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Many times users need to know the internal volume of a model or assembly. There are a few ways to get this information but using the Cavity feature in conjunction with a top-down, in-context modeling approach will allow you to design your model as it would be manufactured while making sure the volume updates correctly [...]

Perhaps you spend some time creating a complex exploded view and now you have to make other similar exploded views for the rest of your configurations.  Here’s how you can save some time and copy your exploded views between configurations.

In design, we are always focused on the solving the problem and many times we need to solve these problems within a certain scope. So if I was designing a new heat sink, yes the main goal is to keep the product within a certain temperature however it is also important to ensure that the [...]

As we begin to update our SolidWorks systems to 2009 and start to use new features like SpeedPak, there are some behaviors you should be aware of regarding your drawing files.

SolidWorks is not prompting me to find the missing parts, why?

Have you ever opened an assembly, and all the Toolbox components were huge?  But last time you opened this assembly it was correct? 

Collaborating with vendors and other clients, it is often necessary to provide a place holder to them for your product.

There is an automated way to populate file properties across multiple files at once through the SolidWorks Task Scheduler.

How to manually populate file properties to existing files.

Having the ability to determine where an item is used is an obvious benefit of using a PDM solution. PDMWorks Workgroup and Enterprise both have features which allow a user to do this but approach the answer in separate ways.