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Stratasys recently released a new ABS-CF10 Carbon Fiber Composite 3D printing material for their F123 Series FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) 3D printers. The F123 Series has made advanced prototyping capabilities easily accessible to engineers, designers, notable for its ease of use, consistency, repeatability, and producing high-quality parts.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software is a solid investment. It can help keep your data under control, eliminate repetitive work, and further improve your product development process. In this article, we list six ways you can maximize your investment and save on future seats.
Analyze. Evaluate. Check. Compare. These are all words used to describe digging further into our designs to not only verify the functional needs of its intended use but also its manufacturability and cost to manufacture. In terms of SOLIDWORKS, I have grouped the tools available to assess manufacturability and cost to manufacture into four categories: utilities, DFMXpress, Evaluation tools, and Costing.
If SOLIDWORKS Visualize crashes when opening new or existing projects or hangs while initializing at startup, the software may be trying to use the machine’s integrated graphics card instead of the high-performance card. This guide covers the steps needed to resolve this issue.
Creaform, a leader in handheld and portable metrology-grade 3D scanners, recently introduced a new series to their HandySCAN product line: the SILVER Series. The SILVER Series features two new models: the HandySCAN 307 and the HandySCAN 700. Learn more about these brand new products from Creaform here.
Most SOLIDWORKS PDM users are familiar with and use the version history comment section when checking in a file. However, have you ever written a comment, checked your file in, and later realized you wanted to change your version comment? This may only occur in rare instances, but many organizations rely on the validity and accuracy of these version comments when it comes to the evolution of their files.
Gauss points are the points within each SOLIDWORKS Simulation element where the actual analysis happens. These are the points where the stress and strain outputs of SOLIDWORKS Simulation are calculated. SOLIDWORKS Simulation users can see nodal and element value plots by right-clicking on the plot of his/her choice then clicking edit definition. In the Advancearand Options, you will see node value and element value options.
In Excel, Conditional Formatting can be used to customize a SOLIDWORKS Inspection report template to highlight values that are within the determined specifications with a certain color (typically green). This formatting can also show values that fall out of the specified range in red or another color.
As a designer, I would regularly work on a part file with multiple SOLIDWORKS configurations and would need to get a particular configuration exported to STEP for manufacturing. I also wanted another version to send to the customer, but only the model with the features they requested. To do this, we need to ensure that only the active configuration information is saved into a completely new part.