As part of the new ‘Hump Day Hot Tips’ series from industrial design training site cadjunkie, industrial designer Adam O’Hern has been looking at various methods for connecting two buttery-smooth splines in SolidWorks.

This week features a new method that some of you who have been using SolidWorks 2014 might already know about: the Style Spline. In this quick tip video Adam gives us a quick overview of taking control of your splines with this new spline method.

After you watch, be sure to head over to cadjunkie for the full library of other design training videos!

SolidWorks Hump Day Tips 03: Style Splines

In this third installment of our new ‘Hump Day’ series we’ll continue to work on our methods of connecting two splines that we started our first week. This week we’ll take a look at an alternate method for SolidWorks 2014 users that gives us more control than the methods we’ve looked at thus far in the series called the ‘Style Spline’.

Quick review of previous spline method
Overview of a ‘Style Spline’
Methods for locking and smoothing a ‘Style Spline’

Be sure to check back every Wednesday for a new Hump Day Hot Tip! In case you missed them, here’s a roundup of the previous tips:

SolidWorks Hump Day Tips 01: Connect Two Splines (Part I)

Greetings cadjunkies! In this new ‘Hump Day’ series we’ll be presenting some of the most common questions we get asked over at cadjunkie HQ. This week we’re taking a look at connecting two separate splines into one beautiful clean spline.

Overview of two separate splines
Combine two splines into the same sketch
Combine two spines into one

SolidWorks Hump Day Tips 02: Connect Two Splines (Part II)

In this second installment of our new ‘Hump Day’ series we’ll continue to work on connecting our two splines that we started on last week. As you’ll recall, last week we left off with a slight ‘hump’ in our resulting connected spline. This week we’ll take a look at how to further finesse our connected result into one seamless and smooth curve.