As I had mentioned previously, and also in a comment to my last post, I’m  currently teaching myself SolidWorks Motion, with the aid of the official  2009 training manual. I’m really enjoying the exercises and examples provided in the book, and the way everything always turns out as predicted in the lesson.  My problem began, however, when I tried to use Basic Motion to run some examples of...

  My son made me promise this was really a model of lip balm… less girly I guess, if you’re willing to overlook the flowers on the decal, that is. Sorry, I couldn’t resist! Not that I usually wear lipstick, err, lip balm, but when stressed out to the max and whenever tossing a 12 lb ball at a group of unsuspecting pins won’t make me feel any better,   I often find solace in regular thin...

This is a short video I put together on using SolidWorks Motion to simulate the movement of an arbor press. This is really my first try on animation, I mean, besides the examples and exercises on books and tutorials. I’m currently learning at my own pace using the SolidWorks Motion training manual. There’s also a book called The Step by Step Self-Study Guide to SolidWorks MotionManager. I was...

Well this turned out to be a two part post, instead of one. It all started with me venturing into SolidWorks MotionManager, which is used to create little animations of assemblies as they are exploded and/or collapsed, rotated, dragged around, or just made to have their components move and interact with each other in the way they would do in real life. I’m working on a little video about it, usi...