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How SOLIDWORKS Helped Build A Belly Racer?

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If you have read any of my blogs about the Tucker Torpedo, racing at Indianapolis, or the Tucker Carioca you know that I’m a car guy. For those that didn’t read those blogs and just so you know; I’m a car guy. I jump at the chance to work on, rebuild, customize, race and thoroughly enjoy cars in all forms. One of my favorite time periods is 1930 to 1960. During these years hot rods were created. After WWII men came back home with specialized knowledge about high-performance engines from being aircraft mechanics. And the pilots who were adrenaline junkies needed to go fast but didn’t have an airplane anymore to satisfy that need. So they turned to cars, and this is what this blog series is about. The men and women who took the know-how and need for speed to turn war surplus aircraft parts into cars were known as “Belly Racers.” These were land speed record cars, not your typical race cars you see on TV. These were small, light and fast, but they also have their downsides. Like all auto racing, it’s a dangerous sport and this was especially the case back in the 1940s when safety was secondary to going fast. The Belly Racer got its name from the auxiliary fuel tanks used on aircraft during WWII, which provided additional fuel for extended flights. What you might have thought of as a deployable bomb under the fuselage of an airplane in war movies was instead a belly tank. The tank could be dropped at any time by the pilot if needed. Here’s a good picture of a belly tank that can hold several hundred gallons of fuel. After the war, the aux tanks or “Belly” tanks were no longer needed and considered war surplus. The pilots and aircraft mechanics probably bought the belly tanks at their local Army/Navy store and turned them into land speed racers using their hot rod knowledge. Back in the late 1940’s drag racing was just getting started in California and that wasn’t what they wanted to do. They wanted to go as fast as the planes they flew. So they turned to land speed racing, which had been around for several decades starting with Henry Ford when he covered the mile in 39.4sec at an incredible 91.37MPH. Quite an accomplishment back in 1903. A belly tank was an easy choice to make if you’re going to build a land speed racer; it’s aerodynamic and light. Knowing this going in when building a land speed racer takes a lot of guesswork out of coming up with a shape that has a minimal drag coefficient. But the aerodynamic shape does pose packaging challenges. A driver, engine, cooling system, suspension, driveline, and fuel tank all have to fit inside the belly tank. These challenges didn’t thwart the guys who were building these racers. They were very ingenious and resourceful. Their accomplishments in the garage building and developing the belly racer were as satisfying as the accomplishments on the salt flats where they raced. Here in the U.S. land speed records have been made on the beaches of Daytona Beach, Florida, the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, and at Black Rock, Nevada, where the land speed record was set at 763MPH in 1997 by the Thrust SSC! Bonneville is the oldest and most famous site for land speed records starting in 1912. Both Bonneville and Black Rock offer an almost unlimited area to hold land speed races because it takes 11 miles of flat open area to set a speed record. As a racer, you have five miles to get up to speed before entering the timed mile then five miles to slow down. In order to set a land speed record, the car must make a return run within an hour and cover the same 11 miles. The average of the two runs determines the land speed record. There are many YouTube videos to watch on Bonneville land speed record racing. Watch a couple if you can you will be entertained and impressed by the engineering involved to go fast. Attending Bonneville is on my bucket list to attend because I’m a car guy and an engineer. Some of the coolest purpose-built race cars are can be found at Bonneville including Belly Racers like these: This is what a Belly Racer looked like back in the 1940s. The Idea Of Building A Belly Racer In SOLIDWORKS Came from a British chap, Paul Cameron. Paul and I crossed paths because of the Carioca project and have become friends because of our mutual love of cars. Paul reached out to me about a year ago and asked if I was interested in helping him with his Belly Racer project. What do you think my answer was?

