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Paranthaman Exporters relies on SOLIDWORKS design and analysis solutions to accelerate the development and validation of custom-designed drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, and other applications. Challenge Faced: Accelerate the development and validation of custom-designed drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, and other applications. Solution from SOLIDWORKS: Implement SOLIDWORKS Standard design, SOLIDWORKS Professional design, and SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional analysis software solutions. Benefits Earned from SOLIDWORKS: • Cut development time by 50 percent • Doubled custom rig development throughput • Reduced rig weight by 10 percent • Resolved fabrication and assembly issues Paranthaman Exporters is the export division of PRD Rigs, a leading Indian manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, and other applications. Founded in 1972, Paranthaman Exporters has designed, manufactured, and exported more than 350 rigs to various count...

The methods of joining components together is becoming quite simple among the designers during the design process . The component joining methods can either be a welding, bolting or adhesives etc. This job becomes more easy on the assembled components prioritizing the material specifications with its respective thickness & sizes. In a cost effective way SolidWorks offers the designers to understand all these problems relating to weld sizing or the right choice of Bolts. The Users can make use of the default options for Pins, Bolts, Springs, Welds & other connectors for assemblies. In Simulation , working with connectors is much easy to understand its behavior in our designs. The SolidWorks users can directly convert the smart components like Bolts & Nuts to Bolt connectors for analysis on assemblies. During the conversion process, the Head diameter, shank diameter & the pre-load conditions will automatically be taken into consideration. For the manual select...

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software gives designers and engineers powerful tools to speed up design variants and automate repetitive design tasks. The Design process can save time and development costs by accelerating the productivity.  SOLIDWORKS automation and configuration tools simplify the reuse of existing design data to create new designs. Designers and engineers can configure design data and document quickly by creating new designs. By this way, the product development time is reduced to focus on innovating new products.   SOLIDWORKS design reuse and automation tools include: Design automation - Streamline the creation of similar parts Parts and Assembly Configuration - Generate simple, complex, or similar versions of your design Design Automation SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD tools automate repetitive design tasks, benefiting companies making custom products for bid/RFP, as well as high volume manufacturers. SOLIDWORKS design automation tools include: DriveWorksXpre...

SOLIDWORKS is one of the emerging tool which always gives the Users with updated technology year by year. This year's updates are : Magnetic Mates: Let your product assemble with the power of Magnetism Wrap Feature: Wrap your sketches over any surface. Sheet Metal delighters: Create corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. Normal cut is much more extended to deliver better results, and Punch Table support for Mirrored & Derived parts. Advanced Holes: With better and advanced definition of Holes the updated version can group favorites for Hole features & add appearances. Drawing: Emphasizing Outlines for Drawing section views & Jagged outlines to differentiate among edges. eDrawings: The best communication tool will now support STEP, IGES, CATIA, Inventor & 3D XML files. SolidWorks Simulation : Stress Hot Spot detection & Diagnostics tool will now give a better experience in visualizing the analysis results for the users. More i...

In a Design and manufacturing industry, it’s important to be committed to Cost, Time and Quality; these three play a vital role towards organization growth and winning market. Compromising in any one will lead to adverse effect in organizational growth, hence these becomes the key dimensions that measure the competence and effectiveness in impact that an organization can create on customer, product and service. Further companies today are always seeking ways to increase efficiency by lowering time and costs without compensating quality. Factors that affect Cost, Time and Quality Effectiveness of the right tool to convert concept to design Complexity in design process Skill level of the employee Prototype testing in real time to validate product reliability Time consuming quality checks and documentation Uncontrolled pr...

