Catalogue parts are components/items that are bought from a manufacturer and are not defined by a standard like ISO, DIN or similar. Although the making of drawings for catalogue parts can take up some time (and is usually avoided for one-time projects), they are of very high importance in the case of product engineering and projects that get reproduced. You …

Catalog items such as bearings, cylinders, electromotors, and gearboxes often get imported with incorrect mass values. Although the mass may be overridden as we import the model, it can still be incorrect. Here is a comparison between imported and actual mass for an SKF bearing:Using an item with the wrong mass in your assembly can lead to incorrect assembly mass, …

End of November I had the privilege to attend the Solidworks Assembly Online Course that was offered to me by Javelin, a Trimech Company.  Yes, this “covid era” has given us and a lot of others the opportunity to attend SW courses from the other side of the world, which was not possible before! I’m very grateful for that opportunity …

Finally, the time has come to change our outdated numbering scheme so I decided to share it with you. Here are some quick insights: If you check out my post from 2019, you can see that our old document numbering scheme was designed hierarchical. The first 5 numbers were the project numbers and then there were 3 or 4 digits …

It’s been a while since I published the last blog post and I apologize for taking so long. I must confess, I chickened out!   And the reason is that after starting this blog, I got connected with people who showed me how wrong I am. And that there is so much I don’t know on the topics that I wanted …

Yusuf, what does your company do? We are into manufacturing of process equipment for food, pharma, chemical and agro-chemical, paints, inks and dyes. Some of our machines look just like a pump, but they have a rotary shearing blade and a stator. You can check them out at www.wahalengineers.com. How many CAD engineers does your company have? For now, we have …

If you are still managing your CAD data without PDM, you can use it’s super powers to your advantage. We often did, but how exactly I will tell you a bit later. Let’s see what is so super powerful about this custom property first. Unlike all the other custom properties, this particular property can be displayed as a separate column …

Last month I published a LinkedIn article “Bulk processing for SolidWorks files is free!” and after a while I got a question: How much time do you actually save with this tool? Well to be honest I did not have a clear answer back then, but I decided to make a test and record it as a video. This way …

As you might know, the next year Microsoft is removing support for Windows 7. This means that slowly everyone will be forced to upgrade to a new version of OS. We decided to perform the upgrade now, before the next big project begins. We upgraded our workstations to Windows 10 and installed SolidWorks 2019. Everything worked fine until I opened …

Steve Lapic works as a CAD admin for the Water & Wastewater Group of Brentwood Industries. They design water clarification and biological systems for the water and wastewater industry around the world. The products they make fit into customers large tanks that are used to clean the water. The group has about 60 employees. For their work they use SolidWorks, …