by Bill Genc | Apr 18, 2018 | Assembly
Kinematic toolpath. Yet another phrase that one rarely associates with love or other romantic notions. But, as I explained in another recent post, I became aware of how much Colin Gilchrist of Gilchrist Consulting Services values TopSolid 7 when he began releasing a...
by Bill Genc | Dec 20, 2017 | Assembly
TopSolid 7 features a handy new option within the axis-on-axis constraint. Rather than axes needing to be colinear with one another as was previously the case, axis-on-axis can now act as a contact type of mate. This brief demo video shows how parts can be moved, yet...
by Bill Genc | Dec 18, 2017 | Assembly, Featured
TopSolid 7 now has the ability to deactivate operations generated by a process without affecting other parts that are being affected by that same process. In this video you see tapped holes that were put in by the screws from the slide carrier for this mold. For the...
by Bill Genc | Dec 13, 2017 | Assembly
TopSolid 7 now offers the ability to apply an offset value to even more types of assembly constraints. This new improvement is now also available on the axis-on-point, point-on-axis, point-on-point and axis-on-axis positioning constraints. What’s even better is...
by Bill Genc | Dec 11, 2017 | Assembly
More refined process control within TopSolid 7 now allows you to determine at what level you would like to do process repetition. Specifically, do you want the repetition to occur at the part level or at the assembly level? The choice is now yours. Watch the video to...
by Bill Genc | Dec 7, 2017 | Assembly
Simple, efficient and error-free documentation capabilities have been improved by the extruded bar complex trimming feature in TopSolid 7. Why is it important to easily document that there is a complex trimming? First, this feature allows this important detail to be...
