How to reduce file size and correct for common issues when importing a STEP file in SOLIDWORKS. Not all CAD programs have the same capabilities as and so exchanging things like a STEP file between ...

External hard drives are a handy, inexpensive way to back up, archive and transport large amounts of data; they're indispensable for your small business. Storing data, however, is only half the ...

STL (stereolithography) file types are commonly used in CAM and 3D printing, but are unfortunately difficult to work with in SOLIDWORKS. When opening an STL file, the software crash completely. Other ...

When you want to reuse the content of a PDF in Microsoft Publisher but you lack access to the file from which you produced it, you can't import the file directly into your target application.

I have been working on a comparison of Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture for Macworld, and I ran into an issue with both programs when I tried to import Raw image files that had been ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...