SOLIDWORKS Tips: Better Understanding of Assembly | Part 1

To fully utilize the assembly features, the user must familiar with the features that are available in assembly. If users seldom use this assembly for their projects, in result they may face a problem when it comes to assembly. Apart of that, it is very important to understand the real function of the features, so user would not be spending more time to figure out which features they can use.

Understanding the Mate Options

Most of the user are confused the mate options and the condition of mate. Therefore they are forced to allow SOLIDWORKS to decide the assemble process for them.

Standard Mate

Advanced Mate

Mechanical Mate

The majority of the user are confused the difference between standard and advance mate. The standard mate is the basic mate that is use for basic attachment usually involving between two points, planes and point to surface. Simple operation would not need to have any technical experience to use this mate feature.

Advanced and mechanical mate are mostly for organized assembly system or the prediction of the system behavior. These sections of advanced mate are difficult compare to standard. Certain concept and theory are needed to ensure the features work correctly for your assembly.

A wrong selection of planes or point may cause errors in your assembly you will unable to complete the mate. You may require to test and trial a bit on the selection plane or point before you apply this mate for your assembly

A mechanical mate is the mate for robotic or mechanical movement control. You may need to do some minor calculation. For example in gear mechanical mate, you may need to do calculate a pitch diameter and radius of the gear. This is to ensure that the gear can turn accurately in your assembly. A wrong setting wrong setting may create visualizes overlap effect in your assembly.

Analysis tools that can be found in assembly

These are few tools that we usually used to measure mass properties, to check on the size of the component, to measure the length and height and to double the error in terms of design precision.  Meanwhile using the interference detection and distance tolerance allows us to check the error between the components and the gap between these components.

Interference detection allows you to check the overlapping component in your assembly. With the color highlighted this will make it easy to identify which components are crashing each other.

Clearance verification is the feature which allows you to get the gap distance between the components in assembly and can increase to mille distance.

Hole alignment allows SOLIDWORKS to realign the hole wizard holes and to align in a same row on the component.

The most common feature that user use is measure. This feature allows you to measure the edge, distance between two planes, two points, surface area and perimeter of the plane.

The most common feature that user use is measure. This feature allows you to measure the edge, distance between two planes, two points, surface area and perimeter of the plane.

Section properties allow user to select partial component to do mass analysis instead of the whole assembly.

Assembly visualization allow user to identify which component is critical part for the whole assembly, using color to differentiate the component.

Open assembly more on the software performance tools, allows you to identify the feature that caused your software slow in startup.

Features or module that actually using assembly

Piping module and simulation premium are the few modules that use assembly for design modification and simulation.

As seen in the SOLIDWORKS add on, those are the feature can be used in SOLIDWORKS assembly. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Part feature that can be use in assembly, the differences you use in assembly

You also can use the SOLIDWORKS part feature to do your modelling design simultaneously. However, you will need to take few more steps to create the component.

Instead of inserting component one by one, click the arrow option allows you directly create the new component in the assembly. The edit component feature in SOLIDWORKS, allows you to create new component within the SOLIDWORKS assembly.

For those who want to understand more on Assembly, stay tune for part 2.


SOLIDWORKS Tips: Better Understanding of Assembly | Part 2

Now let’s continue with part 2

Once you use the edit component, basically you can reuse the entire feature in SOLIDWORKS part. It depend on user design intention, if you heavily dependent on the assembly position and structure design, then this might work to solve your problem, without switching the window between the part and assembly.

Meanwhile, if you did not use the edit component in assembly, you are only allowed to perform cut feature in assembly. The feature will only create base on assembly position, it will not create changes on the individual part file.

External reference in assembly can confusing sometimes

It is easy to use the existing reference to do the model design, but there are few sections you may need to put more attention on.

If you enable the external references, you can use existing model to do part modelling, but it will restrict your freedom to edit the model using the dimension. You need to decide whether to use the external reference for your part modelling in assembly feature.

The external references only can be used in edit component mode, for part modelling in assembly.

Secondly, you may spend more time to rotate and move the component when you try to add on more detail for the internal design of the model.

Lastly, sometimes you may get confused with what you are doing the feature in part or assembly file in SOLIDWORKS.

Unless you are high experience in doing part and assembly modelling, else you may spend more time shifting the component instead of doing the part modelling design.

Recreate a new component using the external references.

In the individual part file, as you can see the arrow appear in your feature, which indicates the where file is create in assembly, using external references in assembly.

By using the external references, the relation of the entities automatically applied in your sketch.

Now we repeat the same step, but we disable the external references.

The line will remain in blue, and no relation has been applied. Meaning the entities is no longer using the assembly geometry as references.

If you wish to know about the SOLIDWORKS tips and tricks, what’s new, and skill enhancement session, do contact IME for more information for the workshop.


SolidWorks Tips & Tricks Day

2 December 2009, 2pm – SolidWorks Tips & Tricks Day

Hi member, you are invited to join SolidWorks Tips & Tricks day on 2nd December 2009 at 2.00pm. At this unique one-day online conference, you will have the opportunity to pick-up some great SolidWorks tips and learn how to create more accurate and reliable product designs. We have special invite speaker from Malaysia, Singapore, India, etc to present you all the great SolidWorks Tips.

During the conference, you will be able to:

– Watch countless SolidWorks Tips & Tricks Videos
– Challenge your knowledge by taking our design quiz
– Have your question answered by proffesionals in “Ask The Expert” session.

Join us in this event, and participate in our live chat sessions. Our SolidWorks Experts will be there to answer all your questions, live from the Virtual Conference Auditorium.

Please click to
www.solidworks.com/swid_ime
 to join and experience virtual 3D experience.


SolidWorks Toolbox Configuration

Since 2009, SolidWorks Toolbox has changed a new user interface which is much more user friendly. Here i would like to share some steps on how to configure your own toolbox by using the globe valve model:

1. Add-in SW Toolbox & SW Toolbox Browser. Click on the Toolbox under Design Library. Select Ansi Metric > Washers > Plain Washers > Narrow Flat Washer Ansi B18.22 M. Right click and configure. A toolbox configure interface will appear. Click on the 1st step- “1. Select your hardware”.

2. Click on the 2nd tab- Customized hardware Navigate to the Narrow Flat Washer Ansi B18.22 M. Click on the Custom Properties icon. Property Name= Material; Type= List; Link to SW Material. Under material column, browse in Plain Carbon Steel, Brass & Nylon. Under the value, key in Steel, Brass & Nylon. Click OK and tick the check box for material. Save the changes and close up the window.

3. From toolbox browser, drag in the Plain washer. Use the auto mate function to locate the washer. From the context bar, define M10 as the size. From the property manager, define brass as the material. Click OK.

4.
 To Have Your Own Standard Toolbox!
 You can’t directly modify the existing toolbox in SolidWorks, what you need to do is to copy another set from the existing standard and modify the copy base own your own requirement. To access the Toolbox configure window again, user can go to Toolbox> Configure…
Under 1st page (Select Hardware), select Ansi Metric from Toolbox Standard, click on ‘Copy Standard” icon. Enter
my standard
(as example) as the name of the new standard.

5. Under 2nd page (Customize Hardware), click on my standard > Bolts & Screws> Socket Head Screws > Socket Head Cap Screw Ansi B18.3.1M. Click on “Size” under standard properties. User will able to modify the existing fastener size. To add a new set of fastener size, click on the “add new row” button.

6. Drag in Socket Head Cap Screw ANSI B 18.3.1M from ANSI Metric > Bolts and Screws > Socket Head Screws. Insert into the hole with washer. From the context bar, size=M10; from property manager, Thread Display= Schematic. Make use of the arrow to modify the length of the screw (30mm)

7. Use Feature Driven Pattern to insert the washers and screws to the other 3 holes.** Feature Driven Pattern is able to support Hole Wizard Feature as well.

8. Dynamically change the length of the fasteners. (User no longer needs to edit toolbox definition in order to change fastener length.)


SolidWorks Wins Engineers’ Choice Award

We know that SolidWorks has simulation package in it, we know that SolidWorks was famous because of its ease of use, we know that SolidWorks has a short learning curve to master it, that’s why engineers knew that they have to vote for the best 3D CAD software and they made it! The winner goes to
(of course)
SOLIDWORKS!

Be proud to be part of the community who is using the award winning 3D CAD software, SolidWorks. I’m proud of it; hope you proud of it as well.

“This award speaks volumes to the value our users see with our built-in simulation tools and further enforces our position as developers of more than just CAD, but end-to-end engineering tools,” said Fielder Hiss, SolidWorks director of product management.

Thanks for all of your support (& mine)!

click here to read the award winning software’s article!


SolidWorks Word Puzzle

Hey friends, feel boring with your works? Take a break here to challenge this SolidWorks Word Puzzle:

Fill in the columns and rows with SolidWorks features by referring the given hints!

(click the image to enlarge or download)

Question after the jump.
Horizontal

I need to create interesting image files in a simple and fastest way to present my product and for marketing purpose.

I have no idea whether my single part design is strong enough to support the given load?How can I obtain the factor of safety (FOS)?

I wish to check whether I have over design my parts? Any method to help me reduce the cost of material while maintain the feasibility of my design.

My job is to design electronic enclosure, which feature can help me a lot?

I always receive a lot of imported file from my customer and facing problem to modify them.

I wish to have a good presentation to show the actual mechanism of my machine.

I am a designer of a power plant where I always start my design with P&ID diagram.

My product will encounter repeated loading and unloading, how can I know how to estimate the life cycle of my product?

What is the fastes method I can use to produce a combination of structural members with different profile?

How can I save my time from building all the standard fasteners and insert them to my assembly one by one?

Can I figure out the assembly stack-up effect due to the individual dimensions and tolerances given to each part?

I have a master design part and its drawing file. I wish to auto generate new version of my design base on the master model with different sizes.

