Msia’s Dream Bamboo Super Hybrid Car Competition

Dear Friends,

For those who are interested in innovative design, I have a good news to share with you!

There is a competition called –
Malaysia’s Dream Bamboo Super Hybrid Car Competition
, organized by the Malaysian Association of Creativity Innovation (MACRI), University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia (YIM) and SIRIM Bhd. This competition is held in conjunction with the 3rd Creativity & Innovation Week 2010.

Basically, it was regarding to integrate the bamboo material in Car design, the design can be applied to interior, exterior or energy power system of the car.

The requirement for the submission is very simple, can be either in illustration, sketches, or pictures. (can be in 3D CAD model as well if contestant wish to make their entry more presentable).
The completion is open to all Malaysian citizens residing inMalaysia or outside Malaysia irrespective of age.
 Closing date is 15th July 2010.

Bambu’s floor mats, gearshift knob, steering wheel and seat cover are made of

bamboo or its fibre fabric.
Another small sharing regarding to the usage of bamboo at different ages:

6-9 months – for making baskets

2-3 years – for bamboo boards or laminations

3-6 years – for construction

>6 years – bamboo gradually loses strength up to 12 years old


Mustafa Dayal’s CAR

Today I have a new design from one of our member in ” SolidWorks Malaysia”, Mr Mustafa Dayal. Mustafa sincerely would like to share out his design to all of the SolidWorks user in Malaysia or even to all over the world. He had designed Mustafa Dayal’s Car ……… nice design. Still remember we are having a sport rim design? If we can join design with Mustafa, for sure we can design our own “DREAM CAR”………..

Dear Engineer, let’s join to the team…………… “DESIGN A DREAM CAR”……


My SolidCat

Have you ever think of design your own pet by using SolidWorks? Here’s my 1st try using SolidWorks to model a “cartoon style” cat and i named it as SolidCat! This model is very simple, with some basic features in SolidWorks you will able to get it within few minutes! Let’s try to explore and extend the ability of SolidWorks to anything! Miaw!~


National Inter-Varsity Student Design & Competition 2009

Hey College students, Institute students, University students……. Have you register for the National Inter-varsity student design & modeling competition? Join it now!!!

National Inter-varsity Student design & modeling competition 2009
 is IME 4th design competition open for undergraduates who currently study full-time diploma or degree courses at institutions of higher learning education recognized by the Malaysia Government. The objective of the competition is to promote innovation in 3 D Mechanical design using SolidWorks in Institutes of Higher Learning, to discover design & Modeling talents and unleash creativity among Malaysian undergraduate students. The National Inter-Varsity Student Design & Modeling Competition 2009 will feature students using SolidWorks® software to design a variety of products that could improve the environment, with a design scope of “
Design
for
 Environment”
. The Participants are required to create 3D Model or product that helps to reduce waste, various types of pollutions, heat & Save Energy.

Find out more now at
https://www.cadcam.com.my/

Free Registration. Registration end on
31st August 2009,
 Design Submission end on
15th October
…


New Balance design with SolidWorks

Today, I am so excited because Lau told me that my lovely
 NEW BALANCE
 shoe is design by SolidWorks. Wow!!! I am really can’t imagine that the ENTIRE SOLE OF THE SHOE is model in SOLIDWORKS.

I searched online & found that there was a customer sharing their success story in SolidWorks World’s Tuesday General Session. According Matt Dunbar, Senior Cad Designer for New Balance; they use SolidWorks and 3D Printing in their iterative design process for the shoe sole. They run approximately 100 3D prints per month. Their sole shoe files generally run around 1300 features, but they have models that contain as many as
1800 features
!!! Wow! 1800 features, in one single part!!! Absolutely amazing!

Believe it!
Sole design in progress

New Balance Sole in SolidWorks

Look at the features!!!

~fans of New Balance~


New product: SolidWorks plastic

A big thanks to you who attended our SolidWorks Innovation Days 2012, either in Penang, KL or Johor.

During the event, Mr. Lau, Product Manager of IME Technology, announced 3 new products launched by DS SolidWorks; SolidWorks Electrical, SolidWorks Plastic and the eDrawings Pro for iPad. We all are exciting with the new products added into SolidWorks family and i believe it will be one of the great tool to suit into your current workflow.

During the sharing, Mr. Lau also described SolidWorks Plastic as “
The best plastic injection advisor right in front of your desktop
“. I can’t agree more! SolidWorks Plastics brings injection molding simulation directly to plastic part designers and injection mold designers.

Printscreen of SolidWorks Plastic in action

Some of the key benefits of SolidWorks Plastics are helps to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of design, eliminating costly rework, improving quality, and accelerating time-to-market. Fully integrated with SolidWorks CAD, this intuitive software helps part designers, mold designers, and mold makers optimize designs for manufacturability without leaving their familiar 3D design experience.

I try to hold myself from putting to much technical explanation into this sharing. the reason is pretty simple, you can go to
SolidWorks website
 to find out more about SolidWorks Plastic, in detail.

We are in the mid of arranging some workshop for interest users to participate and explore more. Visit our blog more for latest update on the latest products update.


New rendered image for ring (designed by Nelson)

Hi , this is the new rendered ring image from Mr. Nelson~ with a different background and enviroment in PhotoView360, looks more grand compared with the previous one right? 😉


New User Interface of SolidWorks Simulation Xpress!

Have you try the new user interface of SolidWorks Simulation Xpress in 2010? If you have tried, you will found that it has been redesign to reduce the screen clutter and have better guidance to the new user.

Once you hit on the Simulation Xpress button, the user interface will provide the user detail information to guide you through the steps on how to run a simulation, these information including how to define fixtures and forces, warning that should be alert, and also some examples to improve the understanding of users.

After simulate the part and obtain the result, Simulation Xpress also allow user to improve their design throughout optimization. With this function, user will able to define which dimension is the changeable parameter throughout the optimization process, and which parameter is the constraint you wish to maintain. When you rerun the analysis, SolidWorks will alter the changable parameter to make the design meetig the requirement.

Let’s enjoy the short video to know more about the Simulation Xpress in SolidWorks 2010!


New Vase Using Solidworks

Suddenly i had interested to try the capability of solidworks 360 so i come out with this simple vase and try to render it,this is the result. So just to say hai to all blog follower, this is only the warming up, hopefully another idea will come later..


Nice Rendering from Xixo

Hi all, here is the nice rendering from our follower-> Xixo. This is the skateboard that he design for his assigment and he would like to share with you all, just feel free to give any comment over here.  Another sharing for Xixo is this website:

https://www.productdesignforums.com/index.php?act=idx

According to Xixo, this is a good forum for starter and to discuss about 2D and especially 3D. A lot of professional there.


NO DESIGN = NO PRODUCT

Thanks for everyone who share your design with Malaysia’s SolidWorks Community. Your design and your innovativeness make our live more exciting. Since we kick off “Design your dream product”, there are various types of products being design by our engineer. We have jewellery, Vase, Perfume bottler, Car wheel, Bowl,……..

That’s what I means
NO DESIGN = NO PRODUCT
.

Since SolidWorks being introduced, it has position and well recommend by its powerful tools & features that make designer live getting BETTER and INNOVATIVE.

Today I have a new design from my friend, X-Men. He targets his design in furniture industry! He had design a “DNA Table” – funny table name right, this is call innovative! HAHAH…..

Well done design!


Official Invitation Video: IME’s SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009

Have you registered to IME SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009? If you haven’t, you know what you to do…

Most of the time before a BlockBluster Movie is launched, there will have something called the promovideo. During last weekend, I have created this promovideo for IME SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009. I hope you will like this video as the character is quite cute.

For this event, some of us can’t go “dating” (REAL reason:
because girl friend balik kampung
), For this event, some of us didn’t sleep for a few nights (REAL reason:
sleep too much during the day time
). For this event, some of us get sick (REAL reason: too much of Rendang and Lemang during this festival) Ha Ha Ha….

So please register and come as we really really spend a lot of time and efforts in order to make sure this will be an interesting day for you.
Register

See you!!

~ah lau~


Optimash Prime

me: Doc, I think I’m sick.
Doc: A(H1N1)? If so, pls get out, NOW! If not please continue.
me: …
me: When I close my eye, I saw optimus. When I go for shopping, i saw transformer. When I search
3Dcontentcentral
, i saw OPTIMASH PRIME!
Doc: Yes, you are sick! It known as Transformer fever!!!
me: …

Yes, Transformer fever is still on, especially here in Malaysia. Adults are buying transformer ‘toy’ and no, it was not for their children… it was bought for himself. o.O

Now, it is more serious than A(H1N1). The virus had infected 3Dcontentcentral. One day, I was browsing 3Dcontentcentral, I found this…

Optimash Prime
. So Cute!!! Potato man with 80′ prime suit & mask. The best part, I can change his hand, from this

 To this,

Ops! Haha… It’s so adorable. Don’t you think so?

Credit go to
Mr. Jojo Monkey
, from 3Dcontentcentral.com

Cheers~

~sew~


Performance: Graphic card testing (part 1)

Sales

: Yes, anything that I can help you?

User

: I’m looking for a graphic card, any recommended?

Sales

: What type of graphic card you are looking for?

User

: For SolidWorks CAD software application.

Sales

: We do have the model from NVIDIA, ATI, GIGABYTE, ASUS, SAPPHIRE, MSI……

User

: I think I choose NVIDIA.

Sales

: Which model you prefer?
Quadro FX1700, Quadro FX1800, GeForce, GeForce GTS,
GeForce GTX…?

User

: @.@
Having difficulty to choose a graphic card? Maybe I can help to solve your problem. Found that your newly installed graphic card is not up to your satisfaction? Pay for a huge amount of money but the graphic seem to be not functioning well in SolidWorks?
Not sure what is the root cause for this phenomenon? Don’t worry, try the following step.

Go to Tools > Options > System Option > Performance. Select
Use software OpenGL
.

Why doing this?
When you select the option Use software OpenGL, SolidWorks will operate in OpenGL mode, which mean that SolidWorks will not using the graphic card accelerator to process the image, but display it through the OpenGL feature.

