This is a brief overview of Solidworks drawing views and the associativity between parts, assemblies and their drawings.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This comes on top of Solidtec Solutions being voted as the Top Reseller in Asia Pacific for Customer Satisfaction at the 2011 SolidWorks World.
Solidtec Solutions welcomed around 300 new customers into the SolidWorks community in Australia and New Zealand in 2011 and this growth lead to Solidtec Solutions being recognized as the 4th best performer worldwide across SolidWorks resellers in 2011.
“Solidtec Solutions has seen incredible growth in the two and a half years we have been selling SolidWorks 3D CAD solution in Australia and New Zealand. From the outset the entire Solidtec team has been focused on adding value to our customers and assisting them in increasing their innovation and profitability and our phenomenal growth and performance would indicate these efforts are resonating with our customers,” said Shane Preston, CEO of Solidtec Solutions ANZ.
Solidtec is also committed to adding value to customers through their technical expertise and this expertise was recognised at SolidWorks World 2012 with Damien Murphy being awarded Elite Application Engineer status. Damien is one of the few SolidWorks Certified Simulation Advanced Professional and Flow Simulation Professionals in ANZ and he is sharing his simulation knowledge regularly with customers in Solidtec’s new Webtec technical training courses.
“Solidtec differentiates itself with the most Certified SolidWorks Experts in Australia and New Zealand and their advanced knowledge and experience quickly and easily resolves our customers complex support queries and assists them in getting the most value from their SolidWorks software,” said Gareth Hudson, Solidtec Solutions Technical Services Manager.
About Solidtec SolutionsSolidtec Solutions is a specialist company offering design and manufacturing solutions in 3D CAD Software, Design Validation and Simulation, Design Automation, Product Data Management (PDM), Documentation Software and CAD Tools to engineers, designers and manufacturers. Solidtec Solutions is the fastest growing SolidWorks 3D CAD provider and support organisation in Australia and New Zealand, offering comprehensive training and subscription services to assist our customers in increasing their profitability, innovation and sustainability.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Countdown to SolidWorks World 2012: “Father of the iPod” to Keynote
Leading Event Showcasing “Love of Design” to Take Place February 12-15, 2012
Just a few years ago, the iPod revolutionized personal electronics worldwide. Tony Fadell, the designer who spearheaded the team that brought the iPod to market, will keynote SolidWorks World 2012, the company’s annual summit of engineers and designers. Dassault Systèmes SolidWorksCorp.’s SolidWorks World event will take place February 12-15, 2012, in San Diego, and focus on the theme of “united by design.”
Known as the “Father of the iPod,” Fadell made his mark via his former positions as Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod division and adviser to Steve Jobs. Today, Fadell is changing the game again as founder and CEO of Nest, a hot startup that’s introduced the world’s first learning thermostat. The Nest Learning Thermostat™ learns about you and your home to automatically turn itself down when you're away, guide you to energy-efficient temperatures when you’re home, and free you from programming hassles by creating a customized temperature schedule. Nest has been dubbed the “iPhone of thermostats” by Wired, and the New York Times describes it as “gorgeous, elegant and very, very smart.”
To create a game-changing product, function and design must go hand in hand,” said Fadell. “We certainly put that principle to work when developing the Nest Learning Thermostat, and I’m excited to share more about that experience with the thousands of passionate, designers and engineers who will attend this year’s SolidWorks World.”
To this end, crowdsourcing will be a hot topic on Day 2 of SolidWorks World. Social development is becoming increasingly important to product ideation and creation, and SolidWorks customers will showcase how it’s easier than ever to bring ideas to fruition. With an engineering-focused hive mindset, creativity and expertise come together in incredible products. Stay tuned for more ideas that will change the way you think about product development.
Day 3 of the event will bring the long-awaited What’s New session. Attendees will get a sneak peek of SolidWorks 2013, as well as a view of what’s on schedule for SolidWorks—and its users—this year.
Kevin Goosie, an engineering designer at SAIC, who tweets at @kgoosie, will be this year’s official Internet Correspondent. He will be blogging about SolidWorks World 2012 on the SolidWorks blog.
Users can connect with SolidWorks World 2012 online through the following vehicles:
- DS SolidWorks Forums
- DS SolidWorks Blog – SolidWorks World 2012 topics
- DS SolidWorks on Twitter
- SolidWorks World 2012 account on Twitter
- SolidWorks World 2012 hashtag (#SWW12)
- DS SolidWorks on Flickr
- SolidWorks World 2012 Flickr
- DS SolidWorks on YouTube
A complete agenda is available online. Users can register for SolidWorks World 2012 at:https://registration.itnintl.com/sww12/regonline/RegLogin.aspx. Early Bird discounts end on January 20.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Any solid geometry containing offset developable surfaces (linear in one direction) with a constant thickness can in theory be flat patterned. This refers to the types of solids that are created using the following techniques,
1. A linear sketch profile that is swept along a 3d spline curve where the spline curve has curvature in all 3 Cartesian directions.
2. Linear profile sweep along a linear path with "twist along path" applied.
3. Linear profile extrusion with applied twist and bending using the flex feature where the bend must be orthogonal to the twist direction.
These types of solids cannot be created as sheet metal bodies using the traditional sheet metal methods including both bottom up and top down approaches. Bottom up refers to creating the sheet metal parts by adding material and flanges on the fly, whereas top down is defined as creating the solid and converting this to a sheet metal body.
Each sheet metal feature used in both bottom up and top down approaches have specific requirements such as the need for planar faces or linear edges for certain selections. The “complex” solid geometry referred to in this blog does not contain such geometry or simply cannot be selected for the inputs into these sheet metal features.
This blog presents an approach using a combination of sheet metal, surfacing and solid features/ methods to obtain the end result of a Multibody sheet metal part.
The lofted bend feature can be used to create a sheet metal body with complex bending in one direction, it requires two 3d sketches containing 1 open contour in each 3d sketch. The two edges of the first Multibody segment may be converted into two 3d sketches using convert entities. An alternative and faster way to obtain this result is to use the face curves feature. Once the 3 lofted bend sheet metal solids have been created, a method for eliminating interference is presented, utilising the indent feature with the cut option toggled on. The lofted bend feature does not perfectly mimic the original geometry and therefore a method for removing unwanted portions of material using surfacing commands (zero offset and thickened cut) is demonstrated.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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