Hi Everyone, I am trying to hollow out this brain model and smoothen the surface. I want it to be 3mm thick, and be smooth. Essentially, it is a brain that has a completely smooth surface with no gyri and no sulci, that is also hollow. Curious if anyone has done a similar thing. I have tried surface offset, deformation, etc. to no avail. Would appreciate help, thanks. Attached is the file itself as well as a screenshot.

I need the flat sketch to laser cut and later roll this 3D model, My first idea was to convert it to a sheet metal so later I can flatten it but after some tries I'm not sure what should be the best approach Thanks in advance :)

so I've got this triangle gusset of 1.75x1.75 and need a chamfer in its 90 degree angle so it can be welded, but when I put the chamfer in, it changes the bounding box to a rectangle shape and doesn't follow the box shape, is there a way to fix this in some way or make a custom bounding box sketch?

Im trying to confirm if there is a way to identify any notes whos text is at least partially enclosed in a border (inspection style). I am trying to develop a macro that can collect all dimensions AND notes that are marked for inspection and add them to a table. I am using solidworks 2024.

Hi! Can someone help? When I try to extrude the button in the middle, I'm not able to do it, because the selected face does not cover the entire projection of the rectangle in the extrude direction. How can I do it properly?

How can I get rid of the projects on the left hand side toolbar, shown by red arrows?

I have two sheet metal parts which are ideally created as configurations of the same file. The two inner round cuts (in blue) are located so that they are evenly distributed from the center line determined by the hexagonal holes (in red). I want one part to have the hexagonal cuts but not the round cuts and viceversa. I can suppress the round holes but if I supress the hexagonal cuts, round holes also disappear because they have the hexagonal cuts as references. I know I could use an equation

Hi, I am working with SW Pro 2020. Until a few weeks ago, it was running OK. Now, it seems to want to re-highlight any part I pass my mouse over. (Generates yellow lines on edges). It also does the same thing when I manipulate a part. Each manipulation requires it to re-highlight again. There are two examples below. I am normally using customer provided .stp files, so I'm not sure if that is an issue or not. For simple parts like the bushing, it is OK, for complicated parts it gets seriously

I am getting this error everytime I am opening my solidworks (I`m using Solidworks 2022 SP5.0). even after restarting my PC and disable all the startup apps I am getting this. what needs to be done to solve this? Thanks in Advance. SOLIDWORKS

Hello everyone: Let me provide some context: I am working with an assembly of ventilation ducts that consists of several drawings, each with different configurations that allow their dimensions to be modified as needed. The majority of these configurations are loaded via an Excel spreadsheet embedded in the respective drawings. As for the assembly itself, there are only two variants: One in which the ducts are visible, and the additional components (fans, flexible connectors) appear as

has anyone had this problem. the view created from the detail circle is offset and i cant figure out how to fix it for the life of me.

This option often pops up when I import a STP file. No clue why it happens, but seems like during the import something is causing empty sketches to occur. I am now in a dialog loop that won't go away until thousands of individual parts' empty sketches are deleted.

Hello Everyone, I'm having an issue with the selection filters. No matter what I do, I cannot turn off the filters. It may be hard to tell, but the 'Clear All Filters' button has been pressed, and it just turns them all on. I can turn them all on and then turn them all off, and they are all selected again. I can also select just one filter, then hit 'Clear All Filters,' and it just turns them all back on. Any help with this would be great. Thanks

If anyone has encountered this at any point of time where only preview tab is visible & rest of the tabs in PDM explorer are not visible. If we check in SolidWorks we are able to access all the options but on Windows Explorer we are seeing like the attached snap.

Is there a possibility to get rid of that green button I always have to klick to say yes I would like to keep doing what I am doing? In the previous versions of SW you didn´t have to accept again when you used this kind of mate, so now it´s really annoying for me to have 1 more click very time. If I press ESC the mate is lost...

Please can anyone suggest a method to create this kind of profile of crosses on top of a nail in Solidworks?

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing several persistent issues with my SOLIDWORKS installation that significantly affect usability: I receive repeated “low memory” warnings even when no other applications are open and I’m working with very simple parts. The default templates for parts, assemblies, and drawings are missing or not loading properly. In Smart Dimension, symbols like diameter and radius don't display correctly — I get text placeholders like “mod diam” instead. I have already uninstalled

Hello, I conducted a simulation on a Krouse specimen, which is a cantilever type, fixed in a clamped region and loaded at the other end. The purpose was to observe the maximum bending stress in a pure bending scenario where no shear stress component is expected. To ensure pure bending, I applied constraints to restrict all degrees of freedom by implementing multiple possible boundary conditions. Despite applying all possible constraints at the fixed end, the simulation results show shear stress.

