In the SolidWorks 2010 Beta 2, there was only one entry in the What’s New file under Parts. It is a rather modest statement regarding the fact that each body within a multibody part can now be assigned its own material. You can assign different materials to individual bodies in a multibody part. The material … Continue reading “SolidWorks 2010 Multiple Materials in Multibody parts”
Click here for the download page of the updated ctopher SolidWorks material database library. Have you ever needed a material database that has more than the standard materials that comes with SolidWorks? Over the past eight years I have created solid models for military and commercial designs that required accurate 3D models to send to our … Continue reading “Materials Database Library”
Normally, members of the Product Definition team at DS SolidWorks Corp give two presentations at each SOLIDWORKS World. Presentations can be either Hands-on or Breakout. Hands-on sessions involve attendee participation at desktop computers provided for the conference. Attendees typically follow and repeat steps shown by the presenter. Breakout sessions are essentially talks with demonstrations of … Continue reading “Presentations at SOLIDWORKS World 2017”
Custom materials in SOLIDWORKS are important if you are using materials not included in the default set. Around a decade ago, Chris Saller compiled a bunch of such custom materials from varies sources based on requests and submissions from many different people. This list is informally known as Ctopher’s Custom Material Database, “ctopher” being Chris’ … Continue reading “Return of Ctopher’s Custom Material Database”
Author: Chris Saller, et al. Author’s website: ctophers home Ctopher’s Custom Materials Database allows you to add many materials to SOLIDWORKS which are not currently included as part of the default installation. Materials range from ceramics, metal alloys, plastics, crystals, and even magnets. Current version was created using SOLIDWORKS 2016. This database is provided for … Continue reading “Ctopher Custom Material Database”
Just over two weeks remain. There’s still time to sign up and plan to go to SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015. I’m presenting 3 sessions this year: Two identical hands-on sessions on new Drawing Zones functionality in SOLIDWORKS 2015; and one breakout session to introduce the topic of Model Based Definition in the context of SOLIDWORKS. There … Continue reading “Just over two week until SWW15”
