It’s that time of year again! The drive for ideas in the annual 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 SOLIDWORKS Top Ten List is happening right now! Every year SOLIDWORKS users have the ability to participate in sharing their best enhancement ideas for SOLIDWORKS. At the end of the idea submission phase, the SOLIDWORKS user base can then vote for their favorite ideas. The…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2022 SOLIDWORKS Visualize continues to release enhancements that elevate its useability, performance, and output quality—and Visualize 2022 is no exception. Let’s dive in and take a look at some of the top enhancements. Be sure to check out the complete list of Visualize enhancements: What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2022. SOLIDWORKS CAD Configuration Support…
SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2022 is the biggest release we have seen in many years! We remain focused on making Simulation easier and faster for SOLIDWORKS users to apply to their designs. With the enhanced 2022 Simulation features, you can design better products faster than ever before. Better Performance: Faster Contact Simulation SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2022 calculates contact interactions…
Building the Design Platform As most of you are probably aware, we have introduced a new cloud-based, design-to-manufacturing portfolio called 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS. We know this makes some of you a little uneasy, as you see it as a replacement for your beloved SOLIDWORKS. I am here to tell you that is simply not true. By connecting SOLIDWORKS to…
Dassault Systèmes has launched SOLIDWORKS® 2022,the latest release of its portfolio of 3D design and manufacturing applications. SOLIDWORKS 2022 includes performance enhancements and expanded functionalities that improve workflows for design, documentation, data management, validation, and manufacturing. Users can also expand their capabilities by connecting to the 3DEXPERIENCE® WORKS portfolio to tackle more challenges, from design to manufacturing, and enable cloud-based…
We are excited to share with you some of the many exciting enhancements being delivered in SOLIDWORKS 2022 that will increase your productivity and help you not just get to market faster, but smarter. We can’t cover all the new features and enhancements in one blog, but here are a few highlights. Keep an eye out…
[A New Balloon Air Pump Design] “Flexible Component” is one of the new features in SOLIDWORKS 2022. You can define a part component as flexible to drive the geometry of flexible components by the assembly geometry. That means it works only in assembly files to make a rigid part model become flexible without creating several…
The 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS® Simulation portfolio includes the ability to simulate the metal-forming process. The products can be leveraged on SOLIDWORKS® models when connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Forming processes may include stamping, punch stretching, forging, drawing, and more. Truth be told, simulating forming processes can be a difficult task. Usually, they involve geometric, material, and contact nonlinearities. However,…
SOLIDWORKS 2022 adds a very nice option to one of my favorite surface-to-solid tools, Thicken. Thicken takes a surface body (which has zero thickness) and makes it a solid (making it a volume) by specifying a thickness value and side to thicken. Until now, the calculation was based on surface normal, which is often what you…
How many different ways are there to solve a Simulation problem? There are probably many more ways than you think, so you may be asking yourself: “How can I be sure that I have the ‘right’ answer?” First off, while one could come up with a myriad of different answers for the same problem, there…
