The Inspiration of Innovative Workflow

The evolution of the product process had change the world now a day. From manual and manual blueprint drawing, to paperless software to do product design. The evolution of the design process, forced, pushed the industrial player to adapt to the new design work flow. Question of the day: Is it bad
 if we refused to changed and remain the traditional way to do product design?

These are the reasons, why we should start to consider SOLIDWORKS as the first step of industrial evolution.

SOLIDWORKS provide multiple platform and module to allow all type of industrial players to take the first step into industrial 4.0. SOLIDWORKS is known as the parametric design software tools, with convenience of window base interface, which ease the user to quickly pick up the skills to use SOLIDWORKS.

SOLIDWORKS provide a window base interface, which allow the user easier to use the software.

Parametric system in the software, ensure users to design their product with the most precision data.

The graphic area in SOLIDWORKS is the main point of using SOLIDWORKS. Graphic area in the software, allow user to check their design in different perspective view, checking dimension, and changing the appearance of the object for product presentation.

The viewport in the SOLIDWORKS, allow user to rotate the model to check their final product.

The evaluate tools, measure tool allow user to check the area, perimeter, and even dimension of the specific section
.

Colour or appearance section in SOLIDWORKS, allow user to change the colour of the whole model, or specific surface.

Using the SOLIDWORKS Visualize module, the software able to beautify and make our product more realistic behaviour, which ease the process of promoting products in the market. The software is simple to use and users are not required to be an engineer to use it.

The rendering function in SOLIDWORKS Visualize able to create a more realistic view for the existing CAD model.

Provided the colour, appearance; all is organized, easier for the user to find their desire patterns and colours.

To improve our product design, SOLIDWORKS come with simulation topology study module, to optimize the product design, based on our requirement with the minimum effort, without spending extra expenses for trial and error on the actual product.

The highlighted part, is the available area that allow us to optimize the design, to reduce the weight of the component.

After we optimize our design, we can always run simulation to ensure we do not compromise the strength of the component.

With latest SOLIDWORKS version, the problem of working with other CAD files can be solved. SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect allow the software to import major CAD formats, including STEP 242. Here we are, the software not only importing the CAD model for your project, it also able to include the custom properties, material and various information from the CAD file.

SOLIDWORKS able to import AutoCAD Inventor CAD file to do assembly design.

Speaking of security, have you ever worry about file been stole or corrupted accident by others when they use your workstation? With SOLIDWORKS PDM, we can always create unique ID and password, to access into the vault. The vault can always be customized with different type of privilege for different user base on their employee job scope. By checking in and out the files, allow the system to trace back the revision history, and get the latest update on the changes made on the files.

We also can set submission approval for each individual, to ensure the workflow more systematics.

PDM enable to show the status of current workflow, and user who current editing the file, and revision of the existing drawing as well.

The PDM vault consists of table tot show the latest revision of the file, and the smart tools in the PDM system, allow user to search their file within seconds.

Vendor having error reading production in drawing, very hard to visualize your product for fabrication? By using SOLIDWORKS MBD, SOLIDWORKS is able to create your production with 3D pdf. With the convenience paperless method, vendor only need to use computer or even a tablet to read the pdf files. Rotation of the 3D model, allow use to visualize and understand the product design, with the additional information for precision dimension, measurement error can be avoided easily.

3D pdf file enable vendor to fabricate the CAD model easily.

MBD can be easily used in SOLIDWORKS; it comes with separate standalone software.

With this entire enhancement in SOLIDWORKS, we have the solid reasons why we should start thinking to implement SOLIDWORKS to improve the existing workflow to be more effective manner. Here we are, if we don’t make our move today, how an we be a head of the others competitor? Contact us for more information, let us assist you on this transformation.


The most funniest presentation in Solidworks World 2009

This happen on the 2nd day of General Session, just when we thought that the session is over. Suddenly, a strong music was introduced and the back drop changed to “WILL IT BREAK” , a sumo wrestler enters stage and Jeff Ray enters the stage as well. This was one of the most hilarious bits of a product presentation I’ve seen. Let’s take a look at some pics.

 You might wondered where is Jeff Ray? There are only 3 guys on stage. Not the white man! Definately not the Simo wrestler………YES!!! the guy with red shirt who rides on the pink mini scooter is Dassault Systèmes Solidworks Corporation CEO, Jeff Ray. Unbelievable is it? Believe it!!

 The highlight of this presentation are when the 400lbs sumo wrestler sit on that tiny pink scooter and later throw the scooter from air without breaking any parts of the scooter. Second unbelievable is it? Believe it because the scooter has been pre checked and tested by Solidworks Simulation.

Solidworks Corp has put these funny acts into Solidworks Website.  In order to save your time, I had founded the link and you just need to
click on pic below
 to view this hilarious presentation.

Enjoy it!!

~ah lau~


The New DIY

Rise of the Maker Movement.

The creative renaissance has given power to individuals for innovation and design, and it’s getting addictive.
Innovation is the key – The maker culture is the technology-based extension of the conventional DIY, where innovators make use of their existing unused components and transform them into marketable products. This community of creators out there is tapping into the cutting edge of technology to come up with great gadgets and stories that revolutionize the new industrial era.
The Makers Faire is a nurturing ground for dreamers, innovators, creators – to foster creativity, and to keep the innovation flame burning. There are hundreds of thousands of makers attending Makers Faire that is held in many cities around the world where proud makers showcase DIY products and tools that will enrich the community. Great ideas are always snowballing into bigger and better projects and some will eventually become products for public retail.

  The Maker community is strengthened by people who willingly share and contribute innovative ideas. Websites such as 3DCONTENTCENTERAL provides a library of digital CAD models for engineers and designers to work on. Being able to access quality CAD files brings greater freedom in creating better designs faster.

Being part of the Maker world is also a great incentive for children to get involved in. Students from school age can pick up skills as fast as their adult counter parts by starting out young. Schools are now getting involved in CAD education and 3Dprinting to better equip future innovators and it is encouraging for developing nations to invest on improving education to suit future needs.

  As the trend develops into something of greater purpose than a really cool hobby, we can only imagine the diversity of new products and startups to come from this movement. We can hear stories of lives changed through printed prosthetics or bio organic heart valves, or simple kick starter campaigns that empower innovators to make really awesome products.

At IME, we began our own Maker’s project – the iLab project so that we can proudly call ourselves Makers – we don’t just watch things happen, we make things happen.


The power of PhotoView 360 & Photoshop

What’s in common between Photoview 360 and Photoshop?
Both have the word: Photo. (laugh)

Okay, recently I found a blog, Jamie Koncept. The author shared a image which immediately capture my attention. This is it:

He combine the evil subsea transporter (rendered with Photoview 360) and a couple of nice underwater image. With the photoshop skill he learned, a nice photo was created. More detail, you can
click here
 to his article.

Man, I really like this. triple thumb up!~

More from Jamie Koncept:
https://jkoncept.blogspot.com/


THE RING

It’s has been so time that i didn’t compose new post in this blog, this is not because of i am lazy but i’m actually “working hard” to gather a series of good designs with others fellowship and share in this blog. (Excuses)

The one that i am going to share with you today is a “DIAMOND RING”, designed and modeled by “Nelson”. In order to ensure this ring has its copyright, he even carved his name on the ring body.

The first impression when i received this ring from him is ” Wah….this diamond is very BIG”……..and looking at it’s size……this diamond is more than 3 carats…… later i fall into deep thought…..then i said to myself ” Well, that is the advantage of having a 3D modeling Software, you can design anything at any size you desire at almost “ZERO” cost”. Basically by having a 3D modeling software, we can designed anything that we can imagined.

Guys, i wondered how great it will be if we can use this ring for marriage proposal…..  (ZERO COST as well)

Some words of suggestion to Nelson.

“Next Time Draw A Bigger Diamond!!”
.
Am i right ladies??
.
.
~Nelson/
ah lau
~


The Rise of EV Manufacturing Industry

To save the world and to save our environment, the EV or electric vehicles have been a hot topic around the world over the past few years. The EV project used to be led by Tesla founded by Elon Musk. To encourage other automotive companies to kickstart their own EV project, the whole EV blueprint technology has been shared across the world so to encourage young R&D engineers to focis ono developing EV. Even companies like Xiaomi and Sony are focusing on developing their own auto-drive EV.