Through this method, if your SolidWorks works fine in OpenGL mode, it means that the cause of the poor image display is from the graphic card hardware itself. With that you will need to check is your graphic card installed properly or it might due to the driver of the graphic card. The most important thing will be is your graphic card certified by SolidWorks?

Stay tuned for my next article part 2 : Is your graphic card certified?

More about OpenGL can refer from here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL

https://www.opengl.org/

Chan (
wlchan@cadcam.com.my
) is the Application Engineer (AE), specialist in SolidWorks and SolidWorks simulation for IME group of companies. His analytical skill solve a lot of customers’ stress and fatigue
.


Performance: Is Your Graphic Card Certified? (part 2)

Do you have a graphic card installed in your machine (
what a lame question
)? If yes, wondering is the graphic card in used is supported by SolidWorks? If you are not sure the answer, I can guide you how to get the answer.

Go to Start Menu > All Program > SolidWorks 2011 > SolidWorks Tools > SolidWorks Rx.

In SolidWorks Rx window, select the Diagnostics tab.

The highlighted column will show you the graphic card model that installed in your machine. The diagnostics result will also let you know either is your graphic or the driver for the graphic card is supported by SolidWorks application.

If you are looking for a graphic card, you can always go to the following link to look for the certified graphic card as well as the certified graphic card driver.

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

You may do the selection of the graphic card based on your SolidWorks Version; Operating System or preferable graphic card vendor.

Too many models for you? Choose the right one based on your budget. ^.^

Chan (
wlchan@cadcam.com.my
) is the Application Engineer (AE), specialist in SolidWorks and SolidWorks simulation for IME group of companies. His analytical skill solve a lot of customers’ stress and fatigue.


Performance: Why is the Windows® 7 x64 operating system recommended?

I just read an interesting explaination on why Window 7 for SolidWorks 2011. Below are the reason:-

– Windows 7 x64 is a true 64-bit implementation (Windows XP was originally introduced as a 32-bit operating system)

– Microsoft® removed a crucial threading lock, which allows up to a (approximately) 30% increase in performance on some hardware.

– You’ll see 20% – 30% improved battery life on laptops with Windows 7.

– Windows 7 is smarter about memory handling, and paging is more efficient
– SolidWorks development work is done on Windows 7

– XP is no longer supported by Microsoft

Between Vista and Windows 7, Windows 7 has a smaller memory footprint, and has improved graphics resource handling with multiple windows. Both of these improvements have a positive impact on SolidWorks.

If you are looking forward to upgrade your hardware and OS, i bet you have no reason not to buy Window 7.


PERODUA ECO CHALLENGE 2011 – PART II

Wonder how UTM can convince the judges about the engineering ability of the car? Here is the answer!

1. Versatility of 3D modeling

 UTM visualize the car from the conceptual modeling to 3D modeling. Waht the best thing when talk about 3D modeling is you might find that your design and actual product will looks the same!

speaking of Engineering Drawing 101- SolidWorks 3D Modeling software will easily create most curves that is hard to be drawn in 2D drawing. the curve that had been made in 3D will then read out as Drawing with exact parameter as what the 3D modeling have.

2. Intergration of FEA analysis with 3D modeling

Providing the proof on bending analysis of the car frame definitely helps the team in term of fabricating the lightest frame as possible. With the result of bending analysis using SolidWorks simulation software, the entire structure was calculated and the best design for framework with highest safety factor and lightest weight had been produced.

3. Post processing of Aerodynamics analysis

Using SolidWorks Flow Simulation, the team had been able to provide evidence on the ability of the 3D modeling design to achieve desired coefficient of drag where at the same time the analysis will help the team to construct a model that produce lowest vortex as possible.


PERODUA ECO CHALLENGE 2011

On 25 June 2011, the third installment of Perodua Eco-Challenge (PEC) 2011 had taken place at Melaka International Motorsports Circuit. This year, PEC had brought a new challenge to thirteen selected higher learning institutional when they have to construct their own design and engineered their own car while engine and transmission were provided by Perodua.

The main objective of the PEC 2011 is to provide a training ground for undergraduates to challenge their engineering prowess and to promote innovativeness among local students. The challenge is to build a car powered by a 660cc 3 cylinder engine. A transmission and an ECU were also provided. In addition, Perodua also gave RM17 500 development fund to all the participating teams
.

The PEC 2011 falls into 3 categories. The main category is Longest Distance where the cars have to be driven on circuit until it completely stop. 0.5liter fuel was provided to run each car. The winner of this challenge was selected based on the longest distance a car can be move with the least amount of penalties. The other two categories are Engineering and Design where the winner was selected based on the booth presentation on the engineering and design aspects such as framework, aerodynamics, visual and etc.

As can be seen in the pictures below, there are a lot of creative car designs produced by our local undergraduates in this challenge. All of this team has come out with a unique car design with different engineering capabilities. A great effort had been shown by all the participating team members while the supporters of every team also play into roles to make the event more exciting and memorable.

Now, let’s take a look at one of the participating team in this PEC 2011, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).  It is an honor for our company and SolidWorks when we are able to sponsor one of the PEC team (UTM team) which consists of young future engineers and inventors in order to accomplish our social responsibility for the nation. It is in line with our company vision which to provide the best CAD/CAM/CAE solutions throughout this region. Our Product Manager, CW Lau went to Melaka to give moral support to the team on the event day and see by himself the car produced by the UTM team.

This is the Calamaro designed by the UTM team where had fully utilize SolidWorks in its design and development. The mechanical structure of the car chassis was designed using 3D CAD software, SolidWorks and not only that; UTM had also make use of CAE in SolidWorks by coming out with the bending analysis of the structure using SolidWorks Simulations. UTM team realizing the workability of the car in term of engineering and design by providing flow analysis results which also using the SolidWorks Flow Simulations. Using SolidWorks as the backbone of CAD and CAE for this car engineering and design, UTM can proudly claim themselves as the winner of Engineering category and second runner up of Design category.

SolidWorks is not only can be used for mechanical design purposes. As you can see in the PEC 2011, UTM had provided us with a very good example of how we can extend our design a step further. By using SolidWorks 3D modeling software as a platform, UTM had use the SolidWorks Simulations to perform Finite Element Analysis to analyze the impact of the force load to the structure of this car. Taking the bend analysis result of the car frame as the medium to interpret the strength of the car to withstand the gravity, engine weight, suspensions and the human weight body; it can be said that the main objective of UTM team on making a car with lightest frame without sacrificing the strength of the frame had successfully achieved.

UTM also put the car design concept into serious consideration when the team came out with four different concepts of design. In order to select which design is the best design to be produced, the team had tested all the conceptual design using SolidWorks Flow Simulations. This way, the team has early prediction on the dynamicity of the car’s design which contributes to the lower production cost as the team just need to fabricate the real car based on the best calculated prediction provided by the aerodynamics analysis of SolidWorks Flow Simulations.

With the help of this two amazing CAE tools provide by SolidWorks Corporation which fully integrated with SolidWorks 3D CAD software itself, time had been save a lot when there is no need to transfer the model into other CAE software. The cost of unnecessary modification is also being reduced as all the results of the car engineering had been predicted earlier which also contribute on reducing the time of fabrication.  In total, this Calamaro produced by UTM undergraduate team had shown SolidWorks can be a total solution provider for your design purposes. The simplicity and highly user friendly software succeed in moving the team a step forward.

It is indeed a fair competition for UTM when the team is able to convince the judges of how they engineered the car. Huge efforts had been done by these undergraduate students and a 200% commitment should be given praise. In general, the PEC 2011 teams which consist of 20 undergraduate students work in a team lead by two lecturers as advisors had  succeed in proving to Malaysia that our local universities can be as creative and as motivated as the global undergraduates. All needed is a pump of adrenaline by the local companies in Malaysia to support them into realizing their dreams. It is hope that in future, more companies will be hand in hand in organizing other competitions to create more local experts in technical area within various industries.

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

Let’s go design!~


Perpetual Licensing Vs Term Licensing

SOLIDWORKS licensing falls into two types; perpetual licenses and term licenses. Perpetual license is the license that you purchase to own while term license is you pay as you use or in other word; renting. SOLIDWORKS has offerings in both of these categories and customers can use either or both of these options depending on their needs.

If you wish to save the upfront cost, SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing is the right option.

What is Term Licensing?
Term Licensing is basically renting a SOLIDWORKS License for either a three month or 1 year term instead of purchasing a perpetual license.
Term license allows you to use SOLIDWORKS products with a quarterly subscription. It is very convenient in a way that it enables access to many types of applications in SOLIDWORKS as the full version of perpetual license is. However term licensing is more flexible and cheaper.
Why choose a SOLIDWORKS Term License?
Term Licenses are perfect for small companies that in the need of extending their cash flow, considering the factors below;

When SOLIDWORKS licenses are essential for only short term projects or for the short phase of a project for example, SOLIDWORKS Simulation is only needed to predict the product’s real-world physical behaviour.

When the staffs hired are for contract terms or for internship program students just for they to use the license temporarily in a short period of time.

Companies are in saving-mode and when cash-flow is the concern.

And many more.

What are the other things you need to know about Term License?

Term Licenses are available for either 3 months or 1 year term and it includes a grace period that added to the date of expiration to allow a sufficient time for the users if they have troubles in installing.

Only one Term License is allowed on a machine. However you may transfer the license out if you wish to change the license to other machine.

The transfer/ deactivate process of the Term License is similar to Perpetual License.

Term License installation is similar to standalone products installation and it requires a serial number.

The activation process is also similar to Perpetual License where it requires internet. If the machine does not connected to the internet, SOLIDWORKS may be activated manually via email.

Term License always include subscription and offers the same benefits as the Perpetual License; technical support, customer portal, enhancement request, knowledge base, free access to SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard,PDM Standard,SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard for Professional license, etc.

Term licensing is not available for EDU, Global Licenses and Research at the moment. Term Licensing is available for single users not for network license.

