Many customers who create weldments want to fill out a cut list on the drawing with more information than general dimensions and item numbers. You can easily do this by defining Custom Property values for each item in your weldment.
In the model, expand the Cut List in the design tree. After the list has been Updated, Right Click on each item in the list and select Properties. What is presented to you is a Custom Property list for each item that you can fill out.
This works just like the Custom Properties for any model you create in SolidWorks and can be created to fit the needs and requirements of your company/customer and can be reviewed before placing it on your drawing!
Big savings are available now for existing InspectionXpert customers. These special offers are valid through January 31, 2011 so act fast to get these savings.
Choose from one of these two offers:
Interested? Contact your account manager for more details.
Note: Only one offer may be chosen, and discount may be applied only once. Maintenance is not discountable and must be purchased with any new licenses. Must be current on maintenance to purchase networking capability. Offer expires January 31, 2011.
In SolidWorks Simulation 2011, you can now find the following Mesh enhancements:
Solid and shell meshing performance has been improved because SolidWorks Simulation now takes advantage of your computer's multi-processors for meshing surfaces.
The default mesher is now the curvature-based mesher.
The curvature-based mesher supports the option Remesh failed parts with incompatible mesh.
Mesh diagnostics is incorporated in the Mesh Advisor, which guides you to resolve meshing issues like meshing failed bodies.
You can control the mesh size of beams. Specify the total number of elements or the element size.
One of the primary advantages of DDM is that it removes constraints imposed by traditional manufacturing processes, such as injection molding or die casting.
Download our free white paper, Part II in a series by Scott Crump, CEO of Stratasys. You'll learn how DDM changes many of the “facts” and principles that govern conventional manufacturing enterprises. And that's not all. Find out what you should consider before using DDM.
Join SolidProfessor for an informative webcast on the SolidProfessor Enterprise product, geared towards CAD/Engineering Managers, Training Coordinators, Human Resource Managers or anyone within your organization who is responsible for improving SolidWorks use.
Thursday, January 13th, 12 pm ET
Thursday, February 10th, 12 pm ET An important hallmark of a successful coach is his or her commitment to consistent training to keep their Team's skills sharp to beat the competition when the game is on the line.
For engineering teams, Every Day is Game Day, and you need your team performing at their best to achieve success... whether it be:
The necessity to reduce design cycle times
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Being on the cutting edge; Creating new, innovative products
If your team isn't training to achieve your engineering goals every day, your competition is leaving you behind.
Join one of the above webinars to learn how SolidProfessor can help your team win everyday!
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
- John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach
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The next MOKA (Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Area) SolidWorks User Group meeting has been scheduled. Save the Date:
February 1, 2011
4:45 – 8:00pm
Southwest Missouri Bank Community Building
801 South Duquesne Rd, Joplin, Mo
(one building south of the bank, East side of the road)
Agenda:
4:45-5:00 Registration and Networking
5:00-5:30 General Discussion (SolidWorks World)
5:30-6:00 Break, Food and Networking
6:00-7:30 Presentation -- Brian Lindahl, P.E., CSWP – SolidWorks Macro’s
7:30-8:00 Wrap-up, Discussion about next meeting, Door prizes
AngelSix has agreed to sponsor this meeting by supplying a few goodies.
Brian Lindahl (Presenter) Bio:
I am a CSWP, CAD (SolidWorks) instructor at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, Project Engineer/CAD and PDM Administrator at Preco Inc (Somerset, WI), and Senior Engineer at CAD Speed-Up. I have been using SolidWorks since release 2003, am a four-time speaker (or I will be by Feb 1!) at SolidWorks World events and I am leader of the St. Croix Valley SolidWorks User Group in Northwest Wisconsin. I have been a presenter a two different SWUGN Technical Summits and two different “Regional Conferences”, before the Technical Summits were initiated.
Brian Long, president of MOKA needs someone to step up and take meeting minutes. If you have any suggestions for refreshments, please let Brian know.
Don’t forget, SolidWorks World 2011 is January 23-26 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, just minutes from the “River Walk”. If you register before January 7th the cost is $895 which is $100 off. This should be a lot of fun and if you are a CSWP there is an event Monday night.
QTRCO, a leading producer of valve actuators, use to demonstrate its products by hauling a 250-pound trailer containing a real actuator with a 26-foot cutaway to the customer's site. Now the company has built 100 Dimension functional prototypes and given them to representatives located around the country. This makes it possible to demonstrate the actuator's unique features to a much larger number of prospects, resulting in a substantial increase in sales.
It is Christmas Eve, and I began thinking about everything that I am thankful for, and I wanted to start with the people that make us who we are. First, it is our employees. We have the best of the best, working together as a team, to help our customers grow. Next, it is our customers, whom it is our mission to insure customer satisfaction in every aspect of our business. Finally, it is our friends and families. If it wasn't for them being behind us and pushing us, we would not be where we are today.
