SOLIDWORKS 2016 Beta is Now Live
Are you a customer with active commercial SOLIDWORKS subscription services? If so, we have a mission for you. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to use your power as a valued SOLIDWORKS user to impact the quality, performance
... ContinuedA Friday SWUGN Wrap-up
The crowd was a little smaller than we had hoped at the SWUGN Summit – St. Louis this week, but the attendees that were able to attend were treated to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Short: MBD User Success Stories
Model Based Definition (MBD) has helped companies like Boeing, Toyota and the Navy, Viecelli Moveis cut scrap and rework and reduce fabrication time by cutting out the creation of 2D drawings. Oboe Wu, Product Manager for SOLIDWORKS MBD discusses customer successes
... ContinuedDiscover Your Next Engineering Skill at a Local Maker Space
In the distant past, if you needed to purchase furniture or a blanket, you or someone you knew would make it. Now it’s much simpler to buy anything you want online. It’s easier, yes, but many have found one-click shopping
... ContinuedSharpen your engineering team’s skills with SOLIDWORKS Certification
SOLIDWORKS is known for its ease of use and how easy it is to learn. For those who choose to excel in the software, SOLIDWORKS Certifications provide a way for those individuals to stand out among other designers or engineers.
... ContinuedOxyArm: Engineering a Medical First with Durability Testing
This is part three of a multi-part series covering how medical device firm Southmedic used virtual simulation technology to bring OxyArm, the first open oxygen delivery system, to market. In part one, we covered how flow simulation was used to
... ContinuedRealistic renderings bring your design to life…
As a dyed in the wool engineer why should I render my designs? Surely everyone can see how great they are using standard materials. But let’s face it they can’t, so if you are ready to share your great new
... ContinuedLondon to Liverpool
I spent last week in England and attended two very good SOLIDWORKS User Group meetings, managed to navigate the London underground system, and took a hair raising ride to Heathrow airport on Friday. All in all a very good trip.
... ContinuedHow to Make Friends and Get Certified This Summer, For Free
As a SOLIDWORKS user, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the SOLIDWORKS User Group Network (or SWUGN for short). Many of you attend meetings, go to your local user group events, or have even started your own group! (Well
... ContinuedJurassic World Meets SIMULIA!
Anyone who jumped out of a theater seat while watching the original Jurassic Park movie knows that velociraptors were formidable predators. Luckily for us they lived 75 to 71 million years ago, so the chances of you bumping into one except on
... ContinuedThank you from SOLIDWORKS
Every year, we are eager to learn more about how you use SOLIDWORKS software and what we can do to help you innovate and design better products. When developing our software we follow one simple rule: You talk, we listen.
... ContinuedBorn to Design: The Disposable Rapid Diagnostic Test for Ebola
The 2014 Ebola epidemic was the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa and killing over 11,000 people. The Center of Disease Control and its partners worldwide are working to prevent future outbreaks, but these efforts are easier
... ContinuedStructural and Fluid Simulation for Oil & Gas Products
The design of oil and gas products presents many unique challenges. The first step for designers and engineers is to understand how an oil well works and how it is composed. In the figure below is a regular oil well.
... ContinuedWhere in the model tree am I? Breadcrumbs show the way.
For what seems like forever, the model tree (also called feature tree or history tree) has been used by SOLIDWORKS users as the main tool for understanding and making changes to a design. When designs are complex, the model tree
... Continued3D Printing and Injection Molding: Dynamic Duo Cuts Tooling Costs, Speeds Time to Market
The number of potential applications for 3D printing seems to grow on a daily basis. There’s almost nothing these additive manufacturing machines can’t build. They take nearly all traditional constraints out of the manufacturing equation, enabling the creation of products
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