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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Content Portal (ECP) hosts a multitude of resources that are highly beneficial to the electrical designer who wants to utilize specific manufacturer parts and symbols in their designs. SOLIDWORKS Electrical comes with a large library of very common symbols, manufacturer parts, title blocks, and cables that are available upon installation and download, but the ECP can provide your library with a tremendous amount more.

In this example, we've received a part from a different system and we imported it into SOLIDWORKS without any feature history. The part has five fingers, and we need the exact geometry sketch of a finger so we can use it again in another part file. The SOLIDWORKS Intersection Curve tool is the best tool for the job. Everywhere a selected plane intersects a select face/surface, Intersection Curve will make the sketch line for us. 

There are situations where you need both a left and right-handed version of a model. Instead of creating two separate models with the same techniques, why not just mirror the part? The process is easy to do and only takes a few clicks. Let's walk through the process of creating a right-handed version of a screw.

When installing a local vault view you select the server but no vaults show. What is going on? Here's how to fix the problem.

Previously, we walked through how to create a helix in SOLIDWORKS. The logical next step would be to use that helix to cut threads. Now, let's walk through how to make threads in SOLIDWORKS. We'll cover a simple threadmaking exercise and create our own custom threads.

A corrupted file is a file that unexpectedly becomes unusable. A file consists of many files streams which store different kinds of information. In the context of SOLIDWORKS, a corrupted file is a file in which one or more file streams become damaged enough to render the data (as a whole) unreadable. Damage to a file stream becomes apparent when you try to open or save a file.

A helix is one of the common shapes that you'll need to create in SOLIDWORKS. They let you create uniform profiles for cutting threads. But there are two kinds of helixes in SOLIDWORKS: constant pitched and variable pitched. Let's walk through how to create a helix in SOLIDWORKS and go over the different settings.

The edge weld connector is available in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional and Premium. It can be used to estimate the appropriate size of a weld needed to attach two metal components. The program calculates the appropriate weld size at each mesh node location along the weld seam. Once an analysis is completed, edge weld results can be listed and a weld check plot can be created. The edge weld connector can be defined for linear static, buckling, frequency, and linear dynamic studies.