Entry #1 of Photo Rendering Contest!

Entry #1 from Jay

Hi all, this is the 1st entry for the photo rendering contest! Instead of using the provided model alone, Jay has add in some other SolidWorks model such as the LCD monitor here and a wire is attached to the 3D connexion. I like the rendering of 3D connexion because it’s looks pretty real.Does it looks nice? According to Jay, he just need around an hour to do the adjustment and appearance selection for the rendering, after that just leave the pc take some time to do a large image rendering. Come on guys! do not miss out the chance to chanllenge! Go to this website to download the model and start now!

https://www.cadcam.com.my/index.php/photo-render

P/s: Your image size must be 3508X4961 pixels.


Entry #2 of Photo Rendering Contest

3D Connexion in galaxy                                      from Lim

This is the 2nd entry form Lim.  In this photo, he has used a galaxy image file as the background. In order to make the 3D Connexion match with the background, he has also applied a highly reflective material to the surface of 3D Connexion. You can observe the galaxy enviroment is reflected from the curvature face. Looking forward to know who are the best winner of the real 3D Connexion and RM200 Cash!!!


Entry #3 Dune Buggy

                                  Dune Buggy from Elmond

Wow! Our 3rd entry is very cool! We have a dune buggy model rendered with photoview360. The “day time” enviroment provided in photoview is quite suitable with this model as well. What’s your comment about the rendering? Who else want to challenge? You’re welcome =)

https://www.cadcam.com.my/index.php/photo-render


Entry #4 Incredible Man

Incredible man from Amir

Hi all, this is the 4th entry from Amir.  Amazing? This is the model that downloaded from 3D Content Central and he has put some effort in rendering to make the model looks more attractive. Try to imagize how user friendly SolidWorks is? You can even use it to build your favourite cartoon model! From the picture can you recognise which one is the 3D SolidWorks model of Incredible Man?


Entry #5 & #6 Bottle

Entry #5 Bottle from Lina Yeoh

 Entry #6 Bottle & Basin from Lina Yeoh

For Entry 5, Lina Yeoh has done the rendering base on the provided model which is the lotion bottle. For her second entry, she has attach the set of basin as well to improve the attractiveness of the graphic. I personally like the effect of the water inside the bottle, it’s looks real! Any comment you would like to tell Lina?


Entry #9

Entry #9  From Tee Kwee Siang

Hi all, this is the 9th entry from Mr.Tee Kwee Siang! Instead of PhotoView360, he has tried out the rendering by using PhotoWorks since his SolidWorks 2009 cannot let him to put in the background as shown here. (For your information, photoview 360 in SolidWorks 2009 do not have the ability to input customized background but you can do that with PhotoView 2010! Whew~) Anyway, with Tan’s skill, he still able to output a very nice rendered image! Let’s give him a plause!


Event: Product Development Day (Penang)

Penang Kia, We’re coming!
After the success of IME Open day in Klang Valley, we can’t wait to bring similar technology sharing and travel all the way up to north to share a complete product development technology.
Want to know what is the update in CADCAM industry? Explore how to enhance your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Join us to learn about the latest product development technology in Penang Skill Development Centre
(PSDC)
. You will definitely get different solutions for your organization.

Theme: Product Development Day

Highlight: Learn the latest product development technology

Location: Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC), Penang

Date: 15 & 16
th
Aug 2012

More Information :

CLICK HERE

See you there!


Events: Let’s Go Simulate

Just a little something we did for our Premium users.

The best part about having SolidWorks Premium  is that it come along with a features that allow us to perform analysis and improve the design in SolidWorks. The features we called it SolidWorks Simultion. It’s not something new or unique, it just a built-in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in SolidWorks. Because of this, it make life earlier, you design in SolidWorks; you analyze in SolidWorks, in one single interface.

Last Friday morning, SolidWorks Premium users were invited for a half day gathering, no other place than the IME’s SolidWorks building. this event was special organised for invited Premium users. What we shared were nothing but SolidWorks simulation in  SolidWorks Premium.

Two words- full house! The registration were more than we expected as some only can confirm on last minute but the topics were to interesting that they knew they can’t miss it.

They have the Premium, but often they use this benefits. After a period of time, they slowly forget that how great that this features can help them to design a better products. Let’s go simulate, a gathering that focus on how to fully utilizes the FEA in SolidWorks. At the same time, urging Premium users to start using it.

Mr. CL Wong, Technical Manager started the gathering by recap all the steps and standard procedures to setup a simulation and extracting the results into a professional report. Attendances digested every steps explained by experience technical manager with more than 10 years in SolidWorks simulation.

Follow by “Best Practice of SolidWorks Simulation”, presented by your truly. Topics mainly highlight on steps to fastern your setup, reducing error and increase result accuracy. 4 main focus:

1. Planning your analysis

2. simulation consideration

3. How to get good results with great accuracy

4. Large & complex assembly analysis.

did you know some features in SolidWorks can actually help to reduce simulation build up error? The answers has been revived in the sharing.

Attendances never miss out a chance to dig deeper about SolidWorks Simulation. 15 minutes tea break become the best time for them to ask and know each others, exchanging name card. that day, I saw a group of Premium users who passion in design and looking more alternatives to improve their design.

After the break, seven tips & tricks shared by one of the speaker, Chan. This sharing give more ideas on saving time, elimate repeat tasks and getting the right result in split second. The topics:

1. How to know which portion of the design carry the most load?

2. How to calculate the maximum load can be taken by a rack?

3. How to view the displacement results in terms of angular displacement (degree or radian)?

4. What is the way to create split face in the shortest time?

5. How to obtain the result at the same location even the mesh density change?

6. How to check deformation using your CAD tool & make comparison with the original design?

7. Dynamic stress in Motion Simulation.

If this only what SolidWorks can do, in term of analysis? No, answered by technical manager, CL Wong.

He ended the 3 hours gathering by sharing the last topic:
Explore advance SolidWorks Simulation features
. If static analysis is not enough for you, maybe some advance simulation can be helpful. To name as few, optimization, non-linear analysis, drop test, pressure vessel, flow simulation (CFD) and etc.

I would not say much about their feedback but one thing for sure, they’re going back with a big satisfied smile. As happy as a kid with a ice cream in his hand. We know that this is not enough. That why for coming month, you will recieve more invitations for other simulation events. Specially for you.

Attendances do take note. The slides will deliver to you soon.


F1inSchools Race Car Design Project – Video

OMG!… Is this a student design?

I found this video from one of Solidworks Website. This video clearly shows that todays student can design a scale down model of F1,  simulate wind tunnel analysis, create production drawing, create attactive and presentable animation and photorealistic rendering picture in Solidworks software. Yes, all these functions in one software – Solidworks. So why spending your time in learning many many softwares to perform something where you can do in one single solution?

After looking at this video, i am started to worry about my future now. If  student can do these tasks nowadays, what am i going to do in future? Anyone of you have the same feeling as me?

.

~ah lau~


Faster, Easier Simulation Helps You Create Better Products

Traditionally, simulation technology assumed the role of the final design checker in product development. Analysis was performed at the end of the process (prior to physical testing) to validate design performance. Yet, today’s lightening fast workstations and fully integrated simulation software packages enable engineers to leverage analysis in an entirely new way: to drive design optimization and innovation upfront rather than just checking design performance at the end.

New processors, software turn desktop into supercomputer

Faster computers combined with more finely tuned and easier-to-use software have truly brought analysis capabilities to the desktop. With the development of Intel Xeon processors with multi-threaded, multi-core capabilities and CAD-integrated SolidWorks Simulation software, which is optimized to take advantage of multi-core processing during both the meshing and solution steps, analysis can now be done in minutes or hours.

The largest performance boosts in SolidWorks Simulation relate to multi-core processing – the more processing cores that you have available, the faster your model will mesh and solve with SolidWorks Simulation. By taking advantage of Intel multi-core processing technology to split and run simultaneous processes on multiple cores. These performance gains make SolidWorks simulation software and multi-core Intel Xeon processor-based workstations the perfect combination for driving simulation-based design.

Simulation increase profitability

Using integrated SolidWorks Simulation software on an Intel Xeon processor-based workstation during conceptual design can help your company increase profitability in several ways.

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11. Shorten time-to-market by optimizing your design

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22. Drive your design process ensures that designs are validated, free of errors,

and ready for production.

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33. To compress and shorten your prototyping and testing cycles, providing

     additional time and cost savings.

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44. Streamline manufacturing processes resulting in more efficient material

usage, lower levels of scrap, rework, and reduce manufacturing costs.


fastest car in the world; fastest car designed in SolidWorks

Lots of time, I facing this question.”
Er… can SolidWorks design car ar
?” Most of them are ask for fun, some of them are waiting me to say no and say, “
Cheh! your software also not powerful 1
“. But sorry to disappoint them, my answer is ‘
YES
‘. Proof? Koenigsegg CCX is design in SolidWorks & it it the
fastest street legal car designed in SolidWork.
  SolidWorks is a high horsepower 3D CAD which allow you to design anything, anything, anything.

Let me see,

– I love car, fast one.

– I love orange colour.

– I love SolidWorks.

So, I bet this is my dream car after all. It have the power under the hook, it have the colour that I like, it was designed by the software that i like too. I guess it really make my day.

And from a local forum, this sexy Sweden exotic sport car listed #4 in fastest cars in the world for year 2009-2010. I not sure how reliable is this news but… from the figure, why not?

245 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 secs. 90 Degree V8 Engine 806 hp.

the top 10 list:
1 SSC Ultimate Aero
2 Bugatti Veyron
3 Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo

4 Koenigsegg CCX

5 McLaren F1
6 Ferrari Enzo
7 Jaguar XJ220
8 Pagani Zonda F
9 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640
10 Porsche Carrera GT

So, boss! Cant I have a replica 1:100 scale for my X’mas present? Please~
p/s: please don’t ask me again
, can SolidWorks design car.


FAVOURITE MOMENTS OF 2017!

The year has come to an end, but we never stop moving forward, it just indicates we are one step closer to our goals. In the coming year, it opens doors to many fresh opportunities. It’s time to reflect and count our blessings. It is not all, but we are about to share with you our favourite moments throughout the year.

SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2018

It is the 19
th
 SOLIDWORKS WORLD! It is an astounding 4-days event which gathers the avid designers and innovators around the world at Los Angeles. We are beyond glad to join the 3D design experts from many industries.

It has garnered over 5000 attendees to learn new skills, get their hands on the latest technologies, preview latest SOLIDWORKS products and relit their passion for Innovation.

Manager boot camp, application engineer workshop, breakout sessions and a long list of meaningful activities kept us getting absolute most out of our time. Over the course of event, we learned that there is no better place for us get re-energised and inspired for 3D design than the SOLIDWORKS World!

IME SOLIDWORKS INNOVATION DAY 2018

“Great Designs Get Built”
– the theme this year says it all, we are honoured to celebrate success stories featuring our fellow customers who embrace the spirit of

“Buatan Malaysia”.

Another great experience for us to bring event like this throughout Malaysia and it has always been our pleasure to meet up and mingle with like-minded innovators and technology enthusiasts.

Cultivating entrepreneur mind-set should be an embedded education. It is a long process, sowing, cultivating and sustaining, but we strongly believe in investing time and resources in developing youth.

We want to explore innovation and technology creativity with you. Your support fuels our engines.

Don’t miss us at IME SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day 2019!

7
TH
 SCIENTIFIC DAY OF INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA

With the alliance formed between Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) and IME last year, we participated in the 7
TH
 Scientific Day of ITC: “The Future’s Bright The Future Science”

IME was invited to speak on technology development and trends in CAD, CAM, CAE and 3D Printing in Institute of Technology of Cambodia. We talked about how these technologies are impacting the way things are made. Knowledge exchange was fruitful and we were amazed by the IoT devices designed by the students.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP

Everyone is talking about the exponential growth of Industry 4.0 which disruptively changes the manufacturing landscape, production value chains and business models. No industry can be an exclusion from this revolution. The question is how you can get yourself prepared for this massive transformation? Digitalisation is the core foundation of it all. We are talking about the ability to generate, analyse and communicate using data in the effort to increase productivity in the company.

A HEART-WARMING SURPRISE

In the past 36 years, we have been keeping up with our core values in connecting with our customers with “Respect, Listen and Care”.

They are not merely attributes we put up as propaganda; in fact, we make every effort to walk the talk.

Still, with customers recognising what we are doing is just icing on the cake. We received a cake from our customers as appreciation which brings us the most rewarding feeling ever. This is definitely among the top of our list when it comes to our favourite moments.

MAKER’S COMMUNITY

Meeting with young bloods always gives us new inspirations; all-year long we met with more than 1000 students and guided them throughout the product development process from product design up to prototype development.

Students who joined us were aged from 9 to 18, from more than 20 high schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities; including boot camps organised by CREST under the Engineering, Science and Technology Youth Programme 2017, School of Arts from Sunway University, University of the Immaculate (Philippines) on their International Educational Tour, and more.

The enthusiasm and drive from the students to learn is always a good source of encouragement for us to continue giving back and building the community.


Feature, Freeze

Parts with many features can sometimes result time wasted for rebuild the model. The last thing you want is to change a feature and then find that you have to wait for the feature tree to rebuild.
New in SolidWorks 2012, feature freeze gives control of these updates to the user. Designs can be frozen in time and locked so that they never require updates. Additional features can be added safely with the knowledge that minimal update time is required to edit and work on the design.

By default, feature freeze is not enable automatically upon installation of SolidWorks 2012

To enable feature freeze option:

Go to Tools > Options > System Options > General > Select Enable Freeze bar > Click OK.

The yellow freeze bar appears at the top of the Feature Manager design tree.

Feature freeze allow you to exclude features from rebuilds of the model. The freeze bar controls the point at which a part’s FeatureManager design tree rebuilds. Features above the freeze bar are frozen- you cannot edit them, and they are excluded from rebuilds of the model. Freezing a portion of a model can be useful if you work with complex models with many features. Freezing the features helps to :

• Reduce rebuild time

• Prevent unintentional changes to the model

More information about feature freeze?

https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2012/04/solidworks-freeze-saves-you-time.html


Feature: Variable Fillet

Hi there! This month I will show you how to create a variable fillet. Ok, let’s take example I want to create a glass like this.

What you need to do:

1. Create the glass shape. As you can see, the bottom area is smaller than the top area. Thus, The fastest way to create this profile is by using loft technique.

2. Create the sketch on the top plane. Then, create another sketch at the offset plane 100mm from the top plane. Sketch rectangle on both plane start from the origin. Use center rectangle type.

3. A good loft technique will bear in mind the location of the connector. Make sure that the connectors resume a straight line when you try to loft the shape. Shown below is the connector connection between one to the other.

4. Now, i want to create a variable fillet at the edge of the lofted feature. What is variable fillet? Variable fillet is one of the fillets inside SolidWorks. Using variable fillet, it allow you to use control points to define the fillet. Take example, this edge; I use variable fillets to define its radius at certain points.

5. The result would be like this.

6. Next, I want to copy the variable fillet so that is looks like this.

Okay, let the tutorial end here. I would like you to think how we can copy this variable fillet and put it at the other edges. When we are done with the brainstorming, we are going to finish the glass. Let’s try this out.

Warhamni (warhamni@cadcam.com.my) a.k.a 我爱你 (i love you)，she is the trainer for CADCAM training centre, SolidWorks Authorized training centre. Although she join the team late but trust me, she’s good in ‘playing’ SolidWorks and a fast learner. She can easily answer you in no time, with her lighting speed Kawasaki.


Features: Swept Flange

Now in SolidWorks 2012,

we can perform a swept flange and flatten it to capture the blank size.
(Insert> sheet metal> Swept Flange)

Just like the normal swept feature, you need to have a profile and a path. Take note that the profile should not be a close profile. It should be open sketch.

Use flat pattern to unfold your swept flange into a blank size and save directly into .DXF for manufacturing purpose. Give a try.

Other popular links:

buyer’s guide: Sheet Metal

Customer Spotlight – Hartness International

Solution Partner – SPI SheetMetalWorks


Final Lucky Follower

Hi Follower, as promise we are going to announce the final 2 lucky follower. Thanks for your support! I am sure SolidWorks-Malaysia Blog is a platform to gather all of us together moving toward a brighter future.

Lastly, who haven’t send in their
Photo rendering entries
, don’t forget, you still have 12 hours to go before closing.

While, don’t forget to register yourself to
SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009, Malaysia
 as well. I am sure, you will able to get fruitful information back. We have total 3 locations event:

8th Oct : The Zon Regency Hotel
13th Oct : SIRIM, Shah Alam
15th Oct : PSDC, Penang

Register NOW to reserve a seat!!!!!

NOW! We come to the lucky follower, they are:
En Mohd Hasni Mohd Tamin, winning “SolidWorks Limited Laptop bag”
En Ridhuan Othman, winning “HP 4GB Thumdrive”

Congratulation……. To all of you!!

Below is the final winner list:

1. En Ridhuan Othman, winning “HP 4GB Thumdrive”
2. En Mohd Hasni Mohd Tamin, winning “ SolidWorks Limited Laptop Bag”
3. Ms Filffy, winning SolidWorks T-Shirt
4. En Muhammad Jafri Bin Yusoh, winning SolidWorks T-Shirt
5. En M. Farizal.M, winning SolidWorks T-Shirt
6. Mr Gilbert Tay, winning SolidWorks T-Shirt

For those, who didn’t win the prize. Don’t worry; we will have more and more special thing coming on…..


FIRA ROBOWORLD 2013 Malaysia, Tiny robots with Goals.

FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association) Roboworld 2013 was held during the week in Kuala Lumpur. showcasing engineering and robotics in a week long event.

The FIRA RoboWorld Congress (founded in 1996) will be co-hosted by the National University of Malaysia, Department of Polytechnic Education (Ministry of Higher Education) and MySET (Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology)
It is the premier event where international robotics experts gather and challenge each other in Olympic style robotic events (such as football, weight lifting, running and marathon). For the last 15 years, the event was driven by two robotics experts namely, Professor Dr. Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST (Korea) and Prahlad Vadakkepat (National University of Singapore).
Visitors had a chance to witness little NAO robots playing as a team autonomously in a game of robot soccer. There are technological showcases and a
robot dance group moving to the tune of Gangnam style captured by us. Click on the video player below to enjoy the cuteness of it all.

Source
https://robotics.org.my/events/2013/08/fira-2013/


First Lucky Winner

Hey members, we would like to express our appreciation and gratitude for your participation as followers of “SolidWorks-Malaysia blog”. During these few weeks, we saw tremendous increase in our number of followers in Solidworks-Malaysia.blogspot. We hope that the number of followers will keep increasing in coming weeks.

As we promised earlier, we would like to give a token of appreciation for those who are our blog follower. So this week we will like to announce our very first lucky follower for this week, the first lucky winner is
Mr. Gilbert Tay
.

On behalf of SW Malaysia Blog committee, we would like to thanks Mr. Gilbert for his contribution and feedback either in SolidWorks Malaysia Blogspot or Solidworks Malaysia Group at Facebook. He has provided the visitors/readers on these sites some fruitful and informative news on SolidWorks throughout his participation.

Mr. Gilbert had won himself a
“Limited Edition SolidWorks T-Shirt”
 from IME Technology Sdn Bhd. We think Solidworks Community is looking forward to see more news from Mr. Gilbert in future.

How about you member? Do you have anything to share with Solidworks Community? Don’t miss this opportunities as we have more more more souvenirs and prizes to be given out…

The Next winner will be announce on next week…

Hi Mr Gilbert, kindly leave me your email or contact number at comment column or email to me for further arrangement. Thanks and congratulation.


Flower Power by Parrot, keep your chilli padi plant healthy for Raya

Flower Power isn’t a throwback to the 70’s era when hippies roamed and your dad thinks his perm is as cool as his Jimi Hendrix albums. Instead it’s a new product from
Parrot
, a Solidworks customer well known for their GPS and other electronic products.

