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Top 7 Best Changes in SolidWorks 2019

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SolidWorks is one of the most popular, widely used, and efficient solid modeling software applications. Over two million engineers and designers all over the globe use SolidWorks as their product design software. The tool is continuously evolving with technology and is covering almost all the aspects of the product development process with a seamless and integrated workflow in design, verification, communication, and data management. SolidWorks is back again with some exciting features in 2019. Here are the top 7 best changes in SolidWorks 2019:

Saving an Assembly as a Part: Now designers can save a logical extension of the existing functionality.  This feature of the tool will be beneficial in integrating the PCB design. Designers can now save a single board as a manageable component while a product is under development.

 

Animated Output: An animated output can undoubtedly reveal more details than a picture. The new version allows designers to generate an animated clip for a design under development, offering a better visualization.

 

The full time measuring Tool: Designers can now quickly measure designs, which was not possible in the earlier versions. The feature helps to check the changes made, and ensure that they meet the design expectations.

Electrical and PCB: SolidWorks professionals now no longer need separate software to manage PCB designs. SolidWorks 2019, now has integrated functionalities for this purpose allowing designers to work with details in the tool itself.

 

Deleting Surface Holes: Designers spent a lot of valuable time in activities such as cutting out the rectangular shape, creating the boundary surface and joining the two surfaces together to delete a hole. The new version saves all this time by this feature allowing them to delete a hole directly from the surface.

Product Data Management (PDM):PDM favors multiple user interface, handles complex projects efficiently, and keeps the project consistent and organized; however, it is challenging to implement PDM. SolidWorks 2019 updates make it easy and convenient to work within PDM reducing complexity and enhancing reliability.Simulation: This feature helps developers bounce between the designs and the real models. A detailed view of the product design will help professionals make informed decisions in developing a high-quality product. Simulation in SolidWorks 2019 will also help conduct better tests for the product designs.

SolidWorks 2019 will indeed make life easier for product designers in the future. The improved capabilities will motivate professionals to explore new things and develop better product designs.     

Sneak Peek on Top Eight Features of SOLIDWORKS 2019

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The SOLIDWORKS World 2018 showed off some of the awe features to come in SOLIDWORKS 2019, and some of these features caused the Los Angeles crowd to break out in unprompted applause. But now, with the beginning of 2019 we will actually see these new features of SOLIDWORKS 2019 live. Before that, let’s have sneak peek on these top 8 features:

3D Texturize Body

This feature promises to be a massive boon in screening products as they look in real life, such as a grip on a lever. It generates an offset mesh body from current stable, with control panels to refine the size and texture.

 

Mesh Slicing and Topology Study

The upcoming version of the software will do a form optimization taking inputs as stress, factor of care and occurrence constraints. More so, the new net slicing feature would help make drawings from the subsequent mesh body and uphold positions.

 

Group Mates by Rank

As you can group mates by their position you’ll be able to cluster mistakes as suppressed, lazy, cracked, and over-defined mates together.

 

Partial Fillet

You’ll like that chamfers and fillets can be partly useful to an edge. You’ll be able to regulate the distance, percentage, orientation, and drag lever offsets.

E-Drawings and VR Support

SOLIDWORKS 2019 will add Virtual Reality to support E-Drawing viewers, thereby allowing users to view virtual drawings.

 

SOLIDWORKS visualize DENOISER

SOLIDWORKS Visualize will integrate NVIDIA’s AI-based Optix “DE noising” technology to quickly provide photo realistic renderings. SOLIDWORKS will give a 10x boost in rendering performance.

 

DEFEATURING ASSEMBLY

Now the users will have capabilities of Defeaturing Assemblies, protecting the form and spirit of an assembly while beating irrelevant or delicate details.

 

ON THE EXTERIOR

People who like to take notes by hand, this 2019 generation software will allow users to markup their model’s handwritten notes, which will be saved with that model. The next generation of software will enable users to bring some exciting possibilities to Microsoft surface users. Microsoft surface pen users will also be able to get most out of their stylus, as the software will automatically convert drawing into an applicable feature.

Notably, SOLIDWORKS 2019 is all set to revolutionize the design industry in the 2019. So, get ready to witness some dramatic transformation in 2019 with these new SOLIDWORKS features.

SOLIDWORKS 2018 Debuts

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SOLIDWORKS is back again in the year 2018. The package has some added tools, enhancements and features to give you a completely new experience. Right from the welcome screen, the application has new and improved data management capabilities, integrating CAM feature along with some other innovative functionalities making it again your best design partner.

Pen and Touch-Enabled Devices: The application supports new touch-enabled capabilities. This is one of the most significant changes that came with SOLIDWORKS 2018. Now, you can make sketches using a touch-enabled pen. The application even supports customized mouse gestures making it more user-friendly and interesting to use.

Adding Granular Details: SOLIDWORKS 2018 has come up with new capabilities to work with assemblies such as Adding Mates Between Hidden Surfaces, Misaligned Mates, and Smart Explode Line Tool. The application has also introduced a new Tab and Slot feature for the sheet metal design. Now you can create the inspection documentation directly from 3D models.

CAM Integration: The most promising feature that SOLIDWORKS 2018 brought about is the CAM integration. The feature is called SOLIDWORKS CAM and works as a new application. The capability leverages CAM technology which is pretty interesting software in itself. Such integration will automate the entire manufacturing programming.

