Showing posts with label Solidworks 3d CAD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solidworks 3d CAD. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 July 2023

Linking Materials and Sheet Metal Parameters in SOLIDWORKS

Sheet Metal features in SOLIDWORKS have always been user-friendly. They’ve always been consistent. Also, whenever there is an enhancement to the core Sheet Metal Features, it’s always something useful.

Materials in Sheet Metal are extremely important. If you are choosing between building a part out of Aluminum or Stainless Steel – you aren’t just choosing a material. You’re choosing tooling, bend radius values, and a plethora of other design requirements that are unique to your company. SOLIDWORKS  now allows you to link typical Sheet Metal Parameters to any custom material, so you can use those parameters again and again.

To link a parameter to a Custom Material to a Sheet Metal part, all you have to do is edit that Material – and expand to the Sheet Metal tab.

When you assign a custom material to a sheet metal part, you can link the sheet metal parameters to the material. If you change the material, the sheet metal parameters also update.

To link materials and sheet metal parameters:

1. Open a sheet metal part.

2. In the Feature Manager design tree, right-click Material and click Edit Material.

3. In the dialog box:

a) Right-click Custom Materials and click New Category.

b) Right-click New Category and click New Material.

c) Set the custom material properties on each tab as required.

d) Click the Sheet Metal tab.

Options on this tab are available for custom materials only.

e) Select Thickness Range.

f) Click Add twice.

g) For each row in the table, set the following:

Thickness ranges must be continuous; there cannot be a gap in the range. For example, you cannot define a range from 0 to 3 and define the next range from 4 to 6 because the range between 3 and 4 is not covered.

h) Click Apply and Close.

                                                         *** Thanks for Reading ***

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

How SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD will be best solution provider for Pump Industries?

Introduction 
According to current statistics, the Indian Pump Industry is growing at a rate of 10% annually. The product we manufacture should be extremely reliable and cost effective. To maintain a good quality and reliability, no. of product failures must reduce. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD will provide you best solutions to increase business opportunity in the competitive global market.

Common Challenges
  • Reluctance in innovation to improve pump performance.
  • Pumps that are not ideally suiting require space area.
  • Prototyping cost and testing time is high.
  • Over-designing the product to handle large volume of waters.
  • Scrap and reworks is more.
  • Power consumption is not more when comparing to output value.
  • Product is not meeting the International demands and so on.
Observed Solutions through SOLIDWORKS
  • Multiple product designs and variable parameters can control within design stage itself. So that design time and development time can reduce.
  • Design Automation in SOLIDWORKS enables the user to work only on input values, not on design tools.
  • Any design changes can do then and there so that to avoid rework and material wastage.
  • Virtual Prototyping helps better evaluation and saves lot of money and time.
  • Optimize your design to achieve exact material allowances and save material and its cost.
  • Validations such as Flow analysis, Material analysis, performance analysis etc can be done to increase the efficiency of the product.
  • SOLIDWORKS enhance the user to innovate the product performance by analysing Flow rate, Manometric pressure, power efficiency of different design concepts.

 





Wednesday, 30 May 2018

How Material Handling Equipment Manufacturers can improve Business opportunity through SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD?

Whatever the product we manufacture, it should meet customer requirements. An important aspect should consider in order winning is not only to meet the customer requirements but also providence in taking care about the product quality. A good service and consistent quality keeps on customer satisfaction and fulfilment to the releasing orders now and then. Therefore, to achieve these two things is a difficult and challenging task for every engineers and entrepreneurs in this Business World. So, let we see how SOLIDWORKS will help you to do the right things in a right place at a right time.
 


Common Challenges
  • To make Mechanical design more efficient 
  • Ready to bring own ideas into concept but reluctance to implement 
  • Back to back project failures leads to high material cost & wastage 
  • More number of Prototypes takes more time to complete the project 
  • Prototype Cost is too high 
  • Manufacturing lead time is more. Therefore, Return on Investment [ROI] will be delay 
  • Project Development Cost is high since no proper documents are maintained
Here the proposed solution by SOLIDWORKS are,
  • Is there a lot of 2D drawings in your table? No worry about it. SOLIDWORKS has a productivity tool that converts 2D sketches to direct 3D model within a matter of minutes. 
  • Any detections in Assembly such as interference, collision, hole misalignment etc can be easily identify and rectify within a design stage so that the number of Prototype can be reduce 
  • Detail drawings can create with 100% accurate dimensions so that communication barrier can be avoid between design and manufacture team 
  • Accurate Bill of Material [BOM] can generate automatically so there is no need of manual work and hence error can be radically eliminated 
  • Associativity: What are the changes done in part design, it will automatically change in Assembly as well as in Drawing. Therefore, Product development time is consumed 
  • Hardware items such as Motor, Gear boxes, different country standard Tool Box items like Nuts, Bolts, Screws, Washers etc can easily access within the SOLIDWORKS Design Library
  • Manufacturing feasibility can be check within the design stage by simply specify the Machine Input parameters such as Hole Depth to Diameter ratio, hole area % (for Machined Component) and Flange thickness to Bend radius ratio (for Sheetmetal Component)
  • Costing shall be done (for Machined, Sheet metal, Casting, 3D Printing, Plastic components) in a Design stage itself. So that a quick response to Quotation and estimation of finish project can achieve very fast and accurate. 
  • The product we manufacture should withstand different circumstances. Product validation can be done in design stage so that we can test and check how it will work on real time scenario. This what SOLIDWORKS helps in reduces no. of prototypes and its cost. 
  • Is your project over designed? Does 3HP motor should require to lift a Load of 1000N? or 2HP Motor is enough to lift same load? SOLIDWORKS enables the manufacturer to select exact Motor specification to their applying loads with the help of graphical charts. 


