Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

The lip and groove feature is a great time saver along with several other fastening features.  Whether you’re doing consumer product design or other plastics that join together or making prototypes, this valuable tool is one you should be using.  Check it out in this week’s video.

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

Dive into one of the most popular Xpress tools and see how you can easily make informed design decisions using the Simulation Xpress Analysis Wizard.

Join us for a look at SOLIDWORKS Visualize – an easy to use professional rendering solution that produces truly stunning photoreal content. In this webinar we’ll walk through the process from the very beginning to the final output. We’ll start with a great CAD model and finish with an incredible rendering that anyone can accomplish quickly.

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

From concept to fully assembled parts, this video walks you through the steps taken to generate a great custom design of desk brackets.  This project was a great application for the new capability to optimize material usage (topology study).  For a more in-depth look at this great new functionality check out this Three Minute Thursday.

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

Welcome to this week's Three Minute Thursday! Today, we will show you the top tips that PDM admins can use to make life easy for users.  For more information on each topic check out these links.

1. Favorites Search
2. Color Coded Data Cards
3. Control Logic
4. Searches
5. Dispatch and Auto Check-in example

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

Welcome to this week's Three Minute Thursday! With all the great new features and added functionality in each release of SOLIDWORKS, it’s easy for things to slip through.  Today we take a look back at 5 things you may have overlooked in sketches.  These sketch tools include: segment, adding construction geometry to rectangles, mirroring sketch entities about a plane, shaded sketch contours, and replace entity.  Check out the video to see what you’re missing.

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

Welcome to today's Three Minute Thursday. Today we will explain the @ tab in PDM and a few tips to ensure ease of use. To better understand the purpose of the @ tab let's start by taking a look at where the data goes in the SOLIDWORKS FILE. 

Check out this week's video below to find out! 

Mike Staples, TPM Application Engineer

In today's Three Minute Thursday we showcase two features that enable modifications to existing geometry. These can be used on models created in SOLIDWORKS, imported, or read-in using 3D Interconnect. They generate features that can be suppressed, reordered, configured and edited. The commands are MOVE FACE, and MOVE/COPY BODIES.

In this week’s Three Minute Thursday video, we're showcasing 5 ways to reduce clutter, save time, and get more accomplished with less setup in SolidWorks. Our tips-and-tricks cover creating planes, lofts, sweeps, threads, and mirroring.