SOLIDWORKS Explorer

USE OF SOLIDWORKS EXPLORER

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What is SOLIDWORKS Explorer SOLIDWORKS Explorer is a very useful tool that helps you in performing work like rename, replace and copy SOLIDWORKS documents. You can also see references, documents in various ways and you can locate all the places where documents are used. You can use the files for the renaming of those documents which references are available. There are some properties in the SOLIDWORKS explorer that are essential for the designer. Below is a quick list to go through. INFO:- It gives full details of the assemblies, part and drawing i.e. where the file is located when it was last changed, created what type of document etc. You can easily find all type of requirement in this tool. PROPERTIES:- In properties command, if you there in any property link then it will be shown in the properties bar. If you want to change any new properties then you can change it by right click on the “add new”. REFERENCES:- In reference, you can list the items that are referred to selected parts, assembly and drawings documents. There it will also show if some files are missing or file is not being found. You can also pack and go, rename, replace and move the parts by clicking right click on the required part. WHERE USED:- You can also specify whether any parts, assembly, and drawing are used in other files or not. CONFIGURATIONS IN SOLIDWORKS EXPLORER:- In the configuration command, you can find the configuration which you have made in the parts, drawings, assembly. It also includes files that are in the SOLIDWORKS PDM standard vault and files that are outside the vaults. HYPERLINKS: In hyperlinks, you can list and edit hyperlinks that are related to the parts, drawings, and assembly documents. VIEWS: In view command you can view parts, assembly, drawings in a different direction like the front, right, back, top, and bottom. You can save, zoom, rotate and print the documents. Not only this but you can also view cross-section, can put the company stamps, can measure, and can give mark-ups. SOLIDWORKS SEARCH:- SOLIDWORKS search helps in finding all the file’s names and text strings in all indexed documents. FIXING RENAMING ERROR:- Using this command you can fix all sorts of errors found in the documents. PACK AND GO OVERVIEW:- Using pack and go overview you can accumulate all files for a design and keep it in a folder or in a zip.  PACK AND GO DIALOGUE BOX:- In this command, it gives details of all related files or documents which are saved in the folders or in a zip. EDrawing:– You can display all the images of parts, assembly, or drawings. This guide includes all the necessary terms which a mechanical designer must know to create innovative designs more potentially and effectively.

SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS IS ALIVE AND GROWING!!

SOLIDWORKS Technical Update

SOLIDWORKS IS ALIVE Anything that responds to your stimuli or vice-versa is living. And this is the reason that SOLIDWORKS is still evolving as a CAD/CAM/CAE solution in various industrial fields. SOLIDWORKS is approximately is of my age, but we meet in my College days. In those days SOLIDWORKS helped me in developing my concepts in 3d … A long journey with tremendous growth Since 1995, every year SOLIDWORKS comes up with a major release (Currently SW 2018) that consists of enhancement and what’s new according to the technological reforms and current requirements in the industries, etc. After the day SOLIDWORKS was taken care by DS (Dassault Systemes), SOLIDWORKS acquired much new software for its and own betterment. The parent company DS acquired Visualize, Inspection, Simulation, etc. Every year SOLIDWORKS releases 5 service packs that include packs that update the compatibility with other software. From all over the world SolidWorks collects the inputs as a Special purpose or enhancement request. Then accordingly, it prioritizes the enhancements that need to be added. Click on the link below to see various major releases of SW: And this is a cumulative effort of the end-users and the SOLIDWORKS development team for evolving itself to be successful in the CAD/CAM/CAE industry. And moreover, I consider SOLIDWORKS as a family, where you can find blogs, tips & tricks, and videos all over the internet. So if you think that there is something that needs to be added to SOLIDWORKS … I can be the mediator or you can tell SOLIDWORKS directly. Click here to get to purchase SOLIDWORKS From The No. 1 Authorised Reseller Tech Savvy Engineers.

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Draw Compare With SOLIDWORKS

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Draw With SOLIDWORKS Allows you to design your product with a higher degree of flexibility in integration to big time-saving. As you know entering earlier into the market is the key to success but do you know how can you deliver your product fast? Here, the TechSavvy Engineers the leading SOLIDWORKS  VAR (Value-added reseller) is guiding you one of the handy features of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD productivity tools i.e. Draw Compare. Is it worth having ‘Draw Compare’ in your designing software? There are several reasons that demand this proficient feature in your designing software. Multiply your productivity – Using this feature you can design your product very fast with the conceptual design, by adding new dimensions. Compare without hassles – It is easy to compare an old product design with a new design in a few clicks Big time saver – The feature saves your time by drawing an original design, you can create an iterative design by selecting and opening the previous design folder and putting new dimensions on it. Reduce manufacturing cost – You can compare all the designs of the same product and proceed to work on the optimized one rather than working on others. With an optimized design, you can minimize the manufacturing cost of the product Minimize numbers of the prototype – By comparing multiple product designs you can obtain the best design on software. So, you can reduce the number of prototypes for tooling. Which specifications can you compare with this feature? SOLIDWORKS Utilities can be categorized in six different ways based on their functionality, along with customized HTML reporting. One of them is Draw Compare which allows geometry to be compared across parts, assemblies, or drawings. Specific comparison functionality includes the ability to: Find differences or verify that two parts or drawings are the same Compare features—Highlights what model features are different between two designs, colour – code them for easy identification. A list of differences can be generated. Compare documents—Compare two SolidWorks documents from your computer, network, or SolidWorks Enterprise EPDM vault Compare configurations—Compare two configurations of the same file Compare geometry– Enables you to quickly determine what geometry is different between two designs using Face Comparison, Geometry Comparison, or View Synchronization. Generate summary reports of comparisons with SolidWorks Report Manager Compare BOMs—You can compare the bill of material (BOM) tables among two Solidworks assembly or drawing documents. Above is the whole guide about the Draw Compare feature and its need for enhancing your productivity.

