http://cadjunkie.com Learn modo, SolidWorks, and Rhino for product design. Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:36:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.7 http://cadjunkie.com/17321/customizing-modo-04-create-a-macro-button-iii http://cadjunkie.com/17321/customizing-modo-04-create-a-macro-button-iii#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:33:32 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17321 Last week we successfully created a button and emphasized the importance of saving our settings and creating a friendly UI setup for adding even more commands and sharing them. This week week we're going to take a look at further customizing our Macros as 'Menu Bar' items with the MODO Form Editor.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17321/customizing-modo-04-create-a-macro-button-iii/feed 2 http://cadjunkie.com/17309/customizing-modo-03-create-a-macro-button-ii http://cadjunkie.com/17309/customizing-modo-03-create-a-macro-button-ii#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:34:38 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17309 Last week we took a look at creating a tool button for creating a custom command that we created using MODO's form editor. While we successfully created a button, we emphasized the importance of saving our settings and creating a friendly UI setup for adding even more commands and sharing them. This week we'll take a look at the best way to save and share those commands. ]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17309/customizing-modo-03-create-a-macro-button-ii/feed 2 http://cadjunkie.com/17303/customizing-modo-02-create-a-macro-button http://cadjunkie.com/17303/customizing-modo-02-create-a-macro-button#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:41:39 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17303 MODO is one of the most extensible tools around, and you don't have to be a coding aficionado to automate frequent tasks. Last week we covered how to make a macro. This week we're going to take a look at creating a tool button for our new command and using the form editor to customize its appearance in our UI. ]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17303/customizing-modo-02-create-a-macro-button/feed 3 http://cadjunkie.com/17296/solidworks-hump-day-tips-09-creating-flexible-assemblies http://cadjunkie.com/17296/solidworks-hump-day-tips-09-creating-flexible-assemblies#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:28:01 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17296 One of the most exciting parts (or frustrating!) of working in SolidWorks is finding new ways of doing the same thing. Oftentimes this comes in the form of finding a new tool or feature that rapidly speeds up your workflow and prevents unnecessary work.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17296/solidworks-hump-day-tips-09-creating-flexible-assemblies/feed 1 http://cadjunkie.com/17291/solidworks-hump-day-tips-08-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-iv http://cadjunkie.com/17291/solidworks-hump-day-tips-08-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-iv#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:12:44 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17291 In our final week of our 'Closing Surfaces in SolidWorks' exploration we're going to take a look at closing irregular shapes and how the best executions may come from using a combination of multiple surfacing tools we've been using over the past few weeks. Let's do this!]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17291/solidworks-hump-day-tips-08-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-iv/feed 3 http://cadjunkie.com/17284/solidworks-hump-day-tips-07-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-iii http://cadjunkie.com/17284/solidworks-hump-day-tips-07-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-iii#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:04:59 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17284 This week we're going to take a look at a different kind of shape that is slightly more challenging: an ellipse! If you would like to follow along with the same file used in the video, we've included the project file below. Let's do this!]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17284/solidworks-hump-day-tips-07-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-iii/feed 0 http://cadjunkie.com/17281/customizing-modo-01-macros http://cadjunkie.com/17281/customizing-modo-01-macros#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:13:32 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17281 MODO is one of the most extensible tools around, and you don't have to be a coding aficionado to automate frequent tasks. Today we'll cover the simplest possible type of automation, the Macro.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17281/customizing-modo-01-macros/feed 0 http://cadjunkie.com/17274/solidworks-hump-day-tips-05-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-i http://cadjunkie.com/17274/solidworks-hump-day-tips-05-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-i#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:07:16 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17274 This week we're going to get slightly more advanced in our methods and take a look at capping a shape that is all too familiar (but for good reasons) these days: the 'squircle'. You've seen this 'square+circle' hybrid shape around on products including portable wi-fi hotspots and even in various Apple designs including the iPhone.