First off, I want to say how great it was to reunite with everyone at this year’s 3DEXPERIENCE® World user event after three years! I hope you caught my hands-on session on 3D Motion Creator. If not, here’s your chance to see what’s new. Long story short- lots!
Every year at 3DEXPERIENCE World, our 3DEXPERIENCE Works technical marketing team performs a General Session demonstration that you don’t want to miss. It’s a software demo that’s also a movie and stage play, and we hope it entertains. After all, tech staff plus acting always go hand in mouse-hand, right? This year, our team wanted to take you on an epic to celebrate being back in person in Nashville.
Using the roles in the SOLIDWORKS® Cloud Offer just got better. We recently added a new option to our browser-based design and engineering roles that offers another fast and easy way to access your favorite design apps. If you haven’t seen the Offer, it provides a wide selection of roles, including one of my favorites, (Manufacturing Definition Creator), for a great value. The browser-based roles feature parametric design, freeform subdivision (Sub-D) modeling, sheet metal, structure design, and
Spring is here and so is the latest release of our 3DEXPERIENCE® Works browser-based roles for design and engineering. Below, we’ll look at what’s new to help keep you productive, in some of our powerful browser-based roles, including 3D Creator, 3D Sculptor, 3D Structure Creator, 3D Mold Creator and Manufacturing Definition Creator. Without further ado, here’s what’s new in FD02 2022. NEW!
The “Don’t Miss This Demo” demo continues at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022. Also known as the “skit” and Technology Preview, this fan-favorite tradition shows off the latest, greatest and what’s next for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works innovation platform, including a sneak peak at the upcoming release of SOLIDWORKS 2023. EPISODE ONE: Down the CADTube Hole This year we get exclusive insider access to the creative process of Mark and Michael as they prepare for the Technology Preview at World. After the R&D
The 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio offers an all-encompassing range of solutions from design and manufacturing to lifecycle management, marketing, and services. The SOLIDWORKS Cloud Offer is a selection of solutions geared exclusively to mechanical and industrial designers who typically work in the industrial equipment, high tech, life sciences, and home & lifestyle industries. The Offer includes a selection of various design roles at a significantly reduced price. There is no software to install
Each year, makers from more than 2000 Fab Labs worldwide gather to share, collaborate, explore and fabricate together in the annual meeting (FabX) of the international fab lab network hosted by The Fab Foundation, the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, and a host fab lab. The venue varies from year to year around the world. In 2018, the Fab14 conference took place in Toulouse, France, while in 2019, Fab15 was hosted in Cairo and El-Gouna, Egypt. Last year, in the wake of the pandemic, the event
The browser-based design and engineering capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform have been recently updated with the R2021x FD04 release on January 23, 2021. You may not have noticed it, because all updates to our cloud-based portfolio of products happen automatically. The power and flexibility these applications are worth considering as part of your product development toolbelt. Let’s take a closer look at what is new in the January 2021 update.
With the new 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Offers, it’s true that we’re offering SOLIDWORKS designers unprecedented connection to the cloud. And, as you would likely guess, this means that your SOLIDWORKS files are generally much more accessible to you than they’d be, for example, if they were located solely on your C drive. But limiting our understanding of what ‘connecting our SOLIDWORKS design team’s workflows to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’ means to ‘storing our design data on the cloud’ would be a
Two Model Mania® challenges were held at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020 in Nashville, and I had the honor of introducing the new 3DEXPERIENCE Challenge. If you don’t know what Model Mania is, check out this article first. If you’re looking for the 21st year of the SOLIDWORKS Challenge, you can find it here. In this blog, I will share how I deployed a controlled and repeatable environment that made it easy for users to deliver measurable results and how I used the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to set up,
For the first time, you can purchase 3DEXPERIENCE® roles online directly from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. During 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020, you can add the flexibility and power of cloud-based CAD design and Sub-D modeling to your SOLIDWORKS portfolio and save with introductory pricing valid until March 3rd. 3D Creator and 3D Sculptor are part of 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS cloud-based portfolio that transforms the way you bring products to market and create differentiated customer experiences. 3DEXPERIENCE
For designers, engineers and digital artists, who need to create and detail designs, the combined solutions of 3D Creator, 3D Sculptor and Drafter provide easy to use parametric and subdivision modeling capabilities along with associative 2D drawing creation; these cloud-based solutions are tailored to the specific work at hand. 3D Creator includes the xDesign app, which is a 3D parametric modeler that complements SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD with flexible design workflows and a seamless interchange of
Editor’s Note: At SOLIDWORKS, we’ve sponsored Nate and family’s three-part series where Nate, with the help of his 9-year-old son (Alex) and 5-year-old daughter (Ali), try out three different approaches for modeling a spacecraft. Nate tackles the challenge using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, Alex accepts his mission using SOLIDWORKS xDesign, and Ali shape-shifts her spacecraft in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids! Subscribe to his YouTube channel here. — My son once asked me “what does an engineer do?” He was four
SOLIDWORKS Education is excited to invite FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) Teams in the United States to participate in the SOLIDWORKS xChallenge 2019! The SOLIDWORKS xChallenge 2019 challenges FRC teams to become 3D Sculptors and 3D Creators, and design their own personal flying machine using xDesign and xShape on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The only criterion is that their flying machine must be for one person’s use—other than that, the sky is the limit! We want teams to get creative and have
For those of you who follow our announcements and blogs, you have likely heard about xDesign, a 3D CAD tool that runs in a browser and is developed by the SOLIDWORKS® R&D team. You may also recall that recently we announced the commercial availability of “3D Creator,” which enables parametric 3D modeling in the cloud. Confused? Let’s try to clear that up.