Vertical
a. Any feature to assist me in calculate the impact to my product when falling down from certain elevation?
b. I have to add lighting from different direction and control the brightness given by those lighting to make my rendered image more attractive.
c. Can I produce machining drawing follow the manufacturing approach by define my own datum as reference?
d. I am dealing with customer who are using autoCAD, sometimes I may receive autoCAD files, need to modify them and send back to my customer. Which software to use?
e. I have been spend a lot of time just to compare the difference between 2 version of file either 3D model or drawing
f. Any tool can help me to create technical document for my machine in a faster way?
g. I wish my product can be more enviromental friendly so that it is more competitive in the market.
h. Any feature in SolidWorks can help me to design product with curvature geometry?
i. My goal is to determine how many fan should I include in order to maintain the temperature of power supply not over 95 deg.
j. How can I make use of offpeak hours to perform job such as file printing, file conversion and create drawing?
k. I am a designer who lack of machining experience, any feature can help me to design by considering the manufacturability?
l. I wish to calculate the stress distribution of a plastic part and also its behaviour under large deformation.


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2009

Hi all,
Is anyone of you missing me? Is anyone wanted to know what i did these few days?

Well, without asking too many questions from you that make you run away from this blog. Let me tell you where i have been these days.

I went to Orlando, Florida to attend Solidworks World 2009. Well, Orlando is quite far from Malaysia, it took us more than 30 hours to reach there, but i am going to bring all the information from Solidworks World 2009 to you without you to fly more than 30 hours to Orlando…..

This year Solidworks World 2009 held at Swan and Dolphin Hotel which are both within the area of Disneyland, Orlando. Below is the picture of Dolphin Hotel. Beautiful is it?

Solidworld World 2009 is divided into 4 days, pre-registration, 1st day, 2nd day and final day.

For you who want to know what is happen on the 1st, 2nd and final day general session please click on the link i attached.

1st day general session started with keynote from Dassault Systèmes Solidworks Corporation CEO, Jeff Ray and following by interview session with Sir Richard Branson. I will post another blog about Sir Richard Branson… but for you who want to know what Jeff Ray said in Solidworks World 2009, let check it out!
(Click on the picture to play the general session video)

2nd day general session highlight will be Jon Hirschtick, Co-founder and Group Executive, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation

Final day general session featured the top ten wish list of Solidworks user and top ten new features that will “probably” revealed in coming version of Solidworks.

Do you know who is this “botak” guy? He is Fielder Hiss, Director of Product Management.

I think that’s enough material for this post. I will try my best to post some more if i am not too tired later…..

Well, it feels good when come home to Malaysia. The very first thing we did as we landed in Malaysia is find a local stall with local food and “makan puas puas” ……we miss Malaysia food too much…… 😉

~ah lau~


SolidWorks World 2010: 100%  electrical Hot Rod

Green. Fast. Hot. Antique?

Hot Rod ’33 ford

Spot any different? (the
engine
 motor compartment)

It maybe an antique, but it is the fastest green/environmental friendly antique you ever see on the road. It did zero to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds on the first try, with street tyres, in a parking lot!
I did 0-60 mph in 13.8 seconds with my 5 years old car on the first try.

SolidWorks did it again! SolidWorks ROCK!!!

Drove in by Jeff Ray, CEO of Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp and beside him is Bernard Charlès, president and CEO of Dassault Systèmes. Both of them enjoy the ride into the Arena,  the ’33 Ford stunted the crowd and all were amazed by the latest creation of Factory Five Racing (FFR). 100% electric car, powered by a DC induction motor, produced 660 ft-pound of torque (o.O) with no transmission. This ride really spice up the event!~

the power pack

Posters is now in my office and ready to give to my fellow followers. Just drop me an email for the poster. 1st come 1st serve basis. No fighting!~

FFR is an American automobile company that designs and manufactures assembly kits for replicars and sports cars.

click below links for more info about Factory five and an exclusive interview with the creator behind the green hot rod:

https://www.factoryfive.com/hotrodhome.html

An interview with  Jeremy Luchini, Mike North and Dave Smith .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eN4WWseNW0&feature=related


SolidWorks World 2010: SolidWorks? the Cloud?

A big sorry for my followers who waiting anxiously for SolidWorks World 2010 updates.

Is my honour to attend this great event, SolidWorks World 2010 and be part of the 5000 other participants and over 110 partners. any other software developer can do it?

Jeff Ray, CEO of Dassault SolidWorks shocked the whole CAD industry on the 1st day general session. Imagine, in the near, very near future, SolidWorks can run on multiple platforms, Not only on Mac (
I can’t wait for this
), Linux, Windows, Firefox, chrome OS.. Something call the cloud system is under-going and with this technology, you can access the design database anytime, anywhere.

5000 participants were so excited when Mark Schneider unveils a Mac with netbook and touch device seating next beside it. We has been waiting to run SolidWorks on Mac since long time ago and finally it’s here.

Direct editing capability in assembly. Simply drag an assembly, all the parts involve updated to the latest dimension while maintaining the feature history.I bet most of you like this enhancement, right? Even with the cloud, open a huge assembly didn’t cause any lagging or slow performance when rotate or moving around.

Although no product announcement, only preview but  I pretty sure what we see today going to be available very soon. A cloud-based 3D modeling system is coming to town!~

Below is a video SolidWorks has posted that has Fielder Hiss and Austin O’Malley of SolidWorks explaining the cloud and what next in the development.


SolidWorks World 2011, San Antonio, Tx

World class event of the year.

Yes, I been to SolidWorks World 2010, Anaheim, CA. The trip was unforgetable. At the same time, we went to Hollywood and world 1st Disneyland and took picture with Mickey Mouse. So wish that I can go again. ^.^

Never though that I haven wake up from my unforgetable experience,
SolidWorks World 2011
 is now open for registration; just right after the launch of SolidWorks 2011 Beta 1.

This time, SolidWorks World will be held in San Antonio, Texas. 23-26 Jan 2011.

The famous river walk is a just part of the MUST-GO reason for you to attend SolidWorks World. SolidWorks World offer you a chance to:

> get to know SolidWorks users around the world,
> be the 1st to know what’s new in Solidworks 2012 (yes, I really mean 2012)
> solution partners’ showcase and exhibition.

For the time being, I just put 3 because this is not the main intention I wrote this. The main reason:

Just in case you didn’t see the green little post-it in the link I shared, do read above image properly: SAVE $200 for early bird. The currency is in US Dollar, so you can save up to RM700.00 if you register before 29th October 2010.

Don’t take too much time to think, I can guarantee you it will be fun and fruitful. Ask your boss to sponsor you now and maybe you can get a better bargain for flight ticket too. 🙂

https://www.solidworks.com/swworld2011/


SolidWorks World 2014 Recap

As always The SolidWorks World is full of inspiration and excitement. Over 5600 engineers rocked up at SolidWorks World 2014 this year at San Diego. The conference starts off with greetings from Bertrand Sicot, CEO of SolidWorks. Below are some highlights I find particularly interesting:

“
The OceanCleanup
” Project
 – a project to clean up our ocean by extracting 7,250,000,000KG of plastic out of it.

The CopenhagenWheel

– A hybrid bicycle that allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need a bit of a boost. It also maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time.

Home.By.Me
 – Online 3D space planning service developed by 3DVIA.
Contact us
 for a 3DVIA demo now!

SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual
 – The New way to tackle concept:

BiomechatronicsBionic Limbs

– bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs.
 Read about the interview with Mr Hugh Herr (Designer and user of the bionic limb) after the session
here
.

eatArt Foundation
 – Fostering energy awareness through art. Check out the Walking Machine and Mondo Spider. Designed in SolidWorks.

Watch the Mondo Spider in action:

Partner Pavilion highlight:

SolidWorks and 3D printing: SolidWorks being the first 3D CAD package to implement direct 3D printing. We saw SolidWorks 2015 on a Windows 8.1 device, the product development team printed a 3D model directly to a Makerbot Replicator 2, without exporting to a neutral format (such as STEP or STL) or using any third-party software.

Top 10 Enhancement Requests for SolidWorks 2015:

#10 Auto Hide Components while mating to improve selection

#9 Purge Data Command to reduce file size

#8 List quantity of identical holes in a hole callout

#7 Redefine a Fillet to a Chamfer (and vice versa)

#6 Redefine (flip) angular dimensions after placed

#5 Unlimited Undo/Redo

#4 Esc to STOP immediately

#3 Draw line from Midpoint

#2 Rename component in Feature Manager Tree

#1 Equal Spacing for Linear Patterns

CADMAN to the rescue – Sneak Peak for SolidWorks 2015:

Split command now cuts surfaces (SolidWorks)

Define asymmetric fillets – set face fillet bias (SolidWorks)

Switch pattern from a feature to a body pattern without deleting and redefining. (SolidWorks)

Render region tool – draw a box over the screen and render it within the model (PV360)

Midpoint line tool – draw a line from midpoint and it auto relates (SolidWorks)

Convert spline to Style Spline without replace or delete (SolidWorks)

Segment lines with auto-split, co linear relationships and equal length (SolidWorks)

Rectangle tool has orthogonal construction lines with new options (SolidWorks)

Weldment cut list uses weldment details for the folder description (SolidWorks)

SolidWorks Costing now works on SolidWorks Weldments (SolidWorks)

View results while Simulation is still solving (Simulation)

Ducting feature and wire raceways inserted similar to piping (SolidWorks Routing)

Width mate now supports geometry limits.  This is similar to PhysicalDynamics so it detects surface to surface contact. (SolidWorks)

Chain pattern – allows alignment to a curve and relationships can allow motion (SolidWorks)

Profile Mate – Mate two faces and SolidWorks automatically aligns the surfaces coincident and the center of the profiles are also aligned. (SolidWorks)

Open part from drawing in same orientation (SolidWorks)

Break View works in parts and assemblies then leverage in drawings.  Works for isometric views too! (SolidWorks Drawings)

Angular dimensions can use many model edges to avoid creating construction geometry. (SolidWorks Drawings)

Zone lines for drawings (SolidWorks Drawings)

Decimal rounding options in Document Options

Layer Printing – control print access to specific layers (SolidWorks Drawings)

SolidWorks Inspection integration inside of SolidWorks.  It can read many aspects of the drawing like tolerances and other aspects to auto build inspection reports.  This tool also runs outside of SolidWorks and can do OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of PDF and TIFF Files. (SolidWorks Inspection)

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Web2 – A server-side web client that can run in any browser and has mobile specific views for phones and tablets.  It also can call up eDrawings mobile from the device for viewing and markup. (SolidWorks EPDM)

That’s it for now. We look forward to a smooth sailing and prosperous year ahead, and ofcourse, SolidWorks World 2015 in
Phoenix Arizona February 8-11, 2015.


