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In this tutorial, learn how to copy a surface and export it into another part with SOLIDWORKS. Go to File > Open and open the part that you want to copy the surfaces from, into another part. To demonstrate the process, we will be using this example part. 

This article shows you how to define a connector that only displays specific pins in SOLIDWORKS Electrical. After creating and inserting a multi-pin connector (in this example, four pins of a 10 pin connector are displayed), edit the component properties. Select the Manufacturer part and circuits tab.

Trend Tracker is a utility included in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard, Professional, and Premium. It enables users to track design changes dynamically when running a linear static analysis for both part and assembly models and allows for setting a design baseline. Changes can then be made to model geometry, the simulation setup, or both/and the analysis rerun. 

With every new release of SOLIDWORKS, there are small improvements that are basically undocumented and sometimes pretty invisible, yet they are very handy and can offer quite a bit of time savings if they are just known about. With the release of SOLIDWORKS 2015, this is no exception. In this article, I'll show a few of these small enhancements.

So, it is time to upgrade your SOLIDWORKS PDM and SOLIDWORKS. Along with SOLIDWORKS, you will need to upgrade the Toolbox. In your case, your company has multiple clients to upgrade. Prior to SOLIDWORKS PDM, you had the Toolbox in a shared location on your network. In this situation, the first client to be upgraded would also upgrade the Toolbox in the shared location. As other clients are upgraded, they will begin to upgrade Toolbox, realize it has already been upgraded so will skip the Toolbox upgrade as it is unnecessary

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium has 11 material model types that will influence the results of a Linear or Nonlinear Analysis. These models types are located in the Properties tab in the material properties (See Figure 1) and will be defined individually in this article. These definitions are not comprehensive. They are only intended to give SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium users a general understanding of how each material model works in the solver.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation plot graphical changes (such as isolate, hide/show, exploded views) are not updated automatically. The plot that was visible before the change remains visible after the change unless additional steps described below are followed. This is due to the fact that the results data loads based on the original view state, the plot must be refreshed. There are three separate methods of regenerating a SOLIDWORKS Simulation plot after a graphical change has been made.

Designers are often given scenarios where there is a displacement limit in a design but they need to either find the amount of force that will be required to reach that displacement, or, the displacement limit and force is known, but the design needs to be optimized to work within the given requirements. SOLIDWORKS Simulation is an excellent tool for a situation such as this.

While modeling in SOLIDWORKS, users can quickly and easily speed up the building of assembles by making a selection of parts into a subassembly. Learn how in this SOLIDWORKS tutorial. First, you have a standard collection of parts built into a simple assembly. Over the course of building multiple assemblies of a similar style, you notice that the combination of the Bolt-1, Nut-1, and Washer-1 are always used in the same grouping.