{"id":22823,"date":"2014-09-04T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=22823"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:57:14","slug":"sneak-peek-15-features-coming-in-solidworks-2015-flatten-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/09\/sneak-peek-15-features-coming-in-solidworks-2015-flatten-surface.html","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peek: 15 Features coming in SOLIDWORKS 2015 &#8211; Flatten Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/launch?scid=sm_bl_launch15_15features_09042014\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22925 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SW-2015-Bookmark-Now-961x250-615x159.jpg\" alt=\"SW 2015 Bookmark Now 961x250\" width=\"615\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SW-2015-Bookmark-Now-961x250-615x159.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SW-2015-Bookmark-Now-961x250-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SW-2015-Bookmark-Now-961x250-120x31.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SW-2015-Bookmark-Now-961x250.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year SOLIDWORKS releases a new version of its flagship product. This year, during the 15 days prior to the release of SOLIDWORKS 2015 we&#8217;re taking a look at 15 of our favorite\u00a0new features coming in this feature packed release. To learn more about SOLIDWORKS 2015, you can click\u00a0the banner above\u00a0and bookmark the launch page for when it goes live on <strong>September 9th, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Flatten_surface1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23224\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Flatten_surface1-615x345.png\" alt=\"Flatten_surface1\" width=\"615\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Flatten_surface1-615x345.png 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Flatten_surface1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Flatten_surface1-120x67.png 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Flatten_surface1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Users have long asked for the ability to <strong>Flatten Surfaces<\/strong> in SOLIDWORKS. \u00a0This exciting new feature, which is now available in SOLIDWORKS 2015\u00a0enables a more streamlined manufacturing process for products such as footwear, apparel, and even hull design in shipbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>Flatten Surface allows multiple connected surfaces to be flattened in one operation. To assess the accuracy of the flattening process, a deformation plot is also available to highlight areas of high compression or stretching. And of course, SOLIDWORKS gives you the option to output directly to DXF\/DWG file format. \u00a0This is great if you want to send this to\u00a0your nesting program or CNC router!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see more of the 15 Features coming in SOLIDWORKS 2015 blog series, you can check in on the <a title=\"Sneak Peek: 15 Features coming in SOLIDWORKS 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/08\/sneak-peek-15-favorite-features-of-solidworks-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>announcement post from August 22, 2014<\/strong><\/a> where we will be updating and adding links to each of these posts as they go live.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you would like to learn more about SOLIDWORKS, you can fill out the information below to <strong>have a SOLIDWORKS employee contact you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/pages\/blog-Form.cfm\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year SOLIDWORKS releases a new version of its flagship product. This year, during the 15 days prior to the release of SOLIDWORKS 2015 we&#8217;re taking a look at 15 of our favorite\u00a0new features coming in this feature packed release.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/09\/sneak-peek-15-features-coming-in-solidworks-2015-flatten-surface.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":23224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,18,1491],"tags":[1600,343,2089,430],"class_list":["post-22823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sneak-peek","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-2015","tag-flatten-surface","tag-parts","tag-solidworks-2015","tag-whats-new"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}