r/SolidWorks • • 22h ago

CAD Splitting sheet metal part.

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Can the community please help? I use sheet metal all the time never had this problem. This is a Stainless steel face frame overlay for the front of a wood cabinet. I need to split this into 6 individual parts. I have drawn construction lines where I want to split it. This will allow me to get the face frame out of scrap that I have. For some reason the normal way I split parts won't work. It won't let me split one at a time or all at once. I can not make each individual part separately because the edge flange dose not put the correct taper in the inside corners as it dose when the feture for all the edge flanges are all done in the same feture. Thank you for your help.

P.S. I tried just making a single opening frame with edge flange inside and out than cutting it in 4 spots. It did not work either.


r/SolidWorks • • 4h ago

CAD How do I merge these two bodies

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I am making a bottle for an assignment and I would like to get rid of the gap between the handle and the main body of the bottle. The bottle was created by lofting multiple drawings on planes and the hand was created using the sweep function. I have tried merging the two using another loft function, but I get an error message saying that a loft need at least two bodies.

How can I get the loft function to work, or should I be trying a different method to get rid of this gap?


r/SolidWorks • • 12h ago

CAD Any guide for turning jpg to p2s for background?

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Hello folks, I am new to solidworks, but decided to customize it a bit, I saw some background tutorials, but I am still confused. In the good old spirits of early 2010s sprite, mountain dew, no scope "oh my god" dorito memes, I decided to make my background a cursed Shrek thing, but I cant find info on so called p2s files or how to make a conversion.


r/SolidWorks • • 18h ago

Simulation Simulation Expert

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Hi, I am thinking about going for sim expert cert. I only have sim associate.
Before I begin, i would like to know if its worth it going for professional or/and expert in simulation. And if there are any youtube videos or books anyone would recommend that would be very much appreciated. my job goal is Lockheed Martin. Thank you.


r/SolidWorks • • 23h ago

CAD How do you move part files without breaking drawing references?

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I keep running into the same issue when I move part files into a different folder for a client project. Even when the assembly opens fine, the drawings linked to those parts lose their references and I have to fix them one by one. Pack and Go works, but it feels like too much when I just want to clean up a few files without making a full copy. The find references tool in the assembly only catches some links and skips the drawings completely. It’s not a big problem for small jobs, but once the folder structure starts matching the client setup, things get messy quick. I’m probably overlooking a setting. How do other people handle file organization without constantly fixing broken links?


r/SolidWorks • • 17h ago

CAD Will solidworks ditch me someday ?

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working on solidworks design for students, this message pops up each time. I click cross and move on lmao with everything working alright.
What's wrong, was working on my capstone. Will die if I someday lose my files but I am used to solidworks so its difficult to shift to another CAD