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 : FIRST DAY!

SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015! Happening Right now!

As usual, upon registration we get a cool back pack (it gets better every year!), and an event T-shirt:

Topics on the plate today:

SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams:

Early birds who rock up today could take the Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA), Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWPCORE), or any of the Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Specialist exams at no charge. A lot of brain activities going on in the hall with a room of engineers doing exams!

CAD Manager’s Boot Camp:

Always a fruitful session for CAD Managers to gather and explore ways to maximise the output of SOLIDWORKS. It highlights the importance of combining IT and CAD best practices in order to reduce the cost of ownership and maximising your investment on the powerful CAD tool.

Performance
: Hot topics always revolve around CAD performance. We discussed how configurations and system maintenance affects and lead to performance bottlenecks – how NOT to go there!

Being a good CAD manager
: How training, evaluation and planning is crucial in building a good team as well as obtaining good results.

Data Managemen
t: Why it’s important to manage your data, and what are your options.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
: Plan for success—metrics, expectations, and proactive management.

The day ended wonderfully with great food, laughter, and cool breeze of a winter day in the desert!

Tomorrow will be the First day of the General session, look forward to seeing the development plan for SW2016!! Stay tuned!

Yours Sincerely,

Amanda

SWW2015 Reporter


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 : LAST DAY!

It was 7am in morning. It was cold and windy as it was the last 2 days as we made the walk to the convention center for the final time. Certainly one of the most treasured experiences in SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015.

After breakfast, we went into the hall expecting the final inspiring session in SOLIDWORKS World 2015. This time it was Mr. Jinsop Lee, Chief Globalization Office at a lighting company called Linno.

He began with some brief self introduction on his childhood where he lived in 5 different country before staying in America now. His passion on building up model toy, then assemble and color them pieces by pieces has actually made him realize that he enjoys the process rather than the result. He is inspired and eventually he came out with a theory –
5 senses based design theory
 that made him one of the winners of
TED Global Talent Global Search 2012.

According to the theory everything that we did could be evaluated by our senses: sight, touch, smell, sound and taste. So, are you curious now?

What you need to do is to sketch out the graph like the picture below, then rate each senses from scale of 1-10 when performing certain activity.
As an example,  Jinsop had shared his bike riding experience applying the 5-senses theory through a video recording of that experience.

Of course, the perfect experience would be something like this. But what activity is the best experience?

According to Jinsop, the only experience that come close to perfect so far is great sex! This immediately brought out laughter from the crowds, but the playful designer is making a serious point. Great sex, and great design, is about the five senses and how and when we use them.

Now how does this relate to SOLIDWORKS? As a product designer himself, Jinsop uses SOLIDWORKS and he anticipate that SOLIDWORKS will eventually develop and grow to include more senses in the future. With more senses stimulated, it will result in better product design experience, exactly like how we enjoy watching movie in cinema (the stunning audiovisual, the cozy environment, the audience that shares the same emotion as you etc).
Next, we had a very inspiring story about Mr. Seffi Udi. He was paralyzed from neck down due to an accident, at that point he had to choose to give up or continue living. Luckily, he is a kind man with a strong will that he is certain how to live the rest of his life to the fullest. He was introduced to SOLIDWORKS by his employer and since then he loves it and uses it to design and create things he uses daily such as his wheel chair, micro mouse buttons. He even uses SOLIDWORKS to design the layout of his home to perfectly suit his maneuver.

It’s truly amazing and inspiring that Mr. Seffi
 can design innovative products with SOLIDWORKS by using only his tongue
. He deserves our standing ovation for his spirit that inspire everyone to never give up no matter what situation we are in.

In addition to the inspiring story, we had our ever-present design challenge – The Model Mania. Do you know that Model Mania has been introduced for 16 years? These are the model mania “family member”, have you challenged any of them?

With no exception, SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 has the SOLIDWORKS Model Mania challenge too. The winner of Model Mania had won a tablet sponsored by NVIDIA. He took 12 minutes 21 seconds to create, modify and simulate the model! That’s impressive!

Everyone please try beating his time in our coming Innovation Day 2015 in October!

On the other hand, here is the Top 10 Enhancement Requests in 2014 voted by SOLIDWORKS community!

Support Zero Thickness Geometry

Bidirectional Sweep

Export Sheet Metal Part in Assembly to dxf/dwg in Flat State

Flexible Selection List Box Size

Display the Exact Item Causing the Error

Ability to Make the Inferred Relations Permanent in Sketch

 Selecting Inner Loop on a Selected Face

Both Direction Pattern

Topology Optimization from Tosca for all Engineers

Variable Pull Direction Draft

It’s true that SOLIDWORKS listens to user community and this is how they enhance the software progressively every year. Furthermore, they did an exclusive preview on SOLIDWORKS 2016 for us! Yes, you read that right, SOLIDWORKS 2016!

Here is the partial list of the exciting new features that you could expect in SOLIDWORKS 2016.

Hide/Show Default Planes

Auto Select Midpoint

Asymmetric Fillets

Two Direction Sweep

Mate Controller

Rename Part in SOLIDWORKS

Photoview 360 Proof Sheet

Menu Breadcrumbs

Favorites folder in Toolbox

Be sure to catch these features LIVE in our Innovation Day in October!
To wrap up,

Ten things that we experienced in #SWW15:

Phoenix City is a cool “desert” and it is extraordinary quiet besides working days.

Everyone is a sprint master in SOLIDWORKS World in order to get the best seat.

There are total 2.8 million SOLIDWORKS users worldwide that is larger than Kuala Lumpur population.

Innovation is not just about to create new things, but to create for the future.

Age of Digitalization of Life in 3D is coming in next decades.

Innovative company helps company to be innovative.

Engineering needs MORE Girls & Women!

Design with Sense; Sense with Design

Consumer buy product + EXPERIENCE

SOLIDWORKS = Multi-Solutions

Till then, we will go to DALLAS next year! (31st Jan – 3rd Feb 2016)

Hope to see you there!
Khor FW & Ken Foong
SWW2015 Reporters


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 : PREVIEW

It’s February 2015! A GREAT time of the year for SOLIDWORKS user to network with other SOLIDWORKS users, solution partners and reseller in a mega SOLIDWORKS community event – namely SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015.

Video time…

SOLIDWORKS World 2015: The Movie Trailer

SOLIDWORKS World is a truly inspiring place where more than 5,000 of innovators go to find answers to solve everyday design and engineering challenges. The goal of having SOLIDWORKS World is to inspire thousands of innovative and enthusiastic designers and engineers to share fascinating ideas, explore new solutions and technologies, not to mention to look at product design — differently.
Like what happened last year in
SOLIDWORKS World 2014

is completely entertaining and mesmerizing.

At SOLIDWORKS World 2015, we will be able to see and interact with amazing products and solutions offered by more
 than 100 exhibitors in the
Partner Pavilion and attend any of the 200+ breakout sessions to learn more about topics ranging from design automation and electrical design to simulation and product management.

SOLIDWORKS World 2015 has very powerful
lineup of keynote speakers that will challenge us to embrace the future of engineering, reimagine the approach to 3D design and inspire everyone to design beyond the status quo.

Below are the topics that will be shared by renowned keynote speakers,

Topic #1
 :

The Next Industrial Revolution: Pushing 3D Printing into New Frontiers by Bre Pettis
,
Chief Innovation Officer, Bold Machines (Former CEO, MakerBot Industries)

Topic #2
 :

How Technology Will Change Our Lives by Dr. Michio Kaku
, Theoretical Physicist, Author & Professor

Topic #3
 :

Designing for the Five Senses by Jinsop Lee
, Industrial Designer & Chief Globalization Officer, Linno

This year’s SOLIDWORKS World 2015 will be held February 8-11, 2015 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. SOLIDWORKS community members all over the globe including us are excited and are gearing up for this launch event.

WE will be attending SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 and share all stunning moments with our dearest readers. So,
 s
tay tuned for important SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 event updates.


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 : SECOND DAY!

We were all ready at 6:00am and had a 20 minutes walk to the event venue this morning. We actually found today’s morning walk to be rather exciting… because we were on our way for the much anticipated SOLIDWORKS World 2015!

Once we arrived at the event venue, we were amazed by the crowd! The huge grand hall was occupied by the people who are passionate in design and new technology.

The  venue was swamped by 5,500 customers, prospects, resellers and partners  of SOLIDWORKS around the globe! There are resellers from Western  countries like France, Germany and Turkey, not forgetting Asia countries  like Japan, Korea, Thailand and
us, the representatives from Malaysia
! Most of the attendees had reached the venue
approximately 45 minutes earlier
, queuing
outside the main entrance in order to get the best seat with the best view (YES! It’s exactly like a concert!)