Solidworks

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2022 – Detailing Mode and Drawing Performance

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Improvements in the drawing environment are always among the most popular enhancements with the SOLIDWORKS® user base, and SOLIDWORKS 2021 is no exception. Drawing Performance of Solidworks When working with large assembly drawings, view manipulation is vital to a good user experience. Over the years, SOLIDWORKS has steadily optimized users ability to manipulate views. The Enhanced Graphics Performance option, implemented in SOLIDWORKS 2020 to take advantage of high-end graphics cards by moving the graphics burden to the card, has been extended to the drawing environment in SOLIDWORKS 2021. For years, the SOLIDWORKS development team has increasingly raised the bar for performance. This is evident in pairing the Enhanced Graphics Performance option with modern OpenGL 4.5 graphics cards in SOLIDWORKS 2021. Check out this side-by-side comparison between the drawing performances of SOLIDWORKS 2020 and 2021. Detailing Mode of Solidworks With Detailing Mode, users can open massive drawings in seconds. But you can go one step further and edit existing annotations such as notes and dimensions with full access to all the annotation editing tools. In addition, Detailing Mode for Drawings has been enhanced to support the creation of Detail, Break, and Crop views. All of the break line styles, as well as the gap between the breaks, are available.   It is common to define Hole information when detailing drawings. Now Detailing Mode supports Hole Callouts. And foreshortened dimensions are applied when necessary. Existing dimensions now have full editing capability. All dimension properties are now available, too, including its Tolerance and Precision. Controls on every tab of the Dimension Property Manager are now available so that you can define the dimension’s arc condition to the center of the hole. VDA balloons are frequently used in the German automotive industry and are a requirement for many European customers. A new leader type is now available for balloons and notes to allow users to tag inspection points per VDA requirements. Position and rotation are easily manipulated, and these VDA balloons can be used directly by SOLIDWORKS Inspection.   When working with sketch geometry on a drawing, it is common to add relations just as you would in the sketch environment. Previously, these relations were in the property manager, but now in SOLIDWORKS 2021, the Sketch Relations pop-up toolbar is available, allowing you to apply sketch relations with minimal mouse travel.  

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What’s New In SOLIDWORKS 2022: Working With Parts

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SOLIDWORKS® 2022 Introduces many enhancements that add to its already robust capabilities when working with parts, including enhancements to sheet metal, 3MF support, and weldments. For a comprehensive list of enhancements, see What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2022.   Sheet Metal – Edge Flange Capabilities Now when working with sheet metal parts in SOLIDWORKS 2022, edge flanges can be created on curved edges originating from non-planar faces such as those in the bend area, as in the image below The preview shows how the edge flange will be created all the way around the part. Familiar flange customization tools are available to help define the length, angle, flange length dimensioning method, and flange position. This edge flange can also be flattened to prepare it for detailing or exporting to DXF for fabrication. The edge flange is great for structural integrity and is also useful for enclosure and guarding, such as in the cover shown in the image below. The edge flange on the far side needs to protect the components of this navigation control unit. With full editing capabilities, we can change the direction of the flange, as well as the angle, to wrap around the internal components to keep them safe. This new edge-flange capability along non-linear edges extends the robust sheet metal capabilities of SOLIDWORKS 2022 for many applications such as adding stiffing ribs and enclosures.   Enhanced 3MF Support Support for the export and import of 3MF files is even better in SOLIDWORKS 2022. Now color, textures, and transparency are supported on export, and this information is stored in the 3MF file to be used for manufacturing or other applications. For example, the LED light assembly in the image below contains various colors, applied textures, and transparency and needs to be 3D printed.   Additive manufacturing continues to rise in capability and popularity, and SOLIDWORKS continues to embrace these technologies. More views are now supported when opening 3MF files in SOLIDWORKS 2022. Per-facet and per-vertex coloring, as well as textures and transparency, can now be visualized when importing 3MF files as graphics bodies.   Weldments – Flush Miter It is common to use various sizes of weldment members when working in the weldment environment. For example, the horizontal tubes depicted in the welded frame below are 2 x 2 square tubes, and the vertical tubes are 3 x 2 rectangular tubes. The weldment Trim/Extend tool is used to trim the tubes to each other, with various options for the corner type. The two end butt trims dictate how one tube trims to the other, and the mitered trim bisects the angle between the two tubes, creating an equal angle miter trim. Since these tubes are of different profiles, the equal angle miter does not produce the desired result. There’s a new option for Miter trims in SOLIDWORKS 2022, the Flush Miter, which does just that. It trims the tubes so they meet flush. The other vertical members are mirrored, so they update as well.    

