Detecting Overridden Dimension

SOLIDWORKS Design Checker

• SolidWorks Design Checker verifies design elements such as 
• Dimensioning Standards 
  
• Fonts, Materials 
• Sketches 

to ensure that SOLIDWORKS documents meet pre-defined design criteria

Adding SolidWorks Design Checker to SOLIDWORKS

• Click Tools > Add-ins.
• Select SolidWorks Design Checker , then click OK.
• Click Tools > Design Checker.
• Click Create a “New Standards File” 
• Select Overridden Dimension
• Save File as a “Standards file“ (*.swstd format)

To Check active document

• Click Tools > Check Active Document
• Add The (*.swstd) file to check
• Select Check document  
• All the “Overridden Dimension are highlighted dynamically
• Perform the desired operation

Bevel Gear Mechanism

PRODUCE DEFECT FREE PLASTIC PARTS

Introduction

SOLIDWORKS Plastics is used for both part designers and mold designers. In this blog, you can get information on how this technology can help in creating and optimizing parts, single and multi cavity and family mold layouts.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

• SOLIDWORKS Plastics most useful for Injection Molding setup organization.
  
• Validate and visualize the melted Plastic Flow on the parts and molds.
  
• Improvise the part quality by predicting manufacturing defects in the initial stages of the design.
• Have alternate polymer material selection during the design phase using plastic simulation
  
• Create variations among your plastic designs and test virtually before the manufacturing stage.
  

Steps involved in testing your Plastic Parts:

1. Draft Analysis
   
2. Meshing
   
3. Applying Polymer (Material)
   
4. Gate Location
   
5. Run the Analysis
   
6. Results
   
7. Report Generation
   

SOLIDWORKS Plastics contains vast material and polymer database with multiple classification among the materials. Each and every class of material contains in built temperature curves, pressure curves etc. Gate location involves the entry point for the melted plastic flow. Multiple Gate location can also be provided based on the feasibility and complexity of the part.

Fill time Plot represents the time taken to fill the plastic component. Using this plot, we can also find whether the part gets fully filled. The cooling time based on the temperature parameters can also be analyzed and the approximate time to cool the part can be predicted in the initial validation stage. The part validation also involves the prediction of Air Traps, Sink Marks and Weld Lines. Each and every result can be exported and visualized as a document and in an animated video format.

Benefits

• Predict and Avoid Injection molding manufacturing defects
  
• To eliminate costly mold rework
  
• Improve Part quality
  
• Accelerate time to market
  

Ease your Material Handling Design with SOLIDWORKS

Challenges faced in Design of Material Handling Systems

• Visualising Complex Designs
• Increased design cycle time
• Product quality and performance
• Design reuse and configurable Designs
• Increased Material costs & warranty costs

How to address these challenges

• Transition from 2D to 3D and visualizing large assembly designs
• Reduce design cycle by Automating Design Process
• Improve product quality and performance by identifying hotspots
• Modular Design and Design interference Checks
• Weight reduction and load carrying capacity determination
• Ensure reliability and safety as per standards

SOLIDWORKS Solutions in Action 

• Solidworks Solutions boosts innovation to make Companies more profitable and more productive.
• Solidworks Simulation stands aside Design Team to Virtually test at early stages of design process
• Design Automation Tools like Driveworksxpress and Solidworks API improves performance and captures knowledge to be used continually.

• Design optimization Tool suggests alternatives to offset the material cost and Optimizes design for size, weight and efficiency
• Eliminates errors and reduces development costs

Explore new ideas, innovative concepts and better ways of doing 

things through Solidworks Solutions.

Leveraging Engineering Data across your entire Company

Create Sheet Metal Swept Flanges "Hole" in a better Way

One of the best sheet metal enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2016 is the ability to add Cut Features to a Swept Flange and have those features map correctly to the Flat Pattern. Although the Swept Flange tool is a wonderful part of the Sheet Metal toolset, I have had many users comment about how frustrated they were that they could add Cut and Hole Features to their Swept Flanges and see them in their formed views but the hole features were missing in their Flat Pattern when it was time to send the part out to the Punch Press or Laser Cutter!