The event had started with a mesmerizing Dassault Systemes video, enhanced by colourful LED lighting in the middle of the stage. And so… SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 is officially launched for continuously 3 days, from 9th – 11th Feb 2015.

Bertrand Sicot had went on stage for the final time as the
CEO of Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp.
 He had shared his experience in overseeing the growth of the brand, the journey of SOLIDWORKS transforming into a more and more comprehensive portfolio for intuitive and integrated 3D design. The SOLIDWORKS community had grown by 2 times and now possesses more than 2.8 million users after more than 18 years.

Thereafter,
Bertrand had invited
Bernard Charles, President and CEO of Dassualt Systemes to deliver his sharing on – The power of 3DEXPERIENCE that will redefine our live and work. Bernard had introduced a virtual company

– Bryo as an example to demonstrate how 3DEXPERIENCE platform has been connecting people with same interest and enabling industry clients to create great experiences for their ultimate customers or consumers.

Next on stage was Gian Paolo Bassi, the new CEO of Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp, who has more than 25 years of experience in 3D, CAD, and PLM industries. Gian Paolo started off with a testament “Respect the Legacy, Embrace the Future”, that he elaborated desktop era will be respected and continued as it is part of the SOLIDWORKS development legacy, on the other hand we should embrace the future which is SOLIDWORKS cloud application on 3DEXPERIENCE. As the new CEO, he will now spearhead the development of SOLIDWORKS future product and technology strategies designed for desktop and cloud, and collaboration with the existing strong 2.8 million user community.

“Respect the Legacy, Embrace the Future” through 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Gian Paolo had invited partners to present on amazing innovative products that was created using SOLIDWORKS solution. First one on stage was the lead designer from Parrot, who had designed Flower Pot using a new solution called SOLIDWORKS Industrial Design. The Flower Pot is a leaf-like water reservoir used in any plant/flower in a pot, to monitor the ambient temperature and humidity in order to water the plant/flower
automatically
. By using SOLIDWORKS Industrial Design, he easily created the leaf shape of the reservoirs in matter of minutes! It’s completed in minutes just by dragging out and pushing into the “robot”, a claylike volume in the SOLIDWORKS Industrial Design. It’s truly eye-opening as such fascinating design was done just by using one feature.

Another example would be the ship shown below. The prototype of the model was printed with a 3D printer.

Next, Thalmic Labs came up with the impressive Myo Gesture Control Armband, that senses our arm’s muscle movement when we are making different hand gestures like waving, rotating or simply clenching our fist.
Thalmic Labs said that
 they are able to control the flight of a quad copter, and even control heavy vehicles to perform a specific task.

When he mentioned that, something had crossed my mind… Perhaps, Ironman is in the making?

The final presenter of the day – Mr. Bre Petits, Former CEO of Makerbot Industries. He started with a brief introduction about himself as DIY person since he was as little as 6 years old. We were inspired by his ever cease passion in making things in 3D that then led to the founding of 3D printer – Makerbot (It’s acquired by Stratasys few years ago). He has been using SOLIDWORKS to create many generations of Makerbot. One of his great inventions is the
latest fifth generation
, that can be  operated remotely using smartphone.

That’s all for now.

Stay tuned for day 3… We assure you there will be more cool stuff to be shared in our blog!

Yours Sincerely,

Ken Foong & Khor FW
SWW2015 Reporters


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015 : THIRD DAY!

The excitement continues on day 3 for SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2015, albeit the jet-lag of 15 hours.

Design thinking is something I have been exploring, it helps a lot in problem solving. It helps engineers and designers produce products that solves problems for the consumers in creative and innovative ways. Something new I’ve learnt today is “Experience Thinking”. Monica Menghini, EVP, Chief Strategy Officer of Dassault Systemes highlights how design thinking is no longer sufficient, and in the Age of Experience, we need to be designing for customer experience.

 Today’s session started with something very close to our hearts – the SWUGM (SOLIDWORKS User Group Meeting) that we have always wanted to start in Malaysia. Richard Doyle shared with us 10 benefits of attending a user group meeting – and top one is of course – free pizza.

If you would tell me what topic we should talk about for the first user group meeting in Malaysia, how about if we let you decide what free food we’ll provide?

We then talked about something again very close at heart for me – women in engineering. It reminds me of the uni days where I’d be the 0.1% female in the class, and the Women in Engineering conference I’d attended organised by IIWE (International Institution of Women in Engineering). Why is this an important topic?

Bettina Chen, the young co-founder of Roominate shares with us, why having women in engineering is important (despite the obvious that they are more awesome). One of the important ingredients of innovation and creativity is diversity. We need different culture, background, stories, and gender in order to have different perspectives and that will lead to more diversified ideas, resulting in better solutions. Say no more, watch this video:

As much as the support to the Academic sector, SOLIDWORKS supports Women in Engineering through the SOLIDWORKS Women in Engineering program that educates, encourage, and recognise outstanding women in the male dominant industry.

Great stories and inspiration just never stops at #SWW15. We next met with John Thornton , CEO of Astrobotics who walk us through their wildest imagination of a business model to do a “delivery service” to the moon. The idea is to send whatever things whoever wants to the moon to do whatever they could imagine there. One of the ideas was also to explore some cave (Lacus Mortis Pit – lake of death) on the moon, to potentially find suitable place for human habitat. If you are interested to send a message to your loved ones for Valentine ’s Day, literally “I love you to the moon and back” – check out their website
HERE
.

The last speaker from the General session was Dr. Michio Kaku, physicist and author of NYT’s #1 Best Seller, The Future of the Mind. He discussed about a lot of futuristic ideas and possibilities that are beyond imagination and completely change the way we do things or live. I will just pick the top 3 most fascinating idea that stuck to me:

1.    We all know Google glasses. What about smart contact lenses which will be able to tell you the name of this person you met 2 years ago at SOLIDWORKS WORLD, along with all the biodata information? (I know I need this because I’m terrible at remembering names, to avoid the awkward moments of “Hi *trying hard to recall name*….”.

2.    Long gone is the Mass Production era, we are moving towards the “Mass Customisation” era – made possible through 3D Printing. How would you like to be able to personalise and 3D print everything, including bio parts like your ear, organs, replacement valves and etc.

3.    Computer screens as thin as papers and being used as wallpapers. Since they are computers, you could show anything on the wall and change as frequently as you may like. What about consulting a robo-doctor or robo-lawyer on your wall? The possibility of computing power and Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality is limitless and beyond our imagination.

I was truly amazed and inspired by this group of wonderful people who have their dream and purpose, and they are not afraid to pursue it. Don’t let anything or anybody stop you from dreaming and wanting to make the impossible become I AM POSSIBLE. Hope you enjoyed todays recap and feel free to share with us some stories that inspire you too!

Yours Truly,

Amanda
SWW15 Reporter


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 – Here we come!

We are here, at the 19
th
 SOLIDWORKS WORLD – an annual event for avid designers and innovators, we are honoured to be amongst these great people from all over the world!

The pre-event day is already quite action-packed:

CAD Manager’s Boot Camp

This is the biggest technical session in #SWW that hosts the most CAD geeks 😉 Various topics and tips were discussed to allow CAD managers to gain the most out of SOLIDWORKS, including:

Hardware Requirement – what to consider while choosing a CPU / graphic driver, and how by taking care of the hardware has helped in achieving a 75% crash reduction.

SW Installation Manager – what it can do and how to configure for the optimized performance.

System Options Settings – new CAD tools for CAD Administrator, e.g., opening & saving large models and toolbox golden rules to boost performance.

Managing Data – options available to manage data, troubleshooting tips and tricks for PDM users to understand the complete situations.

Troubleshooting Tools – SOLIDWORKS Rx, CAD Admin Dashboard, General Hotfixes, Knowledge Base Access

I have no doubt why it’s the most popular technical session – highly recommended if you attend #SWW; it was such a fluid learning environment! It is definitely the most interactive seminar I have attended: CAD managers from different industries and countries share their pain and have other CAD managers offer solutions and share similar experiences. Imagine working with a team of all the best brains from all over the world – indeed Together Everyone Achieves More!

Experience the Super Bowl Fever

Definitely one of those Once-In-A-Lifetime experiences: watching the game – the most watched American television broadcast of the year, with a big group of SOLIDWORKS partners, users and other resellers in the Partner Pavilion. We sure are lucky to witness the unbelievable come back of Patriots from a 28-3 deficit to winning the title! (Maybe we bring the Ong from Rooster Year? :p)

“It’s the microcosm of our life, our season. Mental toughness, believe, do your job, work hard and we’d be champions in the championship game.” – comment from one of the team members Edelman sure sounds familiar to what our Chairman Mr Teoh said at #IMESWID2017: “Only with good strategy, we would be able to achieve our goals with accuracy; with teamwork and perseverance, we will surely be able to break through all limits and challenges”.

What a wonderful way to start our LA journey, a true #olabolamoment. More to come tomorrow, stay tuned!

Till then and good night.

Sin Yee

11:44pm

Los Angeles


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 Highlights & Tidbits | Part 1

Robo Rumble

Having watched a great deal of robot fighting scenes from Hollywood movies, it was like a dream come true for us to be able to witness
a combat robotics competition – the first-ever SOLIDWORKS World Robo Rumble!

Guess what, the contestants who built these robots are mainly middle and high school students. What’s more? Close to a half of them are female! Being a graduate from the faculty of Sciences myself, I echo with my female engineer colleagues at work very much that it gives us a real thrill to see more and more girls getting involved in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)!

The rumble took place in the Arena of Destruction – a specially made bulletproof chamber. It featured four teams from California and Ohio: Fast Electric Robots, The Beaumonsters, Least Worst Robotics and Team Bad Kitty. Each group talked about how they used SOLIDWORKS to design their robot in terms of material selection, machine design, simulation, etc.

Special guest commentators and judges were also invited to the event. So the contestants have SOLIDWORKS users who build fighting robots to decide the winner
!

