SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Understanding Plastic Part Design
Join us as we breakdown the entire lifecycle of a unique project—showcasing all the ways SOLIDWORKS helped bring it to life quickly and efficiently—offering key insights into how the SOLIDWORKS Design-to-Manufacturing solution can do the same for you.
... ContinuedGo Beyond the Surface on the Concept to Consumer Tour
Join us as we breakdown the entire lifecycle of a unique project—showcasing all the ways SOLIDWORKS helped bring it to life quickly and efficiently—offering key insights into how the SOLIDWORKS Design to Manufacturing solution can do the same for you.
... ContinuedLive Event: Leveraging Smart Data for Optimal Plastic Part Design & Manufacturability
Looking for plastic part design tips? Don’t miss this live two-hour interactive town hall event, with guest speaker & industry expert Andy Routsis.
... ContinuedHow to Design Plastic Parts with Intent
Learn why closer communication between product designer and mold designer is the answer to time-to-market improvements in the design of plastic parts.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Plastics eCourse Now Available at MySolidWorks
This course guides you through the process of simulating the injection molding process early in the design stages.
... ContinuedHow to Replace Metal with Thermoplastics
Replacing your metal parts with plastic parts can increase flexibility of manufacture, speed production cycle times, and increase cost-effectiveness.
... ContinuedMIT Students Take Innovative New Product from Dorm Room to Market in Record Time
Read how two MIT students put SOLIDWORKS to the test of designing and building an innovative new way to keep on-the-go coffee hot longer.
... ContinuedSimplify the Material Selection Process When 3D Printing Plastic Parts
Learn the best way to choose which plastic material to use when 3D printing your parts.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Plastics At The Beach
The beach is a great place to reflect on eternal questions, like can my part design be injection molded, and is the resulting part acceptable? With SOLIDWORKS Plastics you won’t have to reflect long.
... ContinuedIt Came from the Injection Molding Machine!
Never let something spooky emerge from the injection molding machine again!
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2017
The process of designing plastic parts has always been one fraught with anxiety. Get it wrong and you might end up with an extremely expensive paperweight and a very angry boss. Take the guesswork out of designing plastic parts by
... ContinuedPut an End to Plastic Part Problems by Answering Three Questions
Watch the video and learn how you can identify and correct plastic part design problems before they happen.
... ContinuedAdd University-Validated Injection Molding Simulation to Your Workflow
Lighter parts. Less scrap. More affordable materials. Greater design flexibility. These are some of the reasons why manufacturers are increasingly using plastics materials for new products and why the use of injection-molding manufacturing processes has expanded every year for the
... ContinuedPut an end to injection-molding nightmares
It’s funny to think about how your nightmares and fears evolve as you age. The days of the boogeyman and things that go bump in the night have evolved to concerns for missed deadlines and last-minute changes. Nightmares become much
... ContinuedWaters Model-Based Definition – A Cultural and Technological Challenge
The story of Model-Based Definition (MBD) at Waters actually began 20 years ago, long before we had SOLIDWORKS. Back then, using a different CAD system, we set out to integrate 3D annotations into our engineering design processes. As part of
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