Flower Power is a sensor based system that updates your household plants well being to your smart phone. Just plug in the Flower Power sensor into the soil and it will measure sunlight, moisture, tempreature and even nutrient levels. If any of the stats are in a low level and needs attention such as the water level of your soil, It will send a notification message via Bluetooth to an application in your mobile device. Your plant will stay healthier and you can share your happy progress online through a community of plant loving gardeners. It’s like Farmville only real and just as annoying.

While most of our malay friends are ready to head back home for the holidays and looking forward to a great home cook meal. We at IME would like to wish all of you SELAMAT HARI RAYA and a safe journey.


Forum time

Foruming is one of Malaysian culture. Forum is the best place for you, who have common interests to share and talk the same language.

A young Malaysian saw that we, SolidWorks users here need an area, a chat room for  us to share our SolidWorks knowledge and tips. Therefore, this young man, Farizal took the initiative to start a forum:
Malaysia SolidWorks Designer Communities
.

Special columns were dedicated for IME to promote training and post SolidWorks update <- admin, you are so kind!~ We shall try to do something with that. (Now you know why I promoting the forum *laugh*)

Personally, I like the mamak corner. Usually this is the forum area where most members hang out because they can take about anything, either related or non related with SolidWorks; and trust me, the culture already started although just the few of us. Do check it out ya!~ (Can we share on how to make a cup of nice Teh Tarik? )

Guys, please give your support by joining the forum. The registration is so easy, just like eating ABC. Simple click below link to register:

REGISTER HERE!

Join now!~ Build our own community and together, we grow.

BTW, don’t forget to drop by the
New Member Introduction
  to say HI!~ ^.^ v


FREE 2D Drafting and Detailing Software – WOW!!!

 This is
Part II
 of ”
Nothing in the world is FREE
” post.

This means…………….another free tool for anyone who visit this blog…yeah!!!!….Hooray….Hooray…..

Actually I discovered this software yesterday accidentally, so instead keep it to myself…..why not share with everyone!!!….

Let me introduce you with
DoubleCAD XT™.

DoubleCAD™ XT
 is an AutoCAD LT work-alike. But
free
.

DoubleCAD™ XT
 is a great companion with AutoCAD® — and if you are a Google™ SketchUp™ user wanting to go from concept-to-construction drawings — or have an older copy of AutoCAD LT® that can’t read the latest AutoCAD® files —
DoubleCAD™ XT
 is an invaluable companion to SketchUp™ and AutoCAD LT®, too.

With so many new, innovative features, you might even think
DoubleCAD™ XT
 is an upgrade for AutoCAD LT®:

Better drafting

Better detailing

Self-healing walls (ADT compatible)

Self-aligning blocks

Advanced handle-based editing with instant access to a variety of tools

Snap prioritization

Smart dimensions

Fast zoom with no pauses

Brush editor

Better hatch patterns & gradient fills (using bitmaps, transparency, & full color)

Draw in 16 million colors (vs. only 256 colors in AutoCAD LT®)

Special line, arc, and circle tools

Multiline, bezier, and fixed ratio ellipses tools

Meet-Two-Lines and Convert-to-Curve modify tools

Superior workflow with Google™ SketchUp™ and SketchUp™ Pro (including new v7)

Open & save .DWG, .DXF, and .DWF formats from AutoCAD® R14 (1997) up to 2009

But the most important thing is there is no catch at all to use
DoubleCAD™ XT, What we need to do is just fill the form. Then Serial Number and Activation Code will be given immediately via email.

The developers of DoubleCAD are trying to shake up the CAD world.
“We won’t do that unless we have something special.”

“DoubleCAD™ XT is a full-powered 2D CAD application — one that you already know how to use — and is free with none of the usual limitations: We’re not constraining printing, saving, file sizes… we’re not including untimely time-outs… we’re not even constraining the software license — our free DoubleCAD™ XT can be used for unlimited personal and commercial use.”

“Our hope is that as you need even more power, you’ll consider upgrading to our enhanced DoubleCAD™ XT Pro product or DoubleCAD™ plug-ins as available.
Based On Award-Winning CAD Code”

(quote from their website)
 I had downloaded and tested this software and i personally felt that
DoubleCAD™ XT
is
 more than enough
if you use it for 2D drafting only
.

Besides this, i also downloaded the
Advantages of

DoubleCAD™ XT over AutoCAD LT.

https://downloads.imsidesign.com/DoubleCAD/doubleCAD_xls_matrix1.pdf

and
FULL Feature List

https://downloads.imsidesign.com/DoubleCAD/DoubleCAD_Detailed_Feature_List.pdf

Wait no more

DOWNLOAD NOW!!

~ah lau~


Free 3d Models, Free CAD Models- 3D ContentCentral

‘Nothing in the world is FREE’
,
ya right!~
Say it again until you read this! The only
FREE
 stuff in the world will be
https://www.3dcontentcentral.com/
.

a printscreen of 3DCC
What it offer is a free registration website where you can browse 3D CAD models of supplier components and use it in you design process. Again, it’s totally
FREE!
 Don’t believe me?

Okay, pretending the website can talk and I’m chatting with him
(it)
:

me
: Hi, tell us more about 3d contentcentral.
3D
: 3D ContentCentral
®
 is a free service for locating, configuring, downloading, and requesting 3D parts and assemblies, 2D blocks, library features, and macros.

It consist of
 active community of 496,989 CAD users who share and download user contributed and supplier-certified 3D parts & assemblies, 2D blocks, library features and macros.
Thereby saving you precious design time that you would otherwise spend designing 3D CAD models of supplier components from 2D catalogs.

me
: you mean you have 3d and even 2d? I though it only have 3d parts?
3D
: Yup! Not only 3d,
free parts and assemblies are available in all major 2D and 3D CAD formats, including SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, and AutoCAD.

me:
 Interesting. Okay, i download a part then what should i do?
3D:
 alright, lets me explain the 5 simple steps:
search, configure, view, download & use

Search

for supplier components using part numbers, product names, descriptions, product parameters, and other application-specific criteria, or by simply browsing through an intuitive catalog interface.

Configure
 components based on specific requirements, such as dimensions, features, colors, and accessories.

View
 free 3D parts & assemblies of both user-contributed and supplier components, 2D blocks, Library Features and Macros. You can zoom, pan, and rotate the parts & assemblies.

Download
 free 2D blocks, library features and macros for SolidWorks. Download free 3D parts & assemblies in just seconds, in either native formats for several major mechanical CAD systems, including SolidWorks
®
 3D CAD software, CATIA
®
, Pro/ENGINEER
®
, eDrawings
®
, and AutoCAD
®
, or industry standard CAD formats for Autodesk Inventor
™
 Series, Solid Edge
™
, Unigraphics
®
, and other CAD systems.
Use

the downloaded part by dragging the part into your 3D assembly.
me
: oh, i see, that is easy! Beside that, can i publish my products into the website, as a supplier?
3D
: yes, you’re welcome to do so. This is how you do it:

me:
 Do i have to turn on my internet browser everytime when I want to accesss to 3d contentcentral?
3D:
 No…you can access to 3d contentcentral through SolidWorks as well. While you are designing and you are looking for a supplier part, just go to your task pane>design library and you will found an icon for instant access to 3d contentcentral, is just that easy!

Believe it? Better believe it!
Join now for free 3d part download to save your time/money, either you are a student who is rushing for final year project or engineer/designer who is designing a machine.

More and more free stuff will be post later. Stay tuned!~

~Sew~


FREE Great Tools for CAD Drawing & Viewing l 2015

Nowadays, CAD software is a must-have tool in most design and manufacturing companies to reduce fatal design errors that may show up during production. If you’re in the industry that relies a lot on CAD tools, you probably already facing some challenges to upgrade your current 2D CAD to cater customers’ demand for 3D design.

We understand that it’s not an easy task to migrate entire 2D CAD system to 3D CAD in an instant. Hence, we are introducing free great CAD Tools that enable you to free up budget to bring in more innovation with one goal – to take your business to the next level.

Our partner, SOLIDWORKS offers free CAD applications and services to help users to design faster and at an even lower cost. You may heard of it too –
Draftsight
 and
eDrawing Viewer
.

Draftsight

It is a straightforward 2D CAD software that enables users to access existing and create new DWG files, that is more cost effective as compared to alternative 2D CAD software.

Draftsight offers a familiar user interface and a minimal learning curve that facilitates an easy transition from your current CAD application.

Draftsight comes in 3 packages to cater different level of design needs,

Free
 – Ideal for students, hobbyists and other individuals.

Professional
 – For small and medium size companies that need a professional-grade CAD product with powerful, time-saving functionalities.

Enterprise
 – For large organizations with many users or multiple sites that need a professional-grade CAD product with technical support.

eDrawings Viewer

eDrawings Viewer enable user to view, print, and review all types of eDrawings files including native SOLIDWORKS®, supported AutoCAD® DWG and DXF files. It quickly interpret and understand any SOLIDWORKS drawing by dynamically viewing the 3D model as it automatically rotates through each drawing view.

eDrawings Viewer eases anyone to interpret and understand Simulation results coming from SOLIDWORKS Simulation (FEA), SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation (CFD) and SOLIDWORKS Plastics.


Free Seminar: Managing MultiCAD Data with SolidWorks PDM enterprise

We are going to held
SolidWorks PDM enterprise
 Seminar on next week. Detail as below:

SolidWorks PDM enterprise
 is a Product Data Management (PDM) solution that can be used to help manage, find, share and re-use your valuable engineering data, both within the Engineering Department and throughout the organization.

The PDMWorks Enterprise Quick Start program is a proven implementation system:-

> Quickly gain the benefits of PDM in the shortest amount of time.
> Train your entire team on how to share CAD data from a secure vault.
> Get your new PDM system up and running in as little as 5 days.

Join us to the PDM Seminar for quick understanding how PDM manage your Design Data

Date: 27 Mac 2009

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Venue: IME CTSP Centre

The best part is that we manage to invite
Mr. Ba-Thong, Regional Technical Manager- PDM Asia Pacific SolidWorks Corp.
 to share and present to you the fastest way to benefit from Product Data Management.

For more information, feel free to contact us @ 1300-88-2797

Is all about collaboration efficiency 🙂


From CAD to CAM- simple and fast!