SOLIDWORKS 2015 Sheet Metal Swept Flange Flat Pattern

Above is a Sheet Metal part created in SOLIDWORKS 2015, the part is made using a Swept Flange and two Cut features. You can see when the part is flattened the two Cut Features do not propagate to the Flat Pattern and disappear from the view, this would usually result in having to add the Cut Features to the Flat Pattern separately which results in a potential loss in accuracy and adding valuable time to the part design process.

SOLIDWORKS 2016 Sheet Metal Swept Flange Flat Pattern

In the SOLIDWORKS 2016 example above, you can see the same Swept Flange part but with both Cut Features being mapped correctly onto the Flat Pattern and not requiring any features to be added directly to the Flat Pattern. It is easy to see how anyone who uses the sheet metal Swept Flange often will take full advantage of this fantastic enhancement to make the creation of complex sheet metal parts quicker and easier than ever before.

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Watch Out a New Tool in SOLIDWORKS 2016

To ensure greater accuracy for digital simulation or to produce a 3D printed prototype, it’s often necessary to model the physical threads on shafts and holes, among many other features.

To create a thread in previous versions of SOLIDWORKS, we had to manually create a profile and a helix for creating a swept cut. This process has now been automated with a new Thread tool in SOLIDWORKS 2016. The new Thread tool allow us to create helical threads on cylindrical faces using profile sketches. Now, this feature is very flexible, allowing us to specify the start thread location, an offset, end conditions, the type, size, diameter, pitch and rotation angle, and even choose options like right-hand or left-hand thread.

We can also create our own custom thread profiles like weldment profile. SOLIDWORKS allow us to store our custom thread profile as a library feature. The default location where these are saved can be modified at Tools > Options > System Options > File Locations. Select Thread Profiles from the Show Folders for pull-down menu.

Creating a cut Thread

Click Insert > Features > Thread

In the Thread Property Manager,

1. Under Specification,we can select any type of thread profiles here its metric die.
2. Set the Size to M6x1.0.
3. Check Offset under Thread Location.
4. Set the Offset Distance to 1.00mm and clicked the Reverse Direction button.
5. Check Maintain Thread Length under End Condition. Note that when you do this the thread       profile updates from 10 to 11 millimeters in length.
6. Click OK

Thread is now created and we are ready to move on with designing our part. This new Thread tool in SOLIDWORKS 2016 is a great time saver and we can quickly create all the accuracy and detail we need, while staying focused on design.

For more info mail us @ lakshmipriya@egs.co.in

Geneva Mechanism

OPTIMISING AIR FLOW INSIDE A LIVING ROOM

Living Environment System

A living system should maintain and balance the optimum room temperature. Heat balance in a living room is very important from the energy consumption perspective to influence the essential temperature parameters. The purpose of an air conditioner is to maintain a comfortable indoor environment. The comfort system is usually determined by a combination of three factors:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Air distribution

Air Conditioning Purpose:
For this reason the main purpose of air conditioners are to:

• Control room temperatures (cooling/heating)
  
• Control room humidity levels (drying, humidifying)
  
• Optimise air flow (circulation, distribution)
  
• Clean Air (filtration)
  

Introducing HVAC Flow Simulation:
HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) is an integrated module inside SolidWorks Flow Simulation. Managing the airflow within a large scale environment is a key to ensure the optimum temperature is maintained for the largest number of people possible. The HVAC design module present inside SolidWorks Flow Simulation gives the user with great tools to tackle the tough challenges in design efficient cooling systems for people and large scale environments. The HVAC Module not only simulates the airflow in the environment but also for the products within the environment. With the enhanced tools designers can now analyse products considering more real world behaviours.