Earlier this month, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform received a major update, and with that came a flood of new features to SOLIDWORKS xDesign. SOLIDWORKS xDesign is a 3D parametric modeling “App” that runs completely in a web browser and is built on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It is part of a “Role” known as 3D Creator. Introduced at SOLIDWORKS World in February xShape is the key app in the 3D Sculptor Role.
xDesign is SOLIDWORKS’ next generation browser-based design tool built on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. xDesign is not just about translating traditional CAD capabilities to the cloud. Instead, it takes a fresh approach to traditional design tasks that are both elegant and innovative. This blog series will explore how SOLIDWORKS xDesign delivers new and delightful ways to tackle common design workflows–starting with sketching. Sketch Objects As you sketch a closed shape in xDesign, the contour is
Back at SOLIDWORKS World 2019 attendees visiting our Partner Pavilion were able to experience SOLIDWORKS xDesign using 3Dconnexion’s SpaceMouse® Pro Wireless and SpaceMouse® Wireless CAD mice, both offering the finest in 3D navigation. The SpaceMouse Wireless devices are now officially supported by SOLIDWORKS xDesign and xShape so users can now accelerate their work by worker smarter and faster. Based on our parent company, Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, xDesign runs entirely in
Lots of big news on day one at #SWW19. You can steam the presentations below, but here’s a quick recap. First on the new product list is the 3DEXPERIENCE.Works strategy. 3DEXPERIENCE.Works brings the power of the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to SOLIDWORKS users.
SOLIDWORKS xDesign is arguably the most hotly anticipated addition to the SOLIDWORKS portfolio for many years. It represents a paradigm shift in design and is so much more than 3D CAD. It has been shown at various stages of development at previous SOLIDWORKS Worlds but 2019 is the year it will be available commercially. But what exactly is xDesign?
This year at SOLIDWORKS World you will find out about an exciting new SOLIDWORKS product for free-form, subdivision (Sub-D) modeling called SOLIDWORKS xShape. There will be two sessions on Tuesday afternoon: one a breakout session (introducing SOLIDWORKS xShape) and the other a hands-on session (Subdivision Modeling using SOLIDWORKS xShape). SOLIDWORKS xShape is a browser-based subdivision modeling tool from SOLIDWORKS. Attendees will learn about the technical capabilities of SOLIDWORKS xShape
Defining Dimensions in xDesign As we’ve seen, one way to define the size and relationships between sketch objects is through constraints, which allows them to be adjusted in specific ways, depending on how the geometry is updated. Adding dimensions is the other method for defining the size and relationships between sketch objects. Dimensions allow you to specify the exact size of the sketch elements by adding dimensions for linear distances, angles between lines, sizes of radii, and diameters of
As 2018 quickly comes to an end, we thought it would be good to look back over the last year and share what has been this year’s 10 most popular blogs on our corporate blog. So without further ado, the top 10 blogs are: 1. Every year, our users eagerly await news of what new enhancements and functionalities will be included in the new release of SOLIDWORKS. This year was certainly no different with this blog, written by Craig Therrien, coming in at the top of the list.
Sketch Entity Relations in xDesign Here, we have a sketch in xDesign that doesn’t have any dimensions added. This sketch is intended to create a mount for a vertical rod, which would be revolved around the left edge to create the 3D geometry. Some of these sketch entities have relations that were added as the sketch was created, but we’ll want to use some additional relations to clean things up and make sure that we maintain design intent. First, we want to make sure all of the vertical and