Term License has access to My.Solidworks Professional but only limited to 1 user per license. The other users could access to the My.Solidworks Standard.

Term Licensing is available to all existing and also new customers.

Non-active customers for a Perpetual License are also entitled to order a Term License.

Perpetual Licenses
Perpetual license however still is the most popular and wanted due to its benefits. If you were to purchase SOLIDWORKS today and to consider along with a Subscription Service, Perpetual license is the option. Perpetual license will benefit you as it will forever be yours as well as in accessing to every previous and latest version of SOLIDWORKS. Perpetual License has become the main option of all as due to its lowest total cost of ownership.

There are two types of perpetual licenses to be considered:

Standalone License: It is for one user and activated on one machine. After activation done, no internet connection or network server is required to run SOLIDWORKS. The license could be moved to another machine but it needs deactivation on the current machine and reactivation to the new machine.

Networked/Floating (SNL): One license could be shared with multiple users with network/floating licenses. SOLIDWORKS access needs license server installed by the administrator and you can always add a license to the network in the future. You may use the license home also or even go on a business trip. It is not a problem at all.

*Please note, a term license cannot be converted to a perpetual license
.

So what is the right licensing option for you? If you find it hard to answer, contact us at +6019-269 2054 , we are more than happy to assist you!

– Intan Farradiana, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Photo Rendering Contest

Hi all! The announcement of the winner for Photo Rendering contest is just around the corner! Feel excited? Looking forward to 13th Oct 2009 which is the launching of SolidWorks Innovation Day by IME? Here are some of the new added entries that I would like to share with you all. There are few more coming due to their render file size was not appropriate, I am waiting for the resubmit for these entries. Just browse through and enjoy each entry here, which one you prefer the most?

Entry #35 From Nelson Liew

Freedom

Entry #34 From Hong Yih Piao

Black and White

Entry #33 From Emily

My Steel Chair

 Entry #32 From Emily

Funky Kettle

Entry #31 From Tang Teck Leong

3D Connecxion

Entry #30 From Patrick

3D Connecxion

Entry #29 From Teay Siew Hon

SEIKO Kinetic Wrist Watch

Entry #28 From Hilmy Bin Ahmad @ Mohamad

Orange

Entry #27 From Hilmy Bin Ahmad @ Mohamad

Wall Clock

Entry #26 From Mohamad Sobri

Fruit

Enrty #25 From Lee Kiat Hong

Sweet Home


PhotoView 360 2010

Hi everyone! I think most of the PhotoView360 fans are really looking forward to experience the rendering capability enhancement in 2010, some of you may even already tried it in the Photoview 360 2010 Beta Rendering Contest! How many new function have you explore? Let’s play a game~ Observe the picture above which is rendered by PhotoView 360 2010.
How many enhancement can u figure out from this picture?

P/s: For your information, you may face problem in applying the enviroment in Photoview360 2010 beta2, but this problem has been solved in Beta3!


PhotoView 360: F-117 Nighthawk

*Remark: This was a blog written by a trainee. His SolidWorks is amazing and I believe he’s going to have a great future ahead.

Hi ~ A good day to you all~

Here I would like to share with you all with my current plane – F-117 Nighthawk. The method to use is using surface + solid modeling, or call normally we known as
Hybrid Modeling
. It’s best for complex modeling and under surface modeling course.

This is shown the bodies of
F-117 Nighthawk have done, of course I would like to make it more realistic and attractive for you all to continue reading my blog.  So, I use
PhotoView 360
to keep thing interesting. With the integrated rendering tool, I no longer need to leave SolidWorks interface to perform photo rendering. Let check it out~ how it look in final design with rendering effect.

This is the top look of the aircraft.

The front view, look alike with actual aircraft?

Maybe adding an image (sky) at behind to show my jet in action in the air? Let’s have a look~

Hope you enjoy my work. Now, do you all fully utilizing your current SolidWorks feature? Do you agree PhotoView 360, is easy?

If you think you are not using 100% of your SolidWorks, consider to attend our compliment Tips & Tricks class for fellow follower. Register here.

Or you want to learn how to model this? I can help to arrange with our trainee.

Thanks you for reading, have a nice day ~ ~*


PhotoView360 tutorials

Part of the Rendering Contest,

I would like to share an General online tutorial on how to manage PhotoView 360.

Click here

to enter a site where you can learn the basic rendering setup and some tips & tricks. Generally it consist of User interface, Loading in the models, applying appearances, environments & final rendering.

By going through this five short videos and some tips & tricks, i believe you shall stand a higher chance to win away the prizes. Don’t forget the attractive 1st prize of
RM200 CASH
and a
3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
 and also other fabulous prizes.

What are you still waiting? Submit your entry now!~


Piping libraries

The piping enhancement just getting better and better. Recently, I found that it come with
HUGE

fittings

library. With this library come along, it save us a lot of time building up our very own library.

Of course, you would need to download and store into your drive. Just turn on your SolidWorks 2010, go to Task Pane> Design library> SolidWorks Contents> routing and you shall found the fittings library located over there. Below listed the available standard (
just copy paste from the list
):

1. ANSI-ASTM metric B16.11- A234
2. ASME B16.10M
3. ASME B16.5
4. Australian BSP
5. DIN
6. ISO

 I guess it cover most of the standard, right? How do you think, Is this cool? I bet so.

To download, simple select the standard you want and hold CTRL+click to download.
Warming: make sure you have a great internet connection, the
HUGE
 library is not a joke.

Windwalker~


Power Up Your Interior Design with HomeByMe

Looking into the Interior Design Industry

Interior design industry has been well-known for its design services, not only it provides services for the custom interior house designs, but also provides such excellent services in housing development unit. Providing unique designs for rooms or houses to catch attention from clients, might as well provide the comfortable layout and design for house owner to feel at home. Some of the youngster or entrepreneurs even treat this design services as a hobby. Like the TV show, Pimp My Ride – instead of a car, it is more focused on room transformation, according to personal taste and trends from the internet. As long as you have a house and own a room, it can happen anytime to have a facelift for your spaces.

Interior designers always come up with unique ideas and designs based on their customer requirements

Normally when a client requests for house or room facelift, it usually takes a lot of time. Usually several discussions are required just to finalise the furniture needed for the renovation project. The unique designs of the room required a lot of confirmation to ensure they meet the customer’s request or demand. Changes of quality and design also greatly delay the actual renovation work progress. Sometimes, it also takes quite a little bit of time for the designer to prepare the house layout drawing for the renovation contractor or get approval from land estate department for the modifications of the houses.

Always start with drafting drawings, sometimes customer find it hard to visualise or being impressed by ID

Furthermore, sometimes it is extremely hard for interior designers to present their ideas and their designs physically at the public. Once in a while, they are only able to show it at developer’s showroom, or else they are required to handcraft using cards and plastic pieces to complete them, it is time consuming to complete these mini design projects. Additional cost is also needed for photo shooting of the room and the photo editor services, whether to edit the photo to look more professional or render picture using PhotoShop software. That makes a lot of prospects lose interested or lose passion when they communicate with interior design team, making the design team having a tough time to deal with customers.

Low budget sample models to display for presentation

Showroom, impressive layout, but high production cost

Imagine all these issues can be solved by using HomeByMe with DraftSight.

You might be wondering, what is HomeByMe? Is it some sort of software? Is it hard to use, or is it another software to do interior design?

This is where we come in and explain the details to you.

Imagine having a cloud design tools, always ready in your palm, for presentation and design

Your Conceptual Design Comes Alive on Cloud

What is HomeByMe? HomeByMe is a cloud-based design software for interior design industry. Yes, you are right, cloud-based. This means you are only required to have a web browser to kick-start your house interior design. In other words, you can use it anytime and anywhere, as long you have a smart device on your hand. It does support MAC OS, so you can no longer worry about the hardware required to start using HomeByMe.

So, is it for ID specialist to use it? The answer is no, HomeByMe is a software for everyone. So, everyone can design with minimum guidance required.

Everyone always thought room designing is only for professional interior designers

HomeByMe is a webpage cloud application and mobile application as well

Within the HomeByMe, it does not only provide a friendly dedicated area for interior design, but it also comes with existing pre-set data, for house structure design, wall pattern, floor pattern, windows, furniture, and electrical appliances. When you complete your initial design, you can directly preview your design whether in 3D view, 2D view or walkthrough. This allows the designer to shorten the time to present the unique design of the room and preview it directly on tablet or mobile phone without physical sample model or actual showroom for the design.

Easily preview your project in front of customers with simple 3D visualisation

Besides that, designers can also use some of the pre-set designs from the HomeByMe community forum, to improvise existing design to be more interesting. When you browse through the project details, they will provide the general information, on the room size, how many rooms. If we break into the additional details, the dashboard even provides number of furniture, window, doors that has been used in your room project.

Number of rooms, room details, number of furniture and rendered picture can be previewed from the project dashboard

Methodology of HomeByMe

Let us deep dive on the design features in HomeByMe. Similar like SOLIDWORKS, after you start a new project, the system will ask you to define the first room area. HomeByMe also comes with pre-created room to use, so the designer only needs to put some effort to modify and edit the room size and fine tune the detail of the walls and floor.

The floor plan design uses a simple command or function to create line for the room perimeter and to create different rooms within your project. Let’s assume that if you have existing floor plan 2D drawings, it is amazingly easy for you to draw the line and dimension according to your floor plan drawings. To standardise the room details, you even can rename the room name so it is easier to identify the room within the project.

Always start with simple 2D floor plan design

You can always rename the room name, and details of the room

Come with pre-set room shape and size, to speed up the floor plan design. You can classify the room type in the project.

Once the room is ready, this is where we utilise the pre-set data to improvise the room. By clicking the build icon at the top left, it will give us the access to all the existing pre-set / pre-create data to use on our design project. Not only the structure pre-set data, even the furniture item all area ready to use or apply in the project.