Enhancing the Complete Cycle: SOLIDWORKS 2018 comes with an integrated approach that works with your product right from design to manufacturing. This is done by putting the part or the assembly model in the Centre of the action. The concurrent collaboration capabilities of SOLIDWORKS 2018 keeps the data well managed so that you can create a design using manufacturing strategy across the product development workflow.

Ease in CNC Programming: The application has come up with new part and assembly machining, a 2.5 axis milling, and two-axis turning features. Such a feature is capable to make CNC (computer numerical control) programming less time consuming and simple.

Automating the Manual Inspection Process: The revised version of SOLIDWORKS has automated inspection capabilities. This feature helps you to save time skipping the manual inspection process. Dassault now claims that the 2018 version can carry out the article inspection process and generate reports in minutes.

Dealing with the corrupted files: If your repair attempts fail to resolve a corrupted file, SOLIDWORKS 2018 now prompts you to extract your geometrical details if data about the body is still intact. You can use this extracted data to create a new model.

Four Key Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Used in Aerospace

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Advanced Manufacturing technologies have become one of the most important parts of the Aerospace industry. This is because of the unique challenges that the aircraft designers deal with. The aircraft designs need to consider the environmental conditions using strong materials that are both lightweight and temperature resistant. Such designs require micro and Nano- machining techniques. Here are four advanced machining technologies that are used in the Aerospace industry.

Additive Manufacturing  

The Aerospace industry was quick to identify the benefits and potential of Additive Manufacturing to design its planes. The technology uses Power-Bed laser printing systems to build its most components. Additive manufacturing technology is used to build structures that work within the fuselage with features such as reduced weight and reduce heat. An additive manufacturing technique, commonly known as the Fused Deposition Modeling, is used to create semi-hollow parts of the aircraft wings by both adding strength and reducing weight.

Composite Materials

Composite materials are widely used to design aircraft. Aerospace engineers prefer using these materials because of their favorable characteristics of flexibility, strength, temperature and chemical resistance. Composite materials and advanced polymers in the design help to improve performance and reduce lifecycle costs. These materials also reduce the overall weight of the aircraft cutting short their fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

Robotics

Robots are used in the aerospace industry to manage the labor-intensive process, particularly when lifting and handling tasks are to be done. The industry is using powerful robots in its manufacturing plants to move and join aircraft parts. Robotics is also taking care of manufacturing process that is hazardous to people such as painting and welding.

Laser Beam Welding

This technology offers rapid and high precision work as compared to the traditional welding techniques. Laser welding is, therefore, a preferred solution for handling materials when repeatability and high accuracy is required. The most advantageous property of this technique is that it transfers very little heat to the material that is welded. This way it does not create a heat affected zone around the weld, ultimately not compromising the strength and performance of the material.

With the widespread use of these technologies, the aerospace industry has also inspired several other industries to use these technologies in the manufacturing process. These techniques have undoubtedly simplified the manufacturing processes and reduced costs to a greater extent. Their accuracy and precision have reduced the number of failure points in the manufacturing process.

What’s new in the SOLIDWORKS 2018 release?

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1SOLIDWORKS, a CAD software, assists in creating solid models (both 2D and 3D) in a simple, fast and cost-effective manner. The prime benefit of using SOLIDWORKS is the ease to use, simple graphics UI and highly user-friendly. The software provides features such as solid modeling, toolbox, motion, circuit works, e-drawings, and DWG editor.

SOLIDWORKS World is a platform where the attendees meet the SOLIDWORKS partners and share the products that the SOLIDWORKS customers design. The SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017, gave a lot of surprise to the SOLIDWORKS fans. The team previewed a few new features and enhancements coming in the year 2018. The modifications included Assemblies, Fabrication, Sketching, PDM, 3D Interconnect, and Generative Design.

Sketching      

There were a few mind blowing enhancements in sketching. Some of them are as follows

  1. Mirror 3D Sketch Entities: In a 3D sketch, the user will have the ability to mirror the entities of the sketch.
  2. Sketch Planes as Symmetry Reference: A plane can be used as a symmetry reference to mirror 2D and 3D sketch entities.
  3. Pen Sketching: With Windows 10 touch screen devices, the designers will have the ability to draw contours by freehand using a stylus or a pen.

Assembly

With the enhancements in Assembly, SOLIDWORKS 2018 will definitely improve the performance of the users.

  1. During mate, the ALT key can be used to hide the surfaces.
  2. The 2018 release of SOLIDWORKS will have 12 mouse gestures.
  3. There is a new dialog for performance.
  4. The new release will feature a new progress bar for assembly.
  5. A new home screen will make assembly even more interesting.
  6. Large Assembly
    • Mate and insert graphic components easily.
    • Revert the data to graphics for better
    • The ability to off the scenery (graphics data).
    • Set multiple objects to be resolved in a Large Design Review.

3D Interconnect

  1. Custom properties.
  2. Ability to preserve sketches and curves.
  3. Updating neutral files is supported.
  4. The new release will support IGES, ACIS, STEP, and JT.

Fabrication

  1. New slot and tab feature works in parts, multi-body parts, and assemblies.
  2. Drawing revision table with SOLIDWORKS PDM bi-directional communication.

Generative Design

  1. SIMULATION view in SOLIDWORKS Integration.
  2. Manufacturing Controls
  3. Multiple Objective support

These are just the preview of some of the modifications. The list of new features and modifications will be known only after the release of the product.