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The SOLIDWORKS Property Tab Builder allows you to define a set of standard custom properties for your files and provides a convenient, user-friendly interface to add or modify the values. The Property Tab Builder can be found in the part, assembly, and drawing. The tab is located on the task pane that also holds your design library.

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to print a current screen image in SOLIDWORKS. Right-click on the View in the FeatureManager Design Tree that you want to print and Zoom to Selection.

 

 

Forming tools are a great way to add specific geometry to a sheet metal design. This can range from louvers to lances, to dimples, but forming tools can also help add text or logos to a sheet metal design. This article will help you create custom forming tools in SOLIDWORKS and apply them to a sheet metal model.

Although SOLIDWORKS has an extensive material library, users often need to create custom materials. The ability to add custom materials enables users to calculate an accurate mass or simulation of a part or assembly. The following steps demonstrate the processes to create a new material in SOLIDWORKS.

Many of us need to have multiple versions of SOLIDWORKS installed on our computers. For those of us that fall into this group, it can be an inconvenience if every time we double click on a SOLIDWORKS file, it is opened in the wrong version. Let’s discuss how to change which version of SOLIDWORKS opens your files when double clicking on them in File Explorer.

When working with configured parts inside of SOLIDWORKS, adding more configurations to the original part will make your file size grow too. This can be frustrating because the larger the file size is, the more time it takes to open, save, and rebuild a part. Good news, though. There is a way to bring a file size back down to almost the original file size before any configurations were created. 

SOLIDWORKS users may occasionally experience SOLIDWORKS freezing up when trying to save a file (kind of a problem, right?). If they use the Task Manager to try and kill the process, they get an error message saying that SOLIDWORKS is waiting for them to respond. This is a clue that the problem may be due to a lost dialog box.

 

In this tutorial, learn how to get the total length of a bent pipe in your SOLIDWORKS BOM (Bill of Materials) in just three steps. Chances are you used a Sweep feature to create your pipe part model, hence having a “path” sketch. Edit the sketch and make sure you have a length for the straight segments and any splines. The spline length dimension is only available in SOLIDWORKS 2014 and newer versions.

 

While working on a design, have you ever accidentally clicked on the SOLIDWORKS CommandManager and moved it out of position? This has happened to me on numerous occasions and it can be very frustrating. Thankfully, SOLIDWORKS 2016 and newer allows us to lock the SOLIDWORKS CommandManager in place. This blog explains how.