Novedge Pulse™ of Josh Altergott

One of the questions we have seen a lot in the Technical Support department today is about some of the new functionality that has been added in SolidWorks 2013. There are generally two questions that users ask and the first is "How do I use the new functionality?" and "Can [more...]

Are you looking for a way to test your skills in SolidWorks or maybe you are in the hunt for a new job and want to make yourself more marketable, then trying one of the SolidWorks Certification Exams is a good way to do that. SolidWorks has been certifying their [more...]

For the 4th year in a row Adrian Fanjoy and I have done one of our favorite SolidWorks World presentations, "Allowing SolidWorks to Perform". The presentation was well received and we thought it would be a good idea to share the information with more than just the SolidWorks World attendees [more...]

One call that we get on a regular basis on the support line is a question of "I use to get this warning message when I did.... and now thing are not happening the way they did before, why?" More often than not we find the answer in the SolidWorks [more...]

A question I have seen come into support lately is how to get a Hole Callout on a SolidWorks Drawing for features created with the SolidWorks Hole Wizard Tool. Problem: When you try to select what looks like the edge of a hole we get the following feedback from SolidWorks [more...]

When you have a multi-body part in SolidWorks the question that comes into play at some point is how do I make a drawing for each of the different bodies "parts". The answer to this is like many items in SolidWorks is open ended and has many different solutions and [more...]

The other day while watching a video on some of the new SolidWorks 2013 features, I noticed that one of the Flyout Toolbars for Annotations had a command for Cosmetic Threads that I did not have in my Flyouts, so I set about going to find out how to make [more...]