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SOLIDWORKS Drawing balloons are meant to be attached to a Bill of Materials (BOM) in the drawing in order to show visually what parts in the drawing views are connected to the line items in the Bill of Materials. In most cases linking a balloon to a Bill of Materials gives enough information. 

 

My significant other is really into whitewater rafting, and she has lots of friends who are river boat guides. So weekend camping trips usually involve large inflatable boats, among other things. I’ve been on a few river trips but I am not an official river person (yet), so I’m kind of the “plus one” on a camping trip.

I will be departing on a backpacking trip into Mexico soon. If you have not heard of the term bikepacking, think backpacking, but on a bike. The main goal in bikepacking, as well as backpacking, is to reduce weight wherever possible. I have been working to come up with some better solutions to my current setup to help me hit this goal.

Eddy Lin had a crazy idea while hiking the foothills of Los Angeles. Tired of LA’s heavy commuter traffic, Lin began dreaming of building a personal aerial vehicle. As he researched how to turn his idea into reality, Lin came across the GoFly Prize, a Boeing-sponsored competition to create a personal flying device with help from global aerospace experts and cash prizes.

The feature of a Hole Table is a very good and stable function. This feature in SOLIDWORKS allows you to quickly contain the location and size values of a set of related holes conveniently in one table. However, some options can be changed depending on what you want displayed or what happens to be displayed by default.

When upgrading SOLIDWORKS, the Hole Wizard tables and Hole Callout features may be pointing to the wrong location in the Program Files folder. This article gives a step by step guide to checking and fixing the Hole Callout file locations.

SOLIDWORKS has powerful solid modeling tools that can help create virtually any shape or design imaginable. However, you may get stuck trying to accomplish something, and all the solid modeling tools you've tried, won’t do the trick. In times like these, use SOLIDWORKS Surfacing tools! 

 

A little-known but powerful tool in SOLIDWORKS Simulation is the Compare Results Tool. In recent years it has been updated and is a powerful way to visually compare simulation results between simulation studies not only in one SOLIDWORKS configuration but multiple configurations. There is an upper limit of four studies that can be seen at any one time, however.