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New Assembly Productivity Tools in SOLIDWORKS 2022

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New Assembly Productivity Tools: Solidworks 2022 New productivity tools for assemblies in SOLIDWORKS® 2022 give you better control over your assembly designs. You will find more streamlined tools to help you assemble, pattern, and analyze your assemblies. This blog will highlight just a few of the assembly enhancements in this new release. For a complete list, see “What’s New in 2022.”   Find Your Mates When using Mates in SOLIDWORKS 2022, you can use a new streamlined Property Manager. Instead of expanding sections for each group type, now there are tabs (Standard, Advanced, Analysis, Mechanical) for each group, which make it easier to find the correct mate Also, when creating mates to Slots in SOLIDWORKS 2022, you can now choose the default type of position. This saves time by eliminating the need to regularly change the location type when adding new slot mates to your designs, which also saves you from accidentally choosing the wrong constraint.   Synchronize All Components SOLIDWORKS has always offered the flexibility to change the configuration of each component instance within a pattern. However, sometimes you may want all the components to reference the original instance. Configuring each component can be time-consuming. SOLIDWORKS 2022 contains a new option to synchronize the configurations of all component instances created by a pattern. This new option also helps you avoid inadvertently changing the configuration of any components from the quick menu drop-down and by locking this option within the Component Properties dialog. This ensures that as you make any configuration changes to a pattern’s seed components, those changes will be propagated appropriately.   Interference Review Interference Detection is a powerful tool to help you quickly find issues within your design. SOLIDWORKS 2022 now offers the option to save interferences in a spreadsheet. You can even capture a screenshot of each interference so they can be shared and reviewed by others on your team. This offers a new collaborative way to review interferences in a design and determine if they are intentional (due to fit conditions), or if you need to collaborate with others to solve the interferences.   Productivity Matters SOLIDWORKS 2022 offers these and other new tools to help you design more efficiently by streamlining and adding value to your common workflows. See the entire Assembly Productivity Tools video at https://www.solidworks.com/media/solidworks-2021-assembly-productivity-tools

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Use of Equations To Drive Your Designs Swiftly

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EQUATIONS and GLOBAL VARIABLES It is a great idea to choose SOLIDWORKS to model something because when we are making a solid model in SOLIDWORKS, it is not so challenging as SOLIDWORKS itself has a very interactive user interface. Anyone can start with SOLIDWORKS easily with some considerably basic training sessions and groom those skills by joining the online community of SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS has itself a large customer base and online community. Exploring SOLIDWORKS is much easier along with large online content availability and strong online community support. Apart from above SOLIDWORKS has also a large reseller network to provide quality support and training to ensure uninterrupted utilization of SOLIDWORKS at user end. Inside SOLIDWORKS there are several key features that help us to make our model in such manner to reduce rework, errors, etc. Here basically we are going to discuss a very much strong functionality of SOLIDWORKS after it’s the user interface, SOLIDWORKS has some remarkably interesting features which will enable the user to make a model more flexible against changes. Here I am going to discuss such types of features called EQUATIONS and GLOBAL VARIABLES. Modeling with equations will prevent the 3D model to go out of control while making modifications fast due to time constraints. This makes modifications accurate and error-free. We can drive changes in our model swiftly by using equations and global variables which make us enable to change dimensions and other entities like pattern instances in our model with minimum errors occurred. With the help of equations, we can make our model easily driven by some key dimensions, independent variables, standard measurements, document properties, mathematical functions, etc in relation to the help of some mathematical operators. We can also make our model-driven by some limited number of variables called global variables which will make changes easy. Equations help us to control configurations easier. With the help of equations, we can maintain ratios constant throughout all sets of different configurations. Using equations, we can control several things like size ratio i.e. multiple dimensions in common ratio, the number of feature pattern instances variable with size, etc in models like impellers, propellers, the cylinder of an IC engine, etc. These capabilities of equations play a vital role in automating model as per firm requirement with zero or minimum errors. Equations play an important role in driving changes in our 3D models when we use automation tools like DriveWorksXPress and enable us to make desired modifications by changing the minimum number of dimensions. If you have asked a question that how you will control the number of teeth in a gear along with root circle diameter or in a screw how you will control thread length against overall length and top cut size with inscribing diameter of the hexagonal head. Sometimes there is a need for a highly automated model so that by changing one entity or variable a set of entities should be modified automatically.   The simple answer is by use of equations. This feature enable us to link multiple entities with each other in such a manner so that modification of the model is easy and changes float swiftly without making any major error. These following videos will clear the idea about model automation controlled through equations and global variables. Overview There are several ways to search equations viewer in SOLIDWORKS like: – You can find equation viewer property manager from command search And, from the tools menu The equation viewer There are four main part of Equations viewer Equation views Global variable Equations Linking with variables Dimension names Global variables Other equations Mathematical functions File properties Dimension measurements Now take a short discussion over the Global Variables. Global variables are independent as well as dependent variables which are sometimes used as linked values to drive other dimensions in such a manner that our complete model is modified by changing some or all global variables. We need not change dimensions individually.   Hands-on Let us make this model automated for outer diameter, shell thickness, number of ribs, and depth so that by changing internal diameter the outer diameter, depth, shell thickness, number of ribs, and thickness of ribs will be modified automatically. How to do it? In the following video, we can see when we create a model without equations, we must change each dimension and pattern instance mentioned in the above question each time individually as per requirement i.e. no automatic modification occurred. Which is time-consuming and sometimes error-prone also? But when we link some or all entities with the internal diameter with the use of equations or we use equations in such a manner that each entity is linked directly or indirectly with internal diameter, all entities are modified just by changing the internal diameter automatically. Which is a very time-saving method as compared to the previous modeling. You can also see that we can drive our model by creating a global variable named “ID” and linking some or all dimensions to this global variable. Also, equations enable us to link our dimension and other entities with current measurements as you can see in the video in turn linking entities with global variables, rib thickness is linked with cylinder height by using measure……. Option available after pressing equal sign. See the following videos for a better understanding. The gist of the story So, by the above discussion, we can understand how much extent to which a SOLIDWORKS user can drive the changes in the CAD model automatically without facing errors. Equations will help users to save time in model modification and prevent frequently occurring errors during modifications.  