The objective to design any living room is to provide comfortness for the people inside a living room. HVAC module provides specific tools to support the user to design air conditioning or large scale cooling equipment with ease of use. The effectiveness of environment control is measured by the human comfort parameters. The following are the comfort parameters:

• Predicted Mean Vote (PMV)
  
• Predicted Percent Dissatisfied (PPD)
  
• Operative Temperature (K)
  
• Draft Temperature (K)
• Air Diffusion Performance Index (ADPI)
• Local Air Quality Index (LAQI) for fluids
• Contaminant Removal Effectiveness (CRE) for fluids
• Flow Angle

The impact of the thermal radiation from the sun towards the environments seems to be more complicated and also requires cooling effects. The engineering database inside the SolidWorks Flow Simulation includes wide range of building materials & fans. The material database provides the user to select materials to perform thermal analysis in a quicker and efficient manner. This helps the user to understand the impact of material choices for radiation modelling in HVAC module.

Benefits:

• HVAC helps design engineers to quickly and accurately model complex air conditioning and cooling systems for thermal analysis.
  
• Provides the exact visualisation of the air flow inside a room.
  
• Helps to find the temperature distribution along the areas present inside the room.
  
• Easy use of industry specific tools enables the HVAC designer for better productivity and perform enhanced simulation for working and living conditions.
  

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SOLIDWORKS 2016

MAKE GREAT DESIGN HAPPEN

SOLIDWORKS is about to release a new version of its flagship product in terms of innovation and improved functionalities with the roll-out of SOLIDWORKS 2016 by September 22, 2015. Solidworks 2016 comes with all the exciting new features and enhancements that are eagerly awaited by the customers.

With SolidWorks 2016, user can focus on design and not anymore on software. This trustable & innovative solution chosen by millions of users worldwide has brought new features and enhancements for creating your innovative designs in an easier and faster way than ever before.

CAD plays its vital role not only in design and development cycle, but also these CAD data can be leveraged to support the entire organization in achieving both technical and business goals.

EGS India offers

“THE GRAND SOLIDWORKS 2016 LAUNCH EVENT- INNOVATION DAY 2016” to personally show you, all of the enhanced features in SOLIDWORKS 2016.

We are glad to invite you for the Innovation Day 2016 on "Make Great Design Happen" to be held on 7th October - Wednesday at Hotel Hilton, Guindy.  

At SOLIDWORKS 2016 launch event, you can

• Engage with experts to taste the power of SOLIDWORKS in empowering innovation

• Explore the new functionality and brand new user interface of SOLIDWORKS 2016

• Enrich your insight into the industry-specific tools that address your unique needs

• Exchange tips & tricks with peers from your local SOLIDWORKS community

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Latest Trends In CAD Industries

3D PRINTING
Since the evolution of 3d printing technology, creation of complex models have become an easy task for many industries. It is now possible to print and create various sizes from an eagle's beak to a dream car. Solidworks offers 3D Printing solutions , so that we can bring our ideas to life as 3D printed prototypes , just like the way we print documents in our office printer.

Solidworks can also output .STL and AMF Formats that provide more information about the model being printed. No post-processing is required to define data such as the position of your model relative to the selected 3D printer, orientation, color, materials, etc.

MOBILE ACCESS - CAD

Mobile access - CAD is a new emerging trend that reflects the mobile application technology and impact of seamless communication to handle 2D & 3D design data across your mobile devices anytime, anywhere.

Design on the go just got better with eDrawings mobile app. Solidworks eDrawings enables you, to take your designs to the next level of 2D and 3D collaboration with increased interactivity, including dynamic cross section views, measurements, markups and annotations, and the ability to share your design files via email.






WEB BASED DATA MANAGEMENT

Accessing the CAD / Non-CAD data over Web for various needs like Approval , state change within a department , Quick search and Model Preview has been a new trend of relief for suppliers/users staying outside the organisation or on a business trip.

Chaos Faced by Design Firms:

• Design data security
• Projects File organization and File Search
• Handling outdated versions of design

Solidworks Enterprise PDM eradicates the above chaos and protects your valuable design assets through centralized file storage and electronic workflow. Enterprise PDM Web2 is a Web portal that lets users connect to an Enterprise PDM vault from most devices for data handling , viewing, searching and approval. Mobile version of Web2 comes handy for Smartphone users .

Internal Gear Pump