Some SOLIDWORKS users believe, the Flatten Surface operation (available in the Premium package) can be used interchangeably with sheet metal. Well, you can't – and that's what today's post is about. And why? Answer below. A sheet of metal made using the loft method with the coefficient k = 0,5. Then the Flatten Surface operation was inserted with the default resolution parameters. Like...
If you are using Mate References, you can select one new option. Let me remind you, Mate references are predefined mates defined in parts (e.g. Toolbox lub Routing), that operate when you insert a component into an assembly. However, they can only be defined in the inserted part (as in Toolbox) or also in this one, into which we insert (some in Routing). Binding Reference...
Dimensions may have different colors – worth knowing, what do they mean?. Of course, these are the default settings. And yes, within a part or assembly outside of sketch editing – the blue dimensions are the dimensions of the operation, and black are the dimensions of the sketch. When editing a sketch, you may encounter the following colors. Purple indicates dimensions, which are not marked for the drawing....
Many people run macros each time they select Run and point to the *.swp file. Apparently ok, but it can be done better. To do this, go to the Customize tab > Commands: Select New Macro Button and drag it to the selected tab. Then attach the *.swp or *.swb macro file and select the image – thumbnail. SOLIDWORKS software provides bitmap images...
Designing multibody sheet metal parts offers many possibilities, but it also has some limitations. For example, a part made as one object intended to be cut. If I select Perpendicular Cut – objects disappear, remaining only one. Geometry optimization is not important here. If we turn off Perpendicular Cutting – you can leave them all (four here) objects. But… they are not....
Just to check quickly, which parts in the assembly have external references, you can use Assembly Visualization. Select an additional column called External References. The appearance of Yes means, that the reference exists.
People who use splines in their work will certainly know, what I will write about today. Splajn – especially the three-dimensional one – can cause problems when moving. This may be due to a large number of spline points being close together or to existing relationships (tangentially, curvature etc.). If you grab the entire spline, you will move it completely! Of course,...
When opening, especially large assemblies with STEP, you can use filtering. About different options related to imports, you can read in other entries. Use the search engine on the right. Przerwij połączenie w opcji 3D Interconnect Filtr służy do tego, you don't have to open the entire assembly at once, because it takes time. Możesz po jego włączeniu wybrać Generuj...
You can copy sheets from the taskbar, but you can also do it in the middle of the sheet. only need to, that you move the sheet with the CTRL button pressed. Alternatively, you can do it in the sheets tab by dragging with CTRL immediately to the desired location. The same applies to dragging from the center of the sheet.
Do you know, that there is a new solution in SOLIDWORKS 2025 regarding the Configuration Table. . Well, so far it has been like this, that by opening a file with a configuration table created in a different language than this one, in which we open it, it was not possible to edit the table. This means that the file could be opened and it recognized existing configurations, but after closing the table did not update the model...
