The BIG news of the day on Monday at SolidWorks World 2013 was the announcement of SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual. Over the last three years speculation has run rampant since the now infamous...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2013/01/new-product-solidworks-mechanical-conceptual.html
If you look at the every day use of SolidWorks, I would think that the Measure Tool would rank among the most used features inside the software. SolidWorks 2013 brings some very nice enhancemen...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2012/10/solidworks-2013-measure-tool.html
I’ve found that through the years of using SolidWorks across various industries, different toolsets are sometime utilized more with one type of product vs. another. In recent years as I have ...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2012/09/solidworks-2013-mass-properties.html
In looking at all the enhancements included in SolidWorks 2013, there was one addition that I HAD to talk about first. That is because this is an enhancement that I have wanted in SolidWorks si...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2012/09/solidworks-2013-multiple-exploded-views.html
The folks at SolidWorks are doing something a little different this year in that they are releasing a few details of SolidWorks 2013 EARLY. You can find all the details over at the SolidWorks B...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2012/08/solidworks-2013-preview-center-of-mass.html
Its easy to overlook some things when you are browsing a 179 page What’s New Document. This was the case for me as I was looking through the SolidWorks 2012 What’s New document. SolidWorks 20...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2012/04/solidworks-2012-select-all.html
Almost two years ago I posted two videos to the site detailing the use of SolidWorks Electrical Routing. I had full intentions of producing a Part 3 but life as it does sometimes had other plan...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2011/05/solidworks-electrical-routing-part-3-finally.html
I ran across this today when importing a DXF file from a vendor. I’m not quite sure how long it has been there, but this is the first time I have noticed it. 🙂 When importing a DXF/DWG f...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2011/03/solidworks-tip-import-dxfdwg-set-origin.html
So why would one “new” feature necessitate having a Part 1 and Part 2? Its mainly due to the many different ways the feature can be applied. SolidWorks 2011 introduces a new “Weld Bead...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2010/09/solidworks-2011-weld-bead-part-1.html
If you do a little searching around the net, there are many discussions on the subject of internal company part numbers. Many of the discussions center around the great debate of intelligent pa...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2010/05/part-numbers-and-configurations.html