In many companies, Drawings are still were “the rubber meets the road”. Let’s take a look at what I think will be some of the more popular enhancements to the Drawing and Detailing area o...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2011/11/solidworks-2012-drawing-enhancements.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
Dassault Systemes today took the “Beta” wraps off DraftSight and have announced it’s full release. With this full release you also get a few enhancements. Those enhancement include: Trape...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2011/02/draftsight-officially-released.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
With my schedule relaxing a bit, I’m finally back in the groove and am excited to bring some new posts to the site. This one is kind of a “reminder post” of a new feature in SolidWorks 20...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2010/05/solidworks-2010-sketch-pictures-in-drawings.html
Sometimes when testing newer versions of Software you discover some “unreported” enhancements that really can be a time saver. That type of enhancement is the source of this post, but first...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2010/02/solidworks-2010-awesome-tables.html
Today we are going to take a look at perhaps one of the most underrated new features of SolidWorks 2010, the Mouse Gesture Wheel. While this new tool has gotten some good press in recent weeks,...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2009/10/solidworks-2010-mouse-gestures.html
As I said in my first post on SolidWorks 2010, Drawings received A LOT of enhancements! Today we are going to take a look at a few of them that relate to dimensioning. Rapid Dimension is a new ...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2009/08/solidworks-2010-drawing-dimension-enhancements.html
This year at SolidWorks World I gave a presentation on Custom PCB Design with SolidWorks. It covers not only useful features in SolidWorks that can help make the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) des...
The S Key Experiment continues for me and in this post we dive into Part 3 which covers using the S Key shortcut menu in the Drawing environment of SolidWorks 2009. In case you missed it, I c...
http://www.rickyjordan.com/2008/12/the-s-key-experiment-part-3.html