Hi friends,

This is a simple perfume bottle that I have come out during the last weekend:

Model rendered in PhotoView

Basically the feature of this model is simple. As you can see, the overall body shape can be created by extrusion base on the sketched profile. However, to make the chamfering along the the bottle, especially when the chamfer size is not equal, you will need to use some surfacing technique to handle it properly. Here, i have create a short video to share with you the techniques, hope you enjoy it!

I have sent the SolidWorks model for CNC machining! As you know, MasterCAM is a very powerful CAM software that can be integrated with SolidWorks. When the CAD file is read in MasterCAM, it can automatically generate the machine language- G-Code  and sent to CNC machine to run the tooling. You can imagine how excited I was, when you model out something, you can see the outcome the next day!

Mock up by CNC machining, material: Acrylic


Gallery Widget

Here is another Widget that runs on top of Yahoo Widget Engine –
Gallery Widget.

How it works:

Drop a folder of your SolidWorks designs onto this widget and sit back and watch as it displays each one in its full glory! Many options including picture frames, duration of slideshow, sort order, image size and more. Also displays other file types (such as image files).

So I have finished my posting on widgets today. Stay Tuned for more postings from ah lau….


Gasoline Station: Display for Dimension Names

For you information, since 2010, the
Show Dimension Names
 setting is now controlled and saved per document instead of for all documents as a system setting.

Previoulsy (SolidWorks 2009 and before), this setting was controlled under Tools>Option>System Option>General…

In SolidWorks 2010, you just need to on and off the display under
View>Dimension Names,
 or, from the
Heads-up View toolbar
, click, Hide/Show Tems>View Dimension Names:

 View>Dimension Name

 Heads-up View Toolbar


Get Comfortable and Get Use To It

Put your hand together for our new join member- Farizal!~
(temporary he prefer us to help posting. Soon, he going to do this by himself.)

Designing by my definition is a work that required you to do it right and to do it fast. You goal is not just to finish the design… but to finish the design fast in order to make any change soon.That is why CAD came in otherwise people still modelling with clay or plasticine.

Since we will be designing and changes a lot, here is my few tips to make this routine pleasurable and convenient.

Pre Designing

1.
Turn the room light on.
 Only hackers stay in dark and ruin their eye due to long expose from single light source…designers don’t.

2.
Caffeine is good.
 So help your self with hot beverages in the morning.

3.
Get a good chair.
 Make sure your feet is flat to the ground with out pressuring your knees (too low) or your legs is hanging (too high). Arm rest is and added bonus.

4. Be aware of your palm and wrist on the table.Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is no joke.

5. Position you sitting height so that you will be seeing monitor display at 15° downward angle.This will please your neck and back.

6. Remember to unstuck your eyes from the monitor display every 15 min. Re focus your view to a further object in order to relax your eyes.

7.
Switch to sandals.
 If permitted, bring a pair to your office.You felt more comfortable and reduce smelly socks syndrome after work.

Designing

1. Change window color to other the white.

White is a high contrast color and the amount of light bouncing back to your eyes is high.Therefore, I recommend to be change to a “cooler” color like green here:

This will affect  all the white color window in SolidWorks to this less harmful to eyes color. You will notice that you can prolong your designing time with out tiring your eyes.

2.
Change color in the SolidWorks working area.

If felt the feeling “this is not correct to my eyes” kind of situation when designing,then stop yelling “Mah eyesss! It burns” because you can change the dull gray color to more “eye comfort background”.

From the top bar, go  to “Tools”, then “Options”.Then go “System Options” tab, select  “Colors”. Under “Color Scheme Settings”,pick “Viewport Background” and hit Edit on the right to change color that suit your mood.

3. Maximize Working Window.

Most people don’t realize that you can maximize more of your work space window by resizing the icon or change the workspace layout.

If you happened to have a wide screen monitor (pfft..who doesn’t nowadays), you can change the workspace layout by going to “View”, then “Workspace” and then change to “Widescreen”.

You will notice the panel have been place on the side so that the top and bottom screen been clear for better view.

Further more, re size the icon to a smaller and remove text/description.This will give more workspace viewing area.

Go to “Tool” then hit “Customize”. At the “Toolbars” tab, unchecked the “Use large button with text” box. This will remove the text that took the icon space. Then, at Options on the right, unchecked the “Large icon” box. Only leave “Show tooltips” just in case you forget what the icon/button do. Just hover over it to pop out the tool tips. For pro with shortcuts out there,

just unchecked the “Enable command manager” to the hide all the icon/button set completely.

So, here you have it. A clean workspace window. I just left the filter task bar down there because I use it a lot lately.

I think that is all for now. For next entry, I will tell about Speed Designing, a method that shave of those millisecond of designing time and the art of placing the right key that make you a ninja with shortcuts.


Getting started with 3DEXPERIENCE platform

As most businesses and factories gradually getting back to work, maintaining sensible distancing is a must. The new normal of a workplace would be able to work remotely across the teams and locations. So how can you ensure or manage your team’s efficiency while not being in the same room?

With
3D
EXPERIENCE platform, your team can continue your current projects, unleash their creativity and create even more value while they work from home or anywhere to the new normal.

3D
EXPERIENCE platform is a business experience platform in a cloud-based environment that can connects your product development process, it is has a single, easy-to-use interface and it is based on real-time environment. Most importantly, you can access it
anytime, anywhere with any device
.

What do you need to get started?

Business Innovation
 is the first step in your
3D
EXPERIENCE journey. Now that people and data are connected for collaboration, teams have access to powerful capabilities for design, simulation, manufacturing, data and lifecycle management, and more.

Check out more about 3DEXPERIENCE platform
here
 to understand how it works, or you can contact us directly via
Whatsapp
!

We are more than happy to assist you to transform your business to cloud!


Getting started with SOLIDWORKS Visualize

For most processes through a product’s life cycle, being attractive seems to be the norm in the modern society where products are getting competitive and the product that catches the eye first is crowned as the king. So, how do companies make their product attractive in the eyes of the consumers you ask? The answer is very simple, through visualization. This is why SOLIDWORKS Visualize exists, to allow your visualization to take form in this design space of unlimited possibilities.

So let’s get started with SOLIDWORKS Visualize. In this example we will see how to make a design a whole lot more attractive.

The picture above is the 3D model of the mouse and it looks unattractive to say the least. So let’s get started in SOLIDWORKS Visualize. For all of you who are new, we will be using the ‘easy mode’ to do this and it will give you an idea of what it is that you need to make a solid render.

First things first, let’s start by adding some colours! Hit on the paint icon and start throwing in things that will make your design stand out.

So here I have added some personalized touches onto the mouse model. I’ve added some dark blue plastic, high gloss black, rubber appearance for the scroll wheel, light grey for the side walls and some chrome to finish off the look. So I can definitely say that this is what I want. However, it still looks dull in the pictures doesn’t it? Do not worry! We are just at step 1 of adding colours; we still have some settings to play around with!

In this next phase (scenes), what I did was just add a new environment and a new back plate. An environment is where you can adjust the light settings of the surrounding area and the back plate is just a static back ground. For this, I created and adjusted the light source to be above the model and adjusted the lighting to be on the softer side, and then I decided to use a solid white background to exaggerate the shape of the mouse. After making these adjustments, the appearance on the model has changed. However, this does not reflect how the mouse will actually look like! The appearance on the screen is simply just a rough picture. The next phase is to position your camera view; this can be done by rotating the model in any orientation desired for the final picture. To get a high quality result, we would have to click on the ‘render’ button for SOLIDWORKS Visualize to produce the desired image results. The rendering process will render the current camera view on the display.

Here is the final result of the rendering. Do note that this was just a simple example which shows a short glimpse of the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Visualize. With SOLIDWORKS Visualize, companies will be able to market their products in a more attractive manner and all of these can be done with just a small amount of training! No technical knowledge is required to operate this software, meaning that anyone can use it.

Like what you see? Interested in SOLIDWORKS Visualize?
Contact us
 now to learn more about SOLIDWORKS Visualize!


Glass bottle Vs Aluminium can, which is more environmental friendly?

A great blog to share to my fellow followers.
SolidTutor
 posted an article by comparing glass bottle and aluminium by using
SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress
.
Click here
 to view the great sharing.

which is grenner?

To use SustainabilityXpress you need to have SolidWorks 2010 installed. However, if you are using SolidWorks 2009 you can download SustainabilityXpress from the
SolidWorks Labs site.


glove phone – inspired by The Avengers

Skip the intro and accept the fact – we all watch this movie, the Avengers.

The best part about a group of superheroes – at least  one that suit your taste. Who is yours? Mine is Captain America. Well, Thor too. Sometime, Hulk too.

If you compare back the old school The Avengers, Iron man is the ugliest ‘tin’ man in this group of heroes and less attractive compare the rest. Even in video game, normally I’ll skip the ‘tin’ man.

Fast forward to year 2012, Iron man now is the most ‘technology’ driven, equipped with latest gadgets on his body and a talking system that far more better than SIRI. Not to forget his cool rides as well. So wish that I’m Tony Stark; “Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist.”

Not just me, I guess. Bryan Cera is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he’s studying for an MFA in Art and Technology. he’s created this very “Iron Man” type gloves known as the ‘Glove One’ concept – that even incorporate a working phone!

How he do it? thanks to Objet Connex multi-material 3D printing system.

“
Using CAD software, I designed components around that circuit. Aside from the used phone’s electronics, 12 smt switches, and few micro bolts and nuts, everything was designed by me and then fabricated via 3D printing, laser cutting, or CNC milling. I outsourced the 3D printing to Ponoko, a 3D printing service, who printed the components on an Objet Connex.
”, Bryan said.

A very impressive innovation. Bravo! wish you all the best to Hollywood. (maybe catch you in The Avengers 2?)

More detail about the Iron Man style phone, feel free to click below link to find out more.

OBJET BLOG –
Iron Man Style phone glove

PONOKO BLOG (more detail) –
Glove mobile phone

Guys, time to think what else we can design with the best CAD, SolidWorks and Objet machine.

Night guys~

p/s: btw, anyone can tell me why The Hulk can be transform as he wish? So confusing.


Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

Of  all the numerous traditional Chinese festivals, I believe this is the  most anticipated celebrations of all, at least for me it is. It is the  time of the year where no matter where you are, studying or working  abroad, you would travel across the globe just to be with your loved  ones. It is the time you seek for forgiveness, and be grateful of what  life had brought upon you.

On this festive season, let’s all embrace the water snake year and may it bring to us abundance of joy, love, luck, and good health.

Gong Xi Fa Cai from the Geeks 🙂


Good Job from 3DVia Composer

Hey friends,

I come across with a nice video showing how 3DVia composer is able to present the sequence of dismantle parts in order to change batteries inside a remote control 4WD car. This video looks short and simple but it helps a lot in guiding the users by giving clear and easy understanding instruction! This can ensure the user follow exactly as what is required to do and able to dismantle and assemble the parts in a right way without causing any damage.

Also, with 3DVia composer you can create a clear instruction without a single piece of paper. that’s great for reducing the chopping of tree.

Let’s see how simple and powerful 3DVia Composer can be:


Good News For CAD user!

 Hey guys & gals,

Tiring of using mouse & keyboard with your CAD design? Do you wish to experience a better way to perform intricate adjustments to camera views and models without repeatedly stopping to change directions, zoom or rotate model. Here you are welcome to grab the chance to win 3D SpaceNavigator!

In conjunction with SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009, IME Technology Sdn.Bhd. has organised a Photo Rendering Contest to cultivate the interest of doing photo rendering in 3D. You can either use the existing model provided by the organiser or you can design your own model and render it with either PhotoWorks or PhotoView360!

Don’t worry about lack of idea to perform your design, I believe for those CAD lover, you may have the interest to build your favourite character after you enjoy the movies such as recently we have Transformer, G.I. JOE, Harry Porter and so on. Come on! Use your interest to win something!

You can visit this website
https://www.cadcam.com.my/index.php/photo-render
 for more information. Have a nice weekend =)


Good News for Photo Rendering Contest!

Hi everyone, since we have very good response for the photo rendeiring contest, here we have decided to extend the due date until
4th October
!
For your information, this photo rendering contest was organized by IME in conjunction with the SoldWorks Innovation Day, the visitors of SolidWorks Innovation Day will be the judges! They will be entitiled to vote 3 best entries among all!

Below are the entires i have received when the due date is just around the corner~Some of the entries here are come from my students who previously dunno anything about SolidWorks! But now, from their entries, i can see they are growing! Great job man! I really feel touching when received all these great entries~Keep on designing good stuff in your life! I believe there willbe still some other nice entries that i will receive during these few days =) Enjoy the nice views–>

(p/s: remeber to render your file size in 4961*3508 pixel, you may reduce render quality (but maintain the A3 size )if your pc do not have sufficient memory)

 Entry #24 From Chong Yik Seong
Workbench

Entry #23 From Linus Miranda
Key

Entry #22 From Chong Yong Hong
 Car rim

Entry #21 From Chong Chiew Choy
Workbench

Entry Description: Sometimes you will lost in your work, just be patience, something is still there.

Entry #20 From Chan Yonsen
Laptop

Entry #19 From Chong Chiew Choy
3D Connexion

Entry Description: Flying object using these state-of-time tool, you will feel like fying in the sky.

 Entry #18 From Chua Liew Piau
Bottle Pump

Entry #17 From Allen Tan Cheong Fu
Workbench

Entry #16 From Allen Tan Cheong Fu
Isuzu DMAX

Entry #15 From Mohamad Sobri
Home Decoration

Entry Description: Plan Design Living Room Arrangement

Entry #14 From Leong Yew Hon
DSLR Camera

Entry Description: A more stylish look of DSLR camera with highly reflective material at all edges as compared to the traditional DSLR cameras which are all black in colour.

 Entry #13 From Leong Yew Hon

3D Connexion Mouse

Entry Description: It is design such a way that to be used with non-dominant hand (left for most). It is used to move or adjust 3D objects, maps and etc.

Entry #12 From Chua Yonsen
Chess

Entry #11 From Jeffrey Chai Wen Hao
Bedge

Entry #10 From Jeffrey Chai Wen Hao

Chinese Chess


Good News! Good News! It’s pay back time!

There are some good news that I would like to share with everyone. 1st of all, we would like to thank for all of your support in SolidWorks-Malaysia blog and made it  a success one. All of us in the team committed to continue to make this blog successful and provide the best SolidWorks news, tips & tricks and design idea to everyone in the world, especially to you, our beloved Malaysian. Your supports, your ideas are important to us. Truly appreciate your visit to our blog & your valuable comments.

On behalf of the Blogger team, I would like to address our thousand of appreciation to all of the visitors.
Y
our participation as a follower, your comment, your design………….. Will entitle you to win for a HP Thumdrive, SolidWorks Laptop bag, SolidWorks T-shirt……… and much much more……

Grab the opportunity now!!!

*** you are welcome to contribute your design idea, or you would like to join as the SolidWorks-Malaysia blogger, drop an email to me “
felicia@cadcam.com.my
” & you might stand for higher chance to win more fabulous prizes..

Hurry Hurry……Make your move now!~

Note : Lucky winners will be annouce during the month of “SolidWorks Innovation Day Malaysia” on this coming October… Stay tunes & visit us more often to update with the latest blog updates.

Cheers~


Green Design Contest – Winner

Great news folk. For you who had joined the SolidWorks Green Design Contest, the results are out.

You can get the winner list
HERE
.

A screenshot of the winner page

You are right, my name is not in the list.

In the list, I saw a lot of winners who bringing back an Apple Ipad 2 and the 1st place winner for commercial are packing his luggage and preparing to fly to Chaa Creek Rainforest Eco Lodge in Belize for a 4 nights vacation.

Now I’m really, really jealous because my submission didn’t win any prize, even runner up. Below is my submission.

simple 1 piece sheet metal that can be arrangement in different methods

Guess my design is not sustainable enough by selecting the wrong material.Any comments on my design? If you are the interior designer for an airport, will you consider my design?

Comments.


Green Design contest

Happy Wesak Day~

Sorry for my M.I.A for more than 20days after my last post. It’s been a busy month for me, work and personal life.

After a short period of MIA and Wesak holiday, I would like bring you all an exciting news.
A wealthy entrepreneur “Sir Richard Doylson” has decided to launch a new airline powered solely by algae-derived biofuels, called
Greenair
. (
the story
) & you (with you full of imagination mind) would need to help to design a ‘green’ chair for to be use in the airport. Now, c
an you design a lower-impact chair?

The detail I will not mention here, just feel free to drop by to
THIS LINK
 to understand more. What I can say is that the prizes are really, really, really seducing. (four nights at Chaa Creek Rainforest Eco Lodge in Belize, Ipad 2 with wifi, free entrance ticket to SolidWorks World 2012 San Diego etc. For me, the most important is there is a possibility that the design will be manufacture and use in the airport.

It’s time to stick to the chair and start to think a ‘green’ chair for an airport. Don’t be surprize if you saw my submittion in the contest as it also open for reseller to participate. See you there!~ *evil*

The contest is open from now through midnight Eastern on June 30, 2011. The submissions page will go live on April 29, 2011.


Green design: Iris Coffee Table

When doing my internet browsing today and search for images related to laser cutting, this design caught my attention and I decided to download it and share here. I think this is one good example of simple and nice design. The designer,
Michael Bihain
who is now working with companies and distribution firms development furniture, jewels and accessories and this is one of his new design, the iris table.

He has used laser cutting to transform a single sheet of steel into a
coffee table
 that resembles an
iris
. Unlike most tables the iris is stackable. So I assume this designer had considered sustainability factor in this coffee table. Imagine the transportation cost saving by incorporate stackable features in his design. Besides, this is also good for environment as we can reduce our carbon footprint by reducing the number of transportation trip when shipping.

As a designer, we can play a big role in conversation of our environment, let start incorporate those features in our design that can reduce our carbon footprint like this one here. Thumb up for Mr. Michael Bihain.

 have a nice weekend!!
~ah lau~


Green Technology Financing Scheme

” Who able to adopt GREEN TECHNOLOGY will be the winner in the 21st century “

Above is the important phase by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak during his attendance to the “Green Technology Financing Scheme (GTFS)” official Ceremony this evening at Hotel Marriot, Putrajaya.

In the budget speech for 2010, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia announced the establishment of
Green Technology Financing Scheme
 amounting to
RM1.5 billion
 as an effort to improve the supply and Utilization of Green Technology . The Scheme could benefit companies who are producers and users of green technology.

The Prime Minister Said the fund was aimed at encouraging investment in green technology, green construction and innovation, adding the scheme would also encourage much needed foreign direct-investment and would support technology transfer and capacity building for local companies.

Below are the major improvement key areas as highlighted by Prime Minister:

1. Energy Sector
2. Buildings and Township Sector
3. Water and waste Management Sector
4. Transportation Sector

Najib Said, Malaysia was committed to playing its role in addressing climate change issues, including setting a
carbon reduction goal of 40% by 2020
 while investing in green technology, adding that the investments would allow the Government to build a progreesive and low carbon economy.

“These are ambitious plans for an ambitious nation. We must all play our roles – government and private sector alike.

THE WORLD NEEDS OUR HELP!!!

What are we waiting for?
Start your
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN NOW…….

About
 Sustainable Design
Sustainable Design information
Watch Sustainable Design Video


Guest Speaker in Solidworks World 2009: Sir Richard Branson

Here is some introduction of Sir Richard Branson from Solidworks Website

“
Sir Richard Branson, Founder and President, Virgin Group
Sir Richard Branson is founder of the Virgin Group, consisting of more than
200 companies
 employing over
50,000 people in 30 countries
, and recording more than
$20 billion
 in 2006 revenues. An entrepreneur since the age of 17, Richard has built a variety of companies into global successes. From
music
 and
financial servic
e
s to
airlines
 and
mobile telephony
, the Virgin brand epitomizes innovation, exceptional customer service, and widespread customer loyalty. In the spirit of his own business activities, Richard started Virgin Unite, the not-for-profit entrepreneurial foundation that works together with business partners, non-profits, and Virgin Group employees on global environmental, educational, and health initiatives. Since 1985, Richard has also been involved in a number of world record-breaking attempts. Richard is married with two children.”