 





Tuesday, 6 March 2018

How to create Effective Technical Documentation and Improve ROI using SOLIDWORKS COMPOSER


Objective
Clearly explain and present your product or process using 2D and 3D graphical content that you can quickly create with SOLIDWORKS Composer software.

Traditional Challenges in Consumer Product Industry
  • Content creators are often working with different, cobbled together tools, including 2D CAD drawings, digital photography, and file translators.
  • Bottleneck to business growth and competitiveness
  • Too many manual steps to get to a finished document, and far too much back-and-forth activity.
  • Spend too much of time in Manual changes in product as well as technical communication documents
  • The whole process is therefore inefficient, slow, and disruptive to the Engineering Department and to the organization as a whole.
Intelligent Solutions for common pitfalls

1.Concurrent technical documentation


2.Design, Document, Deliver Easily
  • You can dramatically improve the quality, quantity, effectiveness, and customer appeal of your technical communication materials.
  • Automatically generating current Bills of Materials (BOMs) with the push of a button, for inclusion in proposals or assembly instructions.

3.Business benefits abound
  • Faster time to market. You can create documentation in parallel with product design and development, so products get to market faster.
4.Speed product success
  • Engineers can spend more time designing and more easily create technical documents to communicate their work.
  • Content creators can spend more time creating great content and less time chasing and updating data.
5.Automating manufacturing and assembly instructions

Summary
  • As manufacturing organizations strive to identify ways to,
      • save time
      • cut costs and
      • improve their competitiveness in global markets
  • Your company can realize shorter times-to-market, improved operational efficiencies, and good quality documentation.
  • More cost savings and also realize significant ROI within the first year.
  • Manufacturers can improve profit margins, achieve faster times-to-market, and increase sales related to better customer education


 



Saturday, 3 March 2018

How to Make the Machinery Elements Using SOLIDWORKS Products ?


Machinery is a collection of machines that operates work together in a single operation. SOLIDWORKS Products can help to communicate the machinery process before it reach the market. 



SOLIDWORKS is a solid modeling Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. Through the help of SOLIDWORKS CAD you can design your products as per the developmental ideas from easy of use. 

Advantages of SOLIDWORKS
  • Drawing can be prepared efficiently and in a very shorter time.
  • Once we made changes in the 3D design the drawings will be automatically updated.
  • Over a million of standard Toolbox components are available in SOLIDWORKS library which can also be customized according to our requirements.
  • Automatic BOM can be generated and also we can Import to Excel file format.
  • Design can be effectively communicate through eDrawing tool.
  • Your end product market cost can be predicted using SOLIDWORKS Costing tool.
  • Create CAD Animation.
  • The 3D model can also be used for marketing and presentation aids using SOLIDWORKS PhotoView 360.
  • The function and fit of the assembled components can be ensured using tolerance analysis.


SOLIDWORKS Simulation can validate machinery product performance, quality and safety. The machinery supplier have used SOLIDWORKS Simulation to improve the reliability and overall cost of the product. The Capabilities include the following 
  • Evaluate the physical behaviors of a Machinery elements.
  • Predict the performance and behavior of the design.
  • Calculate the safety margin and to identify the weakness of the design accurately.
  • Identify the optimal design with confidence & cost effectively.
  • Predicting what if scenarios for best alternative material selection.
  • The life cycle of the product can be predicted.
  • Frequency response of various working condition of machinery can be predicted.
  • Thermal distribution for heat sensitive components can be analyzed.
  • Effective volume consumption of the product over the weight to thickness ratio can be obtained.
  • Kinematics study of machineries can be performed and also can predict reaction force, motor torque and energy consumption of product.
  • Bolt selection for particular machine components can be validated.
  • Nonlinear behavior and Dynamic performance of a Machinery can be performed.
Summary 
  • Better Machinery designs can be evolved.
  • Shorter preparation time for Machinery drawing.
  • Minimized transcription errors in drawing.
  • Easy use of tools to solve complex machine design.
  • Visualization of the machine performance in detailed view.
  • Validate for various changes on the existing machinery components.
  • Assistance in preparation of documentation.
  • Deliver innovative designs with good product efficiency.