This question came up on the SolidWorks Forums today and after answering it I thought of sharing it up.
You have inserted a General table in the SolidWorks drawing and accidentally added one extra Row. Now you want to get rid of that line. As usual you’ll right click on the specific Row you want to remove from the table
and clicked on the Delete.
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Added by Deepak Gupta on February 25, 2010 at 2:00am —
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Better late then never. I have the winner for this first caption contest. There were some awesome entries and I loved all of them but one made me laugh harder then the rest. The winning caption was submit by
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Added by Alex R. Ruiz on February 23, 2010 at 9:41pm —
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Added by Alex R. Ruiz on February 18, 2010 at 7:37pm —
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Visual Effects Pioneer Will Share Stories
of Overcoming Daunting Technical and Business Challenges
CONCORD, Mass., Dec. 21, 2009 – A machinist, a truck driver, and then a winner of 11 Oscars, Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron is now a featured special guest at SolidWorks World 2010, taking place Jan. 31 through Feb. 3 in Anaheim, Calif.
Cameron’s films, including Titanic, Aliens, and the Terminator franchise, have amassed over $3 billion in box office receipts. Not every tinseltown luminary co…
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Added by Alex R. Ruiz on December 21, 2009 at 2:20pm —
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Reverse Engineering from laser scanning data is a growing trend, but few engineers have been happy with the output. We need to learn what to ask for, and educate the laser scanning companies on what we really want. SolidWorks parametric models from laser scanning data is a reality. Design intent is possible, not just dimensions in sketches, odd-ball dimensions, and imported bodies
Check out the ins and outs on Reverse Engineering, share stories (Success and Horror). Cruxtone is passionate about…
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Added by Nathan Garrett on October 12, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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HOW TO CHANGE EXISTING SW FILE SYSTEM OPTIONS
I have heard this request many times so putting it up over here. The whole credit for this should go to Stefan Berlitz of
http://solidworks.cad.de/
http://swtools.cad.de . Without his wonderful macro, this option might not have been possible.
Before starting the process I will strongly advice you to make a backup of the files.
1. Open…
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Added by Deepak Gupta on August 21, 2009 at 3:30am —
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Now we have finished and learned the techniques of making a SLOT, the second question comes up in the mind is “How to Mate with a SLOT”. Again there can be several ways to achieve this and one may adopt the method which he/she finds easy and quick to use. In this chapter let’s discuss about various simple ways of mating with a SLOT.
To use these methods you need a simple plate with a Slot of any size, a cylindrical, rectangular or square part with diameter/width equal to or less than slot width…
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Added by Deepak Gupta on June 30, 2009 at 1:24am —
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New to Solid works and would like info on building document templates to really get started. I have been working in mm and would like to use options. Thank you in advance if you could help.
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Added by Tony Maggio on June 22, 2009 at 7:55pm —
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When one thinks of slot, generally the obround shape comes into mind. I have seen various posts where a user has asked about making a slot or obround cut. There can be several ways to create a slot and one may adopt the method which he/she finds easy and quick to use. In this chapter let’s discuss about various ways of making a slot.
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Line –Arc Method: Start a new sketch and start a vertical or horizontal line as desired. You can choose the line command from the sketch toolbar or press…
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Added by Deepak Gupta on June 11, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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In this post I will discuss about a simple animation of Spur Gears. I have used SW2009 for the tutorial but lower version can be used to perform this activity. You can use any cylindrical part for the animation. I have used spur gear to make the animation more realistic.
1. Start SolidWorks and go to Tools > Add-Ins. Make sure Toolbox/Toolbox browser is checked. If not then check them to add.

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Added by Deepak Gupta on June 10, 2009 at 9:38pm —
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What is sure to be the biggest news announcement of the year, even bigger then what is going on with Jon & Kate, a winner has been selected for the SWGeeks swag design contest. I am sure that most of you already had an idea of what the winning design would be but just to make it official: David Ray's - 2D is for sissies is the official winner.
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Added by Alex R. Ruiz on June 4, 2009 at 10:41pm —
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Sorry for keeping this one longer. There was some other work going on which kept me away from putting this one up but I’m happy to have this one now..
To start you will the spring file you created in the last chapter i.e.
HOW TO ANIMATE A SPRING -1.
1. Open the spring part file.
2. Click on the Record button on the macro tool bar. If you haven’t have the macro toolbar one, you can go to Tools > Macros > Record t…
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Added by Deepak Gupta on May 31, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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how to construct a leaf spring
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Added by gokul on May 27, 2009 at 9:36am —
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Quite many time people have been asking me as how I have done the spring animation or can we animate spring in SolidWorks. The answer is yes and here is the trick. I have used SW07 to show “How to Animate a Spring”.
1) Start a new part (can be either mm or inch).

2) RMB on the top plane or…
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Added by Deepak Gupta on May 25, 2009 at 2:39am —
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If you are a reader of The SolidWorks Geek blog then, by now, you have heard about my campaign to raise money for Orangewood Children’s Foundation. The campaign,
Design For The Future, is very important to me since I was a form…
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Added by Alex R. Ruiz on April 28, 2009 at 10:30am —
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Two and a half months ago, I proposed to my girlfriend Ellie. Since Solidworks played kind of a large part in the process, I thought I'd share the story; I hope you guys find it interesting.
As such a modern couple, we had already discussed marriage, but because I cling to tradition perhaps a little more than she would like, getting a ring and proposing was something I wanted to hold onto. We got a stone from her aunt, which was promised to her as the youngest grandchild. Since I wasn't going t…
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Added by Mark Treadwell on April 21, 2009 at 8:20pm —
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1) Start a new part. Right click on the Material and select Edit material from the pop up menu.

2) Right click any where on the left side and select New Library.
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Added by Deepak Gupta on March 13, 2009 at 2:19am —
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1) Start a new part. Right click on the Material and select Edit material from the pop up menu.

2) Select any material from the list and click on Create/Edit Material.
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Added by Deepak Gupta on March 13, 2009 at 1:44am —
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I have been working as a design engineer for the last 5 years, I am a CSWP and the Los Angeles SolidWorks user group leader. I have 27 years experience in the moldmaking trade, I have just become a free agent, I am looking for work, I also do contract 3d mechanical designs, if any one knows of someone that is hireing or looking to have contract work done I can supply a resume.
Steve Brown
CSWP
LASWUG LEADER
LASWUG@GMAIL.COM
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Added by steve brown on February 24, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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A SolidWorks template file is nothing more than a file to help you get started. So often people only have two template files -one for inches and another for millimeters...but it can contain anything you like...including geometry!
If you find that you often start a part the same way, why don't you make a start part and save it as a template? I have two templates I use all the time:
1. A cylinder that I use for parts to be turned
2. A plate centered on the origin (actually I have two of these, o…
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Added by Jeff Sweeney on February 17, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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