Are you achieving the full financial benefits of your product Development efforts?
In today’s rapidly changing business environments, companies are constantly evaluating product development strategies on how to increase their competitive edge. In this screencast we invited Dr Colin Mynott to share best practices on all aspects of product development, how it
... ContinuedWho do you want to hear from?
Wow, no posts in a while. Things are busy around here, and I guess the rest of the crew and I haven't had much bloggin' time. I'll get to work on that. That said, I need to go out and
... ContinuedCombining loadcases in SolidWorks Simulation
I was asked today about the use of a SolidWorks simulation product called Pressure Vessel Design, as the name suggests, a tool used regularly in the design of pressure vessels. Typically there are a number of different loadcases on a
... ContinuedDo you know how to build an item-centric BOM and pass it intact to your ERP system?
Do you know how an item-centric approach can help link all CAD drawings to its finished products? How to combine all the information and build a complete product Bill Of Material? How to pass the BOM information to your ERP
... ContinuedInnovative Touch Screen Application!
Our Cambridge R&D team has just helped a team of Cambridge University students develop an innovative touch-screen design application recently by posing as the headache every developer faces eventually: a demanding and technically savvy client. The five-student team turned a
... ContinuedMass Participation Factor
When you want to perform a linear dynamic problem (small displacement analysis with linear elastic materials), the technique used in SolidWorks Simulation is called modal analysis and requires a frequency analysis to be run first. This inevitably requires you to
... ContinuedMeet Agent Kelly Frazier
While emailing back and forth with Colorado SolidWorks User Group leader Kelly Frazier today, she told me that she had passed the Patent Bar exam, making her officially a Registered Patent Agent. This license allows her to practice patent law
... ContinuedHow to manage File Custom Properties
I love tips and applications that make life easier… Here is one from our tech support team on how to manage File Customer properties. Just follow the steps and see how easy it is to create, update, delete Custom Properties
... ContinuedDimension This!
One of the enhancements in 2009 that I try to use more and more is the snappily titled “Enable on screen numeric input on entity creation…” or Add Dimension to you and me! Found in the system options under sketch,
... ContinuedCome On Get Happy
You can't often start a blog post with a thinly veiled reference to the Partridge Family – this should be fun. The next SWUGN Technical Summit event lands in what's known as Happy Valley on June 16th. The actual city is State
... ContinuedMeet Jeff Ray and Joe Nebolon in San Diego
If you're reading this blog, there's a better than average chance you're a SolidWorks user, and thus there is decent chance that you know who Jeff Ray is. I suspect that not many of you have heard of Joe Nebolon though. On
... ContinuedTop three Flow Tips
Here are three top tips for all you flow users out there. Use the Check Geometry command (Flow Simulation – Tools – Check Geometry…) to make sure there are no invalid contacts and that your fluid volume is greater than
... ContinuedInteresting Design Initiative…
Design Bugs Out: UK’s top designers and manufacturers to help control the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections by making hospital furniture and equipment easier and quicker to clean! Take a look at the winning design and prototypes! Share your thoughts!
... ContinuedSolidWorks 2009 Student Edition now available–featuring 64-bit support!
Here's some good news for student and educators out there. As of today, the new SolidWorks Student Edition software is available for sale. This edition is based on SolidWorks 2009, and now includes support for 64-bit operating systems. I get
... ContinuedWhat do I get out of it?
As part of my job I regularly get people telling me they want to use simulation for this or that, and it got me thinking, “what is the biggest benefit people get from using these tools?” Having a random dig
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