Do you know how to add shadows or a shiny finish to your SOLIDWORKS Composer renderings? Learn how.

Quick-thinking Wisconsin and Illinois manufacturing companies are providing ventilators, face masks, tests, and cleaning supplies when we need them the most.

Materialise Magics is a powerful editing tool that allows users to perform complicated STL operations with ease, such as booleans, lattices, and perforations.

Learn the available SOLIDWORKS access options when working from home and using standalone or network licensing.

We've updated our visitation policies and moved as much training online as we can for the health and safety of our community.

Have you thought about having different appearances on different parts in your model? Learn a quick tip on custom rendering.

Prototyping quicker than your competitors can help you win projects. HP's 3D Printing Lease service is a low-risk way to win big.

I learned everything from basic part construction – including chamfers, ribbing, and patterns – to rendering and the Hole Wizard. SOLIDWORKS Essentials helped me create assemblies, bill of materials, and drawings.

How do you make STEAM education accessible and affordable for all kids? For young innovators such as Danielle Boyer, it means giving every kid a robot. Learn more.

We're honored to receive this Elite Club Award from Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS for the 16th year in a row. Read our highlights of the 3DEXPERIENCE Conference, as well!

Learn how to easily delete a face from a solid or surface body when modeling in SOLIDWORKS.

What's so special about a 3D printed monkey? Well, as digital manufacturing makes mass customization a reality, the way we all produce and experience products is about to massively change.

Markforged and HP 3D Printing Mini Series' offer valuable experiences to educate on applications for your production line and on the advantages of different materials.

What would it be like for your CAD interface to intuitively adapt to you as you worked?

How do your teams curate their knowledge? Read this quick dive into transactive memory and some free SOLIDWORKS resources they should be using.

As a SOLIDWORKS provider with staff experience in Autodesk Inventor, we took a look at comparing the software. There are key benefits to choosing SOLIDWORKS – learn our top 6.

We value the connections we make in our local community, and are excited to introduce Maddie Frank as a new collaborator. We'll be exploring everything additive – from inventive, out-of-the-box projects, to testing new technologies. Read on for more.

Draw more shapes than you thought possible in CAD simply by using mouse movements and the "A" key where necessary!

When you're sketching in SOLIDWORKS and want to create a dimension, and you don't want the dimension location to be a circle's center, use the circumference!

Watch this quick holiday video showing 10 SOLIDWORKS modeling tips!

Serve Days are a chance for us to serve and invest in our communities. Read 3 of our employees' stories from the last year.

An exciting new feature in SOLIDWORKS 2020 is the ability for the user to conduct a "Google-like" search in PDM across multiple metadata fields. Learn more.

Have you ever had to create a relief on a part in an assembly, based on the shape of a neighboring part?

Find commands in SOLIDWORKS you may have forgotten, or learn about a particular command you’ve never even used before – all through search.

What do our SOLIDWORKS 2020 Premieres entail? Find out by visiting us next week in Illinois.

It's the little things that make a big difference. Learn this quick drag and drop trick to copy a component AND do SmartMates.

Find out John's take on presenting sessions for the SOLIDWORKS community at Engineer 3D!

Last week we wrapped up our conference, Engineer 3D! Miss our event, or want to reminisce? We've provided a highlight reel to cap off our biennial event.

Now that you've learned benefits of using 2D Cabinet Layouts, expertly build your library following these recommended practices.

Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO of Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, and Michelle Bockman, Global Head of HP 3D Printing are presenting as keynote speakers at Engineer 3D!

SOLIDWORKS 2020 is rolling out soon, and there's so much great new stuff, it's hard to pick just 5 favorite new things.

Get the most out of the 2D Cabinet Layout feature in SOLIDWORKS Electrical!

Curious about the benefits of design analysis and testing? Take our sessions on SOLIDWORKS Simulation and Simulia at E3D!

Curious about the benefits of design analysis and testing? Take our sessions on SOLIDWORKS Simulation and Simulia at E3D!

Just announced – on the 3rd day of our conference we're premiering SOLIDWORKS 2020! Join us Oct. 4th to learn the newest user-requested features.

How well do you understand your employees' abilities in SOLIDWORKS? If they could be working more efficiently, consider using our productivity assessments.

We've compiled our Top 10 Sessions you don't want to miss at our upcoming E3D! training conference. Take a look!

Find new capabilities available such as image vectorization technology (IVT), an integration with 3DEXPERIENCE, cross-functionality with 3D CAD and Simulation, and more.

Can you answer these 10 questions without hesitating? Find out simple reasons why GSC + SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic checks the box on functionality, training, and ease-of-use.

Our keynote speakers for this year's E3D! Conference include innovator Greg Mark and strategist Todd McLees.

Welcome to the "Knowledge Age," where companies need to learn how to harness their intellectual capital to retain competitiveness in the marketplace. Let's explore what this means.