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17274/solidworks-hump-day-tips-05-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks-part-i/feed 4 http://cadjunkie.com/17270/precision-scaling-in-modo http://cadjunkie.com/17270/precision-scaling-in-modo#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:10:51 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17270 MODO has some really nice tools for precision scaling geometry on various axes, and they’re actually quite easy to use (if a little awkwardly named). Here’s the low down. Topics: Scale Absolute Size Absolute Absolute Scaling]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17270/precision-scaling-in-modo/feed 5 http://cadjunkie.com/17258/solidworks-hump-day-tips-05-methods-for-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks http://cadjunkie.com/17258/solidworks-hump-day-tips-05-methods-for-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:26:58 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17258 This week we're going to start a new deep-dive into methods for closing off our surfaces in SolidWorks. Because there are so many scenarios, we're going to break it down into a few of the most often used methods.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17258/solidworks-hump-day-tips-05-methods-for-closing-surfaces-in-solidworks/feed 3 http://cadjunkie.com/17246/glowing-purple-logo-in-modo-basic-image-mapping http://cadjunkie.com/17246/glowing-purple-logo-in-modo-basic-image-mapping#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2014 08:00:16 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17246 Make an animatable 3D glowing logo in MODO--with zero actual work! That's right folks, all the "modeling" for this tutorial takes place in Photoshop. Intrigued?]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17246/glowing-purple-logo-in-modo-basic-image-mapping/feed 0 http://cadjunkie.com/17239/solidworks-hump-day-tips-03-connect-two-splines-part-iii-2 http://cadjunkie.com/17239/solidworks-hump-day-tips-03-connect-two-splines-part-iii-2#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:42:55 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17239 In the fourth installment of our new 'Cadjunkie Hump Day Series' we'll continue our work on splines with the goal of becoming a curve-controlling Spline Ninja. This week we'll review a few of our traditional spline creation methods and introduce a new method, the 'Style Spline'.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17239/solidworks-hump-day-tips-03-connect-two-splines-part-iii-2/feed 0 http://cadjunkie.com/17235/planar-rotate-snap-axis-the-best-worst-named-tool-in-modo http://cadjunkie.com/17235/planar-rotate-snap-axis-the-best-worst-named-tool-in-modo#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:42:17 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17235 MODO has a dirty little secret. It's called "Planar Rotate Snap Axis", and it's one of those tools you'll never need... until you do. Learn The Ways of Planar Rotate Snap, and you're half way to MODO modeling bliss. Or something.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17235/planar-rotate-snap-axis-the-best-worst-named-tool-in-modo/feed 3 http://cadjunkie.com/17230/solidworks-hump-day-tips-03-connect-two-splines-part-iii http://cadjunkie.com/17230/solidworks-hump-day-tips-03-connect-two-splines-part-iii#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:13:19 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17230 In this third installment of our new 'Hump Day' series we'll continue to work on our methods of connecting two splines that we started our first week. This week we'll take a look at an alternate method for SolidWorks 2014 users that gives us more control than the methods we've looked at thus far in the series called the 'Style Spline'.]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17230/solidworks-hump-day-tips-03-connect-two-splines-part-iii/feed 1 http://cadjunkie.com/17216/solidworks-hump-day-tips-01-connect-two-splines-part-ii http://cadjunkie.com/17216/solidworks-hump-day-tips-01-connect-two-splines-part-ii#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:36:41 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17216 In this second installment of our new 'Hump Day' series we'll continue to work on connecting our two splines that we started on last week. As you'll recall, last week we left off with a slight 'hump' in our resulting connected spline. This week we'll take a look at how to further finesse our connected result into one seamless and smooth curve. ]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17216/solidworks-hump-day-tips-01-connect-two-splines-part-ii/feed 2 http://cadjunkie.com/17210/solidworks-hump-day-tips-01-connect-two-splines http://cadjunkie.com/17210/solidworks-hump-day-tips-01-connect-two-splines#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:23:50 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=17210 Greetings cadjunkies! In this new 'Hump Day' series we'll be presenting some of the most common questions we get asked over at cadjunkie HQ. This week we're taking a look at connecting two separate splines into one beautiful clean spline. ]]> http://cadjunkie.com/17210/solidworks-hump-day-tips-01-connect-two-splines/feed 0 http://cadjunkie.com/16350/power-surfacing-101-scale-to-volume-ii http://cadjunkie.com/16350/power-surfacing-101-scale-to-volume-ii#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:28:41 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=16350 Now that we have our pitcher modeled, we can actually measure the liquid volume inside of it and adjust accordingly. In this video, we'll take a look at a couple of different scaling methods to find the exact volume that we need in order to have our pitcher fit one liter of liquid. ]]> http://cadjunkie.com/16350/power-surfacing-101-scale-to-volume-ii/feed 2 http://cadjunkie.com/16338/power-surfacing-101-scale-to-volume-i http://cadjunkie.com/16338/power-surfacing-101-scale-to-volume-i#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:28:35 +0000 http://cadjunkie.com/?p=16338 Greetings cadjunkies! In this quick series, we're going to take a look at the new SolidWorks Power Surfacing plug-in using a pitcher as a simple example. Additionally, we'll take a look at scaling our pitcher to hold exactly one liter of liquid by performing some crafty SolidWorks moves. Ready? Let's hit it!]]> http://cadjunkie.com/16338/power-surfacing-101-scale-to-volume-i/feed 7