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Case Study: Reducing Assembly Time with a Simple Jig
A manufacturing improvement case study using a low-cost jig, with before/after assembly time, rework, labour cost, annual savings and payback calculations.
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Every page in the KEVOS library tagged SOLIDWORKS. 18 pages.
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SOLIDWORKS as a Design System: Series Overview
An engineering-led overview of the SOLIDWORKS Design Approach series: treating CAD as a design system rather than a menu structure, and the eighteen-part pathway from first prin…
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SOLIDWORKS Certification Pathways for Designers
How SOLIDWORKS certification works and how to prepare for it: exam structure, the associate and professional levels, discipline-specific certificates, a mapping of exam topics t…
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The SOLIDWORKS Environment: Interface, Options and Templates
Orientation to the CAD working environment: the three panes and the modes they serve, system options versus document properties, customisation and productivity tools, templates …
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SOLIDWORKS Administration in Practice
A practical reference for administering a SOLIDWORKS environment — platform requirements, deployment images, licence management, PDM architecture, standards governance, upgrade …
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SOLIDWORKS Automation: Macros, API & Task Scheduling
Levels of SOLIDWORKS automation and where each fits, worthwhile targets and what not to automate, unattended batch work, treating automation as software with ownership and versi…
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SOLIDWORKS Deployment Methods & System Options Governance
Delivering SOLIDWORKS to a fleet: the three deployment methods and their rights and upgrade profiles, rollout sequencing and pilot design, and a defensible policy for which syst…
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SOLIDWORKS File References, Search Paths & Data Portability
How SOLIDWORKS references resolve, which ordinary file operations break the reference graph, governing in-context references and duplicate filenames, and choosing formats for tr…
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SOLIDWORKS Licence Models & Entitlement Planning
Choosing between standalone and network licensing for SOLIDWORKS, how base tiers and add-in entitlements are consumed, and how to size a pool from measured usage rather than ass…
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SOLIDWORKS Materials, Drafting Standards & Units
The third standards layer: building a verified custom material library, holding a modified drafting standard as a controlled external file, setting units and precision consisten…
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SOLIDWORKS Network Licence Administration
Administering the SOLIDWORKS network licence manager: server placement and ports, the options file and its control categories, idle reclaim, borrowing policy, consumption order,…
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SOLIDWORKS Operating Environment Configuration
Configuring the operating environment around SOLIDWORKS: operating system support lifecycle, antivirus exemptions, graphics driver policy, account rights, path conventions and t…
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SOLIDWORKS Performance Diagnosis & Troubleshooting
A diagnostic method for SOLIDWORKS performance complaints: isolating the workstation, model, network and server layers, the two-test triangulation, common causes at each layer, …
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SOLIDWORKS Templates, Sheet Formats & Custom Properties
Governing the SOLIDWORKS template set: what templates carry versus system options, why sheet formats are separate artefacts, designing a custom property schema before the first …
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SOLIDWORKS Toolbox & Design Library Governance
Controlling shared component libraries in SOLIDWORKS: where the Toolbox should live, configuring numbering and naming before production use, permissions and the silent-write fai…
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SOLIDWORKS Upgrade Planning & Version Compatibility
Planning a SOLIDWORKS upgrade: the four compatibility rules that govern sequencing, deciding when to adopt, pre-upgrade validation, the server-side sequence, and where rollback …
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SOLIDWORKS Workstation Specification & Hardware Certification
How to specify engineering workstations for SOLIDWORKS: why single-thread frequency governs rebuild performance, how to size memory against assembly scale, and why graphics supp…
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The SOLIDWORKS Administrative Image
Creating and maintaining a SOLIDWORKS administrative image: image types, the option editor and its configuration scopes, path constraints that cause obscure failures, and the ma…
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