Last, but not least...I wanted to provide a follow-up to Funtech Racing's 2010 LiveSTRONG Challenge. Team members Rich Nobliski, Dan Wiggins, Mike Hansen & Shawn Furry, really showed a lot of courage, tenacity, and commitment to obtain donations, personally finance your trip, and ride the length that you did. Thank you to our sponsors: FISHER/UNITECH, SolidWorks, Stratasys, & St. Charles Soccer Club. Thank you to our donators: customers, family members, and friends. The $4,100 that we raised, help fuel our team to a successful event.
The day started at 8:00am, on 10/24/10, with an overcast sky and 83 degrees. During the first few hours, we endured some steep inclines, fresh farm smell, and road floods from the day before. Two hours into the ride, the clouds went away, and the temperature quickly rose above 90 degrees. The challenge of the ride is that you had to average a certain speed, when you approached one of the checkpoints, to determine if you were going to take the 90 mile route, or the 65 mile route. Shawn Forry made it past the checkpoint in time, and continued on the 90 mile route. Mike Hansen waited for Dan Wiggins and myself, and unfortunately witnessed the gate going up to route us to the 65 mile course. I appreciate the teamwork that was shown, and value the commitment that was made.
Below are the stats and the route, as automatically taken by my iPhone, during the ride:
Route: LiveSTRONG Austin 2010
Shortened Google Maps URL: http://j.mp/9seHBo Started: Oct 24, 2010 8:10:03 AM
Ride Time: 5:03:35
Distance: 63.91 miles
Average: 12.63 miles/h
Fastest Speed: 34.98 miles/h
Climb: 1633 feet
Calories: 3290
Two men who helped save the Apollo 13 crew 40 years ago by finding ingenious solutions to catastrophic mechanical problems will headline SolidWorks World 2011, the world’s largest gathering of the engineering and design community. Their heroics provide an inspirational example of engineering under pressure. In April 1970, more than 200,000 miles from earth, Apollo 13 sustained a sudden failure of its cryogenic oxygen system. Commander Capt. James Lovell Jr. and his crew successfully modified the craft’s lunar module into an effective “lifeboat” to provide power and water for an emergency return to earth. Gene Kranz, lead flight director, headed the ground-based “Tiger Team” that helped coordinate the successful detour. Their actions earned Lovell and Kranz Presidential Medals of Freedom. The pair will tell their stories at SolidWorks World, which takes place Jan. 23-26, 2011, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. This year’s event is the 13th annual gathering of customers, partners, resellers, and employees of Dassault Systèmes (DS) SolidWorks Corp., maker of software for design, simulation, data management, technical communications, and sustainability assessment. “I faced the ultimate challenge when imparting the words ‘Houston, we have a problem,’” says Lovell. “But we all face challenges – some life-threatening and inescapable, others more routine. I look forward to sharing my story and learning about the unique challenges faced by DS SolidWorks’ customers.” “Throughout my career I have seen the role teamwork plays in assuring ultimate victory in any circumstances. DS SolidWorks as a team provides engineers and designers with the tools they need to build products for which, as in aeronautics, ‘failure is not an option,’” says Kranz. “I am interested to see firsthand how SolidWorks enables its customers to solve problems in a variety of industries.” You can save $100 on a conference pass if you register before January 7, or take advantage of the 3-for-2 deal.
Find out more at the SolidWorks World website.
Every year at SolidWorks World the top ten customer Enhancement Requests are announced during the General Session. For the past two years SolidWorks customers have created and voted on ideas using the SolidWorks World Top 10 Brainstorm site. This year the voting process has been incorporated into the SolidWorks Forums.
Here's how you can create and vote on ideas for the SolidWorks World Top 10 Ideas:
We're thrilled to announce our acquisition of CADVenture, a SolidWorks reseller headquartered in Ohio. The combined resources of both companies will create the largest, most experienced product design and engineering service and support team in the Midwest.
An immediate benefit to CADVenture's customer base is access to online support utilizing SupportExpress. SupportExpress includes online reporting and tracking of technical support cases, live chat, online bill paying, e-commerce functionality, and a "virtual advisor" for instant remote technical support sessions including data transfer.
CADVenture clients have the opportunity to take advantage of our 3DU online education system, allowing users to take SolidWorks courses online via an interactive environment. We are the only reseller to offer a learning management system (LMS) that ensures education objectives for each and every student are achieved.
CADVenture's business operations in Mentor, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will continue without interruption and become branch offices of FISHER/UNITECH, bringing the total number of training centers in the Midwest to 12.
Before he was a pioneer in the CAD world, SolidWorks co-founder and former CEO Jon Hirschtick was a member of the world-famous MIT blackjack team, which was the subject of the book Bringing Down the House and the 2008 movie 21.
If you register for the SolidWorks World conference between now and January 6, 2011, you'll automatically be entered into a drawing to be one of ten people invited to a one-hour blackjack lesson with Jon.
So if you want to learn from the master, all you have to do is click here and get signed up. Good luck!
Now through January, the SolidWorks blog is posting entries about the SolidWorks Partners who will have booths in the Partner Pavilion at SolidWorks World 2011, in San Antonio, TX. The post below is an interview with Amy Clements, Marketing Communications Manager at Zuken USA Inc.
This is reposted from the SolidWorks blog, entry dated December 8th, 2010.