The purpose of developing these EVs is to reduce the reliability on fossil fuel and diesel in transport industry. Even Tesla has set up their assembly factory in Indonesia to cater to their Southeast Asia (SEA) market. By leading the EV production line in SEA, does this mean Indonesia will be the leader of the new era of automation production industry?

The Rise of Production Factories for EVs

The rising of this EV project indirectly increases the factories that are required to produce the chip, chassis, assembly line around the globe to ensure the price of the EV remain at the optimal prices for everyone.

Let us breakdown the components group in the EV. Far as I know, we can break into, Electronic, mechanical, and Programming. As announced by Malaysian government, to meet increase the demand for the EV in Malaysia, several company or factory has been setup, focusing on producing the charging port for the EV at the petrol station. With the increasing of the EV user, several charging port at the stop station will not be enough to charge those vehicles. Furthermore, to charged up the vehicle required extended period, which is easily occupied those charging port at the stop station. To extract more investor to invest in Malaysia, the government also allocated budget of grant to help the manufacturers to setup the manufacturers or production, to take lead in EV production in Malaysia. According to finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, he said “
EV incentives are seen to be able to support the implementation of the Low Carbon Mobility Blueprint, as well as help improve the country’s air quality index.
”

EV Luxury or Necessity

The new EV prices are remained high, despite many companies released different EV model. The unreasonable prices due to the modern technology introduced in the EV, just like Samsung Fold, even though it is just a flexible screen, but the cost to produce this screen is remain high. Making the phone prices until today still cost around RM7K per unit. Same thing that happened in the EV. The ecosystem in the EV, provide a different life experience when you are driving the vehicles. The system analysis, the road sensor, and auto navigation system, provide a drive assist system for the elder and disable driver, which is a life changing game in automotive industry. However, the life of a Malaysia citizen will be slightly different compared to foreign country. The local citizen intended to have a stable commitment lifestyle, rather than having fancy high tech vehicles for the sake of environment. Estimate now, one EV cost around RM270,000 per unit, around KL or Selangor area, you can find a more comfortable Studios apartment which cost around RM250K to RM300K. The local would prefer to have a comfortable place to stay rather than having a fancy car to work. Since the monthly income only allowed them to choose, between the houses or EV on the road. As you seen, most of the normal salaryman even using public transport to work. Due to high daily expenses, most of them cannot afford to even get a budget fuel vehicle to work. As a smart consumer, it is time to ask yourself, is it a necessity to have this fancy tech-vehicle or having this EV as a status upgrade in the city.

Impact od EV Industries in Malaysia

Despite of slow growth of manufacturing industry in Malaysia, the governments are still doing their best to catch up with the renewable energy game. Earlier last few months, a total of RM3Billion soft loan and small project grant are allocated, to support the initiative of setting up the green facility to kick start EV project for SMEs in Malaysia. This shown that, government are still interested to be part of the environment saviour, to play their part to lower down the carbon dioxide emission from the automotive vehicles In Malaysia. The rise of EV productions, we will expect EV factory to be setup in few high technology park, especially in Selangor, Penang, and JB area.

Now, some of the manufacturers are still focusing on the charging station for the EV. We yet to see, which player to stand out, to take the lead in the EV production in Malaysia. Mostly like we going to have assembly factory for the EV, as the EV R&D design developed by foreign engineer or research team. When coming to the EV assemble line, expect to use smart robotic arm to do the assemble process, to reduce the assemble cost, the human error during the production process. To reduce the cost of robotic arm, local or domestic R&D team will start to develop local branded arm, and setup the production line for the robotic arm to meet up the demand from the assemble factory line, which the case will greatly increase business revenue, and activities among the local fabrication line.

Source of EV Power Supply

Despite EV running on battery, without rely on fuel during the car moving. EV still required a charging port or charging dock to charge up the vehicles. But then, do you aware that main resources used to generate the power supply in Malaysia, still rely on petroleum, natural gas and coal. So, indirectly, the EV still required natural resources to generate energy for the power source. In order to truly reduce the usage of fossil fuel, replacing the main energy to renewable energy is still the main section we need to focus. Imaging if everyone using EV in Malaysia, then the energy demand increase, more fuel, natural gases will be burned to generate sufficient energy to meet up daily usage demand. Then, at this point, how can we justify the usage of EV is doing good deed for the environment?

EV Shaping the future

At the moment, EV industry still in exploring and started to bloom in Malaysia market. As the price of these technologies are remain high, it is not a common transport vehicle that can be owned by everyone in Malaysia yet. Instead of blindly following technology trend, the government or the related technology sector should focus on other type of renewable energy, reduce the reliability of natural resources for power supply.

If you have some thought on the EV development in Malaysia, you may drop an email to me anytime via email,
chchai@cadcam.com.my

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the TEAM is coming

Hereby I would like to post a
leaked
 image of IME’s SolidWorks support team.

New missions assigned for year 2009 & they are ready for it! Dear all, prepare yourselves

~
the TEAM is coming~

stay tuned for more about the
TEAM!

-sew-


The WIRED Mecha suit and How you could design one

Remember  when you where a kid and you are really into big giant Mechas you see  in comic books and Saturday morning cartoons. Have you ever imagine you  could wear and pilot one, looking really awesome in a costume party full  of your fellow nerds, well WIRED did and they brought it to Comic Con  San Diego this year! It can be seen stomping around the convention this  year  thrilling kids and Mecha geeks alike while doing the robot dance when  prompted.

Called the WIRED Mech (
 WIRED magazine
),  This cosplay suit stands high at 9.5 feet tall and weighs 400 pounds,  it’s piloted internally with mechanical sound effects and a sexy  destructive robot voice. Its took the team from Legecy Effects and the  Stan Wilson School 24 days to build the massive suit. It’s constructed  by an Aluminum skeleton chassis and fiber glass molded body panels.

So  you might want to have a go on making a suit of your own for a side  hobby project. But the task looks daunting and you have to figure out  how your going to design a big external aluminum skeleton first from  scratch.

Try on your mechanical design skills with
 SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual,
a  new software tool from Solidworks that simplifies the the conceptual  design process for engineers to create intuitive mechanical simulation  for simple and complex mechanism.

You start of with a simple 2D  layout for your different arms and joints, navigate through the
simulated
moving  mechanisms to determine the effectiveness of your design. Once your  happy with your sketched 2D layout you could start moving into 3D  modeling to get a better sense of your design in real time simulations.

Click on the video link below to see the flexibility and creative power you can achieve with Solidworks Mechanical Conceptual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slrkJXwqDAY


Things You Need to Know about SOLIDWORKS License

If you are looking to learn more about SOLIDWORKS in terms of SOLIDWORKS license cost and differences in functionalities for each package, we are the
 Authorized Reseller for SOLIDWORKS in Malaysia
 and we are more than happy to guide you through it all!

SOLIDWORKS® products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help you design products better, faster, and more cost efficiently.
SOLIDWORKS CAD
 packages cover design,
simulation
, cost estimation, manufacturability checks, CAM, sustainable design, and data management.

In within the entire SOLIDWORKS suite of product development solutions, the SOLIDWORKS license cost is different for each, you can choose from three packages below:

SOLIDWORKS Package

1. SOLIDWORKS Standard

SOLIDWORKS Standard
 unlocks the benefit of powerful 3D design and manufacturing solution.

Along with part, assembly, and 2D drawing functionality, specialized tools are included for sheet metal, weldments, surfacing, molds, product configuration, design analysis, DFM, and CAM.
SOLIDWORKS CAM
 Standard is included with an active subscription.

 2. SOLIDWORKS Professional

SOLIDWORKS Professional
 builds on the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Standard with ECAD/MCAD collaboration, automated cost estimation, collaboration capabilities, design and drawing checking, a sophisticated components and parts library, and advanced photorealistic rendering.

 3. SOLIDWORKS Premium

SOLIDWORKS Premium
 builds on SOLIDWORKS Professional by adding structural and motion analysis capabilities, advanced surface flattening, reverse engineering, and electrical cable and pipe routing functionality.

