Arc sketching tool is mainly used for creating arc drawing in sketch area. You can find three type of arc sketch tools such as center-point arc, tangent arc and 3 point arc in solidworks command manager. Follow the link to see how to use solidworks arc tool in detail. 13.SolidWorks Tuto...
It is one of theuseful sketch toolwhich helps to prepare the 2D drawing of a product or part in graphics interface. The Line tool provide full freedom to start the drawing anywhere on the graphics area and very simple to use. That means no complex process is needed to use the Line sketc...
One way to be more efficient as an engineer is to learn to code. In this blog post, I hope to help convince you to start coding in your mechanical engineering practice. At the end, I’ll show you how to set up two of my favorite Macros inside of Solidworks ...
When a *.stl or *.obj file is imported into SOLIDWORKS, the 3D model opens in a tessellated or meshed form. All faces are broken into some triangular faces. Round faces will have more segments than flat faces. In SOLIDWORKS 2017 a *.stl file could be converted into solid body, however...
Prior to SOLIDWORKS 2024 Future Version Files: The Ugly Can I open files from the newest version of SOLIDWORKS into a previous version? Yes. Open the file using Service Pack 5 of the previous release. This allows users to use a mix of SOLIDWORKS files from consecutive releases right inside ...
In this tutorial, I will show youhow to make threads in SolidWorkswhile creating ahexagonal bolt. By following this tutorial, you will also learn about the basic menus in SolidWorks, how to draw polygons, how to use the CHAMFER command, and finally, how to add cosmetic threads to your de...
you will need to buy the book: SOLIDWORKS Exercises – Learn by Practicing (3rd Edition) by CADArtifexThroughout the course, I will use this book to demonstrate the techniques used to create the models. The book contains 100 CAD models which steadily increase in difficulty – making it perfec...
added. The assigned projection method for the drawing template defines the correct side to place the section view. If you are an experienced user, you would probably put the view on the correct side without thinking. However, this could be automated in SOLIDWORKS to work correctly for any ...
1. Open SOLIDWORKS 2. Go to ‘Tools’, ‘Options’, ‘System Options’, ‘Default Templates’ (shown below) 3. Use the “…” buttons to the right of all your templates to re-select which template should be used as the default template ...
This example shows how to use annotation styles for notes. Create a note to be used in more than one drawing. Add the style to the drawing document. Save the style in the Design Library for use in another drawing. When you save to the Design Library, the note is accessible from ...