Reduce Overhead & Improve Efficiency using the Extend & Untrim Feature in SolidWorks
As a user, I often ask what little things can I do on a daily basis to improve short and long-term goals? Let’s list them out first to find helpful ways to meet the objectives:
- > Get this project complete.
- > Move onto the next project.
- > Reduce overhead (SolidWorks documents).
- > Make all things (me, my team) more efficient.
1) Extend -> Surface
Little things make a huge difference in the end as far as your calculation time. Let’s look at the difference between 2 commands with 2 different algorithms – 1) surface extend and 2) surface untrim (see below).
Without getting too specific as to the intimate details, I like the untrim command if I can get it. What’s not to like here? Multiple bodies can be selected there by reducing clicks. Percentage based, I like that. The other thing is the performance. Better than a 75% faster rebuild on this small part for less work! So, if you take a part that has 400 features in it and we can reduce the overhead of rebuilding it by 75% on 1 part, what is this going to do for us when we get a whole group of these parts together in an assembly?
Reduce overhead and improve efficiency. Little things have a cumulative effect over the long haul.
Be a Maker.
Todd
2) Surface -> Untrim