SOLIDWORKS offers a versatile set of options under Model Display, allowing users to personalize model visuals for parts and assemblies. Key features include setting custom colors, adjusting edge styles, and applying advanced surface attributes like transparency and texture scaling. This ensures accurate visual representation and smoother design reviews. You can also store custom appearances and optimize model sharing with integrated textures, decals, and lighting effects.
When 3DEXPERIENCE users face connection issues while launching Design with SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Connected, it is often due to a connection issue with the collaborative space. Common signs include blank login dialogs, blank MySession task pane, and specific error messages such as, ‘Unable to connect to 3DEXPERIENCE’ or ‘Failed to establish connection with 3DEXPERIENCE server.’ This article covers a few possible ways to resolve these connection issues.
In SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional, a sunlight environment can be used to stage a model under a realistic sky using light from the sun. In this tutorial, we’ll cover how to create a sunlight environment and review some parameters for dialing it in.
In this guide, we cover SOLIDWORKS Simulation fixture preview icons and what they represent. While building SOLIDWORKS Simulation studies, it is important to create the right fixtures so that the results are accurate. By understanding the fixture preview icons and how they relate to the different types of fixtures, it becomes much easier to quickly create the correct fixtures.
If you use SOLIDWORKS 2022 or SOLIDWORKS 2023, you may have experienced the inability to dimension to sheet metal bend lines in your drawings. There is a simple workaround to this that we'll outline in this quick tip.
New to SOLIDWORKS 2024 is the ability to make multibody parts from assemblies. While saving an assembly as a part has always existed, a new tool provides additional options. In this guide, we’ll compare the differences between these two methods.
In this article, we’ll discuss the difference between fixed and floating components in a SOLIDWORKS assembly. We will also look at a tool that will allow us to temporarily move between these two component states.
Unabsorb Sketches is a handy SOLIDWORKS tool that can help ease the difficulty when adding sketches to a feature that has already been created. In this tutorial, learn how to use the Unabsorb Sketches tool to temporarily remove sketches from a feature to aid feature editing processes.
Every file saved to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform has a file history that can be accessed and saved to PDF. This history includes the user who made the change, the action taken, the maturity state of the file, and a description of the action. In this tutorial, we go over the steps for obtaining file history.