Pre-create data for build structure

Once the room is ready, you can always drag and fine tune the structure positions

You can always add on internal doors, windows for your room

Furniture pre-created data always ready to be used or add in your project

Some of the furniture comes with full set, like kitchen set, or wardrobe set can be found in the database

What so special is that the item used in the project can be edited and updated anytime based on designer’s desire and even the floor plan can be modified anytime. When your furniture is added to your project, you can always preview in 2D view, 3D views, and the walkthrough mode in HomeByMe.

Can always fine tune your furniture positions and change the floor plan

Can always using 2D, 3D views, and walkthrough mode to check and preview your project

Integrated with DraftSight, Kill Two Birds with One Stone

If currently you have DraftSight software, you are going to like this part.

After HomeByMe developed under Dassault Systemes 3DVIA division, similar with the 3DEXPERIENCE concept, create a collaboration bridge with the drafting CAD. The main reason behind this is, as per today, drafting CAD remain strong in construction or renovation industry. HomeByMe has been collaborating with DraftSight software after their cloud platform first released to the public.

So, how does the magic work between HomeByMe and DraftSight? How can this feature help others to produce finalised standard drawing for their design?

Let us explore together how we can import the HomeByMe data into DraftSight. As we know that, HomeByMe has a different type of data from the cloud, now they specifically allow the data file only can support for DraftSight.

We can directly access our project in DraftSight by going to the task pane in DraftSight, then login your HomeByMe account in DraftSight. The HomeByMe task pane will show the existing project in your HomeByMe account, direct lyclick it will open the project in DraftSight in 2D drawing views. If your DraftSight got issue login, make sure you install latest DraftSight service pack and version, and you might need to subscribe to the Pro version. Only the Pro version of HomeByMe comes with export options within the HomeByMe website, will allow you to export your design in DraftSight readable data. Then go to the same task pane section again to import your data, with the standard SI unit you desire.

Direct login in DraftSight task pane, or HomeByMe plugin

Once we import our project in the DraftSight, the data already converted in standard DWG drawings, with entities, colors, and layers. All the data you have seen in 2D view from HomeByMe will project the same floor plan in DraftSight. Even the floor name, show in the viewport or drawing sheet in DraftSight.

If work on offline, must subscribe pro-version, to have the export feature in HomeByMe

Once import into DraftSight, save it as DWG file for renovation contractor, or official documentation for the room information for housing developer

By utilising this feature, not only it helps the designers to convert the design data into drafting style, but also speed up the time from redoing the design on DraftSight, and easier for the contractor to obtain the floor plan drawings for renovation works. Purchasers can also easily identify and verify the item to purchase for the project.

Advance Features You Should Not Miss Out

After we had covered on the basic modelling features, the advantages of HomeByMe integrated with DraftSight, now we are going to deep dive into the advance features, or you can call it the hidden features within the HomeByMe application.

Designers always wanted to show their best designs or presentation through picture, to express their idea through pictures than a thousand words. Normally, they will hire another graphic designer, or photo editor to perform or do photo rendering for their picture. By using the HomeByMe, the application itself consists of photo rendering feature, which allow the designer to render the photo from their project directly on cloud. You are right, directly on cloud, without using any hardware to process the photos. You even can use custom picture as background, to make the rendering effect more realistic. In the process of rendering, you still can continue other design projects without interruptions. Once it is complete, the HomeByMe will drop an email to notify the designer, the rendered photo is ready to be downloaded from cloud. Minimum training or guidance is required to pick this up, without additional cost to do photo rendering. Trust me, the effect of the rendering tools so good, and you are going to love it very much.

Picture rendering mode provided and rendered on cloud (terms & conditions applied)

Besides rendering photo features, you are also able to create the VR 360 view for your room. By using the similar walkthrough mode, select the perfect position that you want. Instant preview in the webpage, allow you to rotate, turn around to present the highlight of the room design within the phone. Quite sure it will capture your client attention, without any physical show room in your house, or sample room model in the discussion or meeting. You can even export the file out, instead of using the website, can directly preview VR 360 picture, using the normal VR holder for the phone, without any high-end VR hardware.

360 VR mode available to preview your project (terms and conditions applied)

As shown earlier, we are only focusing on single level room. You can even add additional floor or basement basef on your default floor design, or you can start as a fresh design in different floor, which explains the pre-set data for the staircase found in build data sheet, to create a connection between floors and basement. Limitless design space in HomeByMe allows you to explore, create, and design your room without limit.

Add-on additional floors or basement for your project, limitless design space for your house, room, and even exterior design

HomeByMe now even have their own application from Google Store. It works the same way with the browser version. Login required, and you can directly start your project or preview your project throughout the apps in your smartphone. You should download it and try it out after you read this! Truly one step closer to the future, and very convenient.

HomeByMe smartphone application can be found on google store, install it, and you can use it anytime, anywhere

One Step Ahead of Future

Currently cloud solution is the ongoing trend around the world. Earlier this year, Dassault Systemes just introduced plenty of features on 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and now with HomeByMe on cloud introduced to the market. Everyone can just design their own houses with the smartphone in your hand; it makes it feel like everyone can be their own designer for their houses. It’s a brand new experience of SIM City room simulation that comes alive to you and makes your ideal house into real design for your room or houses.

If you are interested to understand how the HomeByMe works with DraftSight, please register, and join our online seminar session on 13
th
 April 2022. If you missed out, you still could join the on-demand session. We will be waiting for you.


Pre SolidWorks 2013 launch: SolidWorks 2012 Recap

SolidWorks 2013 will go live in October. Every new release of SolidWorks includes many enhancements and improvements, most in direct response to customer requests. While we are busy preparing for coming SolidWorks Innovation Day 2012 to LIVE SolidWorks, it goods to recap what are the top enhancements in SolidWorks 2012.

Make your life easier on saving the recap top enhancement of SolidWorks 2012, making it into PDF will be more handy for you. So, click on below link to download.

DOWNLOAD HERE

By the way, do not forget to share this great information with you friends.


Presentation Studio

This is another FREE tool from Solidworks Labs.
This time i want to introduce “Presentation Studio”

Presentation Studio is a tool that help you to create a Design Brief, Price Sheet, Technical Summary, Feature Review, or Product Specification in minutes. (maybe just in seconds)

But unlike ordinarly PDFs, this PDF document will embedded with a 3D model that conveys your design in a way 2D just can’t. The PDF can then be read on any computer with Adobe Acrobat 8 or above.

To use this tools,

1) You need to download addin from this link.
https://labs.solidworks.com/Products/Product.aspx?name=pstudio

2) Open your Solidworks 2009. Go to drop down menubox -> Tools -> Add ins. Click the checkbox of Presentation Studio.

3) Now that add-in is loaded, there will be a new Presentation tab containing the Layout command. This will launch the Presentation Studio Layout Property Manager. (as shown below)

4) Choose the template layout and type in your product summary and description. Select the views that you want to show in your PDF.

5) Click Ok. Then the output will look like this. (below)

In just a few steps, we managed to generate a 3D product catalog.

Note: this add in runs in Solidworks 2009.

Happy Trying!!
~ah lau~


Quick Tips: Arc Length

I would like to share with you on a dimensioning trick this time. It is on how to dimension a arc length with smart dimension. Here i have prepared a step by step screen shots to show you each and every steps of creating a arc length dimension.

STEP 1:

STEP 2:

STEP 3:

STEP 4:

Mission accomplished!!

Questions: Can we do the same thing on a spline?

Try it yourself!

~ah lau~


Quick tips & tricks>> Keyboard’s shortcut

Do you know you can use shortcut key when desiging with SolidWorks? Example, G if for magnifying glass, F for Zoom to Fit.

Do you know you can customize your SolidWorks with your own shortcut key? To customize your favourite shortcut, go to
tools> customize> keyboard.
 Pick your features & select your key.

But I’m wondering, how can I remember which feature go with which alphabet? To help you on that, I have a tricks. All you need is a colour printer, scissor, double side tape, transparent tape & …

ALL THE SOLIDWORKS FEATURES’ ICON ~ (
you may use mine
)

5 simple steps to allow you design better products in shorter time:-

Step 1: copy all the icon and then print it out with colour.

Step 2: Apply transparent tape on top of the icons.

Step 3: Apply double side tape at the back of the icons.

Step 4: Cut the icon that you plan to stick to your keyboard.

Step 5: At last, stick it to your keyboard button!

Isn’t it simple? Now you know where to find your shortcut key when designing your creative idea to share with us. Happy trying! 🙂

~sew~


Realize your ideas @SMK serendah

IME group of companies cooperate with MACRI ( Malaysia association creativity & innovation recently have a “
Program Budaya Kreativiti & Inovasi
” seminar and technical sharing for SMK Serendah to inspire and introduce the most innovative 3D CAD application to the younger generations.

Young lads always come across some ideas, but how many of the ideas from these young talents become a feasible application that helping in our daily life? Mr. Robest Yong, a famous local inventor share his passion and idea to invent great marketable products to over 50 young man.
Invention is just ABC
.

Most of the ideas are not developing because most of the people do not know how to communicate the idea to others and conceptual it becomes visible model. “That’s a waste for the brilliant young and innovative ideas going to no way.” said the Senior Application Engineer, Sew from IME group of companies. “That’s why our CEO Madam Julia Wee is very support on this event.” Our mission is to guide the young talent to use the right tool to deliver their idea in the more “Solid” ways.

After that, he share with the students on the latest 3D technology, SolidWorks which can serve as a great tool to realize their idea in a simple and fast way, meanwhile can use for presentation.

At the end, students took the opportunity to ask and learn from Mr. Robest on invention mind set and technology update with Sew.

We are not only telling them about this but we also set up few computers for them to have a test drive so that they have a better understanding on what we are trying to explain to them. It is beyond business, to help the young talent to realize their ideas and develop dream are always bring bigger fulfillment and make our group complete.


Referral Program

Congratulation to
MR Andy Yeong
 from
IPOH, PERAK
 as the winner
of December 2008
Refer-A-Friend Program
.

