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How to Use a Shared Material Library In SOLIDWORKS

By John Setzer | August 5, 2022

Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone on your team could use the same material library? Follow these simple steps, and you’ll have your own database used by your entire team.

Software OpenGL Settings in SOLIDWORKS

By John Setzer | July 7, 2022

Software OpenGL is a SOLIDWORKS setting that will tell SOLIDWORKS to emulate OpenGL on its own without using graphics card driver’s OpenGL support. Learn why it exists.

SOLIDWORKS Sketching Smart Dimension Tool Arcs and Circles

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Using the Smart Dimension Tool When Sketching Arcs & Circles

By John Setzer | May 27, 2022

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!

Changing a component color in solidworks

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Change a Component Color in a Drawing View

By John Setzer | May 12, 2022

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

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Copy & Mate by CTRL-Drag & Drop

By John Setzer | May 5, 2022

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

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Reorient an Imported Part

By John Setzer | April 7, 2022

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

Online SOLIDWORKS Courses Give You Quality Lessons & Lab Time

By John Setzer | January 14, 2021

Our online SOLIDWORKS Courses replicate the best-in-class training we normally deliver in person. After all, we’re all working remotely too. With virtual discussion, on-screen help, and expert instructors, we’ve got you covered!

SOLIDWORKS Advanced Part Modeling: Partial Fillet

By John Setzer | October 15, 2020

During our Advanced Part Modeling Online class, we learn about a setting that controls how SOLIDWORKS solves fillets when filleting 2 edges that meet at a corner. However, there’s a relatively new option since the 2020 release, to stop fillets and chamfers with the option of a partial edge.

Addition to Thicken Command in SOLIDWORKS 2020: Defining Thicken Direction

By John Setzer | June 18, 2020

SOLIDWORKS 2020 adds a very nice option to a favorite surface-to-solid tool, Thicken. We can now specify a direction vector, which gives us more power!