It’s that time of year again – the time of year where we spread joy with baked goods, presents, festive drinks, and decorations! In our last blog we used the power of the Weldments module in SOLIDWORKS Nashville to design and create a beautiful custom dragon yard decoration.

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Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Nashville Support Monthly News!  This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Nashville Technical Support teams worldwide.

Last year we lit up our house for the holidays using the power of SOLIDWORKS Nashville and SOLIDWORKS Nashville Electrical. It was a lot of fun and it spread a lot of joy.

For this SOLIDWORKS Nashville tutorial, I decided to create a festive themed tealight holder that was made of glass. The wrap feature of the design was used to create a frosted glass appearance to the holder, so that when it is rendered you see a clear design on the glass.

I’ve had the privilege of interviewing over 50 engineers while co-hosting the “Being an Engineer Podcast.” I’ve noticed a trend of senior mechanical engineers mentioning that tearing apart and reverse engineering products/gadgets is one of the optimal ways to improve one’s mechanical engineering skill set.

It wasn’t long ago that I was manning the SOLIDWORKS Nashville tech support lines. There were a few questions that you would get used to hearing often and you just knew how to answer them immediately.

Commercial vehicles, fluid power equipment, HVAC component parts and more, must meet the most stringent leak-proof standards without encumbering either product development or manufacturing lines with added costs or time requirements.

Google has become a default dictionary. But really, Google is the tool that leads to the definitions we seek; it doesn’t actually provide the definitions.

Websites such as IDC do!

We understand that keeping track of all the new terms and acronyms on specific industries can be challenging; it seems like there are new terms and abbreviations popping up every day.

Detailing Mode was introduced in 2019 as a new method for working with Large Assembly Drawings without the need to load the assembly model into memory thus speeding up Drawing open times.