After you have selected the package that can fulfil your product design and development requirements, you will need to know which license type suits you the most.

SOLIDWORKS did offer license option for
Term license and Perpetual license.

Term License

With
Term Licensing
, users are only able to use the software for a predefined and renewable period of time.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing Products provide customers with a flexible and scalable solution with easier budgeting and lower upfront cost compare to traditional perpetual licensing model.

Perpetual License

A
Perpetual license
 never expires and can be used indefinitely. Although perpetual license comes with higher upfront cost, but over the years, a perpetual license actually offers lower total cost of ownership. The SOLIDWORKS license cost for the types of license differs.

Take a look of the chart below to understand more.

There are two different SOLIDWORKS license management type available:

Types of SOLIWORKS License Management

1. Standalone License

SOLIDWORKS Standalone licenses
 are intended for an individual user of SOLIDWORKS or related product. It uses an activation process to enable your license to operate after installation.

Once the software is activated on a computer, it’s normally locked to the hard drive of your computer, remains permanently enabled until you choose to deactivate it.

 2. Network License

SOLIDWORKS Network
 licenses
 (sometimes referred to as “floating” licenses), use an activation process only for the server, which monitors concurrent license usage.

It can combine multiple licenses into a single serial number. The individual clients running SOLIDWORKS retrieve a license each time the software is started, and return the license each time it is closed so that another user can use it.

This is ideal if you have several designers but they won’t all be using SOLIDWORKS at the same time, they can grab the license from the server pool anytime when they need it.

Request a Dedicated SOLIDWORKS Price Quote

We understand that it can be confusing on which SOLIDWORKS and Packages to choose from.
Request a price quote
 from our professional team and get professional advice from our SOLIDWORKS experts.

We aim to help in catering to your unique business needs with the lowest SOLIDWORKS license cost possible.

You can also get a certified VAR who have higher competency level which can support you better in various domain. Search for your local Dassault Systèmes partner here:

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– SK Hoo, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Tips: AutoTrace

Last weekend, when I was thinking of model something out of Dassault Systemes Solidworks Corp company logo and I realized that I don’t have sketch of the logo. So how? I only have a picture file of the logo at the moment. (raster file). How can I convert a picture file to a useful Solidworks Sketch? In technical term, how can I convert a raster image to a vector sketch?

Please look at the picture file that i have,

Suddenly TING!! Something cross my mind like a flash. I should searched solution from Solidworks help file. Then I typed in “Raster to Vector” in the search box… Guess what? Solidworks Help showed me a line of statement like this “Recommendations for Auto Trace”.

After reading through help file of auto trace, here is some summary of what I did to convert a picture file to Solidworks Sketch.

First of all, auto trace is an add-in of Solidworks. It is an add-in for the entire Solidworks Product line (whether it’s Standard, Pro or Pre). After you add-in auto trace. Insert the picture file that you wish to trace on a sketch plan, your still picture format must be either one of these (.bmp, .gif, .jpg)

A small arrow will appear on top your feature property when you insert picture with auto trace add-in turns on. Click on this small arrow for “Next Page”, then you will see some addtional settings like trace settings, preview settings and adjustments. Please refer to Solidworks Help file for detail description of each setting.

Use the selection tool to select the portion of image that you wish to convert and click “Begin Trace”. You can view the result of tracing almost instantly.

Looking at the result of tracing, I am think the traced sketch is a bit jagged and it is not smooth. By combining features like fit spline, simplify spline and dragging the spline points, I’d managed to smoothen the sketch up to my expectation.

Finally, by using the sketch I had created. I can easily model something out of DS Solidworks Corp company logo. I managed to model a cuff link of DS Solidworks Corp from the traced and smoothen sketch. So thanks you to auto trace add-in. It saves my time….

For this model, I rendered it with Photoworks instead of Photoview 360 because I want to use the “
depth of field
” features in Photoworks. The first image is what i rendered without turning on “
depth of field
“.

The second image is with “
Depth of Field
” turn on. Can you spot the difference? Or should we create another post about “
Depth of Field
“?

What do you think? Which color scheme you prefer? I personally found the chrome/black cufflink is more attractive then the other one.
.

.

.

~ah lau~


Tips: Crease Surface

How to model a crease surface?

On this post, i will mentioned and shared a simple tutorial about modeling a crease surface in
SolidWorks
. I think the image below has give a good explanation on crease surface.

So my objective in this post will be sharing with you, how to model these surfaces in
SolidWorks
. First, I draw 3 straight surface that indicated as below.

 Then, I create a dummy surface by using loft feature. This is a simple loft surface that the inner surface angle increases gradually. Have difficulty to understand? I also have difficulty in explanation this.

So, I did a screen captured from different view angle and hope you will understand better on my so called “dummy surface”

Then, I use boundary surface features to create the connecting surface. The most important option to check in this features is the “curvature to face” options. This is to make sure the connecting surface have curvature continuity with “dummy surface”

After that, we just need to delete the dummy surface and recreate the straight side surface. Then we are done.

The main idea of this tutorial is to utilize a dummy surface to create a crease surface.

Here, I am showing you the entire feature manager of creating a crease surface.

I have high fever and soar throat since yesterday but fortunately that Doctor certified that I am not AH1N1 carrier. 3 more carrier of AH1N1 were deaths recently because of late injection of anti viral. So I hope the reader of this blog will consult doctor if you have high fever for more than 48 hours. Take care….

~ah
lau
~


Tips: How to delete surface’s hole?

Good day my friend, ever wonder how to delete a surface’s hole? Let say i have an imported surface and it consists few holes, like this:

Normally how you remove it?

The tips I would like to share is to delete it with the ‘delete’ button on your keyboard. All you need to do is just select the hole profile, hit the delete button.

(I know, my keyboard kinda dirty~)

Notice a window appear? Just say ok to accept it.

Select other hole to be delete and there you go, a smooth surface without any hole or opening. You will notice the history appear in your feature’s manager tree.

There you go, another great tips from wind_walker (风行者)


Tips: How to organize view orientation in PhotoView360?

For those who like to use Photoview360 to do image rendering, here, I would like to share a tip on how to
control view orientation
 when render your 3D model.

Every time when we use PhotoView360 to open a 3D model, you will found that environment is locked with the model, means, as you are rotating the model, its’ environment is rotating as well. If during your modeling stage, you have selected the wrong reference plane to start off your model, then probably your model environment in PhotoView360 will be up side down while the 3D model orientation is correct.  Like this:

i)When the floor orientation is not appropriate:

ii) When the light source from enviroment is out of the view due to different orientation:

Below figures is my new design for a car fragrance bottle. I would use the rendering of this model to show you the effect of lighting on the model due to the different orientation views.

iii)  When the light source is within the captured view cause the enviroment is too bright:

In this case, we are not going to redo our model or even modified the sketch plane one by one!

What you need to do is just bring the part file (if your design is a single component) into an assembly file. Since the 1st component that you bring into an assembly file is always fixed, you’ll have to right click on the part and float it. Now, you are free to adjust the orientation of your model by adding suitable mate reference (coincident/parallel) between the plane from the part file and plane from the assembly file.

Below shown an excellent rendered images with balance environment orientation:

Lastly, Here is my humble design of car fragrance bottles with balance view orientation adjustment!

P/S: another tips I would like to share is: Minimize the PhotoView360 window as you rotating the model to do the orientation view adjustment, this can make the movement of the model smoother! Happy Rendering! ^_^


Tips: Insert Block

Have you even think of a way to create a link between your existing dwg files with 3D Solidworks file? What do i mean? In short and simple, do you want your 3D Solidworks model changes if you change your dwg file?

I found a function in Solidworks that managed to perform the above task and i would like to share with you.

Here is a dwg file that i have opened in dwgeditor, i have simplfy this drawing here to make the drawing cleaner.

In your Solidworks, Open a New Part File and insert block. (Tools->Block -> Insert)

Next, Hit the browse button and select the source of dwg or dxf file that you wish to create a link.

Make sure you remember to check “link to file” option. This will allow your Solidworks block to create a link with dwg file.

After you insert block, you may want to perform so clean up by using the edit block feature.

