I know, I know… It’s been way too long since I have written an article for the stapler but I am going to make up for it today. Today we are going start a two part article on how to build the staple cradle of the stapler. I don’t know if it is really called [...]

Earlier this week, I revisited the techniques I discussed in my video Splitting a Part in SolidWorks. I left off at splitting the part into two solid bodies and that is where will be picking up from today. If you missed the first part of this article, I would strongly suggest you go back and [...]

After I created the video for splitting parts, I was asked by a few of my readers to write an article about splitting parts since some companies block Youtube videos. Rather then rehash the same information over again I decided to take the opportunity to explore another approach to achieve the same outcome. As anybody [...]

Last week, I introduced you to making derived sketches to save time in duplicating features on your part. Today is all about using the Insert Part command to create a derived part. A derived part is an extremely useful technique for adding features to a part without affecting the original part.  When the original part [...]

I know last week I mentioned that we were finished with sketch tools, for the time being, but I figured one more couldn’t hurt. I was working on a model for work earlier this week that I had created a few features using Derived Sketches and I thought it would be a great topic to [...]

♪Monday, Monday, so good to me ♪♫ … because it is the beginning of another fine SolidWorks week. Over the past two weeks, we have been covering some cool Sketch tools available in SolidWorks 2008. I know some of you might be wondering why I am still in 2008. Well to be honest, I would [...]

After missing a week, we are finally back to building our stapler. The last time we were here, we made a multi-configured spring for the anvil without using a Design Table. Today we are going to make another spring but this time we are going to be creating a simple design table to configure the [...]

♫ It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it were Sunday ’cause that’s my funday ♫♪. Since it has to be Monday, let’s make the best of it with another look at some more sketch tools. Last week, we started looking at some sketch tools in the world famous article,The Right Sketch Tool for the [...]

Sketches are such an  important aspect of SolidWorks. Virtually everything that is modeled in SolidWorks is controlled by a sketch. Yet, It still amazes me how even though everybody creates sketches daily, a lot of users aren’t aware of all the cool sketch tools available. Over the next couple of weeks we will look at [...]

Today on this very happy Friday, we are going to continue building our virtual stapler with the Anvil Spring. Over the past couple of weeks we built the Anvil and Anvil Rivet, now we will make a configured spring without a design table. The spring we make today will have three configurations: Default, As Assembled [...]