Category Archives: Productive SolidWorks Tips

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can create blocks from commonly used sketches and easily reuse them in sketches, drawings, and models to quickly copy a sketch. 2.Use the Sketch Picture command … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.Click the Show in Folder icon next to recent documents in the File menu to browse to their location. 2.You can pin files in the recently used … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can specify the defalt line font for many types of drawing items. Click Tools, Options, Document Properties, Line Font. 2.A sketch has a minus in front … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.When editing a part in an assembly, you can force the other components to become transparent, making it easier to select the part to be edited. Right-click … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can use Interference Detection to make sure components in an assembly don’t intersect one another. 2.You can use Hide/Show Items on the Heads-Up View Toolbar to … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can use the Split Part feature to remove geometry from an imported body. This can be used in the place of trying to create a cut … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can make a perspective view in a drawing. First, create a named view in the model using the Orientation dialog box, then insert that view in … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can use the Swept Flange Feature to create bends in different directions for more complex Sheet Metal parts. 2.You can set new sketches to Auto-rotate normal … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1.You can create a split FeatureManager design tree by grabbing the gray bar at the top of the FeatureManager design tree, and dragging it downward. 2.After you … Continue reading →

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day. 1. You can use the Sketch Fillet tool to fillet non-intersecting sketch entities. The entities are automatically trimmed or extended when the fillet is added. 2. You … Continue reading →