Author Archives: Peter Rucinski
Best Practices for Medical Device Design
While we might sometimes think many of the events that occur in our day-to-day lives are life-or-death situations – for example, “If I don’t get that presentation done my boss is going to kill me” or “If I don’t cut
... ContinuedTwo Must-Answer Questions When Developing a New Product
Two of the most important questions to ask when developing a new product are: can I make it and will it work? Developing a new product, especially those involving applications such as plastic parts that contain snap fits, can be
... ContinuedThe Cardinal Rules of Designing Injection Molded Plastic Parts
When designing injection molded plastic parts, here are some simple rules to follow that will help to ensure higher-quality parts that are easier to manufacture: Maintain Uniform Wall Thickness Maintaining uniform wall thickness is the single best design element you can
... ContinuedIntroducing the SolidWorks Plastics Dream Team
Munich, Germany Dream Team Hi – while you might have heard about the release of SolidWorks Plastics back in April of this year, you may not have heard about the SolidWorks Plastics "Dream Team" – the world's largest field organization
... Continued3DVIA Composer V6R2012 Rendering Enhancements, Visual Effects and HTML Publishing Options
For this blog post, I'd like to take a deeper dive into 3DVIA Composer V6R2012 and show you how to use some of the great new rendering enhancements, visual effects and HTML publishing options mentioned in my previous post. In
... ContinuedPromote Your Company and Products & Get More Value from Your SolidWorks Models
SolidWorks is currently looking for customer datasets (models/assemblies) that we can use to generate visual assets that can be used for marketing collateral, videos, blogs, web, SolidWorks World imagery, demos, packaging imagery, etc. What you might not know are the
... ContinuedCreate your best detailed views ever with the Digger!
Hi – this week I want to tell you about some more cool (but valuable) functionality in 3DVIA Composer – the Digger. The Digger is patented technology that allows you to quickly create sophisticated detailed views of your 3D models.
... ContinuedYou Saw it First Here – 3DVIA Composer V6R2012
In a slight departure from my normal blogging style, I'd like to take this opportunity to make an important announcement – the release of 3DVIA Composer V6R2012…and you can tell all your friends you saw it first here. 3DVIA Composer
... Continued3DVIA Composer Views & 3D Interactive Animations
One thing that continues to amaze me about 3DVIA Composer is how quickly you can create 3D interactive animations that can be used for training manufacturing personnel, assembly instructions, repair/maintenance procedures, etc. It's as simple as this: Import your 3D
... ContinuedI Hate Cool Technology!!!
Yes…it's true, but more appropriately I should say that I hate cool technology that's nothing more than cool. In other words, if technology does not add value in terms of time saved, decreased costs, reduced scrap, a healthier planet or even an improved quality of life, I'm just not that interested…but I don't really hate it 😉
And this might cause a dilemma for me because 3DVIA Composer is really, really cool. But even better, 3DVIA Composer is also extremely valuable. You might remember in my last blog I said how 3DVIA Composer was so easy to use even a plastics guy could do it? Well that's still true, and one of the things I'd like to tell you about this week is how easy it is to use 3DVIA Composer to create high resolution graphics for 2D-based assembly instructions, product guides and maintenance manuals.
... Continued3DVIA Composer: so easy, even a plastics guy can do it!
OK, I admit it – I’m a recovering plastics engineer. I was out with my daughter last weekend looking at new cars and… I said: This car smells funny. She said: That’s just the “new car smell.” I said: You
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