He has won a 3D2N hotel stay at
Awana Porto Malai Resort @ Langkawi

wish to be the NEXT winner to

WIN a 3D2N stay at

Awana Kijal Golf, Beach & Spa Resort @ Terengganu
the
more

you refer, the higher chance to
WIN

Winner will be announced on
1 April 2009.

>> Click Her to Refer a friend<<

Terms and Conditions apply
~~ Good Luck ~~


Result for Photo Rendering Contest

Good Morning everyone! I would like to congrat winners of the SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009 Photo Rendering Contest! I personally feel it would be better if all the participants were able to attend on that day to explain their design or rendered images to all, besides that they also can share among to get more ideas on how to render a good and realistic images!

Anyway, for all the enties, you have done a good job! Keep it up! For those who has miss out the chance to participate, don’t worry, we are waiting for you coming year! =)

Competition lead to Improvement…Always grab the chances to improve~
PHOTO GALLERY:

In the progress of voting…

click
read more
 to know who is the winners!~
1st Prize (3D Connexion + RM200) won by Teay Siew Hon :

2nd Prize (3D Connexion + RM100) won by Chan YonSen :

3rd Prize (3D Connexion) won by Nelson Liew Toong Pak :


Same Game, Better Ice Rinks with Sport Systems Unlimited and SolidWorks Software Maker of NHL Hockey Boards Uses SolidWorks and Robotics to Speed Prod

Hockey is more than 125 years old. And while it’s still a game of sticks, pucks, and bloody noses, today’s state-of-the-art rink is a lot more than ice, wood, and chicken-wire fence.
Sport Systems Unlimited of Ontario, Canada, is proving that every day by using SolidWorks(R) CAD software to drive robotic production of rink board systems that look better, last longer, and are easier to maintain.

SolidWorks, at the heart of a recent lean manufacturing transformation at Sport Systems, automatically generates robotics and CNC code from 3D solid models. The new manufacturing approach has slashed production time of custom rinks at one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies from approximately 1,200 staff-hours per rink in 2006 to 450 staff-hours in 2009.

“We can now produce more hockey board systems more efficiently with the same amount of staff and virtually no overtime, all of which has set us apart in the industry,” said David Staines, Sport Systems director of sales and marketing.

“When we have the raw material in stock, we can deliver a rink in three days.

Lean manufacturing, robotics, and
SolidWorks have also allowed us to branch out into new markets like indoor soccer, one of North America’s fastest-growing sports, and even pharmaceuticals, where partitions prevent cross-contamination of drug batches.
 Efficiencies realized from our new manufacturing program also positioned us for a merger that allowed us to become a preferred rink equipment supplier to the NHL.” Sport Systems has distinguished itself among architects, builders, and rink managers with product advantages in both aesthetics and usage. Sports Systems hockey boards are made of mechanically fastened anodized aluminum frames, high-density polyethylene puckboard, tempered safety glass, and stainless steel hardware. This contributes to a highly polished, rust-free appearance using the same materials as retail storefronts. It contributes to a comfortable, family-friendly atmosphere.

“Switching to SolidWorks software was a critical move in our manufacturing transformation,” said Chris Henhoeffer, Sport System’s project manager and design coordinator. “Prior to embracing SolidWorks and 3D, the knowledge for producing a set of boards was in shop floor drawing templates and with manufacturing employees, requiring arduous fabrication steps and intensive training. Now the knowledge is inside the engineering office. SolidWorks software streams data out to robots and CNC machines via its Visual Basic for Applications interface. Line workers simply set up raw stock, punch in the SolidWorks part code, and watch the panel, part, or aluminum member be machined in a fraction of the previous time.” Sport Systems uses DriveWorks(R) knowledge-based engineering software, a Certified SolidWorks Gold Partner Product, with SolidWorks for configuring customized board sizes for the job.

After read this article, it proven that Solidworks even can work in sport industry. There will be our new opportunities in the near future.

Ladies and gentlemans, what are you waiting for…..!!!!!!

simming


Science or Art In Product Innovation

A Whitepaper by IBM

For a lazy reader like me, it’s hard to drag me read, but recently an article in SolidWorks
Community
attracted my attention. It go like this:

Far too many companies think of Innovation as an art rather than the result of high-performance business processes.

Every day, companies gamble with their futures, making bets big and small, risking “currency” in the form of their strategic direction…

Best Performing Companies derive 65% of their success from innovative projects:

65% of best performers succes from innovative projects. The best example in my mind now is: Apple’s products, I-pod, I-phone, I-pad, I-touch etc. In short period of time, now Apple is the leading technologies player in the market by launching products that drive the whole world crazy!

In Malaysia term: Don’t be a copy cat! Start your own design!!! Start an Orange Inc. ^.^ V

To read the full article,
CLICK HERE!

you would need to register (free) to login for the complete article.

Happy designing!~


SEAM 2016 – Symposium and Exhibition on Additive Manufacturing 2016

Organised by the Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMREC), SIRIM Berhad, the Symposium and Exhibition on Additive Manufacturing (SEAM) 2016 will be held at The Light Hotel in Penang from 26
th
 July (Tuesday) to 27
th
 July 2016 (Wednesday).

SEAM 2016 is a symposium followed by a full-day workshop on the second day, focusing on the latest technology of powder metallurgy, additive manufacturing. There will be authoritative experts, industry leaders, and participants from the academia, sharing their knowledge on additive manufacturing industry development, technology management and the operation during production process. Also, the symposium will discuss about areas such as processing and design, materials for additive manufacturing, additive manufacturing technologies, applications and industries, bioprinting and tissue engineering.

During this event, we are proud to present a topic on “
The Auxiliary of Additive Manufacturing
”, in which we will touch on
how 3D scanning technologies and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) can complement additive manufacturing. These elements are crucial in
a complete product development which could bring out the best in additive manufacturing technology.

For more information, please contact us at
marketing@cadcam.com.my
, or visit
SEAM 2016 official website
.


Seeding a better tomorrow

To meet the concerns of the environment, IME Technology Sdn Bhd as the frontline of solution provider of industry’s most ubiquitous MCAD software application SolidWorks, take seriously their responsibility to educate and convey the message to everyone involved in product design.

In an informative event to share how SolidWorks Sustainability can help determine how much carbon footprint release throughout a product life cycle. It all begins from the product design stage, where one can create the optimum design for minimum impact to our precious earth.

We showed two different ways to create the optimum product design.

First method is the choice of material. SolidWorks Sustainability provides the best sources of different materials take can apply in any kind of product and generate the Life Cycle Assesment report of product design with the material choosen with just few click away.

Second method showed how to reduce material usage which will result in carbon footprint reduction.

Participants from varies industries were impressed and understood better after the event how easily it is to use SolidWorks Sustainability to design products with reduced carbon footprint before they even begin to manufacture the actual product. “It is a cost-effective way for us to determine how our product prototype will impact the environment.” said one of the participants Mr. Arif

Mr. Sew, IME’s assistant product manager said” We look forward to encouraging more business owners and product designers to consider the environment right from product design stage. This will actually minimize environmental impact and will also be a big cost saving for the business in the long run.”


Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri & Happy holiday!~

Not sure bout you all, but i definately in “
Raya Mood”
…
Yes I’m a chinese, but I’m a Malaysian too & we, Malaysian celebrate all the New Year together. Let’s count how many days do we have for this Raya, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, tuesday… (Wednesday, Thursday , Friday, Saturday & Sunday for some friend who took
additiona
l
 leaves)…
 Ok, I really in
Holiday mood
!~
Wah! I can wait for the next 2 hour to start my holiday!!!

Hereby, SolidWorks-Malaysia’s bloggers would like to take this apportunity to wish all our Muslim friends & followers,
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri
 & non-Muslim friends a
Happy Holiday
. My gift for you all is a self-made card that I purposely design (3d) for your all. Hope you like it!~

Pleasea, please drive safe on the road when you’re travelling back. Our family are waiting us to reach home safety and celebrate the Raya together. 🙂


Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Wish all Muslim friends  SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI & HAPPY HOLIDAYS to the rest!

Drive safe on  your way back kampung (or city). ^.^ V


Selamat Hari Raya Merdeka

Hope I’m not too late to wish all of you who visits our blog and big big

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI

&

MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA!

Remember to drive safe and please, consume less
sugar and fat
. *evil*

Holiday!~ I’m off to Cameron Highland, the weather is too hot~


service pack: finally is here! SolidWorks 2010 sp 0.0

Yes, yes…
 good
 great
 news! Follow by our SolidWorks Innovation Day 2009, SolidWorks has launched SolidWorks 2010 Sp 0.0.

Active subscription users, what are you waiting for? You pay for it and is time to install and use it, SolidWorks 2010. Time to work
smarter
,
faster
&
rock solid
!~

GO! GO! GO!~

CLICK ME
 for latest service pack of SolidWorks 2010!~


Sharing: Cool Design

Still remember the company which purchased the 1 millionth license of SolidWorks 3D CAD Software, OGIO?

One of the product that they designed in this company is
180 degree Moto Stand.

The patent pending OGIO 180 moto stand is turning the industry on its head. Unlike previous stands where you had to lift the back of the bike onto the stand, the OGIO 180 does the lifting for you. The rider simply pushes the bike forward and the OGIO 180 does the rest. As the front tire rolls through the framework, the stand rotates 180 degrees and engages and lifts the bike onto the stand. To take the bike off, simply pull the bike back and the OGIO 180 will reverse the motion. Now you’re ready to roll.

The 180 degree Moto Stand is pretty simple. Push your bike through the stand and it rotates to automatically to lift the bike with no need to use your post moto weak and shaky arms to lift at all.

According to source from Internet, this product is selling at MSRP$99.95.

I have downloaded a video of 180 degree Moto Stand from YouTube and share with you.

This is simply one cool, innovative, practical and yet simple design.

I wonder when i will have a idea to design something which is simple, practical, innovative and most important something COOL…..

Maybe sleep more this weekend will help.

Have a nice weekend, my friend!

