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This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas SolidWorks World is coming in January! I just found out that I get to go. I’m a competitive guy, and enjoy challenges like Model Mania. It’s too bad they only happen once a year and that you have to go to the conference, because it motivates me
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview On the test, I ended up bringing something like this into excel- mostly because I wasn’t that familiar or comfortable with tables. It’s actually not that difficult at all. First- let’s add a couple of
Learn SOLIDWORKS certification at your own pace with CSWP tutorials & online training. This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview So- in this question, you are asked to sort the BOM by Part #. If you are a cheater (like me) this
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview Making a BOM and extracting info from it… The way that “lazy, paranoid & beat-the-system” me does this question- Open up the assembly and count all the sub-trigger assemblies in the assembly. Make sure
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Do you think I would learn my lessons about not using traditional/standard methods? No… the point of this is to find the surface area of a cross section. This can also be found by performing a cut in part mode. Why do I insist on using
This article is a guest post by Jim LucasFind the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview. This always happens to me. I think I’m so smart with my shortcut shenanigans until I get to the next problem that builds on the first. So- if you were able to bring the part in
This one falls into my “answer the question, don’t worry about being pretty” rant perfectly. The secret to this one is that sketch entities cannot be reference UNLESS they are in the same drawing view. Read the rant and find the rest of the solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview. The SolidWork’s official sample exam
One of the easiest ways to be more efficient at CAD design, or pretty much any program based skill, is to learn and master common keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Sure we all know about the standard Ctrl+V and Ctrl+C (if you don’t know what those do in nearly every PC program, look it up immediately),
Prepare for SOLIDWORKS certification with online training, sample exams, exercise files, & tutorials available 24/7. This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Drawings… I’d love to live in a world where these are obsolete, and 3D files became the vehicle of communication. Unfortunately and surprisingly, engineers have never seemed to carry much weight
