SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Production

Detailed Drawings

•   Automatic Drawing View creation and updation
•   Dimensioning, Tolerancing and Annotations
•   CAD Standards checking (Design Checker)—Compare your drawings to company standards
•   Revision control—Control drawing revisions and graphically compare drawings to identify differences
•   Unrivalled Drawing Creation by Drag and Drop of Views from View Palette.
•   Draftsight for the benefit of 2d Users as Value Addition

BOM / Ballooning

•             Bill of Materials (BOM)—Automatically generate parts lists and cut lists to track material needs
•   Automated Creation of Radial/Cylindrical Exploded Views - Significantly speed up the creation of exploded views 
•   Export BOM/BOQ directly to Excel which helps to integrate with ERP/MRP for material purchase & Cost estimation

3D Printer 

• SOLIDWORKS enables printing directly to 3D printers, similar to how you would print a document to your office printer. 
•   SOLIDWORKS can also output .STL, a widely accepted format for 3D printing
•   The 3MF and AMF formats provide more information about the model being printed.
•   Bring life to your Product with enhanced Visualisation.

PaperLess - MBD

• Integrated drawingless manufacturing solution for SOLIDWORKS.
•   Helps companies to define, organize, and publish 3D Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) including 3D model data in industry standard file formats such as eDrawings® and 3D PDF.
•   MBD Streamline production, cut cycle time, reduces errors, and support industry standards such as Military-Standard-31000A, ASME Y14.41, ISO 16792, and DIN ISO 16792.

Go Paperless and Drawingless – SOLIDWORKS MBD. 

-  The one Stop Solution for handling PMI in 3D

 

SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Engineering Team

3D Design

•   Powerful 3D design solution for rapid creation of parts, assemblies, and manufacturing drawings. 
•   Application-specific tools for Sheet metal, Weldments, Surfacing and Mold Tool and Die make it easy to deliver best-in-class designs.
•   Quickly create, validate, communicate and manage the product during development process.
•   Get your products to market faster, reduce manufacturing costs, and improve product quality

Automation

•         Driveworksxpress—Automate your design process, and generate infinite variations of  models using  rule-based design
•   SOLIDWORKS Macros—Automate repetitive  tasks and Streamline design process
•   Hotkeys , Task Scheduler & Built-in Application Programming Interface (API)—Automate specific functions in SOLIDWORKS
•          Links to Microsoft® VBA—Generate custom automation                                                                  using  standard industry automation tools

Validation

• Subject your designs to real-world conditions to raise the quality of your products while you reduce your costs for prototypes and testing.
•   Efficiently improve performance by simulating fluid flow, heat transfer & temperature in working and living environments (HVAC)
•   Predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of plastic parts &  injection mold designs
•   Conduct life cycle assessment (LCA) on parts or assemblies directly

DFM Xpress

• DFMXpress analysis tool validates the manufacturability of parts designed with SOLIDWORKS
•   Quickly identify design areas that might cause fabrication problems or increase production costs
•   Quickly review parts with mill, drill, turning, sheet metal, and injection molding requirements.

 

Comparison of Hand Calculation with SOLIDWORKS Simulation

Hand Calculation:

The figure 1 which shown below is a plate with hole in the middle fixed at one end and in other side load is applied.

Figure 1

Parameters	Plate Module
Length(L)	60 mm
Width(w)	40 mm
Thickness(T)	1mm
Plate area(Ap)	40 mm2
Hole area(Ao)	78.5 mm2
Elastic Modulus(E)	2e+5 N/mm2 (AISI 1020)
Force (F)	200 N

Nominal stress:

σ_nom = F/(w-d)t= 2000/(40-10) = 66.666 N/mm²

Stress concentration:

K_t = σ_max/ σ_nom

σ_max= 2.5 * 66.666 = 159.99 N/mm²

SOLIDWORKS Simulation

Simulation Procedure ü  Cad Geometry ü  Type of Analysis ü  Type of Materials ü  Fixtures ü  Loads ü  Meshing ü  Results Cad Geometry

Type of Analysis Study name Static 1 Analysis type Static Material Properties Model Reference Properties Components Name: AISI 1020 Model type: Linear Elastic Isotropic Default failure criterion: Max von Mises Stress Yield strength: 351.571 N/mm^2 Tensile strength: 420.507 N/mm^2 SolidBody 1(Cut-Extrude1)(plate) Mesh information Mesh type Solid Mesh Study Results Name Type Min Max Stress VON: von Mises Stress 4.429e+000N/mm^2 (MPa) Node: 29 1.597e+002N/mm^2 (MPa) Node: 6382

Comparison Results:

Sl.No	Type of Results	Hand Calculation Results	SoildWorks Simulation Results
1	Stress	1.599E+2	1.597E+2

SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Data Management

REUSE EXISTING DESIGN

 

• Advanced searching inside Windows Explorer
• Configurable search form presents for users with input fields relating to company specific information
• Built-in file preview helps confirm the desired file is accessed

VERSION AND REVISION

• Versions are automatically created with updated references
• Flexible revision scheme to adhere to company standards
• Increment revisions automatically based on a defined approval process
• Easily retrieve previous versions of parts, assemblies, and drawings.

ELECTRONIC WORKFLOW

• Control access to certain users or groups based on Lifecycle status
• Automatically send notifications to designated users and groups when files have changed the lifecycle status
• Utilize configurable states to add electronic signature information during the approval process
• Easy-to-use graphical workflow tool

MANAGE DIFFERENT FILES

• Easily produce customized bills of materials (BOMs) for different utilisation
• Manage, view, and print document from more than 250 file types including major CAD formats, Microsoft Office files, PDFs, images and animations
• Automatically create neutral files, such as PDFs, eDrawings or STEP
• Take advantage of the many included integrations to popular CAD applications, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, and Microsoft Office

SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Data Management

(Communicate, Organise, Manage and Replicate Data with SOLIDWORKS PDM)

(SOLIDWORKS PDM – Unrivalled Capabilities)

SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Quality /Inspection

DIMXPERT

• Detail designs without errors, automatically dimension “manufacturing” features in 3D.
• Check the dimensional completeness of your design
• Graphically display dimensional status
• Display dimensions created in 3D automatically on the drawing
• Apply +/- or geometric dimension and tolerances
• Ease the Process of Creating manufacturing Dimensions

TOLANALYST

• TolAnalyst uses the input from Dimxpert.
• Powerful tolerance analysis tool that automatically checks the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and to verify tolerancing schemes before the product goes into production.
• The tolerance analysis can be rerun instantly if a dimensioning or tolerancing change is made, enabling you to get to an optimized tolerancing scheme more quickly.

SIGMUNDWORKS

• Five analysis types including; Worst Case, RSS (Root Sum Square), Modified RSS, Process Centering RSS, and Monte Carlo Simulations are possible
• Wide range of statistical distributions to emulate real-world
• Tolerance Optimizer (patented)
• Single-source documentation for tolerance stacks
• Automatic statistical, sensitivity, SPC, cost-savings, and impact report generation

INSPECTION

• First Article Inspection (FAI) and in-process inspection software that streamlines and automates the creation of ballooned inspection drawings and inspection reports (AS9102, PPAP, etc.).
• Enables users to leverage their legacy data regardless of whether they have SOLIDWORKS files, PDFs, or TIFFs.
• Each characteristic value can be entered manually, by using a digital caliper, or by importing coordinate measuring machine (CMM) results.