SOLIDWORKS 2017 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Inspection Balloon Locking

Prevent Balloon renumbering in SOLIDWORKS Inspection 2017 by locking balloons. Lock balloons lets you add or remove…

SOLIDWORKS 2017 What’s New – Facility Layout Design

Tools and workflows are now available in SOLIDWORKS 2017, to facilitate working with very large models,…

Can’t Find a Model You Need? Request it on 3D ContentCentral

You’ve scoured 3D ContentCentral’s millions of models, you’ve completed all search fields, but you still haven’t…

What Drives a Change in CAD Tools?

It’s becoming more and more difficult to compete in today’s global economy. Successful leaders recognize the…

Use of SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation in Designing a Suction Pump

Almost 2 years back, I thought of writing this blog. Wrote it and even created a…

Creating Custom 3D PDF Templates in SOLIDWORKS MBD

SOLIDWORKS Model Based Definition (MBD) has many predefined templates for both parts and assemblies, but creating…

Custom Designs in Half the Time: Paranthaman Exporters goes from 2D to 3D

PRD Rigs, an award-winning Indian manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, has designed,…

SOLIDWORKS: Building General Notes from the Bottom up

There’s many old rules in Drafting. Some rules have obsolesced since the popularization of CAD. Other…

6 Things You May Not Know About Engineering

Engineering isn’t just physics and mathematics. It’s a discipline that covers almost every aspect of modern…

Produce Better-Performing, More Reliable Heavy Equipment with SOLIDWORKS Simulation

Whether you’re a leading manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration like Paranthaman Exporters…

How to Get Started with Model-Based Definition

How should we get started with Model-Based Definition (MBD)? This is a vital, but complex topic…

SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Dissolving Sketch Text into Separate Sketch Entities

When adding text to a model to create a cut out, some of the text created,…