOLIDWORKS? Check your Keyboard Shortcuts
By Chris Briand, CSWE on October 16, 2023
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…
A list of the default SOLIDWORKS Keyboard Shortcuts
By Chris Briand, CSWE on October 16, 2023
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…
10 SOLIDWORKS Keyboard Shortcuts for Every User
By Catherine Rapp on October 5, 2023
SOLIDWORKS keyboard shortcuts make it highly customizable and they can be used to make a user more effective and time efficient. However, trying to get them all set up for use and to be able…
Are you experiencing DPI Scaling issues within SOLIDWORKS?
By John Lee, CSWE on September 28, 2023
Are you seeing double or triple within your SOLIDWORKS display? Or, is the feature tree too magnified or shrunken? If the images below look familiar, and you are seeing this on a regular basis with…
Accessing Built-In, Free SOLIDWORKS Tutorials
By Sarah Taylor on September 27, 2023
As a TriMech Solutions Consultant, I interact with SOLIDWORKS users almost daily. Every so often, I recommend the Free SOLIDWORKS Tutorials, and I am surprised to find that many SOLIDWORKS users do not know their…
Navigate to MyPRODUCTS.SOLIDWORKS.com to access a listing of your SOLIDWORKS assets
By Chris Briand, CSWE on August 18, 2023
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…
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Drawings are crucial for communicating the precise dimensions of your part and/or assembly. Understanding and controlling precision is therefore critically important. Users can easily find it frustrating and confusing when trying to manipulate these values….
When people are using smart mates in SOLIDWORKS for the first time, they often don’t see an immediate improvement in their mating speed and may revert back to their comfort zone. I wanted to touch…
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In SOLIDWORKS 2022, a new feature was added to the General User Interface that allows users to use colors in SOLIDWORKS exported sketches. This feature is particularly useful when creating presentation materials or when collaborating…
3 Tips for Mating Best Practices in SOLIDWORKS 2023
By Adam Ferrer on July 4, 2023
SOLIDWORKS assembly opening is comprised of different stages and performance checks. If foundational mating best practices aren’t applied when creating assemblies, they will build up over time and there will be noticeable slowdowns when working with…
Physics Fun with Jamie: Setting Up a Drop Test Study
By Jamie Hill, CSWE on June 23, 2023
Welcome back to “Physics Fun with Jamie”. SOLIDWORKS Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a powerful tool for simulating the effects of a drop on a product. The software can be used to perform a drop…
Defining FFT Plot in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
By Suman Sudhakaran on June 20, 2023
After running a transient Flow Simulation study, frequency content or spectral information may be of interest. In SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, the fast Fourier transform (FFT) is used to convert the time signal to the frequency…
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