Novedge Pulse™ of John Van Engen

For most of us using weldments you may have noticed that there is a or description behind your configuration names. Although it's nice to see, sometimes we don't want it. Like in the case we want [more...]

Off of a recent support call we learned that Avast! Internet Security has been found to cause a problem on x64 machines while installing SolidWorks. Even though SolidWorks does not required to us shut down the anti-virus programs anymore during [more...]

From time to time we will see users who come to us with complaints of instability and poor performance. After a little investigation we find that the customers have purchased a non-workstation PC. Some of them will try to remedy [more...]

As you are working at full speed you notice that after the last command you used from the Command Manager, it appears it has become undocked. No problem just like all other toolbars we can just slide it back where [more...]

Typically this is done when a sharp corner dimension is needed. If you have a radius corner that is shown on a drawing that is dimensioned to the invisible sharp you can create this as a point in a sketch [more...]

Found an interesting group of programs associated with HP that will crash SolidWorks while inserting a design table. HP has felt compelled to add a new security agent called "HP ProtectTools Security Manager" as an add-in for Microsoft Excel. This [more...]

The trick to justifying sketch text starts before you open the sketch text command. You will need to draw in a construction line or have a line in the sketch to use. If the sketch text command is opened it [more...]

'Tis the Season to Upgrade Your SNL to 2011! Around this time every year kid’s eyes and minds fill with thoughts of great presents and visiting relatives, while their engineering parents eagerly await the new SolidWorks version to be installed [more...]

So you think it's time to upgrade SolidWorks, or maybe it's time to upgrade MicroSoft Office. Does it matter to one or the other what versions they are? Yes. SolidWorks integrates portions of Office so both matter. With a little [more...]

From time to time you may want to copy a toolbox part for a custom part. In addition you may want to have that part get revision control as well. After attempting this a few times it's easy to give [more...]

Just a quick note for now. Some calls and confusion over where the SNL manager is installed from. Slightly different appearances to downloaded and DVD versions, both have same selection. Really, it's in the same place as last year but [more...]

As many of us good SolidWorks users do we all try to keep our folders tidy. SolidWorks has given us some great tools for it as well. Like the SolidWorks Rx system maintenance tab. Where to find it? Start, All [more...]

Doing some digging I ran across this cross reference list in the Installation FAQs along with some other useful information that you might have wondered about in the installation process. It is often heard on the support lines that there [more...]

Every so often you may encounter an error that threatens your document’s progress. It’s not the end of the world just some going back and redoing some work. But maybe, it can be saved. Here’s a few tips to overcome [more...]