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019

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Red alert! Red alert! SOLIDWORKS Visualize is now faster than ever!! One could say even the fastest visualization tool on the planet. That’s right – I said it. No one is faster than SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019. Period. Maybe you’ve attended a Reseller Rollout event, seen some blogs online or know a few things about what we released as new features in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019? Or maybe you haven’t heard any news at all? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are LOADS of new features and improvements in Visualize 2019 and this blog post will give you an overview of what to expect in our latest release. Visualize 2019 is all about getting your projects done faster than ever, allowing you to likewise get your products to market faster. This means making more money faster. See the trend here?? Turn your imagination into professional photo-quality imagery and animations in no time with all the latest improvements to the Visualize 2019 product suite. And just to be crystal clear, here is the theme for Visualize 2019: DRAMATICALLY ACCELERATE YOUR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS To make it easy this year, we’ve created this overview video of all the top new features in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019. So watch the video and read up on the detailed breakdown below. Video credit: Andreas Spieler, Michel Cloutier, Solid Solutions Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest new features in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019, helping you get products to market faster: Artificial Intelligence Denoiser Visualize uses artificial intelligence to decipher and eliminate noise from your renders, giving you an instant 10x render speed boost! Integrated Physics Simulator (Professional only) Enable Physics with a few simple clicks and watch your items collide and fall, just like they would in real life. After Physics is set up, use the Shake tool to randomize or jitter the selected elements. This helps to add a natural touch to stacked plates or rearrange pens in a cup, without having to manually move each part individually, saving loads of scene setup time. There’s also saved Simulation States for you to choose which “shake” effect you like best to move to final render. Vehicle Driving Simulator (Professional only) For vehicle designers and engineers, we’ve also added a new Vehicle Driving Simulator to create driving footage or dynamic still shots of vehicles that don’t even exist yet. You can even plug in an Xbox controller and drive your car concept throughout your scene while recording the result for photo-quality driving footage! Video Decals (Professional only)  Import videos or image sequences directly into Visualize Pro, creating vivid animations of products with LED screens, like laptops, consumer electronics, car navigation screens, or airline headsets. Improved Decal Support Now you have much more control over decal mapping and exact positioning, providing a stress-free Decal experience. We’ve also added new Decal Mapping modes directly within Visualize, so you no longer have to use the Multi-Layer workaround to have a Decal wrap around a cylinder – just choose ‘Cylindrical’ from the ‘Decal Mapping Mode’ drop-down. Also, we now have support for all types of Decals coming from SOLIDWORKS CAD! Enhanced Material support (PBR & NVIDIA MDL)  Don’t want to painstakingly create your own custom materials from scratch, but want to use your company’s existing database of materials/textures or those you’ve found via online websites or communities?  We’ve added new advanced Appearance Types to give you greater flexibility and creativity to import industry-standard materials. You can even scan real-world materials and import them via NVIDIA MDL or PBR directly into Visualize. Improved Model Tree Behavior Ability to Copy/Paste parts has been on the list for years! Now it’s possible in Visualize 2019. Also added flexibility and functionality to aid you in reorganizing your Model Tree, which cuts down on unnecessary wasted time. Custom Keyboard Shortcuts Save time by creating your own custom hotkeys, specific to your own preferences – including single-key hotkeys! You can also export your shortcut list to load onto another machine. Automatic Data Recovery  If your Visualize session terminates unexpectedly, you can recover automatically saved data the next time you launch Visualize. You can specify the frequency and folder for saving auto-recovery data. Don’t lose your work because of a crash ever again! BONUS! Export Visualize to NVIDIA Holodeck (Professional only) Open up the floodgates and use Visualize Pro as the authoring tool, to export your projects into NVIDIA Holodeck for immersive design reviews, all in photo-quality Virtual Reality! This is seriously the future of how we design and engineer our world. Check out these video links below to see NVIDIA’s Holodeck in action: Car Design example AEC / Interior Design example  

