{"id":51956,"date":"2023-02-28T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=51956"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:46:01","slug":"getting-a-first-look-at-solidworks-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2023\/02\/getting-a-first-look-at-solidworks-2024.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting a First Look at SOLIDWORKS 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year at 3D<\/strong><\/a>EXPERIENCE World<\/a>, our 3DEXPERIENCE Works<\/a> technical marketing team performs a General Session demonstration that you don\u2019t want to miss. It\u2019s a software demo that’s also a movie and stage play, and we hope it entertains. After all, tech staff plus acting always go hand in mouse-hand, right? This year, our team wanted to take you on an epic to celebrate being back in person in Nashville. Did you see it this year? Platform Jones and the Lost Features<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Note: SOLIDWORKS 2024 features shown are a technology preview based on early specs, always check our latest official demos at www.solidworks.com\/whatsnew<\/a><\/p>\n

Warning: Spoilers below! First, I recommend you watch all three days of the movie<\/a><\/strong> + stage production.<\/p>\n

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Act 1 – Lost Code from Concord<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the first act, Platform Jones deftly escapes peril, and recovers a diskette of R&D code from the old SolidWorks Headquarters in Concord, MA. Unfortunately, Junior Designer II wasn\u2019t so lucky. It\u2019s too bad, because prior to his grievous injury, we saw his adroitness with his tablet and 3D Creator (xDesign), which is part of 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Offers. Available now, this is browser-based parametric CAD on any device, in this case a tablet. There\u2019s a lot to like about modeling in xDesign. All the usual parametric tools like Sketch, and you\u2019ll always be using the quick dimensions, and use them all over. Easily touch to add Fillet. A powerful Edit Entity, to convert sketch shapes. Powerful tools like Convert Entities. Print 3D analysis let\u2019s you visualize the layers and required support material based on my print settings.<\/p>\n

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After bringing the disk back to his office, Platform and his colleague Markup Brody analyzed the contents and found it to be genuine SOLIDWORKS code. They highlighted some good looking enhancements to core CAD that we\u2019ll likely see in SOLIDWORKS 2024:<\/p>\n

Instant Dimension<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new option in 2024 generates preview dimensions when sketching.\u00a0 You can select on the dimension to accept or overwrite the value on the fly:<\/p>\n

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Hole Wizard with Existing Sketch<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new option located on the position tab in the hole wizard feature lets you leverage completed sketches to locate the hole wizard locations.\u00a0 For sketches with multiple segments, such as a segmented circle, rectangle, polygon, etc., hole wizard instances can be skipped as needed:<\/p>\n

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Save As\u2026 Coordinate System<\/strong><\/p>\n

The default coordinate system can now be redefined when using the \u2018save as\u2019 based on pre-existing, user-defined coordinate systems.\u00a0 This capability introduces a much more streamlined approach when working with other CAD\/CAM systems:<\/p>\n

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Mate Reference Lock Rotation<\/strong><\/p>\n

When creating Mate References in 2024, a new option to automatically lock rotation for concentric mates has been introduced:<\/p>\n

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Insert Component Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n

When inserting a component into an assembly, you can now select the default behavior from three options: Fixed, Float, or Fixed at Origin.\u00a0 These options are invoked when you do not manually place a component (uses the green tick mark to accept the placement):<\/p>\n

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Mate Reference Name Matching<\/strong><\/p>\n

Named mate references will now behave much more predictably when matched names have been defined.\u00a0 If you run across multiple options, a dialogue will appear to let the user select which named mate references is intended to be used:<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, Platform and Markup were cut short in their demo as they reached the end of the code, and a missing library error pointing to a mysterious \u201cWell of Features\u201d folder on a USB drive belonging to Brenda Camwood.<\/p>\n

Act 2 – Enter Fileloq and Professor Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

As it turns out, Platform and Markup are already behind their old nemesis, Fileloq. He has just kidnapped Brenda on her way home from R&D Headquarters in France, demanding to know \u201ceverything that is to come in SOLIDWORKS ever!\u201d<\/p>\n

Platform and Markup use a 3DLean Board to visually plan their rescue mission and capture notes and actions during their stand up meeting:<\/p>\n

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Fileloq is clever yet stinky, felonious but well-dressed. Hey there\u2019s always tradeoffs in life, like design, right? The team should have subdued him a bit longer, because he overheard their plan and gets to Professor Jones first. Now, Platform, Markup, and Brenda will need to work together to now rescue Professor Jones, and continue their quest for the Well of Features.<\/p>\n

Act 3 – The Well of Features and the Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Platform Jones, Markup Brody, and Brenda Camwood are desperately searching for Professor Jones, or at least his 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE password, in order to finally track down the lost Well of Features. After remembering his childhood lessons in hexadecimal, Platform remembers that SOLIDWORKS starts with a 5\u2026 suddenly he\u2019s logged in to Professor Jones\u2019 3DDashboard, which is his entry point to 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE 2023x FD01, currently full commercial availability:<\/p>\n

