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In CAMWorks, there are several ways to add allowances between the tool and the material. You can use it to your advantage to give the part a much tighter tolerance and better look by not seeing as many tool marks. There are many customizable options when it comes to allowances which we will go over.

 

The SOLIDWORKS Visualize Palette controls the Appearances, Scenes, and Cameras within the user interface. This is where all of the render settings are located and editing takes place. Some users perfer to undock the Palette when working in Full Screen Mode and move it to another monitor to create more room on the main screen for editing.

In this article, we'll discuss the functions and uses of the SOLIDWORKS Hatch tool as well as how to use it. The SOLIDWORKS Hatch tool can be used in sketches and drawing views. It can sometimes be useful, depending on your design intent, to have a sketch show a hatch.

 

 

Say you use SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to manage your 3D CAD revision control process, and you recently purchased SOLIDWORKS Inspection for your Quality team. In order to start leveraging SOLIDWORKS Inspection and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional with your inspection process, you must first understand that planning is key. Here, we will first discuss what capabilities are available within SOLIDWORKS Inspection and how they can be incorporated with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. 

 

The ‘razor and blades’, the ‘camera and film’, the ‘printer and ink’……It’s a proven business model where the consumables associated with a particular product are responsible for most or all of the profits. It’s also a model that has made its way into the 3D printing world. By the time large 3D printing equipment manufacturers develop the technology, design, engineer, test, manufacture, market, sell, and support the equipment, there probably isn’t much margin in the system itself.

A sphere is one of the most fundamental shapes. SOLIDWORKS has multiple ways to create one, but let's walk through the simplest way to make a sphere. We'll cover the basic process, how to make a hollow versus a solid sphere, and give you some ways to continue your SOLIDWORKS learning.

There are many steps one can take to improve SOLIDWORKS and its performance when working with large assemblies and drawings. We cover seven of them here. Our first recommendation is to optimize your workstation.

What is a waterfall feature? I’m not talking about a tropical vacation. When we talk about a SOLIDWORKS waterfall feature, we’re referring to features that were previously included in higher packages, such as SOLIDWORKS Professional and SOLIDWORKS Premium, and then, as we pack more capabilities in the tool over time, and as the capability becomes more ‘mainstream’, these features sometimes move into a lower package, such as SOLIDWORKS Standard.

The SOLIDWORKS Visualize add-in, which is available in SOLIDWORKS Premium and SOLIDWORKS Professional, lets you export SOLIDWORKS features directly to SOLIDWORKS Visualize.