SOLIDWORKS Feature Friday

SOLIDWORKS Feature Friday

SOLIDWORKS is not just the tool we use everyday, its our passion! We would love to share our experiences supporting the SOLIDWORKS customer base over the last 10+ years. We will be sharing tips and tricks, best practices, worst practices, and some in between practices. If you love SOLIDWORKS or are even interested in it, this is the place for you!

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  • @paulharvey6719
    @paulharvey671917 күн бұрын

    Short and sweet! Perfect explanation ty

  • @Alaa_Mansour_N
    @Alaa_Mansour_N23 күн бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @martinlouwrens4541
    @martinlouwrens454128 күн бұрын

    Hi im trying to do the same as you, i also have an inventor .ipt file. I also need to add a 3d texture. what kind of magic did you do to add the texture to a curved surface? my 3d textures only work on my flat surfaces

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday211327 күн бұрын

    You may just need to show the solid bodies folder in your system options so that you can select the body after you apply the appearance to the face. thats where i see most people go wrong!

  • @rocketraccoon9596
    @rocketraccoon9596Ай бұрын

    Ty, how you do the same but to an specific folder, I mean how you export for example step file to a downloads folder with a single click ?

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday2113Ай бұрын

    you would just need to change this line FullPath = Left(ModelPath, Len(ModelPath) - 7) and of course the .STL extension in the following line. It would take a little different string manipulation to just get the Filename or you could use a different command to get it.

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday2113Ай бұрын

    could be as simple as FullPath = "C:\Users\Garrett\Downloads\" & SwModel.GetTitle however depending on your SOLIDWORKS settings title could be with the extension or without.

  • @rocketraccoon9596
    @rocketraccoon9596Ай бұрын

    @@solidworksfeaturefriday2113 Ty so much

  • @kleingarrett55
    @kleingarrett55Ай бұрын

    I can help you with this question but I'm afraid you won't care for the answer. The problem is that STEP files contain logical surfaces that are described by their boundaries, it can surfaces or solids. A STL or PLY or other scan data is a collection of points that do not describe the boundaries of a face. There are tools to convert like ScanTo3D or Geomagic that you will want to investigate. These tools can help build the surfaces needed to export to a STEP.

  • @RareformPictures
    @RareformPicturesАй бұрын

    Great videos! I'm a Newbe to SolidWorks that is stumped, maybe you can help me, please. I downloaded a few models from the web, files that I think came from lidar scans, the geo is very heavy and messy. I need to send the assembly as a .step file, but the exported file size is way to small and nothing is in it, UGH! Do I have to do anything to the files that are being referenced? The current .SLDASM is 468,832KB and the exported .STEP files are 42KB, some are even 2KB. That can't be right. Thanks for you help with this and keep up the good work with the videos. I need all the help I can get.

  • @noscartrujillo8477
    @noscartrujillo8477Ай бұрын

    Greetings thanks for the advice I Got a question muy friend, is that tank designed according to any ASME norm?

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday2113Ай бұрын

    probably not it is just the sample file from the routing tutorial.

  • @alisaeddesigns
    @alisaeddesignsАй бұрын

    thanks man

  • @AshrafulRahaman-dz2eh
    @AshrafulRahaman-dz2ehАй бұрын

    very helpful video

  • @nimanaderifar3680
    @nimanaderifar3680Ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for all the amazing tutorials. I really enjoyed them and learned a lot.

  • @nimanaderifar3680
    @nimanaderifar3680Ай бұрын

    It's a real bummer that you've stopped creating SolidWorks tutorials. Your channel was hands-down one of the best places to learn the software.

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday2113Ай бұрын

    Thanks! Not done yet, now that I am starting to see more viewers and subscribers I will start posting videos again soon.

  • @thugger661
    @thugger6612 ай бұрын

    thank you.

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    You're welcome

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada2 ай бұрын

    Full row highlight is awesome too! Fan of your channel; short, quick to the point video's.

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    thanks yeah I totally forgot about that one! I try to make these as short as possible but that is a great one!

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada2 ай бұрын

    Thanks, I did not know the merge. Did you make the intelligent note?

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    no didnt need to do anything to the note, just created a design library feature once, then reuse it over and over.

  • @chriscorbelli7709
    @chriscorbelli77092 ай бұрын

    This was very helpful and told me exactly what I needed to know. Thank you.

  • @beastbe
    @beastbe2 ай бұрын

    Oooh thats a nice tip! Thanks dude!

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    No problem!

  • @brettplant9000
    @brettplant90003 ай бұрын

    great tip

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @RahulGurjar-15717
    @RahulGurjar-157173 ай бұрын

    Please make a video how to create and save part and drawing templates

  • @user-gw4lr3bd3k
    @user-gw4lr3bd3k3 ай бұрын

    Hello, Your code help me to create macro button "save drawing as .pdf" Thanks a lot ! Best regards from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    You are welcome!

  • @rocketraccoon9596
    @rocketraccoon95962 ай бұрын

    What did you change in the code for that? Or does it stay the same for drawing , part and assembly

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21132 ай бұрын

    @@rocketraccoon9596 This code will work for a drawing as well if you want to save a PDF. just change the extension .stl to .pdf

  • @rocketraccoon9596
    @rocketraccoon95962 ай бұрын

    Ty

  • @hackmedia7755
    @hackmedia77553 ай бұрын

    I'm trying to convert entity from the surface but it wont let me. I just want to project entities onto my sketch from another part. For example like projecting circles from holes to a sketch.

