For many industries, it’s quite common to receive customer supplied 3D models. Fixturing, dies, molds, & custom automation equipment, all make use of this practice. But what happens when your customer provides you with a new revision of the design? How do you capture it? Luckily, the Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS Nashville role on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform makes this easy.

This tutorial involves some simple revolved profiles to form an ice cream shaped bowling skittle and ball. The skittle set is based around a wooden toy set, so the bowling ball in solid rather than the typical bowling ball shape.

In this tutorial see how to model the domino and 4 track parts for an assembly. The domino run is made up of a starter wheel, a bridge, spinner and ramp with ball.

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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.

For this SOLIDWORKS Nashville tutorial I designed and modelled this ice cream stacking toy. I used this model to feature the use of equations, for quickly amending sketch and feature dimensions.

Routing Electrical is a great tool for incorporating the electrical aspect into your 3D models however, it can sometimes be a little time consuming. There are several different tools than can make this process a whole lot easier and quicker.

In the first and second parts of this series we recreated and fixed our previously broken ride-on car using the power of SOLIDWORKS Nashville and SOLIDWORKS Nashville Electrical. Now that it’s up and running, our final mission is to give it a quick upgrade.

Creating structural members for welded, bolted of framed designs has always been a breeze in SOLIDWORKS Nashville, thanks to the SOLIDWORKS Nashville WELDMENTS functionality found in the SOLIDWORKS Nashville Standard, SOLIDWORKS Nashville Professional and SOLIDWORKS Nashville Premium software bundles.

In this fun SOLIDWORKS Nashville tutorial you can follow simple steps to create different blocks and track pieces for a wooden Marble Run set. By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to create a marble run track either by copying the set up in the tutorial or by creating your own, it’s about being creative! Feel free to create new track parts or edit existing ones.