What is SolidWorks eDrawings?

Introduction to SolidWorks eDrawings: A Comprehensive Guide   Brief overview of SolidWorks eDrawings SolidWorks eDrawings is a powerful and user-friendly tool that enables seamless design collaboration between engineers, designers, and other stakeholders in the product development process. It serves as a bridge for communication by allowing users to view, interpret, and share 2D and 3D …

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How to insert SolidWorks Diameter symbol?

Need for Symbols in drawing In Design engineering, the part or components are designed with specific dimensions. The dimensions can be considered or taken reference from the existing part. These dimensions need to be drawn in technical drawings of the parts, components, or assembly. As these drawings are studied by the manufacturer before manufacturing the …

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How to use SolidWorks Autotrace?

Whenever we want to have custom shapes to be copied or traced, we use SolidWorks Autotrace. Instead of using splines or other methods of sketching, utilizing the feature of Autotrace enables us to automatically do our jobs for us. Long gone are the days of manual sketching. To use this Add-in, first we have to …

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What is Solidworks Certification Centre?

SolidWorks is a parametric solid modeler that starts the modeling process by creating a 2D sketch consisting of simple geometries. These sketches are operated using special 3D features such as extrusion or revolving around an axis. This is to generate realistic computational representations of models giving the user the exact idea of how the product …

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How to create Custom Properties in SolidWorks?

A part property is a SolidWorks tool that makes a designer’s life easier. The properties tab helps the designer know all the relevant information about the given part. This feature of SolidWorks gives the user options to write comments, and keywords while working in an organization.  To access this feature simply follow these steps: Go …

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How to use Mate Reference in SolidWorks?

Mate reference is a shortcut method that saves time while performing the mating operations in an assembly. In any complex assembly where we have more than one similar part with the same mating method. You can create mate references to specify the mates utilized and the component geometry being mated for components that you pair …

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SolidWorks PDM could not access the item in the database

The error message “SolidWorks PDM could not access the item in the database” can occur for a variety of reasons, but it typically indicates that SolidWorks PDM is unable to access the database for the item in question. Here are some possible reasons for this error: Database connectivity issues: If there are connectivity issues with …

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