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The edge weld connector is available in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional and Premium. It can be used to estimate the appropriate size of a weld needed to attach two metal components. The program calculates the appropriate weld size at each mesh node location along the weld seam. Once an analysis is completed, edge weld results can be listed and a weld check plot can be created. The edge weld connector can be defined for linear static, buckling, frequency, and linear dynamic studies.

 

Would you like to reuse your title block and border information from an already completed .DWG or .DXF file? You can easily import the .DWG or .DXF into SOLIDWORKS and create your new SOLIDWORKS Drawing taking only the information you need copied over.

 

It's time for a project! After searching, I decided to go all out and cast a wearable Iron Man helmet in solid aluminum that I could create in SOLIDWORKS, 3D print with the printers we have here in the GoEngineer office, and then cast in metal for my metals class.

A common question with Finite Element Analysis is how reliable are the results that it produces or how well do the results relate to the behavior of the final product. In this article, the natural frequencies of a modeled bell will be compared to the measured frequencies of the real-life counterpart using SOLIDWORKS Simulation.

Stratasys Objet desktop PolyJet 3D printers have a Log file that contains a time sequenced history of events of the printer activities. It contains error codes, calibrations, positions, and generally a snapshot of what the 3D printer is doing at the time. It is an invaluable troubleshooting tool and is often requested by Stratasys for analysis when diagnosing printer issues. 

 

With SOLIDWORKS PDM, users often like to create folders to organize data for a specific project and place all of the relevant data within a given project folder. Oftentimes, at the organization/company level, there is a competing desire to enforce uniformity and consistency within the folder structure and during the folder creation process.  This article will demonstrate a simple example of the Folder Template functionality and will create a simple Template to create and serialize the naming convention of a project folder.

 

 

It can be easy to misunderstand the differences between registering and activating your SOLIDWORKS products. In this product guide, we'll break down the difference. Registration links your information to the SOLIDWORKS database to provide support and is done through the SOLIDWORKS website. 

 

A common requests I receive, when it comes to wire numbering, is to have the wire numbers connected to a PLC named with the PLC Channel mark, terminal or address. Initially, I believed this could be handled with traditional formulas as I might with wire marks displaying the component origin/destination (another common request).

CPQ stands for Configure Price Quote. CPQ can be defined as a system that allows a customer to specify their requirements and receive a quote for the products that will meet their needs. These systems make it easy for your customer to specify what they need and for you to rapidly provide them with a price. If the process of receiving a quote from your company is not easy, your customer is likely to go to a competitor.