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SolidWorks Assemblies: Four Furious Ways To Split ‘em Up (and Why You Should)

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reanimator-solidworks.jpgAssemblies people! Not assemblies of people, which can have you going through more gallons of fake blood than a remake of the Re-animator, but assemblies of inanimate chunks of 3D data.

You can make really, grossly huge assemblies but there’s a point where people start whispering about you behind your back. Instead of spending your morning talking gossip with the office manager while your models load, split them suckers up and do a little dance that will also have people talking behind your back.
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How To Use 3D Sketches To Reduce SolidWorks Features

solidworks-tipsHere’s a slightly useful and not-at-all complicated tip on reducing features by using 3D sketches. It’s more fun to have people gather around your desk, get all attentive and then yell the first step very, very loud as they hunker down around your screen… Now move in close people…

Two Tips in One
This is really two tips in one. What a deal. I’ll show how to create a plane at any angle against a curved surface and do it with a minimum number of features, all thanks to the handy 3D-ness of the 3D sketch tool. There’s a video later on, but here’s the step-by-step.
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3 Easy Lovin’ Tips for Tiny SolidWorks Assemblies

i-love-tiny-assemblies.jpgAwww, look. That tiny assembly is so… tiny and cute. Makes you want to grab a million of ‘em and just give ‘em hugs.

Now, I know some of you aren’t that attached to your bracket or gasket assemblies, but you gotta admit there’s a special place in that documentation system for those little boogers. However, re-creating a lot of the same assemblies can turn that admiration into disgust real quick, unless you have a few tricks to lull them into submission.
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