In February we announced the latest updates to our cloud-connected and browser-based solutions, including Electrical Schematic Designer, as part of R2024x functional delivery (FD) 01. Sometimes it’s the little things you use all day that can have the biggest impact on your productivity. We call these enhancements “delighters.” In the R2024x FD01 update you will find various delighters that will have a big impact on your workflow, enabling you to be more productive.
Join the Preview Program and be among the first to experience SOLIDWORKS 2024. Starting today, you can get hands-on with the latest user-driven enhancements purpose-built to help you work smarter, faster, and together. Join now and begin exploring these key release highlights: Work Smarter Reduce your workload in SOLIDWORKS with the ability to defeature models more efficiently, add part features to assemblies by first associatively inserting an assembly into a part, and include the unit of
When it comes to updating software or choosing a solution, I kind of see it like the popular 80’s song by the Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” At Dassault Systèmes we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach so we offer a variety of solutions, including desktop and cloud-based, to help you, our customers, meet your design and engineering needs. Today, I want to talk about a couple of our electrical roles, including SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic and the Electrical Schematic Designer,
SOLIDWORKS® has evolved remarkably in the 17 years I’ve been involved working with the software. We’ve really automated things over the years and I’d say it’s shifted from the feel of driving a standard car to driving an automatic luxury car. And, it’s because of you, our customers, and your ideas and feedback that has made the evolution of SOLIDWORKS successful. With each release we aim to fulfill your wish list and continue to focus on automation in addition to enabling users to work smarter,
Completing a project safely and with zero errors is always the goal of product designers. How we reach that goal, however, can sometimes prove to be difficult. That’s where SOLIDWORKS ECAD Solutions come into play. The collaboration and communication features of our ECAD tools are an important aspect when trying to efficiently and effectively work with the rest of our team.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most organizations to relocate their workforce to their homes; causing challenges in getting their jobs done using the tools they need. Enabling users to collaborate with their engineering data and complete projects on time, without interruption, is very important. For our electrical engineers using SOLIDWORKS Electrical, it is no different.
https://blog-assets.solidworks.com/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Meltech-3DSVersion.mp4 Ever wondered where factories get their factory parts? Why, other factories, of course. How about induction melting equipment for foundries? Now that’s a burning question.
Though STEP files are critical in collaboration between MCAD and ECAD, an important issue has become more significant as of late. Because there are many ways for you, the electronics designer, to obtain STEP files, it is difficult (if not impossible) to know what tool was used, or more importantly if the STEP file was tested against any rule set. This is not just true for components that may have been pulled from 3DContentCentral.com. Anyone can make a STEP model contribution to the site.
In almost every case in product development, the end goal is to complete the current task as quickly as possible, all the while trying to finish it with zero errors. We need to consistently send engineering changes and updates to the rest of our team – who is also working on the same task. This can be difficult if we continuously try to work alone – trying to send information over the proverbial wall. Collaborating efficiently and effectively with our electrical counterparts is an effective way
In 1954, Getman Brothers Construction Company entered the mining industry with the design and production of the Scoot-Crete. The small motorized wheelbarrow was used to transport concrete in municipal construction works ranging from parking ramps to roadworks. Perhaps its most famous use was in the effort to connect the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan during the construction of the Mackinac Bridge between 1954-1957. Today, Getman Corporation is headquartered in Bangor, Michigan and is a
All product development goals essentially come down to considerations and tradeoffs between time, quality and cost. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD has been broadly adopted because it empowered every engineer to help better achieve these goals. We used to call this the “Democratization of 3D,” everyone could learn AND afford SOLIDWORKS. The major benefits of modern 3D parametric design software are now well-known and accepted.
As electrical system designers work on an electrical project, it is critical to collaborate and share pertinent data while still maintaining project integrity and accuracy. Electrical designers can take advantage of SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to meet these needs. The SOLIDWORKS Electrical PDM Connector manages Electrical projects and libraries, as well as simplifying deliverable creation. With the electrical library synchronized with PDM, designers can determine at a glance if a part under
SOLIDWORKS Electrical has gained notoriety for its design applications in power systems, user controls, cabinet layout, and electric machines, but what about as a wire harness design tool? ATV model downloaded from <a href="https://grabcad.com/library/atv-19">GrabCAD</a> ATV model downloaded from GrabCAD ATV light bar wiring harness designed in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D ATV light bar wiring harness designed in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D Wire Harness Design for any Industry SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
Thomas Edison has over one thousand patents to his name (individual or joint), 1,093 to be exact. Most notably for the light bulb, the phonograph, and an initial motion picture concept. He was also very famous in his early 30s and throughout his 84 years. He also had innovations in manufacturing and was a savvy businessman as well.
Product performance and capabilities are evolving exponentially, design and technologies are becoming more challenging, and market/business pressure are constantly mounting. These factors are driving the need for cohesive, adaptive design capabilities for today’s products that can only be produced effectively through purpose-built mechatronics software. With the dawn of the Mechatronics product design, the day of siloed engineering design tools has gone the way of the drafting board. Having
I’m sure I’m not the first to wonder what awesome products the great inventors of the world would have been able to create if they were alive and had access to the tools we use today. Back in 2014, I wrote an article asking this question of Leonardo daVinci: What if Leonardo da Vinci had SOLIDWORKS? The blog received a lot of interest, and it seems I was not alone, as many responded and shared the article. However, taking this thought to the next level: I was curious if these great innovators
If you are an electrical engineer, or anyone who designs electro-mechanical products then this is the SOLIDWORKS event for you. We will spend 40 minutes (or less) discussing “What’s New” in SOLIDWORKS for electrical engineers. At SOLIDWORKS, we are very excited about this launch, as it will be focusing on electro-mechanical design. So many SOLIDWORKS users are adding smart devices into their product lines, or building new smart products all together, as customers are demanding smart products
Different types of engineers typically work differently. Though electrical engineers work in a totally different way than mechanical engineers, today’s complex design projects require tighter integration between the two disciplines. As design is changing at a rapid pace, and products need to be developed quicker, disparate engineering teams MUST work closer together. One of the largest challenges our customers face is that the ways in which these teams save their data is very different.