Control panel Control Panel is a cabinet made up of sheet metal form, which enhouses lot of electrical and electronic components. Ultimately, designed and built to meet the customer Automation needs. Challenges Faced in Control Panel Design: Optimizing the Routing of Wires to save Cost Need for Intelligence in Sheetmetal handling to make immediate changes Respond to Customer Requirements or Design Change and update the Project Interference and Clearance Check between Wiring and Electrical Components  Accurate generation of BOM/BOQ (Bill of Materials/Quantity)  Control Diagram & Power Diagram creation Reducing Manual errors and Mismatch of Electrical Components. Solidworks Workflow for Control Panel Design: Control Panel Design starts with the creation of SLD (Single Line Diagram), followed by the detailed Schematic diagram.             Schematic Diagram...

SolidWorks Simulation offers the user for error estimation with the adaptive methods. These methods are mainly focussed on the approach of improving the accuracy of results for the simulation studies. In the domain of approach towards the accuracy of results, FEA provides major development in estimating errors. Thus, mesh refinement has major role towards this development process. The adaptive meshing is a tool which iteratively varies the mesh settings for the model without the manual interference. SolidWorks Simulation has two adaptive methods i.e. p-adaptive & h-adaptive. The h-adaptive meshing physically adjusts the size of the cell in areas of the model where smaller mesh is required. The p-adaptive meshing normally adjusts the polynomial order of the mesh to improve the accuracy of the results. The user can directly select any of the option inside the software. h-adaptive meshing technique: Varies the refinement level Varies the density of the mesh ...

MAKE GREAT DESIGN HAPPEN SolidWorks has fulfilled their customer’s need of getting back the Classic color and Sketch Tool Pointer back to its classic Style. Check out, the all new SOLIDWORKS 2016 SP 4.0 Highlights. Sketch Tools Pointers The sketch tools pointers have changed to use a pencil-themed icon, similar to the icons used in SOLIDWORKS 2015 and earlier. The crosshair-themed sketch tools pointers are no longer used. More Color in Icons More color is used in icons for the default and classic icon sets. Clarity of icons has improved by introducing highlight colors, such as Yellow for lightning bolts and pencils, Green for open and import arrows Magenta for selection filters. Contact us for more ...

Modern day manufacturers are extensively focussing on producing light weight components using good testing methods. Heat and Mass transfer is a key area for any product development and material selection next to structural simulation. The Coffee Mug is a typical example to study the Temperature & Modes of Heat Transfer. The mug is formed to hold liquids within the walls resulting in gain or loss of thermal energy for the heat conduction. Temperature is a scalar quantity, where only one degree of freedom is required to study on the models. The resulting temperature are differentiated for temperature gradients & calculates the heat flux based on the thermal conductivity of the material. The Thermal analysis present in SolidWorks Simulation deals with the Heat Flow in a Solid body governing the enter and exit of temperature on that body. The entering & Exit of temperature is studied by the conduction, convection & radiation modes. For th...

Overview SolidWorks EPDM performs Various task, in which Linking Data Card Values with an Excel document creates a basic understanding on how EPDM easily integrated with various tool. This is most needed yet most organization find it quite difficult to link various documents with the company's customized data card. This article provides information on how to perform this above task. Procedure Inside Admin Tool Create a new variable inside the administration tool on the appropriate vault that will be used in the card, give a variable name, variable type. Create New Attribute with Block Name and Attribute Name which need to be connected with the Excel. Provide the extension to make the work simple as possible. After assigning a New Variable, make sure that the variable get positioned inside the data card. Hence create a field for that variable and map it to the variable name. Office card(Word, Excel) will be used to extract ...

Valves are the traditional devices for regulating the flow of liquids, gases or any fluidized solids. They are the major backbone for pipeline & multi process oriented industries. Over the past, there is an increased demand for innovative technologies to meet the industrial requirements. With the demand, the valve sectors should also maintain lower fabrication costs & development time and come up with new designs to grow substantially in the market. Thus, for the market growth, the industry has to rely on their design & development team to produce valves with respect to the customer needs. SOLIDWORKS offers the industry to have a technology to design & validate simultaneously for their real time flow problems. The SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is used to simulate the fluid flows along your valve designs. As a designer, you can decide to make changes with great visualization of the fluid flows. The following important challenges addressed are like: Back...