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SOLIDWORKS Composer has some great tools to help create animations among which are Markers and Milestones. Here's how to use Markers and/or Milestones to organize a timeline, help make interactive content and create image output.

This article presents conditions that need to be met for a SOLIDWORKS PDM task host to run properly. Note that his article is NOT about how to configure a task host; we covered that topic in an another blog article.

I’ve wanted my own DYI racing drone. Having the SOLIDWORKS skill set and the Stratasys 3D printing resources to design and print my own drone frame, it was a no-brainer. I decided it was time. I wanted to start small, but I did not want to compromise much on areal acrobatic ability.

3D scanning and 3D printing technologies are enabling artifacts to virtually leave museums and laboratories via the internet. Exact physical copies can travel the world to help researchers make connections among different artifacts to solve archeological mysteries or enable students to learn hands-on from 3D models. For the uninitiated, 3D scanners use structured light or lasers to capture 3D surface data, including color and texture, from an object. Traditional 3D scanners, such as tripod or arm scanners, have many limitations.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Content Portal (ECP) hosts a multitude of resources that are highly beneficial to the electrical designer who wants to utilize specific manufacturer parts and symbols in their designs. SOLIDWORKS Electrical comes with a large library of very common symbols, manufacturer parts, title blocks, and cables that are available upon installation and download, but the ECP can provide your library with a tremendous amount more.

When rapid prototyping a component, some of the fine details of the design are sometimes lost. It is common to be asked to print the threads onto tapped holes. The resolution of the printer will often lead to insurmountable issues when printing this geometry creating a lower limit on the hole size that is feasible to print as a tapped hole.

In this example, we've received a part from a different system and we imported it into SOLIDWORKS without any feature history. The part has five fingers, and we need the exact geometry sketch of a finger so we can use it again in another part file. The SOLIDWORKS Intersection Curve tool is the best tool for the job. Everywhere a selected plane intersects a select face/surface, Intersection Curve will make the sketch line for us. 

There are situations where you need both a left and right-handed version of a model. Instead of creating two separate models with the same techniques, why not just mirror the part? The process is easy to do and only takes a few clicks. Let's walk through the process of creating a right-handed version of a screw.

When installing a local vault view you select the server but no vaults show. What is going on? Here's how to fix the problem.