Digital orthodontics is rapidly becoming the standard production tool for orthodontic clinics and laboratories. Offering the ability to cut production times, increase efficiency, accuracy and digitally store orthodontic models, the benefits of digital production are clear. For orthodontic lab owners and managers, mid-size or small-size, choosing the right technologies to deliver the best return on [...]
View PostWe get a lot of support inquiries dealing with what kind of PC is the best to run Solidworks. Here are a few tips from the MCAD tech staff on selecting your next Solidworks system. Operating System • Windows 7 Professional x64 – recommended and preferred. • Windows 8 Professional x 64 – supported. • [...]
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As trustees of your SolidWorks investment, we believe it’s our job to help you solve the real engineering challenges that you face every day, and those can’t always be solved with an enhancement request. It’s our job to think about the tools and capabilities you will need five, ten, even fifteen years down the road [...]
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What is the Dispatch Add-in? The Enterprise PDM Dispatch Add-in lets you automate tasks and Processes in EPDM. This is particularly useful if you want to perform an action at multiple, consistent occurrences (such as updating a data card variable with a value after a Workflow state Change), or if you want to perform something [...]
View PostDo you want your SolidWorks drawings to have a main title block on the first sheet, and a smaller title block on all additional sheets? This can easily be done in SolidWorks. Figure 1: A multiple sheet drawing with a smaller sheet format on sheet 2. Sheets, Formats, and Templates To help explain the process, [...]
View PostOne of the areas of confusion for EPDM users is the difference between “Private Files” and “Local Files” in the user’s local view. EPDM locally caches any files a user is working on, that is when a user checks out or views a file it is copied from the archive server to the user’s local [...]
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SolidWorks 2013 Top 10 Enhancement Requests announced at SolidWorks World 2013. These requests will be implemented in the next version of SolidWorks; SolidWorks 2014. Here’s the list of what we can expect this fall with the release of SolidWorks 2014: 1. Make rebuild time faster 2. Ability to save SolidWorks files in previous versions – [...]
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Every few years, it comes time to turn your trusty old computer out to pasture in favor of a sleek new laptop or workstation. Here’s what you need to know when it comes to deactivating SolidWorks on your old computer. Transfer Licenses Open SolidWorks on the old machine. In the top menu bar, go to [...]
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SolidWorks functionality can be used to make life easier when working with Simulations. The following functions can help speed things along for you: Simulation-specific configurations Interference detection check for simulation-ready geometry Split lines for boundary condition application Configurations Most analysis projects require you to edit the geometry in some way before setting up the simulation. [...]
View PostDon’t you just love Infographics? So do we! Here is a 3D printing infographic that explains the 3D Printing Revolution. Learn more about 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping at www.mcad.com/3d-printing/
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