Today we continue our discussion on using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008. Be sure you go back and read my previous post Creating Your BOM Template and Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008 before reading on. I would also highly recommend Josh’s coverage of BOM at SolidSmack, SolidWorks BOM Superstar: 5 Moves to Avoid and How to [...]

Welcome back to a new week filled with SolidWorks tips and tricks. Over the next couple of post we’ll be concentrating on SolidWorks Bill of Materials. SolidWorks 2008 brought some changes on how one uses BOMs in the drawing environment. A lot of the controls for BOMs that were previously available in the PropertyManager are [...]

Earlier this month for Standards Tuesday, I spent a couple of weeks describing BOMs per ASME Y14.34-1996. If you missed them I highly recommend you go back and read those post since they cover a lot of information that would be helpful in creating your own BOM template, see Standards Tuesday – Bill of Materials [...]

The very first post I did when I started this blog was about getting rid of the drawing sheet background in SolidWorks 2008. At the time I was under the impression that there was no way to turn off the ‘crumpled’ paper look of a drawing. I was feeling pretty good about myself when I [...]

How many of you after switching over to SolidWorks 2008 couldn’t figure out how to hide an extension line? There was a small change to how you hide or show dimension and extension lines that seemed to be made under the radar. The first time I needed to hide an extension line I was shocked [...]

With a show of hands, how many are guilty of faking leaders in drawings? How many times have you or someone you love made a copy of a balloon or annotation and placed it on top of another? Just for the second or third leader, you sacrifice the integrity of the drawing. Come on, be [...]

One of my favorite new features in SolidWorks 2008 is the addition of Shortcut Bars. Shortcut bars are customizable floating bars that pop up in the graphic area near your mouse pointer. By default each environment has its own shortcut bar that you can then customize just like another toolbar. With Shortcut Bars in addition [...]

As a SolidWorks administrator I encounter a number of questions regarding SolidWorks that I plan to pass on to the users of SolidWorks Geeks. Recently my company rolled out SolidWorks 2008 to our users and I was expecting a huge number of questions regarding the CommandManager, Instant 3D or even the overall interface.
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