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5 Temptations of a Hardcore SolidWorks User

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

You’ve probably been there - tease and ridiculed for organizing other people’s features, “accidentally” fixing someone else’s sketches or finding the last keyboard combination for a shortcut. It’s a condition that use to be treated with ... Continue reading »

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  • Devon T. Sowell

    1 year ago

    How about users that go 'crazy' with colors? They apply different colors at all levels, ie, at the Solid Body level, Face level, Feature level, even colored sketches too!

    Willllllburrrrr, A horse is a horse, of course, of course...

    :-)
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  • Charles

    1 year ago

    My models often have three levels of colors. You know, after it gets machined it changes the surface finish! Then it gets painted! It's important to have that in the model. (we use B&W drawings only)
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  • Gabi

    1 year ago

    This is so funny, Josh! I hope never to fall into one of those categories. So far, I'm only absent minded, stared at everything, trying to figure out what features I could use to model most everything around me... My kids look at me funny and giggle behind my back, but lucky for me, at least here at home I'm still boss and in charge of allowances and curfews. :-)
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  • Bruce Buck

    1 year ago

    I found the original few the funniest, which I am guilty of, of course.

    "...organizing other people’s features, “accidentally” fixing someone else’s sketches..."

    Can't help myself.
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  • cad joe

    1 year ago

    "My models often have three levels of colors. You know, after it gets machined it changes the surface finish! Then it gets painted! It’s important to have that in the model. (we use B&W drawings only)"

    We chose this approach. Its very usefull on complex parts to see casting and machined surfaces.
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    I'll agree on the color usage. although I like things to look realistic, when you're working on a model that has 57 pieces of the same material, it's nice to be able to tell where they start, stop and overlap. We even have a random color generator when a new part is created. Strange that this is one of the key aspect to a design being created huh.
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