NESTING OF NATIVE OR IMPORTED CAD MODELS IN SOLIDWORKS

LOGOPRESS

LOGOPRESS is a die design software, which automates a variety of processes, including Blanking, Strip layout, Nesting, Tool design, and drawings in addition to unbending and flattening even "Complex" parts. This included LOGOPRESS die simulation even allowing the die to simulate the tool positioning and interference checked during the operation in the press.
With a Gold-certified SOLIDWORKS Partner Product, LOGOPRESS work as an Add-in inside SOLIDWORKS so you can use the power of 3D modeling capabilities to speed up the design process.

BLANK FLATTEN

LOGOPRESS BLANK Flatten option allows us to quickly and easily predict the theoretical blank of 3D-formed parts. The Finite Element Analysis includes minimizes the development time in the press.
Therefore, we can Flatten our models in the following FEA conditions including Blank Prediction, Meshing, Thickness Variation, Stress & Strain Results, Bounding Box Info and Contour points mapping. This mesh is fully automatic but its size can also be adjusted if the user wishes to do so. There is no need to be a mechanical engineer with finite element analysis skills to handle the LOGOPRESS BLANK module because it is very user-friendly.
 LOGOPRESS BLANK can also be used to flatten various applications, such as Aerospace, Leather (Shoes) Composites, cloth, plastics, adhesives, leather, inflatable objects, packaging & Shipbuilding. Note: Native SOLIDWORKS models as well as imported models can be used.

Key functions:

• Manage native and/or imported data
• Manage solids and surfaces
• Material thickness management
• Customizable material database
• Choice of the "stamping starting area"
• Allow defining pinched/locked areas
• Thinning and thickening information
• Stress and strain information

LOGOPRESS NEST

In the manufacturing industry, nesting refers to the process of laying out cutting patterns to minimize raw material waste. It automates the calculation of the ideal distribution of the cutting patterns to avoid waste. The process involves the analysis of the parts to be produced at a particular time. This has the advantage of minimizing tool movement for Sheetmetal products and maximizing how many pieces can be fabricated in one session.

LOGOPRESS Nest is completely integrated with SOLIDWORKS which is quick, and simple to use. Either a multibody component file that was made in SOLIDWORKS or that was imported from another CAD system or an individual SOLIDWORKS Part or Assembly file can be easily Nested after setting some logical parameters that allow extreme flexibility it will quickly nest the parts per the options that you set.

Key functions:

• Multiple nesting options and strategies included
• Supports either multibody parts or parts within an assembly
• Set sheet size to nest on or set only width
• Angular control of parts
• Option to allow parts to flip upside down
• Flexibility in setting clearances between parts
• Ability to set quantities for each individual part
• Automatic report generation

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3DEXPERIENCE BROWSER BASED CAD (Part 2) - xShape

What is 3D Sculptor - xShape?

3D Sculptor - xShape, a 3D subdivision modeling solution that is browser-based and enables industrial designers, engineers, and artists to create stylized ergonomically or organically shaped models faster and more easily than traditional parametric tools.

Intuitive cloud-based modeling solution to design 3D organic shapes easily and quickly.

Seamless interchange of design data with the parametric workflows of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD with subdivision modeling capabilities.

It is built on the cloud-based Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Rapid iteration on design solutions and real-time collaboration help your organization deliver innovative products to market faster to Accelerate your design process.

3D Sculptor Sub-D modeling has xShape application that features:

• Using intuitive push-pull interaction, quickly create complex surfaces.

• Create 3D surface geometry Use images and sketches as a guide.

• Convert subdivision surfaces to NURBS (Non-uniform rotational b-spline) geometry automatically.

• Switch between conceptual modeling and detailed modeling environments and eliminate the need for rework Seamlessly.

• Make changes to the shape of product design at any point in the development cycle without the need for remodeling. 

• Eliminate the necessity to plan your assembly structure upfront. 

• Single modeling environment to make model changes at any time in parts and assemblies.

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What's New in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2022

 What is SOLIDWORKS Electrical?

SOLIDWORKS® Electrical software helps simplify electrical schematic creation with an intuitive interface for faster design of embedded electrical systems, including power systems, user controls, complex wiring, and harnesses.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Solutions

The suite of SOLIDWORKS solutions for electrical/mechanical design and integration help design engineers reduce the risks inherent in innovation and get their products to market faster with less physical prototyping to reduce costs. With a consistent, powerful, intuitive set of design capabilities, all fully integrated with SOLIDWORKS, designers can establish an integrated design early in the process and avoid costly rework. Take your first look at SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2022 Highlights below:

 

SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2022 Highlights

· Faster 3D electrical routing: Accelerate electrical design creation and design changes.

o Significantly accelerate the routing of 3D wires, cables, and harnesses in your machine or product.

o Try more design ideas during the design cycle with faster route creation.

· Improved performance with large electrical projects: Save time when working with large electrical projects.

o Speed up commonly used operations such as copy, paste, delete, and undo.

o Make design changes from schematic to 3D faster.

Create large electrical projects more quickly

o Speed up commonly used operations such as copy, paste, delete, and undo.

o Make design changes from schematic to 3D faster.

o Create large electrical projects more quickly.