The three Robo Rumble rounds were fierce, but Team Fast Electric Robots managed to win both rounds (one per robot) and was crowned with $1000 from SOLIDWORKS!

For the amazing fighting scenes, check out the video
HERE
!

For more details about SOLIDWORKS World Robo Rumble, check out
HERE.

Sin Yee

SWW2017 Reporter


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 Highlights & Tidbits | Part 2

Every day, thousands of engineers from every industry design their new products using SOLIDWORKS.

With a powerful tool which enables one to design without limits, many have thought out of the box and use SOLIDWORKS in different ways – those that we probably had never thought of before.

These are some of the examples:

1. THE ROCK STAR AND HIS GUITAR

Paul Reed Smith and Jon Wasserman of PRS Guitars, the top makers of high quality guitars, were creative enough to marry art with engineering. Walking us through the guitar designing process, Paul shared with us how he rocked his collaboration experience with SOLIDWORKS, while designing and manufacturing the custom guitar for rock star Mark Tremonti.

“As a guitar maker, this is what I do. I move the part around in my head. But in this programme, anyone can do that.” It’s almost like putting the guitar under an X-ray machine. Being able to visualize the design in SOLIDWORKS from different view has helped them to make design changes more easily and it smoothened the communication process.

2. CEO TRUSTED SOLIDWORKS WITH HIS LIFE

Magic is all about illusion. Tim Clothier and Justin Flom from Illusion Projects had definitely brought the amusement and wonder of magic to the next level.

With the help of SOLIDWORKS, they managed to design a track-mounted buzzsaw beneath which they will insert their assistant’s head to perform a stunning act. The machine has tight tolerances and should any part of the design went wrong, the brave assistant would get a head cut!

Gian Paolo Bassi, the CEO of SOLIDWORKS was invited to be Justin’s assistant with this question, “
W
ould you trust your life to something made by SOLIDWORKS?”

Just as Justin has shared earlier, when the engineering and artistic brain collaborate, amazing things happen. Of course Gian Paolo survived, and he made an inspiring remark for the session – each and every one of us has the same opportunity to bring even the most imaginative ideas to reality in our professions.

“We don’t limit our challenges, we challenge our limits.”

3. INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE – THE FUTURE OF FARMING

As the world population grows and climate changes, food production and supply will eventually be a pressing concern. Using the SOLIDWORKS IoT ecosystem, Jon Friedman, a SOLIDWORKS user and President/Co-Founder of Freight Farms, designed and planted sustainable farms inside of shipping containers, which could eventually be a way to solve problems in a time of transition.

It is a 40-ft shipping container with a well-designed hydroponic system. The system is connected to regulate the atmosphere so you can maintain an optimum crop growing conditions anywhere in the world. To our surprise, the yield can go as high as 1,000 heads of lettuce per week with only 20 hours of labour required!

Sin Yee

SWW2017 Reporter


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 Highlights & Tidbits | Part 3

It’s been a while since SOLIDWORKS World 2017. You might have missed the event, but these are some important highlights that we think you should not miss.

1. MySolidWorks

MySolidWorks, the place where millions of users gather, has redefined how you can discover and experience SOLIDWORKS. It lets you:

a) Find support and resources across the SOLIDWORKS community to get access to technical content and answers to your questions.

b) Learn more with
Online Training
 in a wide range of topics at your own pace.

c) Try SOLIDWORKS with the new
SOLIDWORKS Online Product Trials
 available anytime, anywhere, on any device, with no install required.

2. What’s New 2018

Some preview of the great enhancements and new features coming in SOLIDWORKS 2018 later this year:

a) Sketching Enhancements

Mirror 3D Sketch Entities, Sketch Planes as Symmetry Reference, and Pen Sketching.

b) Assembly Enhancements

Assembly Visualization of SOLIDWORKS performance information, 12 Mouse Gestures, New Assembly Performance dialog, ALT key to hide surfaces during mate etc.

c) 3D Interconnect

3D Interconnect will support STEP, IGES, ACIS, JT and updating neutral files, preserve curves and sketches, and also to read custom properties.

d) Fabrication Enhancements

New Tab and Slot feature works in parts, multi-body parts and assemblies; SOLIDWORKS PDM bi-directional communication with drawing revision table.

e) Generative Design

New feature to create parts and integrate simulation easily.

For more detailed information on the new features, stay tuned.

3. Partner Pavilion & Product Showcase

With some 120 exhibitors, which included SOLIDWORKS solution partners and the user community, we got to see up close the amazing projects or newest SOLIDWORKS-inspired products that have been brought to life.

Here is a clip showing you some of those which caught our eyeballs:

a) Lightweight recumbent tricycle with exclusive folding mechanism;

b) Some impressive robotic products;

c) 3D-printed multi-layer circuit board with nanotechnology conductive and dielectric inks;

d) Freight Farm – self-contained hydroponic farms that fit into shipping containers; and

e) Race car simulators.

4. The official launching of Stratasys F123 Series Rapid Prototyping Solutions

During SWW2017, Stratasys unveiled a new professional Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) based F123 Series (F170, F270 and F370) rapid prototyping solutions.

The F123 series are designed to make professional SOLIDWORKS prototyping more accessible. SOLIDWORKS users can now build durable and accurate prototypes using a range of 3D printing materials with the new machines easily as the F123 series address the complete prototyping workflow, resulting in better products and shorter lead times.

Sin Yee

SWW2017 Reporter


SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017

The New. The Next. The Never Before.

It’s February and SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 is just around the corner!

SOLIDWORKS World is a greatest CAD event of the year. It is a great place to learn new skills, network with peers and get inspired to create great designs.

This year, the future is the concept of
SOLIDWORKS WORLD
. Not just the future of SOLIDWORKS capabilities, but what’s coming in the design industry itself. We feel that by providing you with a more connected, collaborative, and efficient way of designing, we are helping you usher in the next generation of amazing products and innovations to change the world. SOLIDWORKS World 2017 will show you the future.

Here’s a preview of a few topics you can expect to hear about in Los Angeles or during the Live Stream:

New ways to close the gap between design and manufacturing
.

Enabling machines to better read minds and fully understand designs. This will minimize mistakes and create a continuum to mend the fracture between design and manufacturing.

T
ransforming the manufacturing process to become more like the buying experience on Amazon
.

Smart machines will read and understand work, then provide access to information on quality, delivery time, and cost. This approach represents how we envision the future of transforming bits to atoms in SOLIDWORKS.

We need to improve the “A” in Computer-Aided Design.

The assembly process must be smarter and faster with computers that actually “aid” by providing intelligent suggestions based on the power of analytics and big data.

We must focus on providing more guidance in geometry.

The best alternatives of new ways to manufacture.

This year’s SOLIDWORKS World 2017 will be held February 5-8, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. SOLIDWORKS community members all over the globe including us are excited and are gearing up for this great event.

WE will be attending SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 and share all stunning moments with our dearest readers. So,
 s
tay tuned for important SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2017 event updates and live updates through our Facebook
SolidWorks Malaysia – IME Authorized Reseller
.

The future is waiting!


SOLIDWORKS: Your friendly tool in design neighbourhood | Part 1

Have you ever thought that, SOLIDWORKS might save your day from a frustrated day? Still using the conventional way to do product design, trouble correcting the error in drawing? Still need to do measurement for the whole assembly model, with consume high amount of time? SOLIDWORKS can be the hero to save your day. With the analysis tools in SOLIDWORKS, we can always easily check our solid model with the minimum effort, with a click of the button.

Doing product design in 2D could be the fastest way, but to train up such experiences and skills, take ton of times to trained up the engineers. Why we still want to convince you to try out SOLIDWORKS? Because SOLIDWORKS could be the software that solve your million problems in the manufacturing industry

i. User interface and system background

Over the years, the AE from Dassault Systèmes, spent ton of time and effort to develop the software interface. All the enhancement and improve included in SOLIDWORKS over the years, mainly to ensure the SOLIDWORKS always to be easy to use by everyone, to becoming a friendly tool that helps the designer to design, prototype, and stylising their product with the minimum effort.

The software had been designed base on window interface over the years. When the new user tries to use the software, they feel more familiar with the button, shortcuts in the software.

Window base designed icon and button, allow new user to adapt with the software.

The SOLIDWORKS separate the function and features in command bar, to split out the features in different stages. The sketch features, is the section that allow user to use entities to draw 2D sketch; Whereby features section, is the part where the user can transform their design from 2D line to 3D solid models, other function that can be found in the features section, such as extruded cut, hole wizard, section that ease the user to do modification on their existing design without compromising the 2D sketch line.

Entities function can always be found in the command bar.

Features that often used for 3D model, such as extrude and fillet.

To reduce the cursor travel to command bar, to select entities during sketching, SOLIDWORKScreated a shortcut to direct access the entities options, by simply right click your mouse, and select the entities options to do your sketching in SOLIDWORKS.

Enhancement that save user time to search and browse for entities function.

Smart phone provide user to define their shortcut with the smartphone gesture. But do you know that, gesture shortcut also can be found in SOLIDWORKS. By right click and hold right mouse button, allow you to use the shortcut you define in the gesture, including features, and entities shortcut. In SOLIDWORKS 2018,SOLIDWORKS allow user to set up to 10 shortcuts in the mouse gesture, to ensure the user always pick up the pace to use SOLIDWORKS.

Up to 10 shortcuts can be included in the mouse gesture, to save your time in design with SOLIDWORKS

ii. The basic design process in SOLIDWORKS

Generally, SOLIDWORKS split into 3 main sections, which are part, assembly and drawing.

Three main function in SOLIDWORKS, Part, Assembly and Drawing.