Since i have simplify the dwg file so i do not need to clean up this sketch block anymore…. Therefore, i perform a extrude to the sketch block.

Here is the result but this is not over yet. The most important thing that we would like to see is the associativity after creating the link.

To test the link,  i switched back to dwgeditor, stretch the drawing that i have and save. Remember, it is important to save your changes!!!

Go to Solidworks Program, hit CRTL+Q or rebuild button and see the changes.

Here you go, a simple but very useful tips of Solidworks.

I hope you like this.

Enjoy your weekend….

~ah lau~


Tips: Intersection Curve

I have received an imported sheet metal part and was asked to create some cutting along the stepped faces. Normally, when we plan to create some cutting along a folded part we will rather to make it flatten so that it is easier for us to sketch out the shape on the flatten face and proceed the cutting. For this imported part, the difficulties I face here is, I can’t flatten it since the imported sheet metal part have some broken surface and that need quite some time to repair before we proceed to flatten it.

So, what I did was, select a plane that is normal to the end face of this sheet metal part, then, use the spline line to create a curve which is exactly snap to the mid point of every step faces, base on the spline curve, extrude a surface which will pass through the sheet metal part. Finally, use the intersection curve to obtain the line that exactly fall onto every bend surfaces.

Here’s the video which shown you more clearly about what I have done!

Intersection curve


tips: Projected Curve

To design something in a 3D curve not challenging at all since SolidWorks has this click-and-use feature to generate a
 3D sketch
. You know how to use 3D sketch, right? Okay,

Cool right?

something missing? Hmm…

Yes, the handle.

Recently I have a drawing. A drawing of  a chopper’s handle and it might fit nicely into this marvelous baby. Again, it is easy to design it but how can I re-draw it back if I only have the drawing? I believe most company who taking OEM projects would face this kind of problem as well. Client only giving you a 2D drawing instead of 3D model, like this:

Of course we all knew that drawing only giving us 2D dimension; not in 3D. So guys, how can I trace back the 3D curve?

Any idea?

Okay, this is what you can do. 1st of all, we know that drawing was dimension in front plane, top plane, side plane, section view etc. All I need is the front and the top plane. With the dimension I have, start with front plane, just create a normal 2D sketch as per the drawing indicated.

Next, of course, top plane. Same like front plane, just draw a 2D sketch as per the drawing. At the end you will have 2 sketched dropped on 2 different planes, front & top plane, like this:

This is the moment that we are waiting for, the feature which can
combine 2 2D sketches into A 3D sketch.
 Presenting
Projected curve!

It was located under

insert> curve> projected curve
.

Select this feature and use sketch on sketch options whereby you need to select both sketches. After you select, notice there will be a yellow line appear. Yes, this is the 3D sketch that we are looking for. Isn’t it fast and easy to use?

With this 3D sketch,  just add a profile at the end of it, swept it and there you go, a nice looking chopper’s handle. 🙂 Happy trying!~

p/s: the famous Orange County Choppers (OCC) which broadcast in discovery channel, their design done by using SolidWorks.

~sew~


Tips: SolidWorks backup and recovery options

If you working in a group, out of a sudden, this might happen,

ARRR!!!!
Alamak! I forgot to save my file! I took few hour to build it & it was gone… Why me?

Hmm.. so far as my concern, it might due to ‘heavy duty’ usage when  SolidWorks is running. TT player playing your favourite song to keep your brain fresh with idea, msn is running to keep connecting with the world. The best part, some even downloading TVB drama while designing with SolidWorks… End up?

Crash? Insufficient memory? Window hang?

You are lucky, you know? Cause SolidWorks come with
backup & auto recovery setting.

There are three main options within the
ToolsOptionsSystem OptionBackup/Recover
 dialog box each designed to help you back up your work or minimize potential loss of data.

The three areas are:
• Auto-recover
• Backup
• Save notification.

1st
: Auto-recover
i) save information about the active documents in the current session if the system terminates unexpectedly.

ii) A Document Recovery tab appears in the Task Pane the next time you launch SolidWorks software.

2nd
: Backup

i) Offers you the ability to create copies of the current document when changes are made.

ii) make sure the remove backup copies after “x” days is set. Otherwise, you will keep using disk space until the disk is full.

3rd
: Save Notification
i) remind you to save documents

ii) a transparent message box appears if the current document has not been saved within the specified interval

As a conclusion,
SAVE YOUR FILE!!!

Hope my idea of SolidWorks recovery can save your day!~

Happy weekend!~


Tips: Standard thread in library

Once I was asked by a customer about standard thread. He ask:

“My design ho, have thread at the end of my part but ho, your library have everything except standard thread le. So, I have to sketch the thread manually again and again le, how ar? Got faster solution?”

like this

Yes, most of us usually didn’t model the thread in detail. But there are industries would need to do so. So, how? But since he using it most of the time, i suggest him to create his own library. Do you know how to create your own library? It definately save you
a lot
 a lot
a lot
time. Below video guide you how to do it and I’m sure you’ll say:
Wah, so easy geh!~

Enjoys!~

wind walker~


Tips to join FREE IME SolidWorks Xpresso Online Seminar

Hi my dear friend, I am sure all of you heard about
SolidWorks Virtual event
for some months. This platform is amazing, just like you attending an actual event at 5 star hotels.

IME Technology Malaysia had joining in this virtual experience platform, to be
Malaysia first “SolidWorks Virtual event” program organizer
! Thanks
SolidWorks Corporation.

For the pass few week, IME SolidWorks Engineer are cracking their head
THINK!

THINK!
 And
THINK!
 for innovative stuff to share with all of us. When my first time watching the video my team created, I was so surprise!!! Unbelievable ….

Please don’t miss this amazing day! During
IME SolidWorks Xpresso Day
, you will heard some very sweet & sexy lady voice (japanese) 🙂 , innovative design sharing  and a very important actor “
Paper Man
”…

To appreciate your support, who ever attend
IME SolidWorks Xpresso
, on 10Dec 2009 at 12.30pm to 2.30pm” will stay a
chance to win for a “SolidWorks Limited prize”.
(if you are not available to join during this period, don’t worry the presentation material will on demand basic until 14 Dec, you can login any time during this period)

While, how to join for the event. It was just as simple as below:
1.Login to
www.solidworks.com/swid_ime
2.Click Register

3. Fill in your personnel detail and click submit
– You can add in your photo if you wan
– During the event, you can chat with other attendees from different country

4. Congratulation, you are now able to login as an participants for “IME SolidWorks Xpresso Day”
5. You will see a lot of people walking around at the lobby, here, you can easily click on to auditorium hall or exhibition to visit.

6. This is how an auditorium hall look like
– You can create your own chat room
– Or join other created chat room

7. This is how an exhibition hall look like
– Browse over your mouse to click for the information

8. What if I facing problem to login this side, try this solution “ delete your internet explorer cookies”. This will solve your problem.

Remember our date, see you on 10 Dec, 12.30pm. until 14 December.
You are always welcome to drop me an email at
felicia@cadcam.com.my
 for more.

Bye and have a nice weekend!!!!


Tips to overcome the error message in PhotoView360!

Hi! Currently I am designing a model which involve the
“Top-Down”
 design approach, means, I am creating a new part in an assembly enviroment since the geometry of the new part need to refer to others components within the assembly. Using this method, will establish some relations between the new part and other component, we call it as
“In-Context”
 features in SolidWorks.

When you try to render this kind of in-context part with PhotoView360, sometimes you may get this message–>
” This file does not contain geometry that is accessible to PhotoView360″
and asking you go to resave the file with tessellation data:
 Tools>Option>Doc Properties>Image Quality> Save tessellation data with part document.

Somehow you may face the same problem although you have check this option. Currently how I solve this problem was:

1. Save another copy for the in-context part:

Open the part file. Go to File> Save As..> . Assign a new name (exp” for render”)
Remember!!! In order to make sure your assembly is not affected, you must check the option “Save As Copy”!!!

2. Break the relations!!!

Open the new copy. This file still consist of in-context relations. In order to permanently remove those relations, from feature manager design tree,right click on the part, select
“List External References”
 , a window will appear to list out all the external references belong to the part, hit on the
“Break All”
 icon. ( I have tried
” Lock All”
 which means temporarly remove, but it won’t help)

3. Render with the new copy!!!

** I am still figuring why in-context part will cause this kind of message in PhotoView360, hopefully someone can share with me your experience! =)


Tips & Tricks: Automatic Symmetric Split

One day, you receive an imported part model as below.

