Archive for February, 2011

Solidworks has a wrap feature. This feature wraps a sketch onto a planar or nonplanar face. You can create a planar face from cylindrical, conical, or extruded models. You can also select a planar profile to add multiple, closed spline sketches.

The wrap feature supports contour selection and sketch reuse. You can project a wrap feature onto multiple faces. The sketch plane must be tangent to the face, allowing the face normal and the sketch normal to be parallel at the closest point.

While the the Split Line tool projects an entity (sketch, solid, surface, face, plane, or surface spline) to surfaces, or curved or planar faces. It divides a selected face into multiple separate faces. You can split curves on multiple bodies with one command.

Have you ever encountered a surface in solidworks that is deformed or not smooth enough? This usually happen when converting it into a different file format. Well I have a sample that needed some work because some faces are not the way they should be.

(See fig .1)

1. First we should identify what causes the surface to deform, like the tangency of the curves.

Fig. 1

2. After knowing the problem which is the tangency of the curve use before, we should now create a new curve.

As you can see in (fig. 2.1) the difference between the new curves form the old. You could use any of the “curves command” like composite curve or curve through points. After creating the curve you can now delete the surface to be replaced by using the command “Delete Face”.

3. Now that the curves are all done we can now create a new face. We can now do the other faces

4. You could do it in the half part so we could just mirror it and knit it.

• All done!

One of the feature of Solid works is the Photo View 360 the visualization and rendering solution, it is easy and lot of fun to work in rendering design parts to make it more realistic with greater accuracy and appeal than ever before that can used for client presentation. It’s a highly interactive environment for viewing designs as well as for creating photorealistic renderings that can use for showcasing designs. It’s as easy as applying the appearances and scenes just drag and drop it onto that part. To change the color, pick on the parts and go to the advanced tab of the material and pick the color in the color options quickly to get some great looking and very appealing images of the design.

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SolidWorks Standard

SolidWorks Standard has most of the functionalities of part and assembly modeling (such as 3D solid modeling, advanced surfacing, sheet metal, mold design, direct model modification, etc.), 2D drawings (such as dimensioning, annotation, international standards support, drawing compare, etc.), design reuse and validation (such as SolidWorks search, design automation, configurations, design library, 3D models from suppliers, etc.), animations and renderings (such as assembly animation and walk-through/fly-through animations), design validation and simulation (such as collision and interference detection, hole alignment checks, check manufacturability, fluid flow simulation, sustainability, and draft and undercut analysis), and collaborating and sharing (such as import/export, 3D for rapid prototyping, eDrawings, etc.). Some functionality was recently added to SolidWorks Standard 2011 such as the appearance functionalities (controls in PhotoView or PhotoWorks) and decals.

SolidWorks Professional

SolidWorks Professional has all the capabilities of SolidWorks Standard and additional functionalities such as standards checking for 2D drawings, standard component library and task scheduler for design reuse and validation, and eDrawings Professional for collaborating and sharing.

SolidWorks Premium

SolidWorks Premium has the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional plus additional features such as piping/tubing design and electrical cable/harness design for part and assembly modeling; flattened harness drawings for 2D drawings; tolerance and stack-up analysis, kinematic motion simulation, and structural validation for design validation and simulation; and importing scanned data for collaborating and sharing. Both SolidWorks Professional and SolidWorks Premium now have PhotoView 360 which serves as SolidWorks standard photorealistic rendering solution.

SolidWorks 2011 Enhancements

For SolidWorks 2011, there have been enhancements in assemblies (ex: fillets and chamfers), drawings and detailing (ex: dual unit support), enterprise PDM (ex: enterprise PDM menus), model display (ex: DisplayManager), parts and features (ex: defeature for parts), simulation (ex: new 2D simplification study), and weldments (ex: weld beads).

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References

• “3D Design Product Matrix.” SolidWorks. Dassault Systèmes, 2011. Web. 2 Feb. 2011.
• “What’s New: Highlights of SolidWorks 2011.” SolidWorks. Dassault Systèmes, 2011. 2 Feb 2011.

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