Posts By Dave Murray

SOLIDWORKS Interface Components

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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SOLIDWORKS Download Pitfalls

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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