Have you ever needed to show full components in a section view or remove some hatching in a drawing? If so, there are a few handy tricks to achieve this using the Section Scope feature in SOLIDWORKS.
The Jog feature in SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal allows you to create an offset bend in an existing sheet metal part by defining a bend line and specifying the jog dimensions. This can be useful when adding clearance for mating components, creating stepped profiles, or modifying a design to meet manufacturing requirements. In this article, we'll walk through how to use the Jog feature and explain the available options so you can quickly add jogs to your sheet metal designs.
This tutorial demonstrates a simple example of how to create a spring part that can be inserted into a SOLIDWORKS assembly that will expand and compress with the movement of other parts.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of the engineering software landscape, but the term "AI" can describe very different technologies. For SOLIDWORKS users, the important questions surround what a feature can actually do, how it is delivered, and where engineering judgment still belongs.
In SOLIDWORKS, when you delete a feature’s sketch entity and replace it with another, it can have negative downstream effects in your model. The reason is that SOLIDWORKS generates a new face in the feature that used the previous sketch entity. Features that referenced the previous face or sketch entity will have rebuild errors. To resolve this, SOLIDWORKS has a sketch tool called Replace Entity.
When scheduled tasks in your SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler fail to start, it could be because swboengine.exe is not running. Swboengine.exe is the process running SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler and is known as the Back Office Engine.
A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm screw (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm gear (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear) to provide high-torque output from a high-speed input. This tutorial explains how to mate a worm screw and a worm gear using the gear mate feature in a SOLIDWORKS assembly.
SOLIDWORKS relies on the settings in the default drawing template to control Flat Pattern DXF and DWG exports. If bend lines are not visible in the default drawing template, they will not be included in the exported DXF or DWG files (even if Bend Lines is checked in the DXF/DWG Output PropertyManager). This article explains how to verify that your drawings template options are configured correctly to achieve the best Flat Pattern results.
The data structure of SOLIDWORKS Drawings, along with company best practices, can make it challenging to properly highlight and define parts and subassemblies. This article will guide detailers through a pair of strategies and guidance on automating these tips.