~ah lau~


Sharing : Rapid Prototyping with Objet

Rapid prototyping is nothing new nowaday. With rapid prototyping, easily we turn invention ideas into functional prototype. Today what i would like to share is not just purely a typical 3D printer but it comes with the capability to print multi-material simultaneously.

Below is an article from
https://blog.objet.com

which i read and felt that this article must be share with my fellow readers. A story about turning
‘ultimate lap and desk stand for your pad, tablet or e-reader’ into a functional prototype with Objet Connex multi-material 3D printer.

Turn Invention Ideas into Functional Prototypes – with Objet Multi-Material 3D Printing

Bernie Graham is a Canadian inventor. Together with Seattle-based industrial designer Jim Young, he invented the PadPivot
TM
. Labelled as the ‘ultimate lap and desk stand for your pad, tablet or e-reader’, the PadPivot features an ingenious hinged design that can be folded up small enough to fit in a hip pocket.

The designers approached Quickparts, one of North America’s largest providers of custom designed parts to help them produce the PadPivot prototype.

To accurately replicate the moving hinges, rigid supports, and rubber overmolds, Quickparts turned to the Objet Connex multi-material 3D printer to create the complex dual-material prototype required. This is the only 3D printing technology able to simulate both rubber and rigid elements within a single prototype. Using this technology, Quickparts was able to reproduce the overmolded parts in half the time of conventional overmolding processes.

With Objet multi-material prototype in-hand, Bernie and Jim were then able to move to the next stage- effectively promoting their intended PadPivot product. They produced a series of videos and demonstrations using the life-like model and to cut a long story short, they managed to get their design successfully into production within their intended deadline.

The PadPivot story is a great example of 3D printing solving real business challenges.
Along with making mass production more efficient and effective, the ability to better facilitate new inventions is the
second
 major advantage that 3D printing can convey to advanced economies – not at some point in the future – but here and now.

Hope you enjoy it, more objet blog, read here:
https://blog.objet.com/


Sheet Set Manager – Tools to Manage Your Drawings

pletDS R&D team spending a lot of resources and times, to improve their products or solutions. If you know about SOLIDWORKS, then you probably know that, every year SOLIDWORKS always come with different enhancement and improvement, to ensure user has the best experience when using the new version of the products. Today, we will be focusing on DS other solutions, DraftSight instead of SOLIDWORKS.

DraftSight, one of the drafting tools, that come with two license options, term license and
perpetual
 license.

Let us begin with the main issue or problems, when we encounter drawings. Do you find yourself some hard time, to locating, searching for specific drawings in computer? Large number of drawings in single project, some even come with different revision, sometime it requires quite some time to identify the drawings. We may create folder and sub folder to sort out the files, but you have to proper structure to different the drawings with different categories, take a lot of time to have this practice.

Sheet set manager can be easily find under sheet section.

No worry, DraftSight now come to this feature to solve this issue for you. Let us introduce to you, one of the features introduce in Draftsight2021, that is Sheet Set Manager.

What does this Sheet Set Manager help us to sort our drawing? Sheet set manager not only help us to categories drawings into a single unique group, it also allowing user to switch the drawing   instantly when they accidently close all the drawings windows.

Sorting manager in DraftSight ease user to manage and update the drawing withing the group.

In Addition, with this feature, you now longer required to open a lot of folders in your directories in your computer, you can easily update the drawing in those categories, always update your drawing project with few clicks. Aside from that, each individual drawing only able import into group once, which will prevent you importing the drawing into the wrong group or categories. To sort up the drawing the in manager, subset option is available, allow user to create sub-group in the manager to sort of the drawing with micro management. So, it will ease the process, for everyone to find the drawings that they needed in DraftSight.

Subset group in the manager, allowing user to further categories the drawings.

In conclusion, it worth a while for you to keep renew your software subscription services, to ensure that, you always receive the new enhancements. Who knows you might these enhancements one day, to solve your daily problem when using the DraftSight.

That’s all for today, if you like our blog, stay tune for more information about DraftSight.

Next blog, we will be talking about the other DraftSight features you need to know.

If you interested on DraftSight, please do not hesitate to contact me with this email
chchai@cadcam.com.my
.

– Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


showcase in SolidWorks World 2013 : Festo Bird and flow simulation

Nowadays, robotics and automation had been leading edge of our technology.  For centuries, we refer to nature as a guideline for our innovation and breakthrough.

We already have robotic insect, snake and fish.
So what’s next?

How about a bird, which obviously look like a bird and surprisingly, flew like one!

Festo, a German high-tech automation company had perfected what Leonardo da Vinci sketch in year 1505. Ah… those were the years where crazy inventions took places in our history.

Festo has managed to almost perfectly translate the elegant movements of a bird in flight into a flying robot that looks like a seagull. Bird does not just flapping their wings; it twists also to give lift during flight.
This robotic bird, equipped with 485 gram of servo motors which enable the wings to flap and twist at specific angles – that allows the bird to rise in the air by flapping its wings alone. It is able to start, take off and land unassisted, with the head and tail acting as a rudder to steer the bird through the air.
If you thinking there are propeller blade like a RC plane, you are so wrong. Check the video below.

Bionic bird flies at SolidWorks World 2013

Built from carbon fiber and polyurethane foam, it has a wingspan width of nearly 2 meters long and powered by 23 watts
LiPo accumulator cells.
 It can be control by
868 MHz/2.4 GHz two-way radio transmission.  Yes, RC plane is so old news.
As you can see, the internal mechanics look similar to da Vinci design, and Festo in fact did references da Vinci’s “rudimentary flapping wing models” as part of its inspiration. Ok, moving wings is one thing, but to study air created by it, this is when SolidWorks

to do the job.

To understand how SolidWorks get into work with this robotic bird design, we need to understand that real bird have a complex of motion to create aerodynamic force which able it to fly. Below are the sequences of that motion captured in time frame.

With requirement of lightweight bones, rigid skeleton, streamlined body of all birds, the most important key aspect is the wing, which creates the lifting force.

The shape of a bird’s wing is important for producing lift. The increased speed over a curved, larger wing area creates a longer path of air. This means the
air is moving
 more quickly over the top surface of the wing, reducing air

pressure

on the top of the wing and creating lift. Also, the angle of the wing (tilted) deflects air downwards, causing a reaction force in the opposite direction and creating lift. Larger wings produce greater lift than smaller wings.

Notice the underlined word ‘air is moving’ and ‘pressure’ on above text. Both of that can be simulate by
SolidWorks Flow Simulation
 in virtual environment.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation
 takes the complexity out of computational fluid dynamics. You can quickly and easily simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces that are critical to the success of your design. Simulate liquid and gas flow in real world conditions, run “what if” scenarios, and quickly analyze the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on immersed or surrounding components. Design variations can be compared to make better decisions, resulting in products with superior performance. Additional valuable modules, HVAC and electronic cooling, offer dedicated fluid flow simulation tools so you can go to the next level for your analysis.

Here are the key features:

•              Examine complex flows through and around your components with parametric analysis

•              Align your model with flow conditions, such as pressure drop, to satisfy design goals

•              Detect turbulences and recirculation issues with animated flow trajectories

•              Understand the flow of non-Newtonian fluids, such as blood and liquid plastic

•              Assess the impact of different impellers and fans on your design

•              Include sophisticated effects like porosity, cavitation, and humidity

Here are the results of
SolidWorks Flow Simulation.
  The colored arrows indicate the velocity & pressure of traveling air upon contact with the wing. From this we could know that the wing design could or could not provide sufficient lift force for the bird, relative to weight during takeoff or in midflight.

As conclusion, it’s true that main idea of design came from nature, but to have it been done in smart and less time consuming way, it have to be perfected by SolidWorks.


Simplify & Automate Your Product Quality Process – Part I

Quality control is one of the critically important processes at any company who designs or manufactures a product. With the rise of social media, the importance of product reviews has grown and competition among products has increased dramatically. Hence, it is crucial to strive in the pursuit of 100% quality or risk losing compliance with ISO or FDA and even worse, alienating consumers.

Now, there are two critical questions raised for quality control department to assure that you are on track to meet the changing consumer behavior.

1st question

“How many hours that your quality control department need to spend to complete your
First Article Inspection Report (FAIR)?”

2nd question

“How confident are your that your FAIR is free from human error?”

Creating a FAIR will take hours per day, depending on the complexity of the technical drawing. That is because majority of companies are still using the manual method to create a FAI report or inspection check sheet.

Now, take a look at the manual method, the basic equipment that are required to complete a FAI report,

Big Drafting Table (If you have A0 size of technical drawing)

Shape Drawing Template Ruler (As a guidance to draw circle/balloon on Technical drawing)

Pen (To draw the ballooned on Technical drawing paper)

Highlighter pen (To highlight those critical points or ECO points)

Correction Pen / Eraser (To correct wrong marked wrongly on the technical drawing)

Excel Software : To prepare inspection report in table format, and key in the result.

Etc…

The fact is your quality control department need to spend a few hours and go through all the tedious processes just to get

Technical Drawing with ballooned numbering and,

FAIR with proper numbering and result

Have you ever thought of “WHAT IF” we can
 automate
 the creation process of ballooned inspection drawings and FAIR in a much simpler way, to get rid of the
traditional first article inspection that is time consuming, tedious and prone to error.

OR

Can you imagine if we can have in-process inspection that gives us multiple ways to enter measured values directly into inspection report, such as importing CMMM results, or by using digital caliper.

Stay tuned to check out the possible way to

–
Simplify & Automate Your Product Quality Process
 –


Simplify & Automate Your Product Quality Process – Part II

As we’ve discussed about the
limitations of using manual inspection method
, there is a powerful tool for us to explore – to simplify and automate the product quality process.

Now, let’s check out
SOLIDWORKS Inspection
 that can make quality control department’s friends’ life easier.

If you are troubled by “I still do not know which is better, the automated or manual way”, you may refer to the short facts (benefits) below to clear your doubts.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a single software with two user interface,

Fully integrated SOLIDWORKS Add-In

Standalone application that Support PDFs, or TIFFs files

Lastly, to answer to the frequently asked questions – “Can I customize the existing inspection report format?” The answer is.. YES! The inspection report is customizable according to different company standard.

