The Alexandria SOLIDWORKS User Group has completed the first major SWUGN event of the 2024. Nearly 100 people took part in a full-day event that that included technical presentations, networking, and giveaways. They were even able to incorporate their culture, further connecting their members. Leader of this group, Mohamed Hussein, wrote a beautiful recap of this event with lots of great pictures.
SOLIDWORKS has always been a customer-driven product. Enhancements to SOLIDWORKS products are driven from feedback obtained through direct customer research, analysis of our many internal databases of customer information, reviewing feedback from our many public forums and, of course perhaps most importantly, direct customer request for enhancements – like the ideas submitted to the The Top Ten List – 3DEXPERIENCE World 2024. Earlier this year, EngineersRule.com, featured a blog post about this
The General Sessions that spans over three days at 3DEXPERIENCE World always bring a jam-packed lineup of technology, engineering marvels, and motivational keynote speakers. At 3DEXPERIENCE World 2024 in Dallas, the tech marketing team put together a demo that you just can’t miss, intended to highlight some of the upcoming features to be released later in the year and next year’s version of SOLIDWORKS. This year, the team put the audience’s mystery-solving expertise to the test by following a
Excitement was in the air in Dallas as we collectively kicked off 3DEXPERIENCE World 2024. General sessions began with a welcome greeting from Gian Paolo Bassi, Senior Vice President of 3DEXPERIENCE Works, who drove onto the stage in a classic Shelby Cobra that retrofitted to be a fully electric car. GP reminded the crowd of 4,700 attendees from over 30 countries that 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of this event. Next up we welcomed Bernard Charles, Dassault Systemes Executive Chairman of the
February is a big month for SOLIDWORKS users, with 3DEXPERIENCE World taking place in Dallas, Texas next week. Plus, today we launch the latest updates for our cloud-connected and browser-based design roles. The latest functional delivery (FD) release, R2024x FD01 is packed with user experience and performance enhancements for 3D Creator, 3D Sculptor and Manufacturing Definition Creator. Enhancements include a new command search to easily find commands, the ability to document holes with a
My name is Kirby Downey. I am a Senior Production Technician at 3DPRINTUK. I am a maker, a creator in my spare time, and also a SOLIDWORKS User Group Leader and a SOLIDWORKS champion. These last two titles I have 3DEXPERIENCE World to thank, because if I didn’t attend these events since 2017, then I would not be so involved with the SOLIDWORKS community.
In this blog series I initially posed the question: why are we still using 2D drawings in a digital world where 3D data is the primary source of communication? In part one I explored the use of 2D drawings and 3D models, the benefits of each in modern-day engineering and manufacturing, and how companies can implement both 2D and model-based definition (MBD) workflows in part two. In part three here, I want to discuss how the Manufacturing Definition Creator role and its xDrawing app can address
November is here and so is SOLIDWORKS 2024 with all the latest releases and updates, including 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS R2024x GA (general availability). There’s much to be excited about in this release, including the long-awaited and heavily applauded Insert Assembly into Part capability, featured at 3DEXPERIENCE World in February. Previous Release Compatibility is here too, which enables you to work with colleagues and stakeholders who have an older version of SOLIDWORKS as you can save your
Every year as the leaves start to turn, my thoughts turn to 3DEXPERIENCE World. The biggest and best user Design to Manufacturing show, 3DEXPERIENCE World (or World) delivers like no other. Its three days of intensive of gathering industry information, learning about new products and processes, and most importantly on networking and making connections. World is about connecting people to people, people to answers, and people to possibilities.
Every year at 3DEXPERIENCE World, the thing we look most forward to is meeting our users face to face. Certainly one of our favorites this year was meeting Eric Timmons, an engineer and SOLIDWORKS user, and his wife, Erika, who together created a 28-video series for Black History Month, featuring many black engineers and some of their many historic accomplishments in engineering. The couple owns two companies: Black Hand Design, an industrial and mechanical design firm, and E5Productions, a
When it comes to verifying and visualizing how your product is going to behave in the real world, having the right technology is crucial. 3D Motion Creator is your go-to tool for applying motion studies to your models. With each release we focus on enhancing the user experience to improve workflows and provide the best tools to understand the behavior of any product. In the latest release, R2023x FD02, we’ve added several visualization enhancements so you can better analyze and fully understand
At SOLIDWORKS, we are honored to have so many long-time SOLIDWORKS users who are always ready and willing to lend a hand to other users so they can continue to grow and succeed. It is for this reason that we started this blog series to shine the light on a few of these tireless SOLIDWORKS Superheroes. Our first feature in this series was an interview with the man who seems to sleep fast so he can get back to work and help SOLIDWORKS users around the world: Eric Beatty. You can read that blog
Did you miss the episode of SOLIDWORKS Live Design on April 14th? Well if so, we have good news for you! You can now watch this episode on-demand to hear our cohosts, Brad Williamson and Sean O’Neill, as they explain more about the exciting changes coming in July. Let’s take a step back and refresh everyone about the announcement we made back at 3DEXPERIENCE World in February.