SOLIDWORKS PDM

Organize Your ‘Organization’ With SOLIDWORKS PDM

SOLIDWORKS Technical Update

SOLIDWORKS PDM  Manage Data like a Pro Myriad of companies now a day’s suffer not from a lack of data in the product set necessary to make it but rather from the data being created and managed in such a way that other concerned departments either have no clue about it or can’t find it with ease. Finding the required data is like” searching for a needle in a sand dune”. In today’s world, more emphasis is given to upgrading and enhancing the technology of an enterprise but when it comes to strengthening the management most of us turn a deaf ear forgetting how vital any resource management is. Management is not any rocket science but in a nutshell, it is just arranging and telling things. Moreover, we know that “what we can measure we can manage” & in any enterprise Data is very important. So is its management but when it comes to the task of managing the data most of us show a ” clean pair of heels” whose repercussions are silos of data stored at random locations. How often do we hear, “The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing? This phrase can very well fit with most of the companies because companies place more emphasis on how each department is organized and not enough emphasis on organizing their business processes where information flows from its data producers to its data consumers. This “organization” leads each department to create their own methods for producing and using much the same information, resulting in duplicate efforts and waste. Breakdown the scattered lumps of data – SOLIDWORKS PDM helps each department of your organization to start work on the “same page of the story” and straightaway” hit the bull’s eye”. SOLIDWORKS PDM can help you in the following ways – To ensure data conform to standard classifications To ensure the validity of the data To secure and maintain primary data To allow easy access to primary data Data Management is the ability of an organization to precisely define, easily integrate, and effectively retrieve data for both internal applications and external communication. To be very specific data management for product development is of utmost importance. Improve your Design with Branching and Merging – Now it is very easy to create a new version of the source file from the modified branch file version. You can manage the history of source files and branch files without hassles. Branching the existing files is just like to copy trees with the help of Product Data Management (PDM) 2018. SOLIDWORKS PDM (Product data management) helps you get your design data under control and effectively, it improves the way your teams manage and collaborate on product development. In a nutshell, it is basically a fully-fledged data management solution. While most of the companies hunt for the data at the eleventh hour, it is usually recommended to implement at the very initial point rather than doing it by fits and starts. Companies have several projects stored in their Windows file system prior to a Product Data Management(PDM) implementation. While it is ideal to leave older projects within the old filing structure, it is sometimes important to club them into the new PDM system for future use. With the help of SOLIDWORKS PDM, you can really” organize” your “organization.

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.

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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.