Collaborative Industry Innovator<\/a> gives you 3D Play, a web app to view SOLIDWORKS data. In this case years of Model Mania and a half dozen complete customer data sets:<\/p>\n

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3D Sculptor<\/a> includes xShape, which is sub-D modeling in your browser. All faces are C2 continuous by default:<\/p>\n

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Structural Performance and Durability Engineer<\/a>\u00a0 including explicit dynamic analysis and general contact capabilities. The results are immediately shared in the web, for example of the Biodapt lower-limb orthotic device and crush test of a beverage can:<\/p>\n

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Electrical Schematic Designer<\/a> lets you design wiring with single-line diagrams and multi-line schematics, connected to the cloud:<\/p>\n

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Robot Programmer<\/a> and Factory Flow Simulation<\/a>, are connected to the cloud and enable the Virtual Twin of your factory and production lines:<\/p>\n

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Collaborative Industry Innovator<\/a> also includes Issues and Change Requests, created and tracked around your CAD data:<\/p>\n

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Project Planner<\/a> lets you plan and share Schedules, Tasks, Notes, and Attachments can include your CAD data:<\/p>\n

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The trio proceeds to travel to Nashville in their \u201cxTrUber,\u201d arriving at a generic office lobby. Soon they are face to face with the Guardian, who challenges Platform to a \u201chead-to-head demo.\u201d Armed with Markup\u2019s 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse and Brenda\u2019s USB drive, Platform bravely heads on stage. He and the Guardian trade back and forth demos of SOLIDWORKS 2024 projects. Here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n

Symmetric Linear Pattern<\/strong><\/p>\n

To complete the Rib design on this vent cover, a linear feature pattern would be perfect. Now in SOLIDWORKS 2024, there is an option for \u201cSymmetric,\u201d which creates bi-directional linear patterns with just one click:<\/p>\n

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Untrim Surface \u2018Exclude Parent Surface\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Untrim Surface has a new option which makes tasks like generating shut-off surfaces for mold design much quicker:<\/p>\n

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Revolve Cut \u2018Flip Side to Cut\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revolve Cut has a new \u201cFlip side to Cut\u201d option, which makes it handy to clean up an over-built design based on a profile to carve away everything outside your Sketch lines.<\/p>\n

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Structure Systems Corner Treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n

Structure Systems is the fastest way to build structures like this canopy. Corner treatments are much more streamlined with automatic corner grouping. Simple corners default to planar trim, and complex corners have much more sensible treatments from the start.<\/p>\n

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Custom Properties with Unit of Measure<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOLIDWORKS 2024 also improves custom properties (and cut lists and BOMs) with the choice to add Unit of Measurement.<\/p>\n

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Rules-Based Defeature<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before sharing a proprietary design model, you can create and save \u201cDefeaturing Rules.\u201d These are logical definitions based on properties like mass, build in-house or buy off-the-shelf.\u00a0 And, of course, save that work to a \u2018Defeatured\u2019 configuration within the same assembly.<\/p>\n

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Width Mate Flexible Selection<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Width Mate makes sense to mate this hitch component in place, but be aware of avoiding the classic Width Mate mistake \u2013 selecting faces in the incorrect order! Not in SOLIDWORKS 2024, just pick in any order you want and all four constraint options are available:<\/p>\n

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Underdefined Component Identification<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before freezing a physical product, it\u2019s a common practice to make sure all components are Fixed or Fully Defined. New in 2024, there\u2019s a minus signal when a folder contains underconstrained components. Also, Component Selection now includes \u2018Flexible Subassemblies,\u2019 which speeds up selecting and switching them all to Rigid.<\/p>\n

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Insert Assembly to Part<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOLIDWORKS 2024 has the ability to Insert Assembly into a Part. There\u2019s a lot of potential workflows with this one. For example, whipping up a quick fixture for a primary structural assembly. You won\u2019t affect anyone else\u2019s top level assembly by making your own part. And of course, since this is SOLIDWORKS, when the assembly updates so does the part.<\/p>\n

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And with that, the Guardian admits defeat — or at least equal, right? — and they proceed to the final challenge. Unfortunately, Fileloq wan\u2019t as tech savvy as he thought. Hopefully he learned two important lessons: the Cloud enables more capabilities than could ever fit on one disk, and there\u2019s an entire well of features available today to explore with 3D<\/strong><\/a>EXPERIENCE Works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let us know in the comments if you enjoyed the \u201cDon\u2019t Miss This Demo\u201d skit this year. What feature(s) are you most looking forward to? We hope you enjoyed a good dose of demos of 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE and SOLIDWORKS 2024, and most importantly, learned the value of being subscribed through 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE Works to get the updates before anyone else. I, for one, enjoyed the suspense and can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s in store next for our heroes.<\/p>\n

Check out this page for all our latest demos, www.solidworks.com\/whatsnew<\/a>. And be sure and keep an eye out later in the year for invitations to your local reseller\u2019s Q4 events that showcase our latest technology in SOLIDWORKS and beyond.<\/p>\n

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