Important Changes for SOLIDWORKS Administrators Starting April 10, 2023Dassault Systèmes has been working towards a unified experience for all customers across all brands and services. This initiative will allow for streamlined and improved aspects of support,...
Posts By Tom DiLaura
4 Steps to Generate Automatic Mates in an Assembly
When working in assemblies, especially electrically focused ones, as I often find myself in, I spend more time worrying about making sure mates are correct, than the accuracy of my routes. SOLIDWORKS Electrical uses the Electrical Component Wizard to aid in mating...
DriveWorks 12 Just Released
Last month I spent two days at DriveWorks World in Chicago. It was an opportunity to learn more about DriveWorks, as well as hear how DriveWorks customers and employees are using the product to make their lives easier. Hearing from users that have taken...
SOLIDWORKS Property Tab Builder
I was helping out a customer this week, and I noticed that he was using a side panel on the Task Pane that I’ve completely forgotten over the years. I frequently use the Task Pane for the Design Library, Appearances, Resources and the View Palette, but that was pretty...
Introduction to DriveWorks Xpress
How often have you completed a design, simply to recreate it again with a custom or design-driven variation? If you frequently find yourself designing similar parts and assemblies, then you may be in need of a tool to help you quickly create these design variations...
3 Tricks to a Custom SOLIDWORKS Interface
The more work I accomplish in SOLIDWORKS, the more I realize that I frequently use the same commands over and over. Out of the box, SOLIDWORKS has no way of knowing which commands will be my “go-to” functions, so they have allowed the interface to be easily...
Key Features of DriveWorks Pro
Last week, we had the pleasure of a visit from Chris Cassettari, a pre-sales engineer at DriveWorks. Chris flew to Syracuse from Manchester, England to educate and refresh our team on what DriveWorks has to offer. The week was spent going through DriveWorks Solo...
Creating Symbols with SOLIDWORKS Electrical
On a typical demo for SOLIDWORKS Electrical, I’m often asked if the standard package has “x” manufacturer’s part or “x” specific symbol. While there are over a half million parts that can be downloaded for the software, there is still a likelihood that a specific...
Routing Harnesses in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
SOLIDWORKS Routing gives users the ability to systematically route tubing, piping and cables. Fortunately, these processes have been leveraged nicely within the new SOLIDWORKS Electrical package. While there are similarities, the two key differences in my opinion,...