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada3 ай бұрын

    This helped me a lot when I was reverse engineering a complicated mesh model. I can elaborate if anyone's interested!!

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada3 ай бұрын

    U forgot to show us how to get there quicker 😅 but maybe because you wete sick. I sometimes move entities. Modify looks more powerful thought.

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada3 ай бұрын

    SW really need to add make independent with drawing so it also auto generates a drawing file referenced by the new file that you just made. I have a macro that does this, but it's just a no brainer for SW team to add.

  • @Turbofurb
    @Turbofurb3 ай бұрын

    Could you share your macro please?

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada3 ай бұрын

    How do u enable the sheet format selector for your own custom templates? I always have one sheet format for one template file. Can u explain please.

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada3 ай бұрын

    Cool

  • @QwertyCanada
    @QwertyCanada3 ай бұрын

    How about the other gray folders that are still there after selecting that option? Aren't those local as well? Why are they still showing up. Thanks!

  • @yash0767
    @yash07673 ай бұрын

    Can you give me some tips how can work precise for office because i am fresher my work speed is kinda slow 🙏

  • @yash0767
    @yash07673 ай бұрын

    I will helpful to me. Thanks you ❤😊

  • @SuzukiGsxr7500
    @SuzukiGsxr75003 ай бұрын

    When make a part indepentent in Solidworks 2023, the software open that part separately everytime. Really annoying. Do you know how to disable it? Can't find this feature on settings to disable

  • @kleingarrett55
    @kleingarrett553 ай бұрын

    its probaby in a message you dismissed, go into your system options and bring back your dismissed messages, or look through them to find the one causing the issue.

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21133 ай бұрын

    I actually saw a ticket in support yesterday....this may be a bug in 2023.

  • @SuzukiGsxr7500
    @SuzukiGsxr75003 ай бұрын

    @@solidworksfeaturefriday2113 maybe but I doesn't look like a bug. It's more like a new feature but no option to disable this. I work on assemblies more than 7k parts. And everytime I make a part independent for changing the dimensions through assembly. This feature everytime opens part on another window

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday21133 ай бұрын

    @@SuzukiGsxr7500 Unfortunately it is a bug BR10000362766 if you contact your reseller you can get added to it so that they fix it asap.

  • @davidpatkovik648
    @davidpatkovik6484 ай бұрын

    why cannot make a sketch from the section view?

  • @AshrafulRahaman-dz2eh
    @AshrafulRahaman-dz2ehАй бұрын

    Also my question.

  • @cadcaetutorial2039
    @cadcaetutorial20394 ай бұрын

    This tutorial is very nice sir

  • @cadcaetutorial2039
    @cadcaetutorial20394 ай бұрын

    So perfect sir

  • @cadcaetutorial2039
    @cadcaetutorial20394 ай бұрын

    Amazing this lecture sir

  • @user-oy4ge8dm2l
    @user-oy4ge8dm2l4 ай бұрын

    Smashing, thanks a lot, that is perfect!

  • @sergiofloresgonzalez2024
    @sergiofloresgonzalez20247 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much. In a few minutes I´ve learned just wanted to know.

  • @Levi-zy5ju
    @Levi-zy5ju8 ай бұрын

    Thanks mate this is great

  • @genejones2842
    @genejones284210 ай бұрын

    Oh man! Why is this not more known? Thank you so much. All these years been doing it the hard way.

  • @piyushparmar1760
    @piyushparmar176011 ай бұрын

  • @luqmanidlan3564
    @luqmanidlan356411 ай бұрын

    Hi, is it possible to use C# vsta file instead of swp file?

  • @solidworksfeaturefriday2113
    @solidworksfeaturefriday211311 ай бұрын

    Unfortunately no it must be a .SWP file type so the .csproj type will not work.

  • @SUBtrauma
    @SUBtrauma Жыл бұрын

    My lock and unlock buttons are greyed out. Is it possible the PDM is preventing those from being used?

  • @eloyalfaro6211
    @eloyalfaro6211 Жыл бұрын

    Hello i would like to save PDFs but in my desktop because am using SolidWorks PDM so i don't want that the file get saved in SW EPDM so how can i modify the code to have the file save in my desktop

  • @kleingarrett55
    @kleingarrett558 ай бұрын

    in the output file details of the pdm task configuration you can change the path to outside the vault assuming you are using PDM pro. If you are using PDM standard you cannot save outside via task.

  • @migp.5984
    @migp.5984 Жыл бұрын

    I didnt know the tip CTRL+A for select all dimensions, thank you, it will be usefull for me.

  • @gianluca1905
    @gianluca1905 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @highkoncept9707
    @highkoncept9707 Жыл бұрын

    great tip thank you

  • @highkoncept9707
    @highkoncept9707 Жыл бұрын

    it was very helpful thank you so much

  • @NCOverion
    @NCOverion Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! maybe you will have more viewers by giving shorts tricks like this one that make using solidworks easier like how to change xyz view using keyboard, change xyz plan after construction, proportional distances,...

  • @_Waldezas
    @_Waldezas Жыл бұрын

    I have been using solidworks for +10 years... and didn't know that Shift select lets you tag transparent items! Thanks! Good tutorial on Join Parts btw!

  • @AdamPNelson
    @AdamPNelson Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Nice tip.

  • @peterpopeszku
    @peterpopeszku Жыл бұрын

    this is a nice feature where is the Slit command, is it a macro? im new at this so probably a dumb question I tried several things never worked for me. thanks

  • @peterpopeszku
    @peterpopeszku Жыл бұрын

    This is very useful thanks!