PDM vaults can have the same metadata clearing behavior whether Save As or Copy Tree is used, but ultimately, setup and training are the best ways to ensure vault consistency.

Those looking at purchasing Simulation software are often dissuaded by the initial price tag, which misses the benefit. First, calculate your ROI.

New technologies in SOLIDWORKS 2019 make working with large assemblies and complex parts faster than ever before.

It takes perspective to know when you could be working smarter, not harder. With the right partner, you can strategically transition to a better ECAD system.

Highlights of this year's conference included CAMWorks solutions ShopFloor and Additive; Eureka Virtual Machine Simulation; and of course, Paul Yaffe Motorcycles.

Having a workflow for engineering documents to travel through in their life cycle is not only efficient, but convenient.

SOLIDWORKS has long supported Windows 7, but now it's time to upgrade to Windows 10. Here's why.

Free up design engineers from repetitive, monotonous tasks and elevate product quality at the same time. DriveWorks provides this and more.

Your new employee won't stay long without investment from you. Find some of our insights on how to best train, and therefore retain, new grads.

Some geometries are difficult, let alone impossible, to manufacture with CNC. Print these complex geometries through HP's lattice structures or topology optimization – and in batches.

Our Technical Support staff Evan Hicks doubles as the CAD mentor for Pewaukee's Robotics Team 1259. The team recently won the Wisconsin Regional at the end of March, competing against 54 other teams!

Advances in high-strength 3D printing have brought impressive solutions to the factory floor. Do you know the top ways to save with this tech?

Let’s see how SOLIDWORKS Electrical lets you pick what players in the game (...or in the project) make it to the finish – in our final reporting.

Technical training in 3D software is a must in the onboarding process of Designers and Mechanical Engineers, no matter the experience level. Here are 3 reasons why.

The deciding moments of a game are especially strategic. Managers do everything they can to give their team the best chance to win. Similarly, SOLIDWORKS Electrical enables you to make last minute changes on the fly and get your design lineup laid out perfectly through Edit Attributes.

Learn how to make your choice of one-time or permanent symbols through the black box feature. Much like having a skilled veteran player up your sleeve, we can retain these permanent players to your roster for wins, wins, and more wins.

In baseball, every collectible piece of information is tallied and accounted for. The same is true in your SWE project – as a comprehensive database program, master your Component Numbers and make better decisions because of it.

Find more Electrical tips and tricks! Like pitch framing in baseball, we have a little adjustment you can do to the wipeout frames in your library of footprints, giving you the control you need to knock out another design.

Welcome to GSC’s SOLIDWORKS Electrical Spring Training! Spring is in the air…not actually in the arctic-tinged air where another groundhog prediction of 2 weeks of spring was woefully inaccurate (a foot of snow covers every inch of ground in Wisconsin) but further to the south, in Arizona, where the Cactus league ramps up as Pitchers and Catchers…

GSC will hold its biennial Engineer 3D! Training + Technology Conference on October 2-3, 2019, at the Potawatomi Hotel and Casino in Milwaukee, WI.

What makes SOLIDWORKS Electrical technology unique on the market? Learn about its unified, collaborative, and cross-functional capabilities today.

Gain the ability to 3D print your parts, fixtures, tooling, and whatever else you can conceive, in real metal.

Our CAMP 3D! planning is underway! Find dates and activities for the middle school and high school programs.

When you want to modify a part, but you want to change a copy and not the original, use a virtual part. Learn how.

There are amazing benefits to implementing intelligent schematics for electrical design. Do you know them? What's the cost of not knowing?

What drives you? Often, we're driven by the desire to create something better, or something entirely new. Here are some favorite design quotes to fuel that fire.

What makes Markforged untouchable in the 3D printing industry? Compare surface finishes, heat resistance, and unparalleled part strength through Continuous Fiber Reinforcement at a truly affordable price.

You might have a few questions about our new online training! Here's everything you need to know before registering for a session.

Reflect back on the year with us as we take stock of our top accomplishments.

Do you know how to orient a model normal to a face but not have the view orientation use default “Y” orientation?

We're excited to announce that we're now offering online training for several of our existing courses.

We're excited to announce that GSC is now an official distributor of Markforged printers.

As part of our SOLIDWORKS 2019 Rollout events, GSC gave away OneSky telescopes from Astronomers Without Borders - and now I've redesigned my digiscope adapter to work with them.

Place a point in a sketch that represents the location of 2 lines intersecting - creating a virtual sharp (not a shared a point).

See how you can easily fix orientations on imported parts through the Move / Copy body function.

Less clicks means less time sketching. Learn how sketch relationships can be quickly added by the press of a button.

Get convenient, quick explanations on all things BOM - detailed previews in expanded views, easy exports to Excel, and other enhancements.

Gain helpful tips on how to use SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler to create PDFs from SOLIDWORKS files.

Walk through this how-to on changing a component color in a drawing.