January 26th, 2010
Solido has announced that they will introduce a new commercial 3D printer that will sell for “considerably less than $5000″, at SolidWorks World 2010. If the announcement holds true, this has the potential to be a game changer in the industry.
Helping Solido to showcase their product are Scott Harris, co-founder of SolidWorks, and Terry Wohlers, [...]
Categories: News, Part, Peripherals, Product Review, SWW10, SolidWorks World |
Tags: 3D printing, sd 300 pro, solido | 1 Comment
November 11th, 2009
SolidWorks doesn’t just make CAD software. They also make Yahoo! Widgets. One cool widget from SolidWorks Labs is Watchit Widget. This widget tracks when changes to watched files. When Watchit detects a change, it populates its window with information about that file. This is useful in environments where two or [...]
Categories: CAD Mngmt, News, Product Review |
Tags: Watchit, Widget, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Widget | 2 Comments
October 16th, 2009
On a drawing, SolidWorks currently does not allow users to force text within an annotation note to be capital letters. This limitation comes up when trying to directly use property values such as material or file name. It would be great if there was a user selectable function or toggle associated with an annotation note [...]
Categories: Complaints, Drawing, ER |
Tags: capital, capital letter, capitalization, custom property, file name, material, multi-case text, property | 4 Comments
October 14th, 2009
The following is a list of professional societies related to the mechanical engineering field. These groups either have some sort of certification process or are responsible for the control of various commonly used standards. If other societies should be added to this list, please feel free to comment with their information, or email me directly.
American Society of Mechanical [...]
Categories: ASME Standards |
Tags: engineering, engineering societies, societies | 1 Comment
September 25th, 2009
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 assignments [...]
Categories: News, Part, Product Review |
Tags: material, multibody | No Comments
September 2nd, 2009
There are many causes for failure in plastic parts. These can cause a variety of problems too. Here are some common root causes:
part was originally designed to be made from metal.
part may have design flaws due to stress concentrations and creep.
chemical interactions; in fact, even when a plastic may not be affected by a chemical [...]
Categories: Editorial, News, Part |
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