Most of the time, we are require to do some modification on the model; it could be the model shape, dimensions of the model or even add some features on the model. Say if the model/part is
symmetry, the best practice is to

“Reduce a Part to its Smallest Repeatable Symmetrical Body”

How can SolidWorks help you to do this in the fastest way?
By using the
SolidWorks Utilities
 add-on, launch the
Symmetry Check
 tool (Tools > Symmetry Check…).

Then, use the
Automatic symmetric split,

The model will be split instantly with split lines.

It doesn’t care the orientation of the part and therefore this is great to be used for imported file or use for simplified the part for simulation purpose.

Ken (
skfoong@cadcam.com.my
) is the Application Engineer (AE), specialist in SolidWorks and SolidWorks enterprise PDM for IME group of companies. He may not have a good fighting skill but he is good in providing solution to manage your company data.


Tips & Tricks: Closed Corner for sheet metal

Let’s talk about a feature in sheet metal, closed corner. I had created a part using sheet metal.

But I have a situation here, after I flatten it, there is a gap (Highlighted in red circle).

But I don’t want the gap, so I decided to remove the unwanted material; to make it became the same like the image on the right hand side. How can I do so? Yes, with the help of closed corner.

First, we measure the gap (show in the picture below). Say, the gap is about
2.82843mm.

Now, we can start to remove the unwanted area. Go to Insert – sheet metal – closed corner. Select the according to the picture below. Select Butt for Corner type, fill in the gap value as we measured just now and uncheck the Narrow corner.

Click okay and t
here you go; you’ll get what you want. Give a try.

Jackson (
jacksonlim@cadcam.com.my
) is part of the team member who good in sufacing skill in SolidWorks. You won’t believe it until you see some of the exotic cars he model with SolidWorks.


Tips & Tricks: Customize your own command manager tab

In SolidWorks command manager, there are many existing tabs for you to use, like Features, Sketch, Surfaces … and so on. It allows us to find our feature easily.

Sometimes, I found that it still take my time to find the feature which I want to use especially those I often use. For example, I use Solid-Surface Hybrid modeling all the time. So, those tabs I often use are feature, sketch and Surface. When I want to sketch, I had to go to Sketch tab. When I want to use Extrude, I had to go to Features tab. When I want to use offset surface, I had to go to the Surface tab. It became not so user friendly to me.

To make my work easy, I customize my own command manager tab. Without editing the existing tabs, I create a new tab and put in all the features that I often use.

To customize your own command manager tab, right click on any tab select Customize:

Click on the add new tab and select Empty Tab. Then go to command and you can start to drag the feature into the new tab you just created.

At last, below is the command Manager Tab that I customized for myself. 🙂

Jackson (
jacksonlim@cadcam.com.my
) is part of the team member who good in sufacing skill in SolidWorks. You won’t believe it until you see some of the exotic cars he model with SolidWorks.


tips & tricks: G2 fillet

G2 surfaces (in SolidWorks, we call it C2) are very common use on aerospace and automotive design. Or can say that they need 1001 of G2 on their design. It determines how smooth the surfaces connect to another surface.

When we apply a fillet on the geometry, is it a G2 condition? Erm… nope!~ I try to explain the different with below image.

So, how can we apply a curvature continuity fillet (G2) fillet? Very simple.

1. apply a normal fillet onto the geometry.

2. Use delete face to remove the fillet face.

3. Use Boundary Surface with curvature condition to fill the surface. Now you are able to get a G2 fillet.

I say so, very simple.

Jackson (jacksonlim@cadcam.com.my) is part of the team member who good in sufacing skill in SolidWorks. You won’t believe it until you see some of the exotic cars he modeled with SolidWorks


Tips & Tricks: Hole wizard/ Toolbox

Have you ever facing a problem that your own custom parts or parts saved out of Toolbox folder are still replaced with the standard Toolbox parts
What is the problem? What could be the reason?

The answer is the New Option in SolidWorks 2011.

‘Make this folder the default search location for toolbox components’

When this option is checked, if you open any assembly that contains some custom parts or some Toolbox copied parts (even though the parts are located in the same folder of assembly), SolidWorks will look for the files only in the Toolbox location that has been defined under the HoleWizard/Toolbox path. The parts will be replaced with native Toolbox parts from the Toolbox folder.

Prior to introducing this option, Toolbox files would be inserted from the Toolbox file location when added to an assembly, but did not always open from the same location later.  This caused confusion in some environments. The new option ensures that files always open from the specified Toolbox location.

If you frequently use copied Toolbox parts that exist outside of the Toolbox folders, then this option may be interfering with your setup.  Uncheck the option to restore the SolidWorks 2010 behavior.
Ken (
skfoong@cadcam.com.my
) is the Application Engineer (AE), specialist in SolidWorks and SolidWorks enterprise PDM for IME group of companies. He may not have a good fighting skill but he is good in providing solution to manage your company data.


Tips & Tricks: “link to the thickness” in solid

Have you ever wonder “link to the thickness” cut that we did in Sheet Metal can be applied to solid modelling? Here is the tip that I would like to share with you.

Most of the time, we have to perform an extrude cut, double click on the depth dimension and select link value, which involve few steps. This tips is to guide you how to link value when select the extrude feature
.

Let’s say I build the model as shown above and I link one of the dimensions and name it as a “Thickness”. Don’t ask me why, but it works only with the word “thickness”. I try others but don’t seem working.

Next, I create one sketch to cut a hole and under Extrude Cut Property manager you can see there is a checkbox for “link to the thickness”. You won’t see this appear if you didn’t have the link value “thickness” done earlier.

Now the deep dimension is link to the “thickness”. I bet this is a great time saving feature for tools maker who often putting relation between dimension. Give a try.
.

Suhaila (
suhaila@cadcam.com.my
) beside a great singer, she is the trainer for CADCAM training centre, SolidWorks Authorized training centre. Her experiences in SolidWorks help to explore a lot of great tips and tricks to allow us to design faster.


Tips & Tricks: Quick Dimension Changes

This time I would like to share something which may helps some of you who usually use mouse wheel to change the dimensions.

Making changes to the dimensions by scrolling the mouse wheel is actually moving the “Thumb Wheel” or some recognised “Spin Box”

on the modify window. As you scroll the mouse wheel or you click on the Spin Box, the dimension will be changed gradually by the specified increments.

The increment is actually you can set it under

>Options>System Options>Spin Box Increments.
By default they are 10mm. This means that when you click the spin box the value changes by 10mm.

Here you can set you own increment units to be to ease you to quickly change the dimensions value.

Suhaila (
suhaila@cadcam.com.my
) beside a great singer, she is the trainer for CADCAM training centre, SolidWorks Authorized training centre. Her experiences in SolidWorks help to explore a lot of great tips and tricks to allow us to design faster.


Tips & Tricks: Sketch extend

Hi, Have you ever found that we can extend the line by using trim entities command in sketch?

Have you ever tried?

For example on the sketch above I would like close the gap by extending the line with command “Trim Entities” instead of “Extend Entities”. Can it be done? Let’s try on it.

I use Trim to closest type of trim and click on the line and drag it to the vertical line until the colour highlight (green in this case) and release your mouse.

And the result showed as above. Have a try!

Suhaila (
suhaila@cadcam.com.my
)  beside a great singer, she is the trainer for CADCAM training centre,  SolidWorks Authorized training centre. Her experiences in SolidWorks  help to explore a lot of great tips and tricks to allow us to design  faster.


Tips & Tricks: SolidWorks with matweb

Do you know that there is website out there inside World Wide Web which offering you the peace of mind of creating your own material properties?

Well, introduce to you
www.matweb.com
. Here you have tones and tones of material properties to be choose without having the headache of flipping through your materials handbook! The best thing is it can be associated with your SolidWorks programme! Of course there would be charges, but if you wish to have it free.. well, just have to type all the data on your own as I teach you yesterday.Give it a try!

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.


