:. AngelSix v7 .: Free Your Mind!
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:10 |
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OK if you haven’t done so already read the first tutorial on creating a SolidWorks Add-in or if you already know how to then download the code files from the tutorial and open them up. We will start with the add-in from the previous tutorial as the base, so we already have an add-in that loads a Taskpane for us.
So we can get some dynamic control over the menus and toolbars we will add controls to our Taskpane to do all the work.
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Monday, 15 February 2010 13:30 |
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Fun with SolidWorks Equation Editor – Part 1
After a friend asked for a bit of help regarding some special custom property requirements, it led down a path that was rather interesting and ended up using the SolidWorks Equation Manager and Custom Properties in ways it really wasn’t meant to be used. And so I thought I would write a quick tutorial on it for those of you that may find it interesting.
The Problems
Firstly, let’s discuss the original problems
1. User wishes to display the current Year as part of a field on a drawing Title block. Sure you can use the last saved date or long date custom properties, but that shows a full date, the user just wants to display the year for copyright purposes.
2. User wishes to automatically pull in the Material name and Grade specifications from the actual SolidWorks Material name. For example the SolidWorks material could be called “STEEL 250” to refer to Steel of grade 250. The user ideally wishes to have 2 custom properties valued “Steel” and “250” respectively to identify material and grade. All materials have the grade as the last part of the name and contain no spaces, so that will be our basis for extraction.
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Sunday, 14 February 2010 11:27 |
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What do you do when you are working too hard and the next minute you know you are waking up on Valentine and your other half has a giant teddy and chocolates with a big card, and you haven't even had time to get anything?... Well with me being inventive and doing a lot of electronics lately I decided to make a PCB board, but this time instead of circuits I made a card (don't laugh). So I quickly drew up a card, printed it, transferred it onto the copper and etched it out ready for her to walk down stairs and think it was there all along :)
Thankfully she knows me and took it well; I can't think of many who would smile at getting a printed circuit board for Valentine!
 
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 16:23 |
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SaveAsX is a free tool that allows the user to quickly and easily save the active SolidWorks model into Jpeg, Tif, DXF or DWG at the click of a button, with the powerful ability to change the location and filename to anything they like based on normal text, the existing filename, any custom property within the model, and any combination of them. All of this happens in real-time with a preview output of the filename that will be created. Enjoy!
Download Here
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 17:24 |
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With a lot of new branding coming up including cool huddies and jeans, I decided to create a new logo that will be used from here on out. What do you guys think?
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