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In a large assembly in SOLIDWORKS, you can load an assembly with active components as fully resolved or lightweight. When a component is fully resolved, all of its model data is loaded in memory. When a component is lightweight, only a subset of its model data is loaded in memory, and the rest of the model data is loaded on an as-needed basis.

You may know how to use the basic Belt/Chain Feature in SOLIDWORKS. However, what if you have a situation where the chain or belt has to pass over the same wheel twice? To help clarify things, the models have been created with some holes in them to show rotation easier.

Performing a sweep in SOLIDWORKS has always been fairly easy. Simply create the sweep path and the profile on a plane. For the best results, it was created on the end of a path and, depending on the situation, needed to be perpendicular to the path. Now we have a situation of a sweep path that happens to need a profile only through a portion of that complete path or the profile is somewhere other than the end of the path. How can we do that?

 

 

The SOLIDWORKS Profile Center Mates command is useful for mating parts that need to be centered with each other. Profile Center Mate automatically center-aligns geometric profiles to each other and fully defines the components.

 

 

Each SOLIDWORKS file comes with its file properties. You can access these properties by going to File > Properties and going to the Custom tab. But, when clicking the drop-down in a Property Name cell, have you ever wondered where that list of custom property names comes from? 

This guide explains everything you need to know about how to create a SpeedPak in SOLIDWORKS, from a parent assembly, inserting a SpeedPak and more. In an assembly file, you can derive a SpeedPak configuration from an existing configuration. On the ConfigurationManager tab, under Configurations, right-click an existing configuration and select Add SpeedPak.

This article is a quick reference for SOLIDWORKS users and IT professionals. It shows how to optimize your SOLIDWORKS performance with Windows settings to make SOLIDWORKS run as fast as possible on any system. Extensive testing was performed by the editors at Desktop Engineering.

On July 15th 2015, Microsoft released a new Windows Update that has caused a single dll to not be properly installed during the SOLIDWORKS installation. Without this dll, you may experience problems with the add-ins not showing up, macros causing SOLIDWORKS to crash, or an error message to pop-up when opening files in SOLIDWORKS.

In this tutorial, learn how to copy a surface and export it into another part with SOLIDWORKS. Go to File > Open and open the part that you want to copy the surfaces from, into another part. To demonstrate the process, we will be using this example part.