Moving Stuff Around and How To Put It Back There are many ways to customize SOLIDWORKS. This article will address the command interface elements. We will talk about how to reposition them, and how to return these elements to their default positions. The CommandManager...
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Using The SOLIDWORKS 3D Texture Tool
Knurling is a method of creating textured faces on a part, typically to ensure tactile feedback. It allows a person to know they are gripping something. Textured or knurled surfaces are easier to grasp, turn, or hold on to. Modeling knurled surfaces in SOLIDWORKS can...
Available Windows Resources or Memory is Low in SOLIDWORKS
Have you ever gotten a SOLIDWORKS warning that your available windows resources were critically low and you need to close some SOLIDWORKS windows? Or maybe that you're low on memory? This issue might be due to video memory or what is called GDI objects. See how you...
SOLIDWORKS Download Pitfalls
How To Avoid Common Issues When Downloading SOLIDWORKS And Ways Around Them Some things in life should be easy. Downloading software is one of them. Navigate to a website, find the download section, pick the desired software and download it. Unfortunately, it's rarely...
Download Once, Use Everywhere
Considering how frequently installation questions arise during technical support cases, it needs to be discussed more frequently. Specifically, the fact that you can download SOLIDWORKS from any computer and use that file set to install the product anywhere. There is...
Controlling Automatic Updates in Windows 10
If you have already updated to Windows 10, then you are probably aware how Microsoft pushes updates. If you haven’t jumped on board the Windows 10 bandwagon, Microsoft’s new pushy update policy may be the reason. It’s like a waiter in a restaurant that decides what...
Forming Tool Tips
In my previous blog, Forming Tools, we examined how pre-SOLIDWORKS 2006 sheet metal forming tools differ from those which can be created today. We examined how to save forming tools as Form Tool part files and what the advantages were of doing so. When creating custom...
Forming Tools
If you take advantage of SOLIDWORKS sheet metal functions, forming tools can be very useful. Forming tools represent features created with stamping or punching operations, and are part of your Design Library (see figure 1). SOLIDWORKS gives you some forming tools to...
How to Download the Latest SOLIDWORKS Software
One of the benefits of being a current SOLIDWORKS Subscription customer is that you are entitled to any major version and service pack releases of the software. The quickest and easiest way to access new media is to download it via the Customer Portal. If you have not...
Installation Tips and Good Housekeeping
The SOLIDWORKS support technicians at CADimensions frequently field questions regarding installing SOLIDWORKS. Here are a few simple tips that will help you get up to speed with running SOLIDWORKS so you won’t have to spend so much time installing the product. Get a...