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What was previously called SolidWorks World is now 3DEXPERIENCE World, a name change that will take some time for SolidWorks devotees to adjust to. (SolidWorks World was last held in 2019.) 3DEX World 2021 came online last week as a three-day virtual conference, offering a mix of keynotes, technical sessions, and customer stories. In rebranding of the conference to 3DEX…
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…design, energy and other industries, GoEngineer provides best-in-class design solutions from SOLIDWORKS CAD, Stratasys and Desktop Metal 3D printing, Creaform 3D scanning, CAMWorks, PLM and more. GoLive is a registered service mark of GoEngineer, Inc
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…according to 3D Systems. At SolidWorks World in February 2018, 3D printer maker Desktop Metal introduced its generative design software, dubbed Live Parts. It was a software borne out of necessity. The hardware maker felt existing modeling tools didn’t meet the design needs of its hardware users, and was prompted to develop its own offering. “We feel it’s important that…
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SOLIDWORKS 2021 The popular mechanical program SOLIDWORKS is now in version 2021. Among the highlights are the ability to save defeatured or simplified components as a configuration, so you can toggle between the defeatured version and the original detailed version. It also comes with better handling of small gaps in mesh models in simulation, and fillet along nonplanar surfaces in…
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…Systèmes, the parent company of SolidWorks, launched its ecommerce platform 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace, the company said, “Our ambition is nothing shy of transforming the industrial world similar to the way companies like Amazon transformed the retail sector.” Dassault Systèmes is certainly not the first to aspire to become an Amazon-like entity for manufacturing. Although the company has a long history in…
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…applications such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks take advantage of real-time rendering, but new uses for CAD and simulation data are popping up, including virtual reality (VR) review sessions. These changes are fundamentally rewriting business plans as well as engineering workflows. For example, software vendor Luxion has specialized in rendering technology for product design since 2003. Its primary product is KeyShot,…
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…support for 3D printing of SolidWorks Assemblies, the CAMWorks ShopFloor product, intelligent probing functionality and automatic tab machining. With Version 2020, the CAMWorks Additive Manufacturing module, powered by Materialise, has extended 3D printing functionality to SolidWorks Assemblies. Multiple parts from the same assembly or different assemblies can be nested onto the build platform, which saves time and increases efficiency, and…
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…senior product portfolio manager for SolidWorks Visualization at Dassault Systèmes. The first is the existing use case of GPUs for speed of rendering and fidelity of modeling tasks (draw, edit, zoom, pan, rotate). SolidWorks and several other CAD or image processing software products have added support for NVIDIA’s new AI-based denoising technology, which reduces the “grainy” look in images. Dassault…
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…may be familiar to some SolidWorks users, as the company has a plug-in that lets SolidWorks MCAD software users directly submit files, get quotes, and order parts from their modeling software. Plethora, an on-demand CNC service provider, also works similarly, through a CAD plug-in compatible with SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge, and NX. Such plug-ins make the submission and part…
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…in polyline format over to SolidWorks or other CAD/CAM applications. Other features in Artec Studio 14 include 3D modeling capabilities, such as Glare Removal, which uses advanced PBR (Physically Based Rendering) algorithms to produce uniform colored surfaces, as well as Bridges, a feature that lets users organically mend and repair holes and gaps in scans using existing scan geometry. “The…
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…through its website. But for SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor users, there’s an option to use Xometry’s CAD plug-in. Once downloaded and installed, the Xometry plug-in functions as a quote engine inside the CAD program that’s available for you to instantly submit the part for manufacturing analysis and get a cost estimate. “With the plug-in, we can give you the feedback…
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…as an add-in application for SolidWorks, a computer-aided design (CAD) program. ESPRIT Additive for Powder Bed Fusion is compatible with any file supported by SolidWorks. One standout feature of the new software is the patented Part-to-Build When preparing a part for manufacturing, the program automatically assigns exposure strategies based on simple inputs from the user. ESPRIT Additive for Powder Bed…
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…mainstream CAD programs—Autodesk Fusion and SOLIDWORKS, to name but two—include some form of generative design or topology optimization tools. This allows the software to employ AI-like algorithms to identify the best shapes for the designer’s stated purpose, whether to reduce weight or to counterbalance the anticipated stress (usually it’s a combination of both). But what’s far more subtle is the…
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…a pre- release version of SolidWorks was stolen. The culprit, Shekhar Verma, was a former employee of an outsourced contractor in India. He was eventually apprehended when he attempted to sell the code to an undercover federal agent from India. (“At Risk Offshore,” Michael Fitzgerald, Computerworld, November 2003, ComputerWorld.com.) It was long before the rise of software-as-a-service and virtual desktop…
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…and made it easier for SOLIDWORKS users to print on PolyJet because the design intent details are immediately available in GrabCAD.” At 3DEXPERIENCE World, Stratasys also announced that body appearance, surface data, and texture information could be specified in SOLIDWORKS and then sent directly into GrabCAD for printing. The J826 3D Printer features a maximum build volume size of 10-in.…
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