During the first day of general session, Sir Richard Branson was introduced immediately after the video and was “interviewed” so to speak by SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray. Sir Richard stressed the importance of talking to the consumer AT LENGTH BEFORE starting the design process. You have to understand the consumer’s needs fully before doing the design.

”
UNDERSTAND CONSUMER NEEDS
 BEFORE STARTING DESIGN PROCESS “

He spoke of his world record attempts in boats and hot air balloons as well as his early days starting the Student Magazine. He had a really funny story about how he got into the airline industry. He called Boeing up and told him who he was and asked them how he could get a second hand 747 to use as a test bed for some of his ideas. Once Boeing figured out who he was he was able to secure a plane pretty quickly. All of Sir Richard and his team’s ideas of what would make the ultimate airplane flight was put into place and the rest as they say…is history.

Sir Richard also told a story about how one of their new luxury airline seat designs were tipped off to one of their competitions. Once they saw their competitor’s seat design, they immediately scrapped their entire line. (
scapped a Hundreds of millions of dollars project to be the best in industry
) and redesigned the seat to be the BEST product out there…period. He also discussed many of his efforts to make the earth a more “Green” place. He once flew one of his Virgin Airline jets successfully on biofuel!

” ONLY THE BEST PRODUCT FOR MARKET “

The Virgin Galactic name was registered back in the 1990’s. Sir Richard was ALREADY thinking about space flight then and began meeting with scientists and engineers in hopes of pioneering the effort. Of course that led him to Burt Rutan which resulted in the X prize award winning Spaceship One. Sir Richard says that Spaceship Two should have it’s first test flight before the end of the year. The first flights will be suborbital which is much like what was done with Spaceship One, but orbital flights are in the future as well!

“VIRGIN GALACTIC IS FIRST COMMERCIAL COMPANY THAT ACHIEVING WHAT ONLY OF THE WORLD”S MOST POWERFUL NATIONS HAD DONE BEFORE.THEY PUT MAN IN SPACE, and CLAIM IT AS VIRGIN TERRITORY”

What is the breakthrough of VIRGIN GALACTIC – SpaceShip One?

The space shutter is
Air Launch not Ground Launch. (Air Launch means short rocket burn which minimize toxic emissions)

Light Resilient Composite Construction.

Rocket Propellants Benign and Controllable.

Unique Wing Feathering Technology for a Carefree and Heatfree Re-entry (this design is based on badminton shuttlecock)

Reuseable Vehicle

Here is the Interview video about Spaceship One and Sir Richard Branson.

I personally like the animation video below as it shows the whole process of having a holiday in space. This video was showned on the 2nd Day of General Session of Solidworks World 2009. I had difficulty to search  for this animation video but finally i found it at youtube and with Jason’s help, i managed to convert these video files from youtube to MP4 and from MP4 to AVI. I hope that i am the first person who post this animation in solidworks related blog.

This successful REAL story is a combination of :

REMARKABLE MAN + REMARKABLE DESIGN + REMARKABLE EFFORT = SPACESHIP ONE.

i hope you will like this post.

~ah lau~


Happly Birthday to Our Blogger–Ms.Felicia~

HAppY BirthDaY To U…HaPPy BirthDay To U…HappY BiRthDay to FELICIA~Happy BirThdaY To U!!!Whew~
Hi all, today is the birthday of one of our sweet blogger-> Ms. Felicia. To show my appreciation to the effort that she has put on SolidWorks M’sia Community,i have tried to use SolidWorks to bake a birthday cake for her!

                                                                                ~Rendered by Nelson~

Does it looks nice to eat? Haha!Here, I would like to share my recipe:

Ingredient= SolidWorks & PhotoView360

Step1:

Draw a circle and draft it when you extrude.

Step2:

 The side slope can be created by using revolve cut with fillet and do a circular pattern with suitable number of instances.

**Step3:

Insert a sketch on the top face of the cake, use text function to create the wording. Becareful!
The wording style that you have selected might not suitable for extrusion if they are overlapping with each other(Just like the font style that i have selected for this cake).In this case, you just need to right click on the text–>select Dissolve Sketch Text, then you will able to use the Trim Entities function to trim off the extra lines and eliminate overlapping between text.

Step4:

Create the candles.The helix cut of the cancle can be created by using a sweep cut. Since the candle is drafted, the path of the sweep cut can be created by using Helix/spiral–>variable pitch option.

Step5: Assign creamy color to your cake base on your preference!

Step6: Render with PhotoView360!


Happy Deepavali

IME & SolidWorks Malaysia community wishes you

Happy Deepavali & happy holiday.

Peace!~


Happy Mooncake festival 中秋节快乐

Happy Tanglung Festival

Happy Mooncake festival

Happy mid-autumn festival

Here I would like to greet you all 中秋节快乐。。。 月圆，人团圆！(Happy mid autumn festival… moon round, happy reunion!)

In this special festival, I never forget to take a bite on the delicious mooncake, with compact filling of lotus paste. Tonight I’m going to eat more!
More!

More!

Do you know how a mooncake was made? Same size, same pattern and same taste? The process remind me a feature in SolidWorks, we call mold tools.

Like this. Get it?

Neh!~ just want to take this opportunity to show off my new toy- 3DVia Composer; generate illustration from my SolidWorks 3D model. With this tool, it make my presentation much more easier in term of explanation. It can generate varies output either static image or dynamic video, even in .html format to spice up your website.

More to come as now… is time to turn on mooncake mood. ^.^ 中秋节快乐!~


HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year!!! I want to wish everyone healthy and wealthy in 2009… We always use this phrase in our daily life – “Give and Take”…… Sometimes i asked myself what happen if we change it to “Take and Give” – take first then give…… i repeat “take and give” for 3x times and it sound a bit weird to me, but the most important thing is it doesn’t rhythm. Anyway, this year (2009) i am going to start to “give” first to follow the sequence of the phrase ” Give and Take” I am going to give everyone a link to “
Free Solidworks Simulation Xpress Online Training Seminar
“
I think most of Solidworks user will aware that every seat of Solidworks includes SimulationXpress. It can provide basic analysis functionality for those who don’t use FEA tools regularly. (like me!!)

In this training, you can
1) Perform Structural Analysis for Solidworks Part.
2) Learn when and why to use SimulationXpress.
3) Download Exercise files and test your skills in SimulationXpress.

Finally, i hope everyone can get some “value” for this training.

Happy New Year 2009!!!


Happy Valentine

Valentine is just around the corner! Here I Have used SolidWorks to create a rose and render with PhotoView 360!

I have choose the “matte” material under rubber catergory to represent the flowerHowever, the existing color of the matte material is not suitable for the rose.

So, what I have done was, just applied the matte material to the rose and change the color using the advanced tab under appearance funtion!


Happy Winter Solstice

祝大家冬至快乐!

I wish you all a happy winter
Sonata
 Solstice!

Fellow followers, to-do list for today:

– Punch card on time *evil*

– Gather some close friends and family

Option 1

– visit to the nearest dessert house and order a bowl of rice ball.
– Enjoy the bowl of warm rice ball in your mouth and let the filling warm up your day.

Option 2

– Skip the jam and reach home earlier than usual.

– cook your own frozen rice ball.

– Enjoy the bowl of so called home-made rice ball in your mouth and let it warm up your day.

Option 2 is my choice, how about you?

Happy winter Solstice!


Hardware selection

New year, new version. Got the new SolidWorks 2012 but hardware is not up to specification since it was bought 5 years ago. Bet it’s time for a new hardware. I did some study and let me share some important information for you to take into consideration when searching for the right hardware for the right (design) job.

Remember these 5 hardware components which dictate SolidWorks Performance:
CPU
 (number of cores, speed),
RAM
 (how much, speed),
Hard drives
 (how many, speed),
Graphics Card
 and
OS Selection
 (32bit or x64). Let’s see how SolidWorks utilize all these components:

CPU

Refer below example of typical command:-

Open file: multithreaded (One core for file one, one core for generating display window)

Rebuild: Single thread

Feature addition: multithreaded

Save file: Single thread

Update drawing view: multithreaded

PhotoView 360 rendering: support multi thread

RAM

Users should evaluate RAM usage subject to their own environment.

One way to know the potential of RAM require, is open all the typical applications that use for whole day, open SolidWorks with one of the biggest file size you have.

Open task manager and review Available Physical Memory on the Performance Tab.

Consider adding more RAM to the PC if it indicate that it running close to out of RAM.

Please note that the 6GB and above recommendation is for 64 bit operating systems only.

If using a 32 bit operating system, then the operating system will not recognize more than 4 GB.

Graphic Card

The basic guideline, if it is a larger model, mean it have more triangle, then you need a better graphic card. For this, I would like to recommend you to refer to SolidWorks website and get a certified graphic card that best suit your budget, just that simple.

https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

Operating system

Window OS is what (and only) you need to consider. For the time being, SolidWorks only run in Window OS. My advice, always goes for the latest OS (currently is Window 7). You want your hardware to support at least few versions of SolidWorks, right? In term of 64-bit or 32-bit, why 32-bit when Windows doesn’t add a cost factor, since the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows both cost the same. Chan (our SolidWorks expert) found an interesting sharing about 64-bit Windows. Click below for to understand more about 32 bit and 64 bit.

“Taking the mystery out of 64-bit Windows”

https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/taking-the-mystery-out-of-64-bit-windows

Hope my study and web research on the best hardware configuration for your SolidWorks usage helpful. Drop me a comment if have any question and I will try my best to answer you.

Just a quick wrap up, ask yourself, what function would you like to be faster?

Rebuild –Faster CPU

Analysis –More CPU cores, More Ram

Rendering -More CPU cores, More Ram

File Open –Faster Hard drive

Oh, by the way, don’t miss out our hardware promotion as well.


Hidden and New features in SOLIDWORKS Pattern that you might missed

Last Thursday, there is a live design on SOLIDWORKS channel hosted by Jeremy and Toby.

Jeremy and Toby streaming on SOLIDWORKS YouTube channel last week.