1. Tell us about Zuken. Zuken provides software solutions for electronic and electrical engineering design and data management. For the SolidWorks user base, we offer E³.WireWorks - Electrical and Fluid Engineering specifically tailored to work out-of-the-box with SolidWorks Premium Routing and SolidWorks PDM Enterprise.
2. Why should SolidWorks World attendees visit your booth?
Visit Zuken at booth #200 for a demonstration of our E³.WireWorks solution and see it for yourself – seamless integration of electrical design with SolidWorks 3D CAD software. Talk with our technical experts, find out who your local distributor is, or if you just want to come along for the freebies – we’ve got the coolest giveaways on the floor (not to mention the drawing.) Stop by and take our quick survey and enter your name into the drawing for an Apple iPad!
3. How can your products or services help make a SolidWorks user’s life easier?
E³.WireWorks is a Windows-based, modular, scalable and easy-to-learn system for engineering design of wiring, harnesses, cable assemblies, control panels, hydraulics and pneumatics. Together with SolidWorks Premium Routing tools, E³.WireWorks is a complete solution for the design engineer from design concept through physical realization and manufacturing output.
4. How can customers connect with you at the show?
Attendees can find us at booth #200 in the Partner Pavilion.
Don't miss our Zuken E³.WireWorks webcast coming up!
Wednesday, December 15th
10 am ET/9 am CT Register Now
Many of you that have taken Essentials class hopefully remember the “Full Round Fillet” command. This is introduced in Lesson 7, where we walk through the case study of an electrical cover.
Did you know that the Full Round Fillet also works with curves?
Consider the following examples;
That's simple enough, but what about irregular curves?
In both case SolidWorks generates an aesthetically pleasing result. Try it!
The next Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Area (MOKA) SolidWorks User Group Meeting will be held:
February 1, 2011
4:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Southwest Missouri Bank Community Building
801 South Duquesne Rd., Joplin, MO
(one building south of the bank, east side of the road)
Agenda
4:45-5:00 pm: Registration & Networking
5:00-5:30 pm: General Discussion (SolidWorks World)
5:30-6:00 pm: Break, Food & Networking
6:00-7:30 pm: Presentation (SolidWorks API)
7:30-8:00 pm: Wrap-up, discussion about next meeting, door prizes
Refreshments: Suggestions? Let Brian know.
RSVP: Please click here to fill out the RSVP form for the meeting. A count is needed for refreshments.
Don't forget - SolidWorks World 2011 is January 23-26 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, just minutes from the "River Walk." If you register prior to January 7th, the cost is $895 which is a savings of $100. The event should be a lot of fun and if you are a CSWP there is an event Monday night.
Join us for a live presentation of Office2PDM, a new SolidWorks Partner Product for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM.
Register Today!
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
10am - 11am ET
Learn how to extend your SolidWorks Enterprise PDM investment by expanding your revision control and document management to one of your biggest areas of documentation -- Microsoft Office documents. Office2PDM provides access to EPDM vault functions directly in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The EPDM Dashboard gives you a real-time view of the workflows, states, transition dates and documents in your vault.
Mate references specify one or more entities of a component to use for automatic mating. When you drag a component with a mate reference into an assembly, the SolidWorks software tries to find other combination's of the same mate reference name and mate type. If the name is the same, but the type does not match, the software does not add the mate. Here are some items to note about mate references:
Components. You can add mate references to parts and assemblies. In assemblies, you can select assembly geometry (such as a plane in the assembly) or component geometry (such as the face of a component.)
Multiple mate references. A component can contain more than one mate reference. The MateReferences folder in the Feature Manager design tree holds all mate references.
For example, you can have a component in an assembly with two mate references, bolt and washer. When you drag a fastener with a mate reference named bolt into the assembly, mates are added between the entities with the same mate reference name.
Multiple mated entities. Each mate reference can contain up to three mated entities; a primary, secondary and tertiary reference entity. Each of these entities can have an assigned mate type and alignment. In order for two components to mate automatically, their mate references must have the same:
Name
Number of entities
Mate type for corresponding entities
SmartMates. When the SmartMates PropertyManager is open, the software adds mates via mate references before it adds geometric SmartMates.
To define a mate reference:
In a part or an assembly, click Mate Reference (Reference Geometry Toolbar) or Insert, Reference Geometry, Mate Reference.
The Mate Reference PropertyManager appears.
Under Reference Name, type a name for the mate reference.
Under Primary Reference Entity:
Select a face, edge, vertex, or plane for the Primary Reference Entity.The entity is used for potential mates when dragging a component into an assembly.
Select a Mate Reference Typeand a Mate Reference Alignment to define the default mate for the reference entity.
If desired, repeat Step 3 to add secondary and tertiary entities.
Click .
The mate reference is added to the FeatureManager design tree in the MateReferences folder.
To capture a mate reference from an existing mate:
Edit a component in the context of an assembly.
Click Mate Reference.
In the PropertyManager, under References to Capture, select an entity or mate.
The entity, mate and alignment of the mate appear under Primary Reference Entity.
Type a name under Reference Name and click to add the mate reference to the component.