Part feature, is where the user uses the function to create a single model component. Before everything come into 3d modelling, everything back to basic. We always need to have a complete 2d sketch entities, transform it into a 3d model. Two main features will be frequently used in SOLIDWORKS part mode, which are sketch feature and applied feature.

Before we start a sketch, SOLIDWORKS provide us standard 3 plane for sketching.

After we complete our sketch, we can use smart dimension to complete our drawing.

Sketch features and applied features can be found in command bar to transform our sketch into 3d model.

Sketch features like extruded, revolved, required a profile or complete sketch to become 3d solid model.

Applied features such as fillet and hole wizard, can direct apply on 3d model without sketch.

Once the user completed the model process, the user allowed to assemble all the components in the Assembly feature. Where mate function is the main function, the user needed to combine the component, and define the movement of the components in SOLIDWORKS assembly.

We able to combine all components in assembly, including torchlight and vehicle’s motor.

SOLIDWORKS drawing consider as the final part, whereby the designers or users, use this function to fine tune their production or modelling in 2D drawing, to ensure the vendor able to fabricate their product via 2D drawing. Provided with linking function in SOLIDWORKS, the software only required the users to press a few ticks to generate 2d drawing.

Generating 2D drawing, never been easier than before.

iii. The synchronize system in SOLIDWORKS

Synchronizing features in SOLIDWORKS, is the other best part of story in SOLIDWORKS. When there’s a change in the part file, the SOLIDWORKS will always automatically rebuild the assembly and drawing, to ensure the model get to the latest update from the designers and users. Saving a lot of time and effort for skipping the cross-checking process.

Before and after I change the dimension of the 3D model in SOLIDWORKS.

Both dimension in assembly and drawing update, and the shape changed as well.

Stay tune to the second part of the article!

If you wish to know more about SOLIDWORKS, please visit our website or visit us at IME PJ, Penang or JB branch.


SOLIDWORKS: Your friendly tool in design neighbourhood | Part 2

Let’s continue what we left off from the previous article.
 Previously, we covered about the design process in SOLIDWORKS, synchronize features in SOLIDWORKS, and UI base on window preference, which allow user to easily pickup how to use SOLIDWORKS in no time.

iv. Assembly function with smart features
 Assembly not only allow user to assemble the part, tons of features that can ease the design and assembly process for the user. Having trouble checking part interfere with other components? overlook the assembly design? SOLIDWORKS provide the interference analysis, allow you to check any component that collide each other. Speaking of modification, SOLIDWORKS allow us to directly edit the component in the assembly, while we can always update and cross check the interference issue.

Interference detection function in SOLIDWORKS, able to check our models in assembly mode.

Clearance verification function in SOLIDWORKS, able to check the gap or small spaces between two components.

Tired being keep insert the same component in the same assembly? There’s always a shortcut to work thing around, one of the way, click and drag the component in assembly to multiply it.

Click and drag function in SOLIDWORKS, save our time to duplicate same component instead of re-insert the same components.

After you completed the assembly, you start to wonder, where can we get the total mass for our assembly. Using the mass properties in the evaluate section, within seconds can generate all the information we need, including volume, centre of mass, and total surface area in the assembly.

Mass properties in SOLIDWORKS able to generate information that we need to analysis the model.

Having any idea how to speed up the mate process? in latest
SOLIDWORKS, in assembly mode, consist of magnetic mate. We can always pre-set the point in the part file, automatically let the component joined together in the assembly. Besides magnetic mate, smart features has been included in assembly all the time. Unfortunately, most of the user is not aware the beauty of smart features in
SOLIDWORKS assembly.

Magnetic mate introduce in SOLIDWORKS to save more time in mating the components.

Smart features in assembly mode, usually will pop up a yellow star icon.

Advantages of using the smart features in assembly mode.

 v. Generating 2D drawing

Drawing palette at the task bar is the best shortcut you ever need to generate 2d drawing for your models. Normally, we use model view from the layout, browse the files, and create standard top, right and front view for your model. Throughout this process, we are unable to preview the 2d drawing, to check whether we generate the correct view in drawing. By clicking, task panel, in the drawing palettes, refresh icon, allow you to get the latest model detail from part or assembly files. The small preview at the bottom, ease the user to choose and select the correct view for their drawing.

View palette in task panel, preview of drawing before user drag into the drawing sheet.

Tedious doing detail drawing, need to create another bigger view to show more detail from part/ assembly file. Detail view from the layout section, allow you to project partial of your drawing into a bigger drawing, using the scale option in the drawing, allow you to scale up the drawing base on your desire, meanwhile it won’t compromise the value or reading from the original drawing.

Creating a detail view, with bigger view.

Feeling lazy to point out the dimension of the model one by one?
SOLIDWORKS offer a function known as model item, allow you to select which dimension detail, that you want to show in your drawing, example like, hole location, hole wizard properties, and including welding detail. Creating B.O.M table will not be the difficult task in
SOLIDWORKS, using the table function,
SOLIDWORKS can always list out quantity of the component, materials detail, part number, etc….

Model items in SOLIDWORKS, auto generate dimension.

BOM table can be easily generated, showing the information of the model.

That’s all the information I wanted to shout out to you all.

 SOLIDWORKS is a recommended tool for everyone to try out, as a first step to transform from 2d design style to 3d design style. With all these hidden features in SOLIDWORKS, the software always can help the user to ease their workflow with the minimum effort.

 Try out SOLIDWORKS today! Join our hands-on workshop today in IME PJ, Penang, JB, and Sarawak branch. Contact us for more information.


Sony Ericson – Part ll

Today through one of my friend from SolidWorks Singapore, I got to find a video clip about Sony Ericson being show during “ SolidWorks World 2009” …….

It was quite an interesting video clip, it show how Sony Ericson’s new model being develop from a conceptual design to modelling, develop prototype until and actual new model. It show how SolidWorks apply in their design job, it was so easy…… the design team was able to develop a new model within a short period with the lowest cost incur.

Let’s click on below video clip, to view how a new Sony Ericson being develops.


Sony Ericsson with SolidWorks

Friend of mine just brought a new Sony Ericsson handphone “G700”. I was so excited as I’m one of the biggest Sony Ericsson FANS. Emm…

Sony Ericsson is SolidWorks long term design partner, all their products design in SolidWorks. I get to know this only when I meet Tom Walder, Senior Design Manager for Sony Ericsson.

At Sony Ericsson, they use 3D printing as more of a daily design tool, printing more than 4000 3D models per year. Tom said that they only perform about two to three hours of engineering design on a new phone design before they 3D print the first simple model prototype to see if they are going down the right path.

Well Done, no wonder they can produce such a good design and good quality Mobile phone. It because they had choose the right design Tool-
SolidWorks
.


Special Events: Animal Kingdom Tuesday Off-site Event

It might surprise you, but people love being bused down the road to an Amusement Park that looks like a small jungle. This small jungle was Disney’s Animal Kingdom and it turned out it’s not all that small. Nearly the entire group of 4300+ SolidWorks World attendees and guests took to the walkways, the roller coasters and the multiple tables of food.

Here’s some of the pics…
Pics from
Lou Gallo
. Great shots Lou.

The dark and mysterious entrance.

People love to stand in lines at Disney. This one was for about 80 buses to ship’em over to the park.

The guides were kind enough to tell us were to go to eat delectable piles of food piled upon tables through the different areas of the park

There was a tree thing. It was huge and looked like it was carved out of one giant tree…

Here’s that tree closer up. It’s quite large don’t ya think. I wish there were tiny inhabitants popping out throwing things.
Here’s a detail that looks drastically similar to John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’… I left quickly.

They had musicians being musical and dancing creature things. These guys were beating on stuff and it sounded DOPE. I could of hung out here all night but I was hungry.

Everest close up. I heard screams coming from within.


Sport Rim – Episod 2

After i modelled the first sport rim, i started to get addicted in modeling sport rim. So here is my second design, please give your comment if there are some areas to improve.

By the way, where is your design? Don’t let me wait too long! 🙂

~ah lau~


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In addition to live support, subscribers get full access to the SolidWorks Knowledge Base, an expansive Web-based library of in-depth information and resources. Besides that, IME offer an inclusive what’s new training for new version upgrade and any one of the advance training, by your choice.

Stay cost-effective

Subscription Services are one or three-year contracts that offer discounts and rock-solid price protection for the term of the contract. Being able to predict your costs let you free up money for other engineering investments.

Extensive 2D and 3D content

Enjoy direct access to a comprehensive library of drawings, parts, assemblies, and features contributed by SolidWorks users around the globe. Drag and drop models directly into your design projects and save yourself hours of design time.

Special privileges

As a Subscription Services member, you can directly influence the future development of SolidWorks software by requesting specific enhancements. Subscription Services members initiate more than 90 percent of the hundreds of new enhancements in every version of SolidWorks. Not to forget all-access to any seminar or workshop held by IME. Be the first to receive our special invitation.

What are you waiting? Get more information or promotion update with us.

1300-88-CSWP (2797)

sales@cadcam.com.my

“With subscription I have access to information and resources I might not have otherwise. I fully believe I get my money’s worth.”

Wayne Tiffany

Automatic systems


Sustainable Design: Fad or future?

Melvin Poi
 explains why thinking green might just put your company leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Advocating green initiatives is no longer the exclusive burden of environmentalists. Global awareness of our ravaged environment and the fragility of the planet has never been more acute.

With tightening regulations and increasing environmental awareness, government and private contracts are increasingly placing requirements that its suppliers’ products be eco-friendly. Every day more and more consumers are basing their purchasing decisions on the environmental impact of the product.

A product impacts the environment at every stage of its life – from material production, manufacturing and product use right up to its end-of-life disposal. And just how do legislators evaluate the ‘greenness’ of a proposal or product? The answer is in its carbon footprint.

Measured in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), carbon footprint is defined as the total greenhouse gases emitted as a result of the manufacture of a product or of any industrial activity. Every stage of design and manufacturing is taken into account.

