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SOLIDWORKS CAD Oct 22, 2024

In SOLIDWORKS Weldments 2025 is a new feature called Groove Beads and an ever-improving UI to Structure Systems. Connection elements just got a lot more powerful too. Let's work on the raised platform for a model and see what's new in SOLIDWORKS 2025.

SOLIDWORKS CAD Oct 17, 2024

This blog explains the steps of creating a jack-o-lantern design using SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Visualize from one of GoEngineer's own SOLIDWORKS Experts. 

SOLIDWORKS CAD Oct 16, 2024

Let's dive into the latest enhancements to SOLIDWORKS 2025 Assemblies designed to improve your workflow and boost performance.

SOLIDWORKS PDM Oct 10, 2024

Configurations are a great tool in SOLIDWORKS for creating and managing designs. One of the most convenient abilities of a configuration is the use of configuration-specific properties to detail and organize individual configurations as if they were standalone files. When utilized in the Bills of Materials, data cards, and drawing annotations, these configuration-specific custom properties are indistinguishable from those defined in individual files and remain just as easily accessible in both SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS PDM.

SOLIDWORKS CAD Oct 09, 2024

The GoEngineer Customer Portal is a great tool for managing your users, training, assets, and other resources that GoEngineer has to offer. Two of the strongest assets available are the ability to manage users and then assign/access training from either your success plan or the classes you have purchased. This article is a guide for users with Professional admin-level access (typically CAD admin or IT) to utilize these assets fully. Let's start with how to add users to the customer portal.

DraftSight Oct 03, 2024

DraftSight is a powerful 2D drafting software, but, depending on your current version, is your ability to access the Make Flat Snapshot command, meant to create flat representations of 3D solid objects and regions. DraftSight achieves this by projecting the drawing’s X-Y plane of the active Custom Coordinate System (CCS). If you don’t have DraftSight 2022, there is a workaround for showing a flat representation of imported bodies in DraftSight 2019-2021.

SOLIDWORKS CAD Sep 19, 2024

As the engineering and design fields evolve, so do the tools and technologies that support them. In our recent webinar, we joined experts from Dell and NVIDIA to discuss the newest advancements in hardware and software that could significantly impact your work.

SOLIDWORKS CAD Sep 17, 2024

Learn how to fix the errors “Could not find the Standards database” or “The Hole Wizard and Advance Hole database is not the expected version" in SOLIDWORKS. 

SOLIDWORKS CAD Jul 25, 2024

When attempting to access one of the SOLIDWORKS ‘Xpress’ products (e.g., SimulationXpress, FloXpress, DriveWorksXpress, or DFMXpress), you might encounter the message "The code you have entered is not valid for your serial number, SOLIDWORKS version, or the selected Xpress product." Here's how to fix it.