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This has nothing to do with SolidWorks, but I thought it would be valid for those of you that have never been selected for jury duty.
My tip: Bring something to do!!
They don’t tell you this in the nice letter they send you, but when you are waiting in a room for 3+ hours it gets a little boring.
More SolidWorks tips, tricks and info to come!!! Stay tuned.
Well, its been about 5 months since i started this blog and to be honest, I really didn’t know if I would enjoy it or have enough to write about. I took Richard Doyle’s advice and started this blog with Blogger which is a free service, but limited to what I want to do.
So what I’m currently looking at is moving this to a self hosting site and using WordPress as my blogging software. I hope to provide a lot more videos and tech tips in the future.
My goal is to have this done by April before #2 child arrives. Otherwise, it might not happen…….
Thanks for reading…!
This week we’ll look at a way to view common mates in a assembly.
If you select a component in the graphic area or in the feature tree and click on the PropertyManager (Second tab in your feature tree) you will see all the mates for that component.
If you use your Ctrl key and select components and then click on the PropertManager you will see all the common mates are in BOLD.
I’m sure most (if not all) of you have downloaded a 3D model from a website. Most of the time you can just download the file (STEP, IGES, Parasolid) and open it in SolidWorks. But lets say the file you downloaded is a zip file with a spec sheet or a Readme file included. What do you do now? What I’ve done was unzip the files, delete the documents I don’t need and them open the file I do want in SolidWorks.
Well, you don’t have to do all that. All you need to do is download the zip file and drag and drop it into SolidWorks. SolidWorks will open the file formats it can and toss the rest. It will even tell you which files it can’t open. Pretty slick, huh..?