SOLIDWORKS 3D

Beginning With SOLIDWORKS

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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Software Being a mechanical engineering student during my college time, I had decided to go in the design field as a design engineer. So I researched what are the types of design we used in industries and which designing software are used in industries for the designing them. When I researched, there was a whole list of software which was used in the design field and I got confused from where I have to begin. User-friendly Appearance While I was pursuing bachelors, I only used to design 2D sketch on a plane sheet. So, due to lack of professional skills I needed a user-friendly software to learn more by self-practice. I choose top 5 five software to study more deeply. I started looking for the online tutorials for this software to understand their future scopes. I found that SOLIDWORKS was the best one for the beginners to learn fast. The user-friendly appearance of SOLIDWORKS invites you to draw intuitive 3D designs in easy steps. For executing basic commands in other software, the steps were difficult. I got finish a design project in SOLIDWORKS without external help, that is why I switched to learn SOLIDWORKS. 2D to robust 3D Designs Then after I started professional tutorial classes of SOLIDWORKS to know how it converts the 2D design in 3D view fast and the easy way. When I started using SOLIDWORKS, it was so easy to make intuitive 3D designs only in few steps. SOLIDWORKS is best to design platform to draw 3D designs by showing your design creativity. SOLIDWORKS 3D  is so easy to use that every student who has interest in design field will practice and learn so fast. As SOLIDWORKS has huge applications in industries serving in packaging to medical domain, from Automobile to Aerospace etc. It is purely a product to design machines. But, of course, there are other applications, like LED, Solar, consumer products, etc. The latest versions are more user-friendly than the former one, in terms of modelling, editing designs, creating mechanisms and much more. There are 60% plus companies around the globe that are using SOLIDWORKS for making their design is fast and easy for their productivity. These all are the valid reasons to drag beginner’s attention towards SOLIDWORKS 3D

SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE

Entering The World Of Rendering

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SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE If for some time I make you blindfolded and then narrate certain specifications of any product or any item, it would be a hard nut to crack without visualization. SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE software offers you to create high-quality realistic images of your model in minutes. The software is having a range of variations in background environments, colors, viewing angles, etc. A customized appearance and textures can be given to the model by adding custom viewing angles and backgrounds in order to obtain a high-resolution rendering in easy mode. A powerful add-on for SolidWorks VISUALIZE that allows you to create photorealistic renderings and animations is Photo View 360. Never ignore RRRs in your 3D & 2D model- Robust Model – When it’s come about the model, always look for a powerful model by its parameters, animations, appearance, and texture. Responsive Model – The model should be quick and time responsive. Photo View 360 allows you to create high-quality images in a few minutes. Rendering Model – The add-on allows you to create life-like realistic images. Below are the five fast rendering key shortcuts that make you fall in love with SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE  – Even Dolly In/Out motion (Shift + Middle Mouse Button + Mouse Forward / Backwards) – Get a smooth camera in or out the motion by holding shift key simultaneously pressing the middle mouse button and moving the mouse itself forward and backward instead of scrolling. Quick Focal Length Adjustment (Alt + Middle Mouse Button Scroll) You can change the focal length of your camera in seconds simply by holding down the Alt key while scrolling middle button of the mouse. By doing this a change in perspective of the image can be seen according to the lens you have got in your digital camera Spin Environment (Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button Drag) Rotate the environment to meet your needs by holding down the Control and Alt Keys together and drag your Left Mouse Button horizontally in the graphics area to rotate the environment. Camera Look – At (Shift (or Ctrl) + Alt + Right Click) Change the look at point to the selected object by holding Control and Alt together and Right Click on the object which you like to lock on to. Now your camera will look at and rotate about the location you have right clicked on. Copy and Paste Appearances (Shift + Left / Right Click) By holding Shift and Left Clicking on the object that has the desired appearance, you can then Right Click on the object that you wish to have the appearance (still holding the Shift key). If you have a hard time remembering which one is “Copy” and which one is “Paste,” just remember that your Left Click is always the selection tool. Select what you’re after with the Left Click, and then transfer it with the Right Click. There are several more shortcut keys that make ease in creating rendering image Increase environment brightness by 0.25 – (Ctrl+]) Decrease environment brightness by 0.25 – (Ctrl+]) Increase environment gamma by 0.25 – (Ctrl+ ‘) Decrease environment gamma by 0.25 – (Ctrl+ 😉 Flattens floor – (Ctrl + Shift + G) Hides or shows environment – (Ctrl + Shift + E) Hides or shows backplate visibility – (Ctrl + Shift + B) Loads environment image – (Ctrl + E) Loads backplate image – (Ctrl + B) Send rendering to another machine Offloaded rendering lets you send rendering to another machine having Photo View 360 net Render Client. You can use this feature to free up your computer while rendering calculates on other machines. You can do it by the help of two machines one as a Coordinator and the other as a Client. Coordinator The machine has the Solidworks software with PhotoView 360. The coordinator must have a license of SOLIDWORKS Professional or higher and an active subscription service license. Client The machine has the Photo View 360 Net Client. The client does not need a SOLIDWORKS license. Two types of renderings can be performed in Solidworks as per need. Single offloaded rendering Send a single static image to render on the client. For applying this type of rendering goes to the render tools first, a window will be open as shown as below, now apply offload rendering. Scheduled offloaded rendering  Send a single static image to the SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler to start the task at a later time. For using this type of rendering first click Schedule Render in the Render tools command manager, a dialogue pops up will be open as shown below, apply your data info for the render.