SWx 2013 SP 5.0 does not finish launching. It gets hung when loading a script "C:/ProgramFiles/SolidWorksCorp/SolidWorks/data/taskpane/common/taskPaneFuncs.js". Any Thoughts? I have tried the following: Suggestion 1 1. Go to Control Panel > Internet Options. 2. On the Security tab > click Custom level. 3. Under Scripting, select Disable for Active scripting and for Scripting of Java applets. 4. Click OK. 5. Confirm the issue. Did not work Suggestion 2 1. Go to Control Panel > Internet

Hi I am trying to make a text swept boss base, where the letters sweep back. I keep getting a path error and I am not sure. Could anyone help?

Hi all, Please can anyone suggest a method how I can draw this staple pin with a barbed tip as attached? Thanks

Hello SolidWorks Users and Experts, I have two entities (solid curves) in 3D XYZ space — one is a circular curve (generated through Sketch-->Circle), and the other is a non-circular closed curve (XYZ vertices were imported from a .txt file), as illustrated in the figure below. I need to generate a surface between these two entities along user-defined guide paths (as shown by dotted curves). If both curves were confined to a single plane, splines as guided curve might have been an option.

Hello Everyone, I have a query regarding the connection workflow between Desktop SOLIDWORKS with cloud services and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. I am using Desktop SOLIDWORKS with cloud services and have installed Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS (Design with SOLIDWORKS) from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. As per my understanding, to connect SOLIDWORKS with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, it is required to have the 3DEXPERIENCE add-in loaded within SOLIDWORKS. However, in my case, I do not

I'm going mad here ! There is simply no way to make point A coincident with line B What makes me even angrier is that I made exactly THAT on point C Can anyone tell me what is wrong here ? Thank you ahead File attached >> The feature is 3D sketch 1 (under Boundary Surface 1) <<

I have been working on a mechanism in SolidWorks using the top-down approach. SO far everything has gone smoothly. But recently I got the rebuild icon next to some of the features in some of the parts. To solve it I simply pressed the force rebuild button. Upon pressing the force rebuild button the, the model rebuilds with no errors, but the rebuild icons remain. You can see the rebuild icons in the picture below. The issue only occurs when I create some kind of reference between a part that is

I'm attempting to create cardboard displays that require hemmed edges to provide structural rigidity. For this function, it is desirable to have an extremely tight radius so the material is folded over on itself. When I create an initial sheet metal part (Base-Flange1) the hem function works correctly as shown in Figure A. However, after extending the material creating Base-Flange2 the hem function no longer produces the desired results (ref. Figure B). Any suggestions are appreciated.

A while a go i created a new weldment folder which was working exactly as expented, however due to onedrive being... onedrive, i cant use that location anymore - i have followed the tutorials on how to change the weldment profile location, and the new location shows up correclty under the file locations tab, and yet, any time i try to creat a weldment, it tries to access the old, completely nonexistant file. can anyone help?

Pic shows a pat with a 3d sketched spline. I want to make a cut through that profile and I'll need (I think) a control curve. So I'd like to create another 3d sketch offset from this one. I tried Offset On Surface but can't pick the 3d sketch. I tried Sketch Tools/Offset Entities but that is greyed out. I've seen this done on another previous users part, but can't figure out how to make it work. Suggestions?

In SolidWorks, I am trying to retrieve dimensions of hidden features using model items. When done manually, it works. However, when I try to record it using a macro or implement it through C# code, it does not work. Is there any limitation related to this? object[] annotations = (object[])drawingDoc.InsertModelAnnotations3( (int)swImportModelItemsSource_e.swImportModelItemsFromEntireModel, (int)swInsertAnnotation_e.swInsertDimensionsMarkedForDrawing, false, // include items

Hello, I’m a SolidWorks 2024 SP3.1 user and I'm currently having trouble activating a license on another machine. The warning message says that it has already been activated too many times or is active on another computer. I no longer have an active subscription service, and I’d like to know if there’s anything I can do to reactivate it.

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