· Increased performance in multiuser electrical design environments: Increase productivity with better collaboration among concurrent users.

o Enable faster operations for multiuser groups doing concurrent electrical design.

o Make data sharing and collaboration between multiple users easier.

· Enhancement to the Electrical Content Portal (ECP): Create electrical designs faster with streamlined sourcing of electrical content.

o ECP is now included in the Task Pane of SOLIDWORKS Electrical, making it easier to access.

o Search for electrical content directly from inside SOLIDWORKS Electrical.

· Improved navigation in electrical reports: Improve design quality with easy navigation of your electrical project documentation.

o Enable multiple hyperlinks per report cell.

o Link electrical reports to component datasheets.

· Enhanced harness flattening documentation: Improve product quality through more complete documentation and quicker access to component reference documents.

o Select the main segments of a harness route in 3D to guide the flattening process.

o Simplify the organization of harness documentation by targeting the trunk line.

· Improved documentation of harness and cable designs with shared electrical connectors: Enjoy greater flexibility in documenting electrical harness and cable designs.

o Include external connectors that are shared but outside of the electrical route.

o Include external connector information in documentation tables such as circuit summary tables and connector tables.

o Add block views of external connectors on harness board drawings.

· Support for back shells: Improve design quality through a more complete 3D      representation of the overall design.

o Use both straight and angled back shells in your electrical route design.

o Create the route and then add, rotate, or change back shells as needed.

· Enhanced 2D documentation of backshells in electrical designs: Enjoy more complete and more flexible documentation of electrical designs.

o Include straight or angled backshells in harness board drawings.

o Include views of angled backshells in flattened harness views.

· Refinements to bend radius control: Improve design quality through a more realistic 3D representation of electrical routes.

o Avoid bend radius errors with automated routing of wire, cable, and harnesses in 3D.

o Create more robust 3D routing when using limited electrical guide path sketches.

· Links in BOMs: In BOMs, you can manage links in a merged cell, for example, when several components use the same manufacturer part.

· Add Data Files in the Export PDF: If you attach PDF files to the project as data files, you can export them in the exported PDF file.

· Testing the Query in the Expert Mode: When you edit report configurations in Expert mode, Test fully query includes the sort conditions and filters.

· Displaying ERP Data in the Manufacturer Parts Manager: If you connect the ERP data, you can display it in the Manufacturer Parts Manager.

· Including Data Sheets in Exported PDFs: You can include the datasheets associated with the manufacturer parts in exported PDF files.

· Displaying Break Condition in Report Manager: In the Report Manager, you can display a Break condition column that shows the field in which you have created the break condition.

· User Interface Redesign: The user interface is enhanced to be more ergonomic and user-friendly.

· Attribute in Origin – Destination Arrows: In the Origin – Destination arrows feature, the attribute #P_CONNECTED_0 lets you display the mark of the components connected through the arrows.

Displaying All the Wire Numbers on the Middle of the Line: When you number the wires, you can select a specific mode allowing you to display the wire number on the middle of the line segment.

· Connection Point Creation Enhancements: Connection points (C-Points) let you connect wires or cables with connectors. Now available inside the Routing Options, no need to open Routing Library Manager to Create C-Points. 

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Thermal Stress Effect On Heat Treatment Baskets

Quenching is a process I which metal components are heated below the melting temperature and suddenly cooled in water, due to heating and sudden cooling the molecular structure will be changed, as the molecular structure changes there will be an increase in load with standing capacity etc.

Not only quenching, also process like heat treatment of components are done in industries which manufacture gears as shown in Fig: 1

 

Industries uses this process for strengthening the product, we uses different heat treatment basket for small components for batch process as shown in Fig: 2.

Different designs of baskets are used for different industry, when the components are heat treated then the baskets are also heated, upon repeated heating and cooling of the basket the life of the basket will decrease due to that there will be more scrap or rework on basket, which is an loss to the company, also there can be chance of shape change due to the internal thermal stress produced in the basket.

So to overcome these difficulties SolidWorks 2020, introduced a module Thermal Loads for Beams, where temperature can be given as an input to the beam or to joint, depending on the type of input like heat flux, heat power etc., can be defined accordingly to the beam or joints as in the Fig: 3.

We design a basket using weldments in Solidworks2020 as shown Fig: 4 with material properties are aluminum (1060 alloy) as shown in Fig: 5

Using these design and material properties, we had run an Thermal simulation, in the real life scenario the basket is kept in an heating chamber for heat treatment, so to provide the actual condition, radiation effect was given to the beam, the image shown in Fig: 6, displays how the radiation effect.

 Due to the thermal radiation there will be an internal stress produced inside the beam, these stress are called internal thermal stress, due to these there will be an expansion in the members. To check displacement value and location a static study was done with giving the base as fixed and providing thermal results as the input data, by running the study the displacement result is as shown Fig: 7.

 There are more internal stress produced at top corner as shown in Fig: 7 and the displacement is 4.54mm which is actually small, which indicates the members will not fail due to the thermal stress.

 By using SolidWorks 2020 we found the thermal internal stress produced on the beams, so that there will not be more rework on the basket to the company, as the elongation is small with in the temperature range, these can be found out in prier using SolidWorks Simulation.

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