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Thank you for returning to my Kinetic Art Project series. This blog focuses on creating the silicone mold for the fins. In case you missed the prior article, please see blog titled Kinetic Art Project: Modeling The Fin.

Thank you for returning to my Kinetic Art Project series and Part 6. Today’s blog is focused on casting the fins. And, I used SOLIDWORKS to check mass properties.

Although many of us are alone today, none of us are in this alone. Here are some ways, we as industry professionals, can do our part to fight COVID-19.

Have you ever attempted to perform an offset surface in SOLIDWORKS only to receive a Rebuild Errors dialog box? This error occurs because the Offset Surface tool fails when it cannot offset all the faces of a surface. Unfortunately, SOLIDWORKS 2019 and older versions can’t identify which faces are failing.

Get a glimpse of new products and functionality that are currently being developed for the SOLIDWORKS 2021 release. The following features are what’s to come.

There are many ways to convert DWG files into SOLIDWORKS, but I’ll show you my favorite. I’ve shown this in a number of my training classes over the years, but I thought it was about time to put it into a blog.

How many times have you tried one of the built-in SOLIDWORKS tutorials and either got lost, interrupted, or just plain bored? I’ve picked the top ten tutorials and uploaded a narrated video of them on YouTube. These videos walk through the tutorials in a fraction of the time so you will get a quick preview. Using YouTube’s built-in functionality (see reference key below) you can also follow along with me!

How will you watch the very last episode of the Star Wars Saga? Well for me, thanks to SOLIDWORKS, I will watch it with my very own piece of custom created Jedi lore. If you are reading this then you are every bit as excited as I am to see how the final chapter of the Star Wars story ends.

SOLIDWORKS added the “3D Interconnect” import option to the program in 2017. This allows for proprietary CAD data being opened in its native format, keeping a link to the original part or assembly. Below are a few examples of issues you might come up against.