If you/ your company is looking to improve quality control process, you can arrange a live demo
HERE
 to save hours of exploring SOLIDWORKS Inspection.


Simulation Tools you have to know in  3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Recently, we always talked about 3DEXPERIENCE, we talked about cloud storage system, a place where you can sync your cad data file in secured cloud server, provide more deep data security to keep track your file history, and control the access of the files by other users in the platform.  cloud project planner, schedule and planning tools allowing user to assigned task, and create schedule, timeline, to ensure the project completed on time.  Cloud community provided spaces, allowed user to create a private / public group or create a dedicated group between users and suppliers, to create a secured and fast communication bridge between these parties.

So, what we going to focus today? We will deep dive more on simulation tools, advance tools that is ready in 3DEXPERIENCE.

Simulation is quite an important process in design process stages. Normally, we start from drafting, then 3D designing, and before product release, we need to validate our design. Either using hand calculation to stimulate the process theoretically, or we can use CAE tools to stimulate our prototype.

Simulation is part of the process to validate the product design before product release.

Typically, in SOLIDWORKS, we can easily stimulate it, and generate the report, however, software itself, required user to have a high graded hardware, with certified graphic driver to ensure the stimulation process run faster, more effective calculation in the software, and postprocessing power to run these simulation cases. This is where, 3DEXPERIENCE come, provided with these tools to run on cloud, to eliminate the hardware requirements, and provide a stimulation environment for users to stimulate their CAD prototype in cloud.

First of all, Mr Shreyas Vaidya, shared on his experience on structure solutions on 3DEXPERIENCE. When come to structure solutions, the solution includes structural design, one of it is the linear statics simulation, the most used simulation in SOLIDWORKS, then followed with frequency, buckling and thermal simulations. Then we have structural engineer section, which mostly used to stimulate structure body or you familiar with the term, weldment body in SOLIDWORKS. Then, the solutions also included durability performance engineer, and durability & mechanics engineer, where these solutions are more for advance users, more focusing for advance mesh, advance contacts in the simulations.

Capabilities of the stimulation performed under Simulia Structures Solutions.

Example of case study, that you can stimulate in Simulia 3DS platform.

He simplified the design to stimulate the F1 car crash simulation (left picture is the car actual design, right side is the simplified bodies to stimulate).

His concept on the crash analysis

When we come into crash analysis, Mr Shreyas Vaidya used structural analysis to stimulate the formula car crash in 3DEXPERIENCE. By assign the correct materials, and simplify the structural body, after collision, the 3DEXPERIENCE able to show the deformation of the car crash. As shown in result, the collapse of the member is terrifying, we cannot imagine the damage done on the driver, and the cost for crashing the prototype, if we do the physical collision testing on field. After knowing the collapse result from the simulation, to speed up the modification process, he switched back to the familiar tools, SOLIDWORKS to do some design changes. Then switch back to 3DEXPERIENCE, to rerun the case study, to compare the results, and hoping to have some improvement from the collapse scenarios. 3DEXPERIENCE structure solutions not only able to stimulate the collision simulation, it also allowed user to study door crash impact, blade damage, and much more for user to explore the possibilities on this platform.

Deformation after the crash, you able to watch the animated deformation after simulation, which is similar on what we see on SOLIDWORKS simulation.

Reimport the case study after modified the design.

Result comparison between original and modified design.

Energy graph comparison between original and modified design.

Followed some sharing from Mr Ramesh, specialist in CFD simulation, share some case study on how he utilizes the simulia fluid solutions to identify and airflow of the F1 cars. Simulia Fluid Solutions in 3DEXPERIENCE, come with fluid dynamics engineer, plastics injections engineer, Xflow and powerflow.

Solutions you can access in simulation fluid solutions.

Technology behind the CFD simulation solutions.

Powerflow is the main solutions used to stimulate the aerodynamics of the object in 3DEXPERIENCE, mostly used to stimulate the dynamics flow on the car / vehicles.

Case study he wishes to stimulate in the CFD solutions.

Numbers of elements being used to stimulate the airflow on the F1 car.

Total time needed to complete the airflow simulation using cloud simulation, imagine the time taken needed if we using premises hardware.

Result generated from the flow simulation, the drag force produced after the airflow go through the F1 car model.

The force exerted on the F1 car model by the air resistant.

Pressure points on the F1 car model.

Using colour allow user to identified which region has the highest drag force.

If you wish to understand all the details and explanation on these solutions, you can easily watch the recorded session at youtube, or refer to the link below.

If you are ready for CLOUD platform transformations, and to be ahead of other competitive players in your industry.

Please drop us a email at,
swsupport@cadcam.com.my
, to enquire us on 3DEXPERIENCE solutions, that are suitable to your company workflow.

– Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Smart Manufacturing – Getting It Right

On
May 24, 2016 (Tuesday)
,
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
, the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) will be organising the FMM ICT Conference 2016 on
“Enhancing Manufacturing Competitiveness Globally with Cloud Computing”
 at the Royale Chulan Damansara Hotel. Aiming to create greater awareness among Malaysian manufacturers on the latest manufacturing and ICT Technology, as well as assist Malaysian manufacturers, especially SMIs, to learn to leverage on ICT to improve their business performance.

In this conference, we will be presenting a session on
 “Smart Manufacturing – Getting It Right”
 – an overview of how Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming manufacturing. Through Next-Gen Manufacturing System and Cyber Physical System, we will talk about interconnected system that is capable of controlling physical entities, and also system that can make automated and smart decisions, or remote visualization, monitoring, control and alerts.

On top of that, we will be exhibiting our solutions offerings – total solutions which cover Product Design and Development, 3D Printing, Reverse Engineering, Product Inspection, and e-Manufacturing. Being the leading and most established CAD, CAM, and CAE solutions provider in Malaysia, IME has been serving the industries and educational institutions for over 36 years. Come visit us to learn about digital twin – a cyber physical model that enables you to control your equipment digitally or remotely no matter where it is.

Registration will be closed on May 17, 2016 (Tuesday).
Seats are limited to 200
registrations
 and on a first-come, first-served basis.
REGISTER NOW
.

For more information, please contact us at marketing@cadcam.com.my, or visit
FMM website
.


Sneak preview: SolidWorks 2011

You just installed SolidWorks 2010 but SolidWorks 2011 new features have been reviewed in SolidWorks World 2010. To present these upcoming features, they did it like a game show. Something like wrestling but with CAD. This year’s theme was “SUPER CAD SMACK DOWN”

A contest in which two opponents versus each other to be the best and fastest CAD fighter. Pretty entertaining.

Overall performance is improve as compare with SolidWorks 2010, resulting increased reliability and lower memory usage.

The new features that bring out for the fight are:

1. Revolve Up To Surface

2. Defeature-
convert and assembly to a dumb part which has surface only, great for file sharing and upload (3DCC
)

3. Custom RealView-
is like PhotoWorks features located into Realview.

4. PhotoView 360 Integration-
 preview window in SolidWorks with real-time rendering.

5. Planar Simulation-
2D section simulation, suitable for revolve part. At the end, project onto 3D model.

6. Dimension Layout Improvements-
in short, more intelligence drawing?

7. Dual Dimension Hole Tables-
support dual dimensions

8. Enterprise PDM Design Checker Task-
Design Checker is now integrated into Enterprise PDM

9. Lightweight Welds-
Welds in an assembly can now be “virtual” parts residing in the assembly file.
10. Weld Tables-
 table of all the welds shown in drawing.

11. Piping Enhancements-
features weld gap which will automatically adjust pipe length.

12. Walk Through-
walk or fly through in plant design.

13. Feature Lock-
Suitable for large, complicated parts where features can be lock to prevent rebuild.

Personally, I like those in blue. No doubt all are great enhancements but there must have some you like the most, right?

These are just some preview on what you will get in SolidWorks 2011. More to come. It just getting more interesting in SolidWorks.:)

wind_walker~


Softball in SolidWorks

YEAAAYY!! SUKMA GOT SOFTBALL!

Hi there! It had been a very looooooong silence from me. I think my schedule had been very pack lately and making my life busy as a bee. (
Caution! I will stink! ZZzZZzZZ
).

I am so excited about SUKMA now offering Softball as one of the game into the list! (FYI, this is the game I fall in love with!) But too bad, I could not see them playing for SUKMA due to duty (I will miss the MASUM also L).

Now leave the game and SUKMA behind, the important thing is that I am here to make your life easier by giving you helpful tips on SolidWorks. But today, I won’t give any tips or tutorial to make this and that. I would like you to think by yourself; using the feature that I already teach you on the previous tutorials to come out with this ball
.

Well, it is pretty easy actually, but you have to do some math to get the pattern at the right angle.
(Now, I already gave you the clue: ANGLE + PATTERN)
 Give it a try! You can email me your ball after some touching of rendering and I will put it in my next post. I will also show you how to create this profile in the next post.

For the LOVE of the game, Let’s Go Design!


sold 1  millions worldwide

Yes,
SATU JUTA!

1 million licenses sold worldwide. Congratulation to those who be part of the million license’s owner. Thank you for your support.
Terima Kasih
! Don’t upset, it’s okay if you can’t be part of it, just get a license now and be part of the 2 million license owner worldwide or million license owner in Malaysia.

This milestone is really only the beginning, and the future holds some very exciting possibilities. As a reward, click above image for some games for you to understand/know more about SolidWorks milestone and history.

Click me
 for the official press release

~sew~


SolidWorks 2009 sp2.0 is ready to download

This service pack is now available to Subscription Service customers. To download,
click here
. Or log into the SolidWorks Customer Portal at
https://customercenter.solidworks.com/
 and click Download Software and Updates to access the update.
For a listing of SPR’s fixed in this Service Pack,
click here
.

~Sew~


SolidWorks 2009 sp4.1 is up :)

Click me

to update to latest SolidWorks 2009 sp4.1.

This service pack is now available to Subscription Service customers.


