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Cut, trim, copy, paste, delete, trim, spin, slap, aRRRG! It’s the same teeth-gritting routine to get one edge to match another edge, one face to move with another. What we need is an easier way to get multiple parts to capture change and make that model rock your bosses eyes out of his ever loving skull.
SolidWorks makes this absolutely possible. There’s a handful of ways to do it, but they all require a little knowledge as to how they work.
So guess what? examples. Five of ‘em. Ripe and juicy, oh, and simple.
Continue reading ‘Parametric Model INSANITY: 5 Ways to Capture Change in SolidWorks Parts’
Nobody wants bloody digits laying about, cluttering up a finely dusted workshop floor. That’s just bad business. That’s why this one, designed in SolidWorks, is made to leave your nubs attached to the hand.
News of the SawStop severed the airwaves a while back, but the Discover Channel Time Warp Show meets up with inventor Steve Gass to taks a slow-motion look at how it works and what happens when he puts his finger on the blade. Video below.
Continue reading ‘Finger. TableSaw. I Dare You.’
I’ve got an idea. Let’s make starting a project really easy. Throw a bid at the screen and watch the assembly build itself.
While that isn’t exactly happening (yet), SolidWorks Labs is stirring the boiling cauldron of 3D CAD efficiency in an attempt to bring that one step closer.
The Treehouse project allows you to build an assembly structure before modeling anything. Can it help? Yes, and here are 5 ways it will.
Continue reading ‘SolidWorks Tip: 5 Ways to Use Treehouse to Speed Assembly Design’
Ya know the speeder bikes in Stars Wars you always dreamed of riding on? Well, this bike is the next best thing for the moment. Storm Trooper, neat sound effects and wooded terrain sold separately.
The Grasshopper, designed by David Gonçalves, is a collapsible, self-charging, energy-conserving joy-ride that can trasnform into a trolley or stationary bike. It won the Merit prize in the 2008 12th International Bicycle Design Competition and it just so happens that it was designed in SolidWorks.
Continue reading ‘The Grasshopper: It Folds Up, It Recharges, It’s Designed in SolidWorks *Update!*’
Do you ever look at a chair and say, “that thing looks so uncomfortable.” and then you sit in it and yeah, it’s uncomfortable but then your like, “wellll, it’s kinda comfortable.”
That’s the Wassily Chair. The icon of modern modern furniture from Marcel Breuer. You can actually download a SolidWorks model of this chair here.
The chair. It’s cool, it’s popular, watcha think?
Continue reading ‘SolidWorks Flickr Find: The Wassily Chair. It’s Kinda Comfortable.’
