It would be nice to have a free, lightweight, platform independent, user friendly, powerful CAD software that works for everything. Unfortunately most CAD packages only deliver on a few of these criterion. In an attempt to broaden my knowledge, and to find out what is out there I started looking at a variety of 3d […]
It would be nice to have a free, lightweight, platform independent, user friendly, powerful CAD software that works for everything. Unfortunately most CAD packages only deliver on a few of these criterion. In an attempt to broaden my knowledge, and to find out what is out there I started looking at a variety of 3d
When creating weldments one of, if not THE, most important dimensions is the length of each segment. Depending on the end condition (flat/butted) this may be the only value needed to actually manufacture the cut list of a given profile. For this reason the trim/extend tool is extremely useful. If structural members are created in
It would be nice to have a free, lightweight, platform independent, user friendly, powerful CAD software that works for everything. Unfortunately most CAD packages only deliver on a few of these criterion. In an attempt to broaden my knowledge, and to find out what is out there I started looking at a variety of 3d
End caps for weldments are rather basic. This is one of the areas where the software knows what typical design intent is going to be, and a feature specific to that task has been created. Not having worked directly in an industry where weldments are regularly used I have no idea whether or not this
One of, if not the, most important portions of a weldment to control is the corner. In production an error of cutting can create a nightmare for a welder. Not only will these errors look bad, but a welded corner is typically the first place to look when a failure of the part occurs. With
Start a free membership and get SOLIDWORKS tutorials & online training today. Although most of placing a weldment profile in the library was covered in an earlier post, I wanted to go through it on a separate post. There are a few key things to remember here. 1. Know where weldments are stored. If you’re
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Extrudes and cuts and go a long ways to creating some cool parts, but they can not do everything. I have always known about the Helix tool in Solidworks (Insert>Curve>Helix) but recently a few things prompted me to realize the limitations of Helix’s. The first thing that happened was I had to create a model
James Cameron alluded yesterday in his keynote that 3D printing played a major part in colonizing the world of Pandora in Avatar. Though printing out massive dump trucks on alien planets is still stuff of science fiction it is not all that far off. The partner pavilion here at Solidworks is loaded with rapid prototyping
