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Author: Inspirtech Created: 6/2/2008 8:00 PM
Welcome to Al Whatmough's SolidWorks Blog, your starting point for SolidWorks® inspiration. Designing SolidWorks® involves a whole new thought process; design intent becomes the key to a solid model. Prudent designers must always be thinking about how Parts and Assemblies relate to each other and incorporating these relationships into their model. In order to master these skills users must have a firm understanding of geometric relations and parametrics, as well as crisp 3-dimensional spacial skills. In this Blog Intent to help readers build these skills.

By Inspirtech on 6/10/2008 8:27 PM

  This Video is an awnser to the following Question:

I'm looking for an easy way to generate holes at an angle using the
hole wizard. For example, suppose I need a set of drilled holes,
maybe for a spray nozzle or something, and they need to be say 12° off
of vertical. What's the easiest way to accomplish this using the hole
wizard?

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By Inspirtech on 6/2/2008 9:12 PM

Although we do not plan on having all of the Tips and Tricks related to SolidWorks Weldments, this tip again has to do with working with Weldments.  During an excellent "Stump the Chump" break out at SolidWorks World 2008, the question of trimming Weldments came up.  Users find that often times creating a trim will not always do what they need.  Let's take a look at a few tips. Read More »

By Inspirtech on 6/2/2008 9:10 PM

For one reason or another engineers, designers and trades people are constantly faced with the demand to continue learning new CAD applications. Depending on their current level of expertise, the ideal training solution can change. The various methods of learning a CAD application can be broken into three groups:
I. Instructor led training
II.
Self-paced training
III.
Discussions and collaboration

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By Inspirtech on 6/2/2008 8:58 PM

For one reason or another engineers, designers and trades people are constantly faced with the demand to continue learning new CAD applications. Depending on their current level of expertise, the ideal training solution can change. The various methods of learning a CAD application can be broken into three groups:
I. Instructor led training
II.
Self-paced training
III.
Discussio
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By Inspirtech on 6/2/2008 8:35 PM

For one reason or another engineers, designers and trades people are constantly faced with the demand to continue learning new CAD applications. Depending on their current level of expertise, the ideal training solution can change. The various methods of learning a CAD application can be broken into three groups:
I. Instructor led training
II.
Self-paced training
III.
Discussions and collaboration

& Read More »

By Inspirtech on 6/2/2008 8:01 PM

With any application we use on a day to day basis we should always find ways to improve how efficient we are at using that application.  One great way to improve productivity is to assign custom keyboard Shortcuts to commonly used Commands.  In SolidWorks adding custom keyboard shortcuts is extremely simple and takes just a few minutes.  One must be careful when adding shortcuts not to make some common mistakes like using the delete key to remove a short cut.  This will in-fact assign the "delete" key to that particular Shortcut.   Well, take a few minutes... Customize your SolidWorks interface!!

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