Starting in year 2021, SOLIDWORKS team from DS started to run live stream on the YouTube channel, to talks about latest news, new features and tips and tricks for SOLIDWORKS.

On this stream session, they going to discuss and show some of the hidden features that help to speed up your design process.

Usually when we want to rename the dimension, we need to turn off the Instant 2D features, select the dimension, and rename the dimension on the feature’s properties. In SOLIDWORKS 2021, instead of turning off the Instant 2D, if you double quick tap, can direct access the properties at the dimension section, which allow you rename and change the dimension easily. Which skip some hectic steps to accessing the properties each time when you need to standardize your dimension details.

Double quick tap on the dimension in instant 2D direct open the properties shortcut tools

Allow you to edit the dimension, and rename the dimension to standardize your modeling details.

Instead of using complex formula to manipulate the distance between the instances in linear pattern, you can use the Up to reference option in the feature to control the instances position and apply offset dimension at the end of the instances. So, the distance will always be the same with the original offset distance in the original seed pattern in SOLIDWORKS.

Offset option you might miss out if you seldom use the up to reference option in linear pattern.

Double click the offset option allow you to modify it, or fix it with references dimensions.

Up next, is the new enhancement on the linear pattern. When come to geometry pattern, usually due to geometry changes on the linear pattern. The shape and design of the pattern follow external geometry as reference. Most of the time, linear pattern required you to select the geometry pattern to ensure all the instances pattern in the feature become exactly the same pattern with the original seed pattern. Vary sketch in the linear pattern allow you to maintain the same design but with different sizes base on the shape and the behavior of the reference line, it can be straight line or flexible curve line. With this enhancement, it provides more flexibility when come to customization on linear pattern.

Vary Sketch allow you to maintain the same design pattern with different sizes.

Result after selecting the vary sketch options.

Able to use simple sketch line to define the linear pattern behaviors.

They going to have constant live stream about tips and tricks on SOLIDWORKS. It will be remarkable, if you follow their youtube channel to watch Toby to share about his knowledge on SOLIDWORKS.
https://www.youtube.com/user/SOLIDWORKS

As usual, follow us on our social media account, for more latest update on CADCAM solution.

– Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Highlights for an Amazing 2016!!

2016 has ended; what a year it had been. Yes, it was indeed a year considered by many to be challenging, yet exciting and inspiring. The year started out strong as we had our 35
th
anniversary networking gala and ASEAN Economic Forum; and finished even stronger with many amazing experiences in between. We have all this to thanks to our customers, thank you for being part of our amazing year.

Here are some of our favourite moments:

Sin Chew Business Excellence Award

For us, this is indeed another milestone achieved – to be recognised with the Sin Chew Business Excellence Award under the Digital and Technology category.

Without your support this would not have been possible. We will continue to strive for excellence in whatever that we do. May we all continue to work together, support each other and grow.

Major Events:

IME SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day 2017

“The Power You Need to Drive Innovation”

This event is such a memorable event for us. This year marks our 10th IME SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day. With the theme The Power You Need to Drive Innovation this year, we hope that every participant managed to bring back some new ideas and inspirations, and that it gained them an edge in driving innovation.

It was a great experience for us indeed to have toured around Malaysia and met incredible participants. Can’t wait to see you at IME SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day 2018!

Check out what happened
HERE
!

Mawea Customer Meet 2016

It was great to meet up again in this biennial event with the theme Empowering Engineering Technology. As mentioned by our group Chairman Mr. Teoh, technology is changing at a rate that is faster than ever, there is no time more suitable than now, for us to leverage on technology, and be innovative in transforming our process and business.

Check out the event photos,
HERE
.

Visualize (Render Like A Pro Contest)

We organised the Render Like A Pro Contest on our social media last few months. The contest lasts for 3 months long and great feedbacks we received from the participants and our social media fans. The contest aims to raise awareness and expose participants about the latest rendering tools available in the market.

The winner of the Contest, Yusuf Buwanguzi said that “I believe it’s not only the performance that makes a great product, but also its visual appearance. There is a popular saying: ‘Design is where art and science break even’. I am right at that junction.”

Click
HERE
 to see rendering images submitted.

Improve Quality and Productivity: Modern Machine Shop

We are bringing for the first time participants to our
Manufacturing Techno Hub
 for t
he Modern Machine Shop seminar. The topics covered by the speaker is ONE SETUP MACHINING – Complete multi-axis machining and Quality Inspection in one setup, SCAN AND INSPECT – Use 3D Scanner for reverse engineering and quality inspection and PROGRESSIVE MACHINING – Complete a complex part with multitask and just one operator.

We hope you’ve got some good ideas on how to transform your machine shop into a modern one during this seminar.

Check out the event photos,
HERE
.

Driving Operational Success

It is always encouraging to meet with people who share the same interest or objective. As mentioned by the speaker during the event day, there are 3 stages in the journey towards Operational Success: Initiating Change –
 Implementation –
 Sustaining Change.

We concluded the event with examples of successful system implementations from our customers, technology assessment steps and how to further assess your readiness for new technology adoption.

Click
HERE
 to experience the event through photos.

Partnership and Collaboration

MoU Signed with Dassault Systèmes and Institute of Technology of Cambodia

We are delighted to be part of this ambitious partnership. Through this partnership, teachers and students at ITC will be offered a specialized suite of tools for engineering design, documentation, simulation and sustainable design in one easy-to-learn software package.

We hope with this partnership we are able to narrow the gap between classroom and actual workplace by integrating digital technologies such as virtual environment learning on real industrial projects.

CREST Youth Industry Boot Camp 2016

Meeting up with a group of students is always inspiring us. In collaboration with CREST last year, we are mentoring 100 over participants in the boot camps organised under the Engineering, Science and Technology Youth Programme 2016.

We spent days in each boot camp, mentoring them throughout the product development process from product design up to prototype development. Our engineers also shared with the students their personal experience while pursuing the engineering career path.

Check out the event photos,
HERE
.

PSDC Engineering 4.0

This is indeed a great event you shouldn’t miss – the PSDC inaugural Industry 4.0 Week. Throughout the week, so much to take away from the sharing by agencies such as MDEC, PSDC and MIDA as well as other industry players. We also shared with the participants in the talk on “Simulation from Production Ideation to Production”.

Building the Community

Congratulations, Maelstrom Team

We had the honour to help them with 3D modelling and production of their design, and are proud to be part of the creation of the 4×4 vehicle, which can navigate and complete obstacles on a test track and emulate the capabilities of a full size 4×4 vehicle.

They also managed being ranked 10 out of 21 teams from 14 countries and also winning the Best Sponsorship and Marketing Award in the Land Rover 4×4 in Schools Technology Challenge in UK.

APU Engineering Student’s Final Year Project

The students had done an amazing and interesting final year project that is a Humanoid Robot ELA. Ela was designed using CATIA V6, programmed to mimic human’s movements, listen to human commands, recognise colour objects; she can even be controlled using your brain.

The students from Asia Pacific University (APU) with MAWEA Industries, not only gained real project management experience, but were also exposed to real technology and solutions that are being used in the industry for product development.

The project scope was especially comprehensive as it covered exposure in several areas: industrial robots, product design, kinematic analysis, virtual simulation.

Once again, thank you it had been a wonderful year, an awesome year full of awesomeness and I wish all of our partners and supporters a happy new year. I look forward to engaging with you all again in 2017!
🙂

Oh yeah, don’t forget to check out our
Website
 and
Facebook Page
 for the latest updates. Feel free to drop us an email at
marketing@cadcam.com.my
for any enquiries or suggestions, we would love to hear from you. Cheers!


Homeowners Go Green with Wind Turbines Designed in SolidWorks 3D CAD and Simulation Software

Windsave Turbines are Small, and Can Help Customers Save up to 30 percent on Electricity Costs

Homeowners and small businesses throughout the U.K. are using micro
wind turbines
 designed in
SolidWorks ® 3D CAD
 software by
Windsave, Ltd.
 to cut their energy costs while reducing their carbon footprint. The Scottish company is also using
Sol
idWorks Simulation Professional
 to improve overall performance and efficiency. Windsave standardized on SolidWorks to refine the technology and accelerate development of its wall-mounted micro-wind turbine system to reduce the amount of power a home or business draws from the national
electricity

grid
.

Key facts
· Founded in 2002 in Glasgow , Windsave is the largest micro wind turbine installer in the
U.K and at the forefront of a movement to bring green energy choices to consumers.
· The micro wind turbine stands just over three meters (nearly 10 feet) tall with a bladespan of 1.7 meters (5.5 feet) and is attached to a building.
· As wind spins the blades, the turbine generates electricity that supplements the incoming electricity from the grid, reducing the amount the customer has to pay for, and decreasing overall carbon emissions.
· Windsave has reduced the number of prototypes to test new products or features from four to one, saving up to £3,000 ($4,400), using SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation.
· The company has also reduced the prototype production and testing process from eight weeks to two.
· As the company expands sales internationally in 2009, Lumsdaine and his team will explore the possibility of mounting smaller versions of the micro turbines on street lights so municipalities can cut energy costs.
· The
Global Wind Energy Council
 predicts that the global wind market will grow by over 155 percent to reach 240 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity by 2012.
· The amount of wind energy produced globally will represent nearly three percent of global electricity consumption by 2012, according to a Global Wind Energy Council
report
.
· More than one third of
European Union
 electricity must come from renewable resources by 2020, according to the recently signed
Renewable Energy Directive
. Wind power will account for most of that renewable energy.

Quotables
From Mike Lumsdaine, mechanical engineer at Windsave
“With SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation, we’ve been able to refine the action of the tailfin so that it is more efficient and aerodynamic. Additionally, prototyping costs and time kept adding up with Pro/ENGINEER. SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation allow us to produce and test a sample on screen to see if we’ve over- or under-engineered it. That’s a huge benefit when optimizing a design.”

Windsave relies on authorized SolidWorks reseller Thom Microsystems for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.


How can Flow Simulation help with your cooking?