It goes without saying then that engineers, architects and manufacturing designers have a direct input in determining the carbon footprint of their product or building. Hence the impetus is on these professionals to practice Sustainable Design.

Sustainable Design is something that we here at IME Technology take very seriously indeed. Being at the forefront of providing engineering design solutions to the manufacturing industry, we have an obligation to promote low-environment impact design and production to our customers. By doing so we will preserve the environment as well as ensuring our customers’ future competitiveness in their industry. Having them partner with SolidWorks with its built-in Sustainability solution makes it easy for us to do just that.

Sustainable Design focuses on the three key concepts of Material Optimization, Material Selection and Energy Efficiency.

Material Optimization refers to using the optimal amount of material in the manufacture of a product so as to reduce waste. This is because improperly managed waste has ecological and human health consequences. The powerful simulation and analysis tools in SolidWorks enable one to prevent from over-engineering the product and help conserve resources.

Material Selection is increasingly becoming a very important consideration. Using recycled or low-environmental impact material can help manufacturers stay ahead of regulations and boost consumer demand for their products. 3D digital drawings allow for comprehensive experimentation in a virtual environment to choose from a variety of materials that meet weight, tensile and regulatory specifications.

SolidWorks Sustainable Design helps optimize energy usage through efficient product design. This can start from circuitry design to industrial machinery and plant layouts. Even the size and weight of a mechanical part has energy consequences.

It is only a matter of time before every government agency, company and individual examines your carbon footprint as a mandatory part of its purchasing considerations. If you’re still persisting with antiquated design practices, if you’re still employing 2D CAD or manual drawings, then you’re going to be stuck up a creek without a paddle.

Start thinking green – apart from saving our precious planet, you could well put your company ahead of the competitive curve.

Melvin Poi (
melvinpoi@cadcam.com.my
)
 is the Head of Business and Planning for the IME Group of Companies, the country’s largest and most established solution provider of
CAD/CAM/CAE, portable CMM Inspection, non-contact scanning for reverse engineering, design analysis and simulations, rapid prototyping
.

Company website:
www.cadcam.com.my


SWID: slogan competition 1st runner up

Congratulation to Mr. Ahmad Hafiz B. Zainudin with your winning slogan:

“Share your needs with IME, realize your dream with SolidWorks”

You just won yourself an iPad 2 after competing over 450 participants who attended SolidWorks Innovation day 2011. It’s not easy to filter all the
bad
, good, better and best slogan. It tough for us to choice but finally we decided you, Ahmad is the 2nd runner up winner. Again, please contact us before I keep your iPad in my house.

For the rest who submitted your slogan, good news is that you might be the final winner. Tomorrow, same time, 9,00pm will announce the winner of Hp notebook. Make sure you stay with us for the announcement.

Also, please help me to inform your
kawan
 who attended SWID but haven ‘fan’ our F
acebook fan page
 to ‘fan’ us and found out is he or you are the winner.

Click here for more information about VS-i
.


SWID: slogan competition 2nd runner up

In conjunction of the 20th release of SolidWorks, SolidWorks 2012, we organize a slogan writing competition.

Pretty simple, blend some creativity into “IME” & “SolidWorks” to write a less than 20 words slogan, and you stand a chance to win:

1. Hp notebook

2. iPad 2
(sponsored by DS SolidWorks)

3. Dell notebook

As agreed, today is the day to announce the
winners
 winner. Yup, we decided to announce one by one.

Today, at our
facebook fan page
, we announced the winner for the Dell notebook.
The winner for Dell notebook is Mr. Hang Chit Yong,  Laird Technologies (Penang), with his winning slogan:

” Dream our future, SolidWorks visualize it, IME deliver it”

Bravo! Bravo!

Mr. Hang, please contact us for your Dell notebook
before i keep it for myself
.

Tomorrow, we shall announce the winner for the iPad 2 at our
facebook fan page
.

Stay tuned!~

Click here to find out more about
Laird Technologies
.


SWID: slogan competition Winner

Hp notebook is in my hand. The winner name and detail is in my hand. The winning slogan is in my hand. The slogan that gives you a HP notebook is:

“Dream your idea, Design with SolidWorks, Do it with IME”

A big big congratulation to you, Mr. Akmal Khariz B.Ahmad Fuad from
Petronas Research.

So, the question: what so special about his slogan? Can you spot the hidden meaning behind this slogan?

3D! 3D! 3D! T
he answer is 3D (
dream, design, do
). He manages to use 3 ‘D’ to write a slogan that consists of “IME” and “SolidWorks”. Very impressive and that’s the reason why he truly the one who deserve to be the champion of the slogan competition in conjunction of IME SolidWorks Innovation Day 201, the launching of SolidWorks 2012.

As I mentioned early, the HP notebook is in my hand. You better contact us ASAP before I install SolidWorks 2012 into it for my own use.

Again, congratulation for all 3 winners!~

For the rest, continue to follow our
fan page
 and blog. I’m planning to give out prizes every week. Detail soon to announce.

Thank you for attended SolidWorks Innovation day (either in Penang, Kuala Lumpur or Johor). Contact us if you would like to have more details about SolidWorks 2012.


Take a Sneak Peek at SOLIDWORKS 2016 here!

October is always our favorite month because it’s the time we explore exciting new features and enhancement new version of SOLIDWORKS.

Just like you, I’ve been waiting to see what’s new in SOLIDWORKS 2016. In coming weeks, I’ll be sharing the Sneak Peeks of 12 highlighted new features. Stay tuned!

In case if you have not heard, we have opened the registration for SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day 2016 for early birds – it is the most anticipated and largest SOLIDWORKS user meet of the year!
Register now
 for early bird mystery gift (limited, first come first served).

Find out more about the event.

Ken Foong

Senior Data Management Engineer | CSWP-D


Techne@PSDC – 3D Scanning Technology and Applications

You’re Cordially Invited to Techné@PSDC!

Starting
t
his month, Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC) is organising a series of technical talks and lectures at Techné@PSDC, aiming to inspire innovation through knowledge sharing by experts in the Engineering field.

In this series of events organized by PSDC, we are pleased to be sharing our knowledge of
3D scanning technology and its application
 on
May 18, 2016 (Wednesday)
, from
9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
 –
SAVE THE DATE

We have been working with PSDC through various initiatives for more than 10 years. In year 2014, we have brought our partnership to a new level by setting up
Rapid Model Development Lab in their centre – a one-stop product design and development centre.

Registration will be closed on May 11, 2016 (Wednesday).
Seats are strictly limited to the first 30 registrations,

GRAB YOUR SEAT
 now!


In an earlier session of Techne@PSDC, a series of technical talks and lectures organised by PSDC, we are pleased to be invited to share our knowledge on 3D scanning technology with the participants.
The event was very well responded with some 40 participants joining us to explore the technology and its applications in the industry.

In the two-and-a-half-hour session, we shared about different types of 3D scanners and how 3D scanning technology can help throughout front line operations and pre-production processes. We also further discussed with the audience on how the technology allows one to have better control in product design, production engineering, quality check on ordered components, and product inspection. Of all its major applications – some of which has revolutionised the product development process – product inspection and reverse engineering are among the most common use of 3D scanning technology.

We had a demo session at the end of our presentation showing the audience how the system, a combination of scanner and software, is employed to
capture and reuse the 3D information. The whole process, including
remodelling a design of the size and range of complexity of a computer mouse,
was completed
 within twenty minutes.

With the intelligent feature recognition of the system, it allows the user to have good control over the quality of a model created through the remodelling process. The crowd was also very impressed with the ease of use of the system.

It was indeed a very fruitful day for us, sharing with an engaging audience the valuable practical information and insights of this technology.

Click
HERE
 to experience the event through photos.


Technology Evolved and So is Rain Gauge

Technology Evolved and So is Rain Gauge

Have you ever wondered how the weather broadcasts explain the rain’s status, showing those statistics of rain? As we know, weather satellites only allowed us to monitor and predict the direction of cloud and the rainfall.

When rain starts to drop, we are still required to have existing equipment on the group to capture the amount of raindrops during that hour or certain period.

This is where the rain gauge comes in – to serve as a standard measurement and to determine the amount of raindrops in the city and estimate the possibility of damage that can be caused by this amount of raindrops during heavy rain season.

Conventional Rain Gauge

Let us talk about the rain gauge. The first rain gauge is invented by a Korean, called King Sejong, from Korean Choson Dynasty, around year 1441. The main intention is to measure the rain amount to determine the tax that can be charged on his citizen in crops collection. Rain amount indirectly determines the growth of the crops from the paddy field, which explains how much the farmers can earn during the rainy season.

How does the first generation rain gauge look like? The item is a combination of a funnel with a cylinder container. The equipment is placed around an area without shade, to ensure the rain drops into the funnel to collect the droplets in the cylinder container. By using the height of the water level in the container, they can determine the amount of rain in that area or city.

There is a study on how to estimate the overall amount droplets in that city using this rain gauge, you can search on internet to understand more on this section.

As it turns out, first generation always have their limitation. It is not the best during that time, but it’s the only thing that helps to collect and measure the rain measurement. The current equipment is still required workforce to monitor and manage the rain gauge. Due to the fixed amount of raindrops that can be collected by the cylinder container, the assigned need to ensure the height of water need to be recorded accordingly and remove the water after. The whole equipment is required to be disassembled to remove the rain water. With some parallax errors on human eyesight, the value might be a little off.

You might wonder, why not make it bigger and taller? Well, if the wind is strong enough, it may be able to blow the whole equipment away. It is hard to clean the container as well when algae or fungus starts to grow in the container.

Second Generation Rain Gauge

After 200 years of using the first generation rain gauge, two legends from Europe, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke created the second generation rain gauge inspired by tipping bucket. They called it the tipping rain gauge.

