Get your SOLIDWORKS Desktop Connected to 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

 Imagine how useful it would be if you could safely store and access your SOLIDWORKS data in the cloud, from anywhere in the world, using just a Login ID. Yes, 3DEXPERIENCE is an easy-to-use cloud-based platform that allows you to save your SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD designs securely to the cloud. It empowers business partners to collaborate in real-time and leverage their expertise to accelerate product development.

 The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

3DEXPERIENCE is a collaborative platform that enables businesses and individuals to innovate in entirely new ways and create products or services based on virtual experiences. It provides a real-time view of business activity by connecting people, ideas, and data. The platform offers curated roles for each department in an organization from Design, Simulation, Manufacturing, and Governance.

Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS

 

The Collaborative Designer role allows users to save SOLIDWORKS data and make real-time updates within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The collaborative designer role for SOLIDWORKS has the following apps

l Derived Format Converter

l Design with SOLIDWORKS

l Inspect with SOLIDWORKS Inspection

l Render with SOLIDWORKS Visualize

 

When a user navigates to the 3D Compass and clicks on the "Design with SOLIDWORKS" app, Desktop SOLIDWORKS is launched with an active 3DEXPERIENCE session accessible from the Task Pane. Any assembly or part file opened in SOLIDWORKS will appear in the 3DEXPERIENCE Task Pane with a status icon indicating that it has not yet been uploaded to the cloud. As soon as you click on the save active window, the data will be uploaded to the cloud.

When you save data to the cloud for the first time, a save to 3DEXPERIENCE dialog box appears, allowing users to select Bookmark to easily access data, make new revisions and add comments. The content in the dialog box can also be exported as spreadsheets.

 

As part of Life-cycle capabilities, the file can also be locked or unlocked to ensure that other individuals with access cannot edit it simultaneously. The users can create new revisions, new branches, change ownership, and change maturity states according to the assembly or part, such as Private, In-Progress, Frozen, Released, or Obsolete.

Change is inevitable. Effective change management improves an organization's ability to make sound decisions. It helps to boost productivity, reduce risks, and aids in increasing a company’s profitability. Viewing and accessing all assigned changes and tasks is one of the Change Action capabilities. "Work Under" is a way of documenting design changes, which is helpful for managers to review. A maturity state is not only applicable to data elements, but also to tasks, issues, and changes, all of which can be approved further.

This collaborative task management application allows you to manage, share, and assign tasks, access related content, estimate job duration and share comments. Bookmarks are available on the platform for organizing work into folders, sharing with teammates, and readily accessing content from any device. Bookmarks, as well as all other apps, features, and much more can be accessed through the mighty SOLIDWORKS Interface or Web Browser.

Key Merits

l Store your CAD data on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and make it available to all departments such as design, simulation, manufacturing, and governance, by integrating them into one unified platform.

l The 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows you to instantly review your tasks and work on the proposed change orders without leaving SOLIDWORKS.

l Enable key stakeholders to use your design data along with all available business data in the cloud

l With a web browser, you can find, view, share, annotate, discuss, and manage CAD and non-CAD data from anywhere, at any time, and on any device.

l Avoid rework and reduce errors as a result of working in disconnected groups.

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