It is amazing what Engineers could do when you give them a powerful software like SolidWorks. This week the engineers at SolidWorks simulated if we can cook 2 steak or 2 pumpkin pies at the same time – will it cook thoroughly?
This fun experiment is done in SolidWorks Flow Simulation, which uses Computational Fluid Dynamics for the calculations of 3D fluid flow and heat transfer.
Begin Experiment:

 (Photo source: my.solidworks.com)
The Flow Simulation software calculates how the hot air flows in the oven and whether the heat is distributed uniformly to cook the food evenly. They started with defining the internal fan of the convection oven, add heat source on the bottom and CFD simulation would let us see the heat circulation in the oven, surrounding the steak and pies. We can also use the temperature distribution plots to determine the heat the meat will be getting on each tray. In this case, it shows a temperature difference of 13 degrees so the bottom tray would actually cook sooner.
 (Photo source: my.solidworks.com)
 (Photo source: my.solidworks.com)

I particularly like these close to real life examples where we can relate what CFD is. If I run this before I start baking I’m sure it would increase my “productivity” and reduce “waste” too! 🙂

To learn more about how Simulation could help improve your designs and reduce prototypes and cost of error:

Click to Watch Now


How Flow Simulation Can Help in Plant, Process, Construction & HVAC Project?

The growing global appetite for energy requires us to focus more on energy efficiency. Energy saving and climate control have become the hot topics now.

For Plant, Process and Construction Industry, their everyday challenges are chasing project deadlines while designing HVAC system such as ventilation, heat distribution, and airflow patterns that meet the project requirements.

So, how can Flow Simulation or what we technically call Computational Flow Dynamics (CFD) help? CFD allows you to model a wide range of physical phenomena to predict airflow and temperature distribution inside and around the building. In addition, it helps in simulating contaminant dispersion so that one can find ways to minimize the dispersion and improve human comfort level.

Design is an iterative process as engineers continuously modify the design until it meets acceptance criteria defined by safety, cost, performance, convenience, and shape. To optimize the process, CFD enables the automation of these iterations and helps engineers to find the best design earlier.

With the help of CFD, you will be able to vary a set of selected variable parameters, such as model dimensions, boundary condition parameters, and initial mesh settings, so as to analyze the flow parameters that you want to study.

The study will then compare the results of different scenarios in an intuitive format so you can find the best alternative.

To know more, do not miss out our upcoming hands-on training.
Join us
 to further discuss and explore with other engineers from the same industry in a 4-hour-session that could change the way you design.

>>
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Aircraft air circulation application with Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) solution

How often do you travel on plane? Do you know that you share that experience with more than three billion people every year; and when we put so many people in all these metal tubes that fly all over the world, sometimes, things like this can happen and you get a disease epidemic, especially with the virus outbreak – H1N1, Ebola and the latest, COVID19.

‘What happened when a person sneezes on a plane’
, a question one might ask. Well, this young inventor, Raymond Wang decided to use Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) solution to find out how the air moves on airplane and found out that air would get swirled around multiple times, hitting their neighboring passengers before it even has a chance to go out through the filter. “This is a pretty serious problem”, he said. He then conducted more than 32 different simulations to come up with a solution while reducing the prototyping and physical testing costs.

Find out how he did it in the video below:

If you want to simulate liquid and gas flow through and around your designs like he did,
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
 is the right software for you!

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
 uses the Finite Volume Method (FVM) to calculate product performance through “what-if” scenarios that allow you to perform optimisation using the results.

Contact us now
 to learn more about SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation or to attend related training and workshop!


How to create a ring surrounding a bottle?

Hi all, here is the wine bottle that I share with you previously. Wish to know how to create a ring surrounding the bottle? Actually is very simple, you just need to do the follwoing steps:

 1. Create an angle plane that intersect with the bottle body. Here, I will refer the angle plane to the current TOP Plane. Open a sketch on the TOP plane and draw a construction line as shown in the picture.

 2. Then, when using the Reference geometry > Plane funtion, select the construction line to define the plane position and also the TOP plane as the reference to measure the angle.

 3. With the angle plane, now we can create the path of the ring by using the “Intersection Curve” function. Basically, intersection is a function under “Tools> Sketch Tools> Intersection Curve which enable the user to define 3D curve to represent the intersection between 2 surfaces/solidbodies/planes.

 4. Now, we can prepare the plane for the sweep profile. You just need to select the 3D curve and pick a point in order to create a plane normal to the curve. Then just draw a circle on the plane as the sweep profile.

 5. Create the ring using seep function, define the 3D curve as sweep path and the circle as sweep profile.

6. After you get the 1st ring, just use the circular pattern function to get the 2nd and 3rd copy and play around with the angle of rotation then you will get the unexpected nice result!


How to Design a Boat Hull in SolidWorks 3D CAD Software with Free Form Feature

This Demonstration exhibits the New Free From Feature in SolidWorks 3D CAD Mechanical Engineering Design Software. Mark Biasotti, Product Manager at SolidWorks, creates a Boat Hull from a sketch drawing using the SolidWorks Sketch Picture Feature…….


How to draw a knurling?

There is discussion in my ChatWorks, discussion how to model a knurling in SolidWorks. It not difficult, just that it consume quite a lot of memory. So, below video capture the steps. Hope this is helpful.

Thanks.

note: I received a few followers complaining the video hang too long. Ya, I purposely put it to let you roughly estimate the time needed to load the final feature which consume lot of memory.
 So, it was not any technical  error or what.


How to Improve Solidworks Performance?

Time for tips and tricks again….many will asked question like this

“What are some basic tips to improving SolidWorks performance?”

……………………………………………………………………

So i got this tip from Lorono’s Solidworks Resources website and here i will like to share with you on his best practice in improving Solidworks performance…

………………………………………………….

Below is the answer:

1) Document access and size:

Store and use related SolidWorks documents from a single folder on a local hard drive. Opening documents from a single folder on a local hard drive is faster and more stable than opening documents scattered across a computer’s hard drive(s), or from over the network. In fact, accessing documents across a network connection can be very slow and unstable.

SolidWorks part models and assemblies may be reduced in file size by using the File>Save As… function to save with the same name. (Further space savings may be realized if the file is saved as a different name, closed [including where-used assemblies], reopened and then Save as… to the original name.)

Another way to reduce the size of SolidWorks files is to use EcoSqueeze, a program that removes nonessential information from saved files. It should be noted that SolidWorks Corp. recommends against using such programs. This program is available under the Utilities category of this website’s Downloads section. As with all downloads, use
EcoSqueeze
 at your own risk.
(you can download ecosqueeze by clicking the link, but again use at you own risk!!)

2) System and display performance:

Run solid models and assemblies with shaded display turned on. SolidWorks runs quickest in this mode.To force a solid model, assembly model or a drawing to completely rebuild and refresh, use the Ctrl+Q function.

Within the System Options under General, make sure Show thumbnail graphics in Windows Explorer is unchecked. If this item is checked, it will drastically slow down Windows Explorer when showing SolidWorks files.


How to Improve Technical Communication Effectiveness?

Technical communications challenges are not limited to engineering or technical documentation alone, but also impact other departments across the enterprise in many different ways. Some of the very common concerns shared by different departments are, for example:

“We shouldn’t be spending so much time on non-engineering tasks.” – Engineering Department

“It’s hard to understand these drawings and work instructions.” – Manufacturing Department

“Our suppliers have difficulties in interpreting our design and quoting us the price.” – Procurement

“We have to always rely on engineers to provide us with good graphics for us to proceed with designing the collaterals.” – Marketing

How can these issues be addressed? Are there any solutions that we can use to improve the communication effectiveness?

The answer lies in integration. Having an integrated system in place that enables designs to move seamlessly back and forth between design and manufacturing facilitates a collaborative environment for your engineers. Through the integration of technical communications with product design (CAD) software – be it in technical content publishing, video generation, quality control & inspection or photorealistic 3D rendering – it eliminates the need for data translation and allows design changes even in the later stage of the product development cycle, yet still be able to ensure the timeliness of product delivery.

For this, SOLIDWORKS provides a full range of technical communications and product visualization tools such as:

SOLIDWORKS Technical Communications Solutions

SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model Based Definition)

Instead of using traditional 2D drawings, this integrated drawing-less manufacturing solution guides the manufacturing process directly in 3D. It defines, organizes, and publishes 3D PMI (Product Manufacturing Information) such as dimensions, tolerances, surface finish, notes, and other annotations in industry standard file formats. It helps designers or engineers to communicate their design intent better to others especially on the design details. As a result, it manages to streamline production, cut cycle time, reduce manufacturing errors and support industry standards such as Military-Standard-31000A, ASME Y14.41, ISO 16792, and DIN ISO 16792.

SOLIDWORKS Composer

It provides you with the tools to prepare technical communication deliverables in parallel with product development — so your documentation keeps up with your design changes and is ready with your product. It also allows you to reuse 3D design data to rapidly create highly detailed 2D or 3D graphics or even 3D animations for your assembly instructions, product manuals, training material and marketing collateral for interactive trainings or marketing presentations.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection

It helps you to streamline the creation of inspection documents by leveraging your existing 2D legacy data, regardless of file type – SOLIDWORKS files, PDFs, or TIFFs. QA engineers will then be able to automate their usually manual and tedious process, and quickly create ballooned inspection drawings and inspection sheets for the First Article Inspection (FAI). It helps drastically reduce the time needed to generate inspection reports yet avoid errors and inconsistencies traditionally associated with manual data input.

SOLIDWORKS Product Visualization Solutions

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

This new product (formerly known as Bunkspeed) provides a suite of standalone software tools that combine industry-leading rendering capabilities with design-oriented features and workflows that enable easy and fast creation of visual content.

You may import files of various formats from SOLIDWORKS or other 3D CAD system to create compelling scenes and ultimately the most realistic content possible. It can produce static images, animations and web ready content with stunning graphics effect in shortest time, helping organizations to communicate within company and external parties especially nontechnical users.

To understand more about the capabilities of these solutions, don’t miss the chance to explore with us and other engineers who share the same concerns on how these tools may help in improving the technical communication effectiveness in your company.

REGISTER HERE
 and join us in the exclusive hands-on workshop
“Go Beyond 2D Drawing for Effective Communication”
 on 19th April 2016 (Tuesday)!