hi all,

i am trying to create weldmate profile list with excel

how i can get this directly in the description column so that when cutlist populated it will reflect it with applied specific size

Hi! I am quite new to SolidWorks and the industry and I am wondering what are the current standards among folks in the industry about communicating using STEP files?

Do most people communicate/ share using STEP files? When do you share STEP files?

From my experience, STEP files are quite limited to perform certain SolidWorks functions such as DFMXpress or Costing, or redesigning as it doesn't have full mathematical configurations. And oftentimes, I have to work around that.

What's your experience with STEP files? Thanks in advance!

Have ya'll seen this in action?

Hey everyone,
I have this part and want to 3d Print it later on. For that I need a slope starting from the bottom and going about 45° up to the top. Do you have any tips, on how I can cut the red area away?

Looking to create a CD case tower (those shiny circular things that use to play music). The goal is to stack multiple 14 inch sections together that spiral upwards. My first couple attempts involved lofting between two squares with a 90 degree twist and then using the shell feature as seen in picture. Adding the layers of side walls to hold each CD has been tricky from there. There are not flat faces to work with. Translating vertically then rotating around 5 degrees is not quiet working. Edges are hanging out the sides. I tried linear patten repeat using the curved edge as the direction but not quiet what I was looking for.

Any thoughts on best steps to accomplish this task?

Randomly two days ago my PC started randomly bsod-ing when I am viewing my part in solidworks.

No updates or anything. Reinstalled studio driver

running a lenovo legion with 5070ti and 32gb ram

Running Sw2025 SP5 connected

most of the crashes dont log anything, but one of them showed error livekernelevent 193 and 117

any help is appreciated

edit: Been running this for a year with no issues

Epic CAD vs CAD battle! - Video HIGHLIGHT here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ododYb3FXQ&list=PLzMIhOgu1Y5fzCh_ZBoGrZ45eLxetHRtQ&index=105

Okay so this feels like a dumb question. But why is this extrusion got these arrows that let it change it's length? Are they the reason the linear pattern tool won't work?

I swear this didn't used to happen