Instead of measuring the height of the water level, the tipping rain gauge works differently. It is similar with the standard rain gauge in using a funnel to transfer rainwater; the only difference is the capturing method. Once the equipment comes with two pockets which will flip once the space is occupied with water. Once the pocket is full on the first pocket, it still flips or taps to the other side, and second pocket area is ready to collect the rainwater. If you hook a pen with the equipment, you can calculate the number of times the pocket flip and calculate the estimate amount of rain droplet during the rain. Good thing about this equipment is that you do not require bothering or worrying about the overflow of the rainwater during the rain drops collection.

As it turns out, there are still few challenges when using this equipment during the old time era, whereby it still requires worker to take note of the number of tapping. It is hard to capture or obtain the correct data during the older days, compared to the technology that we have in modern time

Improvised, improved to make it better

To unlock the full potential of the tipping rain gauge, this is where the Japanese truly put their effort to improve the rain gauge and use it ever since. Instead of buying the equipment online, they just build up their own tipping rain gauge using some common houseware materials, like aluminum plate and plastic pipe, combined with some modern sensor which allowed them to deploy the modified rain gauge around different city and state to measure the overall rain droplets, to alert the citizen the possibility of flood in certain areas during the raining season.

The holes at the bottom allow the rainwater to drain out, so excessive rainwater will not overflow the equipment.

Each tap or drop of rainwater from the pocket is equivalent to 0.5mm (about 0.02 in) height of rainwater.

To avoid electric shock caused by water vapor or rain droplets, they are using magnetic sensor to capture the number of tapping when collecting rain droplets.

Magnetic sensor is attached to both sides, to ensure the magnetic field able to trigger the magnetic sensor at the custom build circuit.

Once the equipment is covered, funnel is placed at the top and counter machine is reset.

When they start to pour the water into the water gauge, the counter machine will start to record the number of tapping throughout the experiment process.

They always have a standard chart around to remind the citizen the danger or rainwater height during the raining season. If the rainwater level keeps increasing, they might have to evacuate the citizen to higher ground.

Weather news report has been a serious matter for Japan, because Japan always has some mini earthquake, unpredictable rain which can cause a lot of issue to the citizens. Based on their previous report or history, in year 1920, May 25, they used to have rain so heavy that within 8 minutes the water level increased until 126mm (about 4.96 in). If you refer to the diagram above, it is profoundly serious and caused serious damages to their houses. Live weather reporting for 24 hours has been their practice for many years, to ensure majority of the citizen aware of the current weather in their resident area.

Time to Wrap Up

If you are interested on weather study, you could always refer to the link below. How the Japanese demo or explain on how they measure the rainwater daily using their modified equipment,
https://youtu.be/0dnoMP_iISs
 . It remarkably interesting how the mechanism works. We can learn from them, build one and place it on certain areas which always have the flood issue in Malaysia.

If you interested on the history of the rain gauge, can refer to this link,
https://www.softschools.com/inventions/history/rain_gauge_history/265/
 .

If you have a better idea on how to improve rain gauge with IOT solutions, we are welcome you to drop us an email and share your thoughts with us.

Until next time, if we find more interesting discoveries, we will share it to you here. Stay tune for more interesting blog feeds from us.


Terrafugia “Flying CAR”

Driving on the road and flying on the sky might not be our dream now. My first exposure to this
Terrafugia “Flying Car
” was during my visit to SolidWorks World 2009. I was so impress when I saw this “Flying CAR” in front of me, it is a REAL CAR….. we can drive on the sky soon!

Of course my intention today is not to only share with you there is a FLYING Car in the world, but to share with all design engineers. This FLYING CAR was DESIGN in SOLIDWORKS. Can you believe?

Ya, it is! SolidWorks is the best mechanical design software. Without I typing so many word, let’s watch the video yourself on some of the part being design in SolidWorks.

Your will believe, SolidWorks can do so! SolidWorks is the BEST!

I can fly now….. Yeh!!!!

click on the image for the video


Test drive- full house

A
BIG
thank for you support!~ It just the 1st month of 2010 and our test drive packed with ‘explorers’ who show interest to explore more about SolidWorks capabilities.

Business owners, young designers and representatives from  institutes reached our office early in the morning to attend our test drive. It all begin with a warm welcome refreshment in our newly renovated reception hall.

It was a half day hands-on training for them to explore the capability of SolidWorks. An experience instructor guide them throught the fastinating features available in the software and together we explore how SolidWorks reduce design time, eliminate human error and improve time to market.

For those who can’t make it, it’s okay. Just stay tuned @ our blog and from time to time we shall update our next test drive date. By that time, make sure reserve your seat early ho!~

Truly hope can meet up with you all agian and share the passion with you.

Anyway, preview on our Chinese New Year decoration. 🙂


TESTING

testing new blog with new design, new layout and new features. 🙂


Thank you autotrace & merry early X’mas

Haha! was thinking to design something special to hang on our x’mas tree in our office. It all start with a quick hand drafting and then I scan it, mooo~

And with
SolidWorks autotrace
, I trace it and wah lah!~ this is what I get. Still thinking to 3D print it and hang my tree or not? X’mas come early. yeah!~


Thank You for an Amazing 2015!

Albeit a year full of changes and challenges, 2015 had been amazing for us. Major highlight last year was our 35
th
anniversary celebration where we had a year-long of celebration and ended with a Gala.

Being recognised this year by SME100 as one of the Fast Moving companies is also the icing on the cake! This award further justifies the team’s effort in striving to provide the best solution to the industry in leveraging technology to achieve greater business growth.

We have all this to thank to our customers and supporters, thank you for being part of our 2015 – let’s go through some of our favourite moments:

IME’s 35
th
 Anniversary

IME is 35 years old!
A
s an appreciation to our customers and partners,

the ASEAN Economic Forum and Networking Gala
t
hemed “Partnering for Success”
 was organised
 early this year.

All IMEzens are one big family, and we work as one team with one goal
.
T
he whole team
inclu
ding the
sales, marketing, accoun
ts, hr, admin, and technical
came together in organising the programmes for this
event
 to ensure that we
bring the best
experience
 and memories for the
night.

We are pleased to have organised the
ASEAN Economic Forum
 and
appreciate the support we received from
the
panelists
:

Datuk Phang Ah Tong
,
deputy CEO of
M
alaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), Mr. Jayant Menon
, Lead Economist of
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Yeah Kim Leng,
Business School Dean of Malaysian University of Science and Technology (M.U.S.T)

and VP of
Malaysian Economic Association (MEA), and Mr. Ong Chee Tat from SME Association of Malaysia.

Catch snippets of the event including key takeaways, photos and video

HERE
.

SME100 Awards 2015 – IME Technology Sdn Bhd

Being
 awarded as one of the Top 100 Fast Moving Companies under  SME100 Awards 2015 is definitely the icing on the cake for 2015. It s
erves as
a great
recognition for the  hard work all of us had put in over the past year
s.

SME100 Awards identify and recognise Asia’s fast moving small
 and
 medium enterprises with a focus on growth and resilience. Wi
nning the
award definitely encouraged all of us to
strive to achieve greater h
eigh
ts next
year.

SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.” –
Bob Dylan

We were amazed by the number of lightbul
b moments we
had during
IME’s SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day 2016 (SWID 2016)
!

W
e certainly hope that the participants are still having lightbulb momen
ts
, and
r
emember the inspiration
and ideas
they had during the event.

SWID last year was the
 first and largest SOLIDWORKS user community meetup across 7 locations in Malaysia – Penang, Selangor, Johor, Perak, Melaka, Kuantan and Sarawak
.
Throughout this month-long event, we received excellent
feedback
 from most of the participants,
that
they truly enjoyed and loved what we’ve prepared and brought to them.

We are also extremely excited
that
IME was awarded as Asia Pacific South Most Creative Innovation Day and Best Teamwork Award by Dassault Systèmes. Huge
t
hank
s goes
to
ou
r
 awesome team and supporters for making this happen!

Check out what happened
HERE
!

FV Malaysia

Being a company that has always been invol
ved
with academia institutions in bringing different learning experience to the
engi
neers-to-be, we are proud of the students who participated in the FV race.

Even just being a spectator at the race, we were hardly able to contain ou
r excitement, let alone the stud
ents who
were in the competition itself
. We were not sure if i
t was the excitement and energy level of the students

o
r the weather that boiled our blood and got our adrenaline running at full speed.

All
participants had done an amazing job in creating their race car from scratch. From draft, design, virtual simulations to manufacturing and finally on the race track!
We are glad to have be
en able to support
UTeM
in organising this
 event
to create
a platform for real life learning in automotive design, giving students great opportunit
ies
 to learn and experience what couldn’t have been
taught
in a classroom.

Throughout the
race
, we
were
so impressed especially when we saw
the
 teamwork among each group – how they worked together, creat
ed
 something from nothing
 and
working hard to
wards their
dreams
. Keep it up, our future engineers.

Click
HERE
 to
ex
perience
the
 event through photos.

3D Experience Technology Day in East-Malaysia

A
n IME
 bra
nch ha
s been setup in Kuching and last yea
r
we

finally held
the
 first event
there.

The purpose of
3D Experience Technology Day
is to gather all key parties in the development and growth of the East Malaysia industry, to share and learn together the trending technologies and the importance of adopting these technologies in order to remain competitive in the market.

O
ur heartiest appreciation goes to the Ministry of Industrial Development, our supporting partners CENTEXS, Swinburne University, IET, and each and every one of the participants – for the overwhelming response and warm welcome we’ve received.

D
etails and key takeaways of the event
 can be found

HERE
.

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In short, 2015
 was not easy but we made it
, hard work and commitment always prevails. We are
very
excited for what’s coming up
next, and hope you’ll
be a part of it too!

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!

Vivian Kaw
Marketing Executive