Now that we’re all back in the real world after a whirlwind trip to Nashville for 3DEXPERIENCE World, we can take what we’ve learned and put it into action. Hopefully you caught one of my sessions on 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, but hopefully you did not catch me and my silly moves on the dance floor. Though I really did enjoy the line dancing. Since we were all wrapped up at World mid-February you may not know that we also announced the latest update, R2023x FD01, for 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS.
Inquiring minds want to know what would it mean if you had more time for design? Last fall we had a chance to engage with some of our SOLIDWORKS users to try to better understand the challenges many of you are experiencing during your workday – where you are getting bogged down by low-value tasks, and even more importantly, what it would mean if we could wave a magic wand, and lighten your load so you actually have more time for design work.
Over the last several years our lives have changed significantly and abruptly. We all collectively fully understand the realities of not being together as a result of pandemic-related changes. How we live and work, has changed forever. A lot of us pivoted to remote work, adapting to new ways of engaging with our respective teams and finding best practices to remain productive.
SOLIDWORKS LIVE has been dedicated to showcasing the best of our software use cases and, inherently, our user community for years now. Over the past several months, we’ve put 1+ hours each into doing both of those things within subject areas like design, simulation, data management, manufacturing, and more! But, particularly for those four areas, we did our best to deliver an instructive, compelling episode for each key CAD/CAE software domain listed. This blog is a round-up of sorts, cataloging
Thanks to you, our customers, the SOLIDWORKS® browser-based roles are continually progressing to be a powerful toolset. The roles are purpose-built for your needs and include parametric modeling, subdivision (Sub-D) modeling and much more. In addition, since they run on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, you also get built-in data management and collaboration capabilities that benefit the whole team. I recommend getting your hands on as many as possible and I encourage you to look at the SOLIDWORKS
Perception Engineering provides contract mechanical design services that include machine design, manufacturing support, new product development, and complex automation systems development to provide customer on-site and off-site support. Founded in 2013 and located in Allandale, Michigan, Perception Engineering leverages its highly trained engineers from diverse backgrounds that band together and solve almost any design and manufacturing problem for its clients. When President Stephen Wierenga
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,
Finsterle GmbH is a SOLIDWORKS® customer located in Dürmentingen, in southern Germany. The company serves customers in mechanical and plant engineering and special vehicle and crane construction. It delivers several manufacturing services, including welding structures and assemblies made of steel, machining, painting, assembly, and more. For most manufacturing companies, a successful product development process demands regular collaboration among all stakeholders, including internal departments
Nothing creates more excitement among our passionate users than the annual release of our flagship SOLIDWORKS software, and this year will certainly be no different. That is because SOLIDWORKS 2023 offers new features and enhancements that will help our users work smarter, faster and together. You can learn all about this exciting new release here but we asked SOLIDWORKS CEO Manish Kumar to break it down and focus on the new enhancements he thinks will generate the most excitement among our
The summer release of Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS just hit the cloud so to speak and I’m pumped to share the latest enhancements with you. Here’s a look at what’s new to help you stay organized, find information quickly, collaborate and more. New Revision Comment Property – simplify your searches and access the most recent information quickly. Administrators now have the option to map a revision comment as a CAD attribute and link it to a SOLIDWORKS® file on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
We are excited to announce that SOLIDWORKS® 2023 Beta is live and you can now preview what’s new in this release. Rendering done in SOLIDWORKS by Mecalac. The SOLIDWORKS Beta program gives subscription customers and professional partners early access to the next major release of SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS 2023 contains user-driven enhancements that help streamline and accelerate your product development processes from concept to manufacturing.