Solidworks 2010~ Faster. Smarter. Rock solid

Work smarter, not harder.

YES! We are taking about the latest release of SolidWorks,
SolidWorks 2010
!

It takes knowledge to design great products. You have the knowledge – SolidWorks 2010 helps you maximize it by working smarter, not harder.

Built on 14 years of give and take with the now one million-strong SolidWorks community, SolidWorks software provides designers, engineers, and other creative professionals with all of the tools they need to design great products.

SolidWorks 2010, optimizing the core design functions you stake your career on every day, has hit the streets. Sources confirm it contains some 200 new user-driven features to help designers and engineers work faster and smarter every day. Copies are going fast.

To get to know more about the scoop on the latest edition of SolidWorks, SolidWorks 2010 what’s new,
CLICK ME!

When you think about SolidWorks, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s our 3D mechanical CAD (MCAD) software. And while that may be what we’re known best for, that’s not all there is to SolidWorks.

When you think SolidWorks, think:
> Design creation, validation, documentation, management, and environmental impact analysis as a single streamlined process.
> A simple design experience from the first sketch line to the finished 3D model.
> The ability to work smarter and faster with power packed into every feature.
> Rock-solid reliability in every phase of your work.
> Strong bonds with the growing SolidWorks community.

Stay tune for our latest news on local events for
SolidWorks 2010
!~


SolidWorks 2010: flick touch and multi-touch gestures

Rule #1, you need a touch-enabled computer.

Rule #2, you need fingers. (toe, if you prefer)

Last week we brought in a touch-enabled computer,installed with Window 7. Once the large 23″ touch-enabled all-in-1 monitor was ready, SolidWorks installed and the fingers are ready for twisting. 🙂

It was not really a workstation. What we manage to get is an
Acer Aspire Z5600
. It come with a wireless slim keyboard and mouse. anyway, who need the mouse when you can use your finger at the screen to replace the mouse. (*laugh*)

I always believe that for a touch-enabled monitor, the bigger the screen, the better. In this case, Acer Aspire did a nice job, 23″ wide touch screen is more than enough for the finger of an Asian, like mine.

SolidWorks performace in this machine didn’t let us down. Thanks to Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q8200s with 4GB DDR3 RAM. The graphic card fairly good, it is not really a certified CAD graphic card. In this case, the powerful built-in audio doesn’t seem to help much for SolidWorks application. (haha)

Okay, a video showing some movement commands in the software. You will find that it look the same on how my finger move but end with different type of movement, especially pan and rotate.

tips: I found that using 2 hand is better than 1 hand and more fun too.

We found that the icons, especially the
heads-up view toolbar

are too small. It will be better if can have a bigger icon. You can even feel the pain when selecting an edge, it was too slim for a fatty finger of mine. but you don’t expect a thick edge, right?

Hmm, how to right click with a finger? Simple hold awhile and a cool ring appear and you have your right click shortcut list. Cool huh!~ Until you watch how I drag my on-screen keyboard out for dimensioning.

Another video to share on how I use my finger to draw a simple model with some basic features in SolidWorks.

I guess this maybe helpful. Instead of using finger, try consider to use this:

Get a touch screen, try by yourself and let’s share with us how do you think.


Solidworks 2010 is coming!!

Solidworks has launched Solidworks 2010 Beta program recently….

What can we expect from Solidworks 2010???

Can we get what we have requested in Solidworks enhancement request?

Let review what are the
T
OP TEN ENHANCEMENT IDEAS
that presented by Solidworks User Group Leader from different region during Solidworks World 2009.

They are:

Excel behavior in tables

Abort any running command by pressing ESC

Add Lock Point for model rebuilds

Dual Monitor support

On-the-fly equation creation and editing

Faster rebuilds on complex models

Ability to rename configurations while referenced

SolidWorks backward compatibility

Clear memory when a file is closed

Increase program stability

I am not sure how many of these request will come out in Solidworks 2010 but as a customer centric company, i think Solidworks Corp will try their best to fullfil customer enhancement request.

For Solidworks Customer with current subscription service, you can go to
https://www.solidworks.com/
 and log in as customer and later download this beta program for testing purpose. (for testing purpose only, not commercial use!!)

*term and condition apply

.

.

~ah lau~


SolidWorks 2010 SP3.1

SolidWorks 2010 Service Pack 3.1 is available on the Customer Portal for Subscription Services customers to download.

To download,
click here
 or log onto the SolidWorks Customer Portal at
https://customerportal.solidworks.com/
  and click Download Software and Updates.


SolidWorks 2010 sp4.0

Super fast update!~

SolidWorks 2010 sp4.0 is now available to Subscription Service customers.

To download,
click here
. Or log into the SolidWorks Customer Portal at https://customerportal.solidworks.com/ and click Download Software and Updates to access the update.

Enjoy!~


SolidWorks 2011 Kick Start~

From ideas to results- NOW!

A new page was launch by DS SolidWorks Corp,
https://www.solidworkslaunch.com/
 for no other than SolidWorks 2011. DS SolidWorks Corporation unveiled SolidWorks 2011 yesterday. More than 200 enhancements in the new release and many of it were customers driven.

No new fancy interface but it offer more attractive reasons for you to own the latest release:

■Design Faster and more Efficiently
■Enhanced Support for Manufacturing
■Improved Collaboration and Visualization

Not forget to mention improving performance and reliability.

I always told my friends and users, “
with SolidWorks, you can expect more than a 3D design CAD
.
 ” It’s a tool than can help you in presentation and communication. Counter-strike style walkthrough features for easy video capturing, PhotoView 360 now integrated into SolidWorks. The overall collaboration features improvement allow users to product non-CAD materials in a shorter time frame.

Power & plant dudes, make sure you free yourself for coming SolidWorks Innovation Day 2010, to witness the great improvement in structure and piping. It’s going to rock your world with SolidWorks 2011. So many enhancement for these features and most of it were driven by users. Grid system, weld table, weld gap for pipe, etc. You ask for it, you get it!~

That all for now. Not willing to unveil too much for the time being. You may go to
HERE
 for some others enhancements. Of course, do block you calendar for coming SolidWorks Innovation Day 2010 in the month of October. It’s show time!~

Stay tune~

by,

a guy who just back from Cambodia.


SolidWorks 2012- mouse

Never ever though that my 1st time (SolidWorks 2012) gave to a mouse, in less than 5 minutes.

SolidWorks surfacing just get better and better. It just a screenshoot with photoview 360 integrated preview. Any change of orientation will instantly update with realistic preview. It’s nothing new in SolidWorks 2012 but it fun to share this, in case you don’t know that we have this ‘cool’ feature.

BTW, congratulation to all 3 winners again!~


SolidWorks 2012 Top 10- 3DVIA Composer™ Enhanced Lifelike

#9 spot is belong to 3DVIA Composer. Hmm… our brother manage to fight into our number spot of our ‘SolidWorks” top 10. Which is a good news. It mean that the usage of 3DVIA Composer playing an important role in an engineering department.

This year, the improvement is more focus on presentation and HTML publishing. Take precise control over your 3DVIA Composer renderings and add a more lifelike appearance to you visualizations.


SolidWorks 2012 Top 10- Motion Optimization

Part of SolidWorks simulation, we have this optimizaiton feature whereby we can put in design range and SolidWorks will optimize our design base on the given range. Easily we can achieve optimize design that is cost effective and safe to use.

Bare in mind, that’s under static condition. How about mechanism? A bit tricky but in SolidWorks 2012, optimization no longer limit to static condition and it allow you to perform motion optimization. We can create sensor and refine machine aspects. Usually the sensor range base on the purchase item such as bearing, actuator, stock motors etc.

To make it easy to understand, 2 videos are prepared for explanation. The basketball explanation is for someone like me to understand, easily! Guest is time for me to play basketball again and win some match, with some technology help of course.


SolidWorks 2012 Top 10- SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Integrated Search

Happy thanksgiving!~

It’s alway good to have a blog to write something when you do not know how to speak it out. Did I share with you all that I’m a member of Toastmaster? I’m good in talking but not really good in writing. But write, still the best way to express yourself.

What I’m going to express now is about something that I missed out a week ago, our top 10 SolidWorks 2012 count down. Yup! Now we are at number 8 spot and we have SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Integrated Search.

“Enterprise PDM Integrated Search gives you the option of searching from within your current Explorer window— no separate dialogs needed. Access favorite searches or open the full search tool for all options.” This is the explanation and below is the video about this new enhancement for enterprise PDM.

That all for this week, off for my weekend getaway!~


SolidWorks 2012 Top 10- SolidWorks Sustainability

SolidWorks 2012 launched in Malaysia. Users are waiting for us to deliver the latest version and install into their workstation.

Relaks!~ We are arranging and soon you will receive a call from us to confirm our delivery appointment.

Meanwhile, let’s recap all the top 10 features for SolidWorks 2012.

#10: SolidWorks Sustainability

It’s not something new in SolidWorks. SolidWorks Sustainability available in SolidWorks since previous version and the reason being is simple: to design a sustainable future. As the 1st 3D CAD to implement a life cycle assessment, it bring lot of excitement to engineers and designer. We may not have a tight rule to control our carbon index like other countries did but a word of advice: start early better than late. It’s for social awareness and our kids.

Well, below video show the new enhancements for our green feature: SolidWorks sustainability.


SolidWorks 2014 Beta, join the development and competition

SolidWorks has release their 2014 Beta edition for the public. this is a good chance for solidworks users to Discover the 200+ new enhancement that will come with the new instalment.

In addition to the release,The SolidWorks 2014 Beta Program includes contests where you can show off your SolidWorks skills and get points and valuable prizes for testing the software.

There are different categories in the competition, They range from finding different bugs to the best high quality renderings. The winners receive Amazon gift cards ranging from $50 to $400. The Beta contest are for SolidWorks, Enterprise, Simulation, Composer, and PhotoView 360 Renderings.
Click on the link below to check it out and enter
https://www.solidworks.com/beta/?SCID=hp_mar_1_beta