If I were to go into business for myself, for design work, I would be charging $100/hour minimum. For drafting work that someone else designed, I would almost prefer to do it by the job. But $50 to $75/hour would be reasonable. Thanks Dan. That's what I usually do - roll the 2D CAD work into the wh...

Depends if you are hiring a contractor direct vs going through a contract company. The latter is probably roughly $50-$70 an hour but the company gets some cut of that. Also depends on how hard the drafting/modeling work is. Some parts and small assemblies are fairly easy to work with. But working ...

It depends on if you want to do the work or not. As a full time job, that's probably a 25-30$/hr gig, but as a contractor, you have to charge more than that. $50/hr might be high if you're not doing any design. I would get $75-100 for doing surfacing, plastics and mold work. So I'd guess in the $40...

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 1:36 pm I wouldn't touch it for less than $50.00 per hour (unless I was hungry).

Thanks Glenn. Does anybody else have any data on this?

I am a Mecahnical Engineer and SolidWorks Designer with my own freelancing business. I do 3D Modeling, CAD Work and Product Design. Recently I got an offer to do more of a CAD Drafter role. It would solely be doing things like ECO's, BOM Changes in the MRP system, and updating all the drawings accor...

-Doing a registry wipe fixed the issue Wiping the SolidWorks part of the registry fixed my problem for a short while. However Microsoft updates seem to have broken it again. It seems like the Security Update for Windows is the culprit. My SolidWorks worked fine on 9/17/22 9/19/22 I logged in, Micro...

Strange! Now if I look at the settings for this post of mine, it does not look like I'm subscribed. But I got emails about both of your responses.

I never noticed the setting in the screenshot @josh posted, but I believe this is the one you're looking for. image.png Hi Glenn. What I wanted was ability to automatically type the dimension value after creating the dimension. Not the line segment. If you haven't used that function that Josh poste...

Oh jeez... found the answer. Very counterintuitive (for my mind anyway.)

Now looking for how to automatically subscribe to every post I write. Searched a while here, haven't found it yet.

Most likely... I'm doing something wrong. For most of my posts I get emails for when somebody replies. And also a "Notifiaction" in the upper right of this screen. But for this post below, I got neither. Even though the "Subscribe" box is checked. https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.p...

Reason we stopped also is that we noticed that the corruption sometimes came from an even earlier save that hadn't caused issue up until now. THAT'S interesting. SolidWorks Registry wipe is done just about every 6 months on our computers to reduce risk of corruption. That's also very interesting. T...

I want to be able to type the dimension value automatically after I create the dimension (without having to double click the dimension).

Mine was doing this before, but I lost my custom settings, and now I can't find which setting this is.

Once you have it, save one that will never change that will become a start-up template, and one that will be 'yours'. This way, you ensure having a custom settings that is proper for all the company and that never corrupts itself and one that is the same as the company but with it's customization t...

That was what I was going to suggest,to clear your registry. Hopefully you have a fresh restore-file to use so you do not have to recreate your entire settings. Hah. No, I did not. I had no idea the SolidWorks Custom Settings could become corrupt! (What will they think of next?) So instead I saved ...

Do you have PDM? Not using PDM. Found the problem though. There was a 3rd party Add-In that was seemingly the culprit. Clearing my User Registry Settings allowed the system to throw up the Error message pertaining to that. (So good idea AlexLachance , but just un-checking the Dismissed Messages did...

Hi Checks, can you share (attach) your model here so we can test? Thanks for offering to look at it. It's actually any file I create now. Even just a simple cube. I create it, save it, quit SolidWorks. Launch SolidWorks again, try to open it, SolidWorks crashes. Will try resetting Custom Settings n...

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:30 am Have a look at your messages checked to not show again, most likely one in there causing the crash.

Hi Alex. I checked all the "Dismissed Messages" so they would show again.
Opening the file still crashed and no messages shown.

I don't understand why opening an older part first would fix the problem.

UPDATE: Running SolidWorks Rx... "launch SOLIDWORKS in Software OpenGL mode" did not solve the problem. But "Click here to launch SOLIDWORKS while bypassing the Tools/Options settings'" did solve the problem (so far). Ugh... that means going back to default settings? I spent hour...

Created this extremely simple part and saved it. Now any time I open that part SolidWorks crashes. What's really strange - is if I open a DIFFERENT, older SolidWorks part first, then I can open this one without crashing. Any insights why just opening this part would crash SolidWorks? And/or why open...

Hey all, I swear my system was doing this before... opening only SolidWorks files by default. Now every time I click "File-Open" it defautls to "All Files" showing word docs, .pngs, .jpgs, etc. How do I get it back to "SOLIDWORKS Files" only, without clicking the Drawin...

bryan5 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:22 pm Not too many @Cbecks Design, but here is a link to a few. Looks like mainly Trek bikes and Formlabs.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?c ... ds=onshape

Hope this helps

Thanks Bryan! That is helpful. Thanks for sending that link.

To keep the top and bottom clean, you have to create this ledge at the PL, which SW calls "Step Draft". It's more difficult to set up, but the results are cleaner if you can deal with the mismatch. Hi Matt (and any others). That mismatch is what my parts have now but I would never use tha...

A couple years ago I thought about switching from SolidWorks to Onshape.
But a quick search for engineering jobs across the U.S. indicated pretty much nobody was using it.

Are there many jobs using Onshape today?

Yes, i was looking for the option to split at the draft angle, dint realize I can split the face at draft angle using split line and draft them separately Thanks! What does it mean, "Split the face at draft angle"? And how do you do it? My split line feature doesn't seem to have such a th...

One of the kewlist new features in Rhino3D is MultiPipe.. it's exactly what your wanting... I did this in less than a minute in Rhino and ~3min total to transfer into SW. (images) Fanstastic outcome there. Do you ever do your surfacing in Rhino and then bring that surface into SolidWorks to finish ...

Ohhhh...boy, have you missed out! https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/247614 TL;DR......DSS is killing the current forum and moving it to a Facebook-type app that is locked behind a Google-proof wall, therefore will not be visible to search engines. The current content will "supposedly" b...

Also attached is the plastic features chapter from my last SW Bible book. The Step Draft is explained starting on page 1083. Thanks Matt! You can't use step draft and avoid weird geometry at the same time. If you want to draft from the stepped parting line and not get the weird geometry, you have t...

Thanks everyone. I've realized the Draft feature is not the right tool here. I've also simplified the parting line. There was just too much disparity there to get a good surface it seemed. Using surfacing instead now. I just did a normal draft on the bottom surface, and will loft from that parting l...

Hey All, What's up? Holy cow, where to start? I've been using SolidWorks since 2002 when the company I worked for switched from ProE to SolidWorks to save money and make it easier for new people to learn (I guess). Have used SolidWorks to great acclaim since then, though I noticed that ProE did crea...

Have this complex parting line I'm trying to draft. None of the "Draft" features will work, including Parting Line draft. The split line may be too complex to get any useful results. Can anybody lend some insights how one could draft these parts? Would also like it to be a "Hold Line ...