This blog post was inspired by a question I received via email. The question was about how to create a section view in an assembly.  There was a picture attached to the email that showed an assembly  that seemed to have been cut along two planes, but only partially, and  it appeared that one chunk  of the assembly had been removed to reveal the inside, while the rest of the assembly remained v...

It seems to me like I’ve been out of touch with everything lately. I have certainly neglected this blog and haven’t even kept up with the entire buzz about SolidWorks related news, forums and blogs.  I apologize to those that have sent questions through email asking for help, and never received an answer. I wasn’t ignoring you, I was simply too busy working on a non-modeling, but SolidWorks...

A few days ago, my friend Chris Thompson, founder and owner of Appian Way Technologies, took a look at my model of the safety latch and suggested the following changes in order to improve the simulation study. First of all, he added small fillets to the areas of the latch where stress concentrations are expected, at the “root” of the latch. He also “cut” the model in half, in order to take...