Forum: SolidWorks

I'm trying to produce a drawing of a pipe run with a number of closely spaced welded tee joints as opposed to using ready made T joint components. I thought it may be possible to just draw a line...

Hey folks; Does anyone know of a good resource for learning intricate Solidworks functions for someone coming from an Autodesk Inventor background. I've had trouble projecting planes (default and...

I was thinking at first to buy GTX 580. Reading around I found out that GTX are not good for SW (DirectX vs OpenGL). Basically I need to handle STEP files over 200MB. Probably even 2 or 3 in one...

Please can anyone help me I am intrested in having a Solidworks professional qualification. I have SolidWorks Essentials & Drawings Certification, but would like to enhance my chances of CAD...

Hi I know some people may be annoyed with this but here it goes. Can anyone kindly do me a copy of Solidworks, please. The reason being is that I am currently unemployed and want to brush my skills...

i want to recover password for my .swp files .is there any way to recover the password

I just received this e-mail from Dan from the Gallardo tutorial and he looking for people to vote for the next SolidWorks Tutorial. Choices are: · Ferrari F430 · F1 Car · F16 Fighter Jet...

We have 2 machines that are identical for the moment, we want to have a master folder for all the Parts, Assemblies and thier drw's, these will all be 0200-series numbers. We have 2 machine folders,...

What the best way of combining 3D architectural environments and SW pipe runs?

Hi to all, I worked last 3 years in autocad architecture, I think there were limits compairing to SolidWorks premium 2011, hard to import files to max for renders, only throo plugins.... realy...

Hi everyone... i must say that this forum is outstanding..i've been reading posts for two days now and that alone was very good for me...i learned a lot in the past two days just by reading the...

I am a high school student and I am currently almost done with a model of an upper intake manifold on solidworks 2010 sp3. I need to get solid measurements, rather than just approximations, and get...

Any1 knows how to change the initial splash up screen while starting solid works.

Face<1>@Part14^Assem3-1 is not laying on the boundary between solid and fluid region. how to solve this problem..??

Hi Solidworks gurus, I've read about SW's automated-goal-based-optimization features with FEA, but haven't found anything similar w/ piping. Does anyone know if Solidworks (or plug-in tool)...

i am considering to use solidworks 2011 for manufacturing. but the factory need *.stp files for molding..... can i do this in solidworks? ...because i just get confused with *.step and *.stp...