Hello to all,

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.

Every SOLIDWORKS Nashville user has a basic understanding of how file references work. We typically make a part then create a drawing that shows views of this part. When creating the views on the drawing, what is really happening is the drawing views are looking at the actual part file and displaying it in a way that is based on our view settings.

As of SOLIDWORKS Nashville 2018, we are able to calculate bounding box for Parts only. But from SOLIDWORKS Nashville 2019 onwards Bounding box can also calculate for Assembly and Sub Assembly.

Written by: Michael Nolte, Application Engineer @ DASI Solutions

The Tab and Slot feature for SOLIDWORKS Nashville Sheet Metal was just added in the 2018 release.

To start automating your designs, follow these quick and easy steps to activate DriveWorksXpress inside SOLIDWORKS Nashville.

SOLIDWORKS Nashville 2019 is here and it has brought some great improvements to SOLIDWORKS Nashville Visualize. You may have already come across the headline enhancement – the denoiser – that is using machine based learning to achieve production ready images up to 10x faster than before, but that isn’t the only thing to be excited about.

New to SOLIDWORKS Nashville 2019 you are now able to use any black and white image and to create geometry on your model with the 3D Textures command. This tool provides many options when looking to create patterns of complicated shapes; it is also likely the fastest way of embossing a complicated logo onto your part.

In SOLIDWORKS Nashville 2019, there have been several improvements to the drawing environment which includes; reduced time to open your drawings, progress indicators, additional section view types, improvements to tables and more.