If anybody has told you that 2D is dead, they are either misinformed or just wrong. the fact is 2D will continue to play a major role in the manufacturing environment. Everybody knows that I am a huge proponent of 3D modeling but I have also worked in the manufacturing environment for over 15 years. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Doing it by the book In recent years, I have witnessed a noticeable decline in the quality of drawings. As more emphasis is placed on models and assemblies, good drawing practices are neglected. I cannot not even count how many drawings I have encountered that seemed to not only not follow any known standards but [...]

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 [...]