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SOLIDWORKS Advanced Part Modeling: Partial Fillet

Addition to Thicken Command in SOLIDWORKS 2020: Defining Thicken Direction

SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip on Delete Face: Move a Face From a Surface Body

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Autotransition & Create Geometry in CAD, Fast

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

Using SOLIDWORKS Command Search: Finding Useful or New Commands

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

“Ask Me Anything”: Presenting at Engineer 3D!

CAMP 3D! Summer Fun for Kids – Dates Released

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Copy a Part Using Virtual Component

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Normal To Orientation Trick

SOLIDWORKS How-To: Create Virtual Sharps in Sketches

SOLIDWORKS Electrical – Schematic

SOLIDWORKS Essentials

SOLIDWORKS Assembly Modeling

SOLIDWORKS Inspection

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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.

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!

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

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

SOLIDWORKS Sketching Smart Dimension Tool Arcs and Circles

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!

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

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

John Setzer and attendees at Engineer 3D! Conference

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

Instructor and children of past Camp 3D! experience

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

Brackets appear around the component name in the FeatureManager

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

Example of Normal To view and upward facing

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

Visual 2 of a virtual sharp created after fillet applied

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

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