Tips & Tricks: Star with freeform

This ‘star’ is easily created with a very useful feature in SolidWorks.

All the horns are very smooth and organic. This feature helps us to create a shape that is very organic. This useful feature no other than freeform.
Freeform allow us to create those shapes are very organic which is difficilt to model using sketch feature such as sweeps or loft.

The steps:

1.

Split it to get the highlighted face.

2.
Delete the others, left the highlighted face.

3.
 Use freeform. Add a curve in the middle of the face and add a point at the center of the curve.

4. Change the view to top view, select the point.

5.

Drag the point through Z axis (green color arrow)

6. Pattern it using circular pattern.

7.

Fill all the gaps using filled surface.

8. Finally, knit it up and form it as a solid. As simple as that.


Tips & Tricks: The Different of Smart Dimension & Hole-Callout

I create some holes using hole wizard and linear patterns it.

Then I make a new drawing from this part. When come to dimensioning, do you know that there is a different between smart dimension and hole-callout?

If I use smart dimension:

Only able to display the diameter of the hole.

If I use hole-callout:

I able to callout the number of instances (due to linear pattern), diameter and the depths of the holes.

Now you know the different. Don’t make this mistake ya!~

Ken (skfoong@cadcam.com.my) is the Application Engineer (AE), specialist in SolidWorks and SolidWorks enterprise PDM for IME group of companies. He may not have a good fighting skill but he is good in providing solution to manage your company data.


Top 2D CAD Software to Download

In many industries, 3D design is well-known for its importance not only for visualization of ideas, but also to detect issues early in the design process instead of building prototypes, hence, eliminating cost and save time.

While 3D CAD has become a popular demand in the industry in Malaysia, 2D CAD solutions still remain crucial in certain industries like construction, architecture, electrical, plumbing, HVAC systems and even some manufacturing process.

The CAD technology has been evolving rapidly through the years and there are tremendous innovations along the way.

With a number of available software out there, and many new solutions emerging into the market, you might be wondering which one is best
2D CAD software download
 is right for you.

DraftSight Malaysia

Introducing
DraftSight
; a feature-rich 2D and 3D CAD solution to create, edit, view, and markup any DWG file with greater ease, speed, and efficiency.

It is developed by Dassault Systems, which is a worldwide scientific and technology company, and the owner of 13 brands including SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, and SIMULIA.

Thus, Draftsight integrates seamlessly with these solutions, enabling you to transfer data, view, or edit your designs while utilizing all your existing applications.

Why DraftSight?

Do you know a lot of companies spend a lot of money for yearly payment on 2D CAD software?

Well, you don’t have to do that. With Draftsight Malaysia, you are able to choose between annual subscription or perpetual license, where you only need to do one-off payment during the purchase, and you can continue using the life-long license.
Get your quote here.

Apart from the cost efficiency, what makes Draftsight different from other 2D CAD solutions is that it has several enhanced features such as Image Tracer, which can help you generate lines and entities automatically, directly from your existing drawings originated from any format, including pdf.

Transitioning to DraftSight Malaysia Made Easy

If you are considering switching from your old 2D CAD software to Draftsight, rest assured that the transition will be a breeze.

Not only that Draftsight 2D CAD software download is fully compatible all your current or legacy DWG files, but the User Interface, commands and navigation is also similar to other 2D CAD software.

You will find yourself adapting to the user-friendly environment in no time.

More Info about Draftsight 2D CAD software download

Draftsight comes with various package options to best suit your needs. For more information on the available Draftsight Malaysia packages, head on to our website:
https://imetech.com.my/draftsight/
.

Don’t miss out! Draftsight 2D CAD software download has been made convenient. Download Draftsight FREE trial today –
https://imetech.com.my/draftsight-free-trial/

To get the latest update about DraftSight, follow us on
Facebook – DraftSight Malaysia.

– Eka Darwin, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd.


Top 3 Questions to Prepare for an Engineering Graduate Interview

There are thousands of engineering graduates around the nation joining the workforce every year and hence competition over an engineering job can be very steep.

You might have been asking questions like the following:

“How do I impress the interviewer?”

“How do I talk about college/ university project or internships experiences?”

“Interview” for an engineering graduate can be a little scary, but they don’t have to be!
As a follow up to our previous post regarding
addressing high-skill talent issue in Malaysia
, we are sharing some essential interview questions for engineering graduate like you to share your best value with potential employers.
Here are some interview tips to ease you to interview effectively. Take the time for proper preparation as it will help to alleviate some of your interview anxiety and set you apart from other applicants.
Question #1 : What CAD/ CAM/ CAE Software Do You Really Know?
This is common where interviewer questions you about your experience with software such as SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, AutoCAD and etc.

A company is unlike college or university where it has preferred and dedicated software for design, engineering and/or manufacturing. Hence, with that said, the interviewer is evaluating how soon you can master the software to get the actual work done, of course, the sooner the better.
So, it’s advisable review all the design, engineering and/or manufacturing software that you’ve learn over the years. You will have a higher change to get employed if you are able to demonstrate adequate knowledge about the software that the employer is currently implementing. A certificate
 might comes in handy to
best prove you have the competence to carry out your job. As an example
,
 having a
SOLIDWORKS Certificate

demonstrates your expertise with 3D Solid Modeling,  design concepts, and sustainable design, giving you a competitive edge  in today’s job market.
Question #2 : Share with Me About Your Past Engineering Project?
After your basic self-introduction, this is the session to show the depth of your skills and experience. Interviewer needs your portfolio to show proof of who you are and what you can do!
You may share your past projects (e.g.
IME Design Competition 2014
)
, internships or working experiences in related field based on the proposed flow below,

Think of a specific or most challenging engineering project that you have been involved with during past year.

Have a short brief about some critical engineering challenges that you’ve faced

Share your greatest success in using the principles of logic to solve the mentioned engineering problem

Reveal what could you have done to be more successful in achieving your goal

Interviewer always looks for candidate who has a logical thinking mindset and enthusiasm to take up challenge kind of attitude. So, be confident and share your good real story with the interviewer.

Question #3 : Do You Truly Understand Work Requirements and Teamwork?

Engineering has never been more competitive—emerging from the ever-increasing consumer demand for better and faster innovative product at a lower price.
Fostering collaborative team work within and across functions involving design, engineering and manufacturing is utmost important as it has great impact to a company’s product development process.
Engineers often will get into arguments due to differences in working style, personality and ideas. Some of the best-engineered ideas are born out of an individual’s ability to challenge, others’ ways of thinking. So be sure you are ready to explain how you’ve collaborated with diverse team members to meet your project goal.

After reviewing the three (3) questions, you should be able to give the interviewer a complete picture of who you are. So, be prepared and excel at your upcoming interview.


Top 3D CAD Software to Download in 2022

Having a 3D Design CAD software in your computer is essential for Designer and Engineer. If you are looking for a compatible and well fit design software to install into your daily used computer, this article is perfect for you.

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Software

Introducing
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software
 that can help you create, validate, communicate, manage, and transform your innovate ideas into great product designs.

It is an easy-to-use CAD design software with short learning curve. In fact, it can be exported to others CAD format. For over 25 years, SOLIDWORKS has been the trusted industry standard in design and engineering. Let’s take a quick look on this software.

Let’s dive right in:

1. SOLIDWORKS Introduction

The SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software is a Design-to-Manufacturing solution that offers an integrated system enabling design and manufacturing teams to work together concurrently.

It provides all the tools in a single environment will eliminates the time-consuming need for data to be translated between departments, which often results in errors and intelligence gaps.

You can spend more time optimizing your designs, confident that your changes won’t threaten delivery targets. As a result, your company can go from conceptual design to manufactured parts faster and more easily than ever before.

 DESIGN

Great products begin with great design. Start with SOLIDWORKS tools to get from concept to parts and assemblies. Used by more than 5.6 million designers, engineers, managers and manufacturers around the world, SOLIDWORKS drives smarter, faster and easier product development.

The industry-leading capabilities in SOLIDWORKS include the following:

Conceptual Design
: Purpose-built tools for industrial design and mechanism design.

Surfacing
: Advanced tools that ensure you can create any shape quickly.

Direct Editing
: Direct manipulation of 3D CAD geometry.

Production-Quality 2D Drawings
: Illustration of how designs should be manufactured.

Large Assemblies
: Power to handle extremely large designs, even hundreds of thousands of parts.

Reverse Engineering
: Tools for point-cloud and mesh-data surfacing and manipulation.

Specialized Design Functions
: Mold design, sheet metal, weldments, and pipe and electrical routing.

Automation
: Product and drawing configurability, free Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), batch processing.

Generative Design
: Automated part shape development based on functional and manufacturing requirements.

CAD Libraries
: Over 1 million hardware, electrical items and symbols to add to your designs.

Direct Interoperability
: SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect for use of non-native CAD files.

2. Multi-Products

SOLIDWORKS dramatically improve the way you develop and manufacture products. As the foundation for the entire SOLIDWORKS suite of product development solutions, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software not only covers just for design but also simulation, inspection, data management, digital communication and rendering.

VALIDATE

3D virtual simulation has become an irreplaceable tool for manufacturing companies across all industries. More than ever before, the process enables you to validate your technical decisions with the help of simulation results, giving the edge you need to innovate and to truly understand product manufacturability.

Product Validation
: With powerful and intuitive
SOLIDWORKS Simulation
 solutions, product engineers can virtually test new ideas, quickly and efficiently evaluate performance, and improve quality to get ahead of the product innovation curve. SOLIDWORKS Simulation helps you solve complex engineering issues throughout the design process.

Manufacturing Validation
: Both designers and manufacturers can take advantage of the many tools in SOLIDWORKS to verify the manufacturability of their designs. From checks for proper draft, undercuts and machinability, to more complex tools for simulating injection-molding, SOLIDWORKS has tools to help you get the design right, before it goes to manufacturing.

INSPECT

SOLIDWORKS Inspection
 software automates the creation of ballooned inspection drawings and inspection sheets for first article inspection (FAI) and in-process inspections.

You can save time and virtually eliminate errors by speeding up this repetitive, tedious and manual process. SOLIDWORKS Inspection helps you streamline the creation of inspection documents by leveraging your existing 2D and 3D data.

COMMUNICATE

SOLIDWORKS MBD (model-based definition)
 lets you communicate your detailed design intent to manufacturing directly in the 3D CAD model, without the need for creating separate 2D drawings.

It helps define, organize and publish product manufacturing information (PMI), including 3D model data using industry-standard file formats.

If a PDF or eDrawings file is needed for archiving, it can be created automatically from the 3D model just like with a 2D drawing, significantly reducing design time.

SOLIDWORKS MBD helps streamline production, cut cycle time, reduce errors and support industry standards with these capabilities:

Detail Views in 3D Model
: Capture, save and detail views directly in the 3D model.

Customize 3D output templates for multiple deliverables
: Generate engineering drawings and requests for quotes (RFQs) for departments, such as operations, manufacturing, QA and Procurement.

Share and archive 3D data directly
: No need to rebuild a 3D model from a drawing for downstream manufacturing applications that require 3D models—just send the 3D model with PMI.

Read and interpret 3D PMI programmatically
: Automate CAM programming and the creation of inspection documentation, and eliminate errors due to manual data entry.

COMPOSE

SOLIDWORKS Composer
 enables you to directly repurpose design and manufacturing 3D models to create technical documentation like assembly instructions for the shop floor, service manuals for customers, and parts lists and interactive content for customer service manuals.

This ability saves time and money, and ensures that documentation will be ready to go before product delivery.

SOLIDWORKS Composer enables your team to rapidly create and update high-quality graphical assets, while producing the following technical documentation types:

Manufacturing assembly and installation instructions

User manuals, maintenance and repair guides

Training systems and interactive, configurable product demos

Product web pages and sales bidding kits

Interactive bills of materials (BOMs) and parts lists

VISUALIZE

SOLIDWORKS Visualize
 is “the camera” of SOLIDWORKS that enables you to create professional, photo-quality images and animations and immersive 3D content quickly and easily. It helps your company make better decisions about product design and aesthetics earlier in the cycle.

Other capabilities:

Rendering
: Perfect for photo-realistic images, animations, and interactive 360-VR content for web and mobile

Ease of Use
: Designed for anyone, even nontechnical users

Versatility
: Usable with any CAD tool

3. License Package and General Product Matrix Highlight

There were three SOLIDWORKS Packages scalable to meet the needs of your business with inbuilt functionality. All package use the award winning intuitive and easy to use Microsoft Windows native interface to accelerate your design process and increase productivity. Each SOLIDWORKS Licenses cost would differ based on the package that you like most.

 Check out more info about the SOLIDWORKS packages at:
https://imetech.com.my/solidworks-3d-cad/

Now I’d like to hear from you:

Which of the function explained above is very useful to you?

Or would you like to know more?

You can leave your comment below right now. One more thing, grab SOLIDWORKS free trial license by clicking
HERE
!

Also, check out our website to access more information and download the free software and case study:
https://imetech.com.my/

– Shane Tan, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Try CFD

This infographic shows how Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) helps engineers simulate air flow and heat under real world conditions.

CFD helps making design simulation quicker and easier to use while still delivering a robust and highly accurate solution.

Read below to find out more how CFD helps engineers to design better:

To know more, do not miss out our event as below:

1.
Event Name: Webinar: Accurate, Powerful & Integrated CFD Design Analysis

Date: 14th June 2017

Time: 11:00 am – 11:22 am

From this webinar you will learn:

How to effectively Simulation designs with CFD analysis

The positive impact Simulation can make if done early in the design cycle

How to reduce costs and time-to-market

Don’t miss out. Register
HERE
.

2.
Event Name: Explore Flow Simulation – Simulation and Testing Workshop

Date: 20
th
 June 2017

Time: 09.00 am – 12.30pm

Cover topics as below:

Solve heat transfer challenges quickly

Calculate cost-effectively with flow simulation

Save time and cost in difficult heat transfer problems

Finding effective solutions for new product development

Join us to further discuss and explore with other engineers from the same industry in a 4-hour-session that could change the way you design. Register
HERE
.


Top Questions about SOLIDWORKS Free Trial

SOLIDWORKS is a solid modelling software that allows you to design products in 3D. The technique is generally to sketch 2D profiles then use methods like extruding and lofting to produce the solid shape. It is an easy-to-use CAD design software with short learning curve.

In fact, the CAD model that has been created by SOLIDWORKS also can be used to create drawing, simulate, visualize and more with their multi products. For over 25 years, SOLIDWORKS has been the trusted industry standard in design and engineering. Click
HERE
 to read more about SOLIDWORKS.

Want to know how the SOLIDWORKS free trial works? Well here we are ready to provide the answers to you. Our article will guide you through the SOLIDWORKS Trial journey. Discover easy step and helpful FAQS about the SOLIDWORKS online and offline trial. We also provide training and event to all SOLIDWORKS user.

Here are 10 common questions for SOLIDWORKS free trial and training:

1. Does SOLIDWORKS have free trial?

Yes they have! You may access the latest versions with multiple SOLIDWORKS products by using the free trial. This is a great way to test SOLIDWORKS capabilities and functions. Basically, the free trial allows you to explore on the latest release of SOLIDWORKS Premium.

You can also have access to SOLIDWORKS Simulation, SOLIDWORKS CAM, SOLIDWORKS MBD and SOLIDWORKS Visualize. This trial version can run up to 7 days when using SOLIDWORKS Online product trials. For offline product trial can be used up to 30 days.

2. Does SOLIDWORKS free trial need to download or install anything?

Online trials connect directly through your internet browser. Thus you don’t have to worry about the performance of your graphics card, the speed of your processor or the amount of storage left on your computer. All you need is an HTML5 compatible web browser and you can access the free trial in an online trial environment.

In that situation, it is suggested to use it with a broadband connection of at least 3000/300 Kbps (Download/Upload). For best experience, we have found 5000/500 Kbps to be ideal for 1920×1080 resolution. For an acceptable experience, a minimum of 1000/100 is as low as a user should go.

For offline trial you will need to bear with your workstation performance because installation is needed. Minimum space required was 20GB to make sure the installation runs successfully. Click
HERE
 to see the requirement needed to install SOLIDWORKS on your workstation.

3. How to get SOLIDWORKS free trial?

Just click
HERE
 and submit the form to download SOLIDWORKS free trial. Our team will contact you to assist on getting the online or offline trial.

4. How can I learn to use SOLIDWORKS?

Look no farther than IME Technology’s
SOLIDWORKS training services
 in Malaysia if you want to learn how to utilise it or master more advanced skills. Whether you take one of our courses online, in person, or on-site, you’ll always have access to a training machine loaded with SOLIDWORKS.

This gives our students hands-on experience with the most recent version of SOLIDWORKS Premium, as well as all of the other software solutions we provide. We also provide Hands-On Test Drive (HOTD) and Webinar to sharpen your knowledge and skills!

5. What is the topic discussed in HOTD/Webinar?

By Joining the HOTD/Webinars, participants will get lot of knowledge that will improve on their work process. The HOTD/Webinars were concerns about the engineering solutions from Design until Manufacturing.

The topic discussed was separated by 6 categories:-

Design/Engineering

Design Validation

Data Management

Quality/Manufacturing

Marketing/Sales

Design to Manufacturing Solutions

6. How can I join the HOTD/Webinar?

You may click
HERE
 and see if there is any HOTD/Webinars will be conducted. Then click on “Register Now” on the event that you would like to join. The topic and time will be listed here for example:

7. What if I cannot join the HOTD/Webinar on time?

There is no need to worry if you did not make it on time. All of our HOTD/Webinar will have their recorded session. Thus you may watch on the recorded session whenever you are free! This will benefit and gives valuable knowledge to our entire customer even though they cannot attend live session.

8. How to view recorded HOTD/Webinar?

If you would like to view the recorded session, click
here
 and scroll down until the list of Recorded Webinars as below then you may need to fill in a simple form to continue to watch on the session.

9. I need SOLIDWORKS for one-time project only.

If SOLIDWORKS is just needed for a single project, purchasing a permanent license may not make financial sense. Investing time and resources in SOLIDWORKS software, training, and implementation may not be the most cost-effective choice. In certain cases, IME Technology can provide a service solution that allows you to work on SOLIDWORKS projects without having to buy it.

10. How to submit a project request to IME Technology?

If you have any design or project enquiries you may contact us at our
Website
. To direct contact can use our mobile phone number 03-77836866 or email us at
sales@cadcam.com.my
.

Our team are ready to help!

– Irfan Rosli, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Top SOLIDWORKS New Features from 2016 until 2022 | Part I

A List of Favourable SOLIDWORKS What’s New Features From 2016 – 2022

Every year, SOLIDWORKS will introduce many new features for the users to improve their design process and time. In this blog, we will be providing a list and summarisation for every useful feature that had been introduced over the past 6 years. The list is divided into 5 main categories which are User Interface, Parts, Assemblies, Drawings and SOLIDWORKS Simulation.

Today, let’s talk about the User Interface!

User Interface

Breadcrumbs Menu
Breadcrumbs Menu is a tool to help navigate an assembly and locate what you’re looking for quickly and efficiently.

Section View
Section View is now equipped with a triad manipulator so that user can justify the location for sectioning easily.

Parent and Child Dependencies
With this feature that can be turned on or off, users can now see the features that are related to specific features selected.

Mating Component
Mating Component automatically changes the selected component transparency for better view on selecting another entity.

What’s Wrong
Now, when you select error features, it has a pop-up to show on the error/warning information. This will help users to understand more on what needs to be repaired.

Home Tab
Home Tab is now equipped with a recent file and some filter option.

Shortcut Menu
In order to customise shortcut commands, you just need to drag and drop the icon to the shortcut menu. There is also a search tab to search for any command instead of hovering into top right corner.

Coordinate System
Coordinate System can be set using numeric values from axis. Before this, you can only can use by selecting existing entities to define the coordinate system.

Assembly/Components Reference Geometry Shortcut Button
When you are using the Q button, it will present the assemblies or components reference geometry such as plane and origin.

What’s New

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Breadcrumbs Menu

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Triad Manipulator for Section View

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Parent and Child Dependencies

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Change Transparency During Mating

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

What’s Wrong Information

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Home Tab Improvement

✓

✓

✓

✓

Drag & Drop for Creating Shortcut

✓

✓

Find Commands in Shortcut

✓

Coordinate System Defined by Numeric

✓

Assemblies/Components Reference Geometry Shortcut

✓

Learn more
here
 or reach out to us at
talk2us@cadcam.com.my
 for further information. See you in
Part II
 !


Top SOLIDWORKS New Features from 2016 until 2022 | Part II

Welcome back to the second part of this series!

If you are new to this series, do head over the
first part
 to get a gist of what we’re talking about here!

Last week, we talk all about new features for SOLIDWORKS User Interface (UI) from the past years that quickly became our favourites! Today, let’s dive into the next favourable features – Parts.

Parts

In-context menu sketching
Selecting entities in sketches will now come with In-context menu (small icon) to provide options and assist further on the next process.

Instant2D Feature
With Instant2D, users can directly edit size and dimension of their sketches.

Segment Feature
User can now set a equidistant entity in linear or circular without calculating the dividing length for the entities.

Swept Feature
Now, with Swept Feature, users can directly use the Circular Profile option so the users do not need to create new circle profile sketch. From these options, users can also define the diameter of the Circular profile.

Edge Flange
When using Edge Flange, users can now change profile directly from the graphic area. User can also use the feature on curve edges.

Slicing Feature
Slicing Feature works something like converting sketch entites. It detects the imported geomtery and converts it into sketch on different planes.

Sketch/Component patterning
With Patterning Feature, users have the option to create two direction in a single feature.

Corner Bend Relief
Corner Bend Relief feature can select up to three edges to define user settings.

Interference Detection
Interference Detection can be used with Part File that has a multibody geometry.

Appearance Color
When defining colour, users now have a color picker to copy colour from outsource.

Custom Property
Equation can now be used when creating custom property.

Draft Feature
Draft Feature is now supporting two-direction path in a single feature.

Stud Wizard Feature
Users can use the Stud Wizard to create external threaded stud features and define the stud parameters then position the studs on the model. Users can also apply thread parameters to existing cylindrical shafts.

Mirror Feature
Mirroring now supporting to be done on two plane in a single command. Users no longer need to create separate feature across each plane.

What’ New

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Sketch In-context menu

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Instant2D feature to modify dimension

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Detach segment on drag

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Segment feature creating equidistant entity

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Swept Feature circular profile option

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Edit Edge Flange profile directly

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Drag shaded/closed area sketch

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Transparent component on section views

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

2 Directions component/sketch patterning

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

3 Corner Bend Relief

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Enhanced use of imported Mesh

✓

✓

✓

✓

Transform Appearances into Geometry

✓

✓

✓

✓

Multibody Interference Detection

✓

✓

✓

✓

Edges Flange on curve edges

✓

✓

Colour Picker for appearance

✓

✓

Equation in Custom Property

✓

✓

Creating Draft in 2 direction

✓

Stud Wizard feature

✓

Mirror across two planes/faces

✓

Let us know what you think of these features!

Feel free to reach us at
talk2us@cadcam.com.my
 to learn more about SOLIDWORKS latest features.

We are also excited to announce that
IME Innovation Day 2023
 is back this year physically after going on virtual for two years.

Save the dates and
register now
 to secure your seat!


Top SOLIDWORKS New Features from 2016 until 2022 Part III

The third part of our series is here!

Last week, we discussed about Parts in SOLIDWORKS, which includes the many features that are held dear by our users.

Let’s kick off the third part today and learn more about Drawings features!

Drawings

Flag Note Bank

When creating notes, you can now create tabulated data that is called Flag Data Bank so that you may point it again to create balloons or marking.

Sheet Scale

You can now directly change Sheet Scale from the bottom without needing to open drawing properties. You can even create a custom scale there.

Mirroring View

With this new Mirroring View feature, you no longer need to change component orientation.

Hole Callout

With this new feature, you can easily explain hole information.

Tolerance Modifier Dimension

New type of modifier dimension for you to define more on their dimension tolerances.

Hole Table

There is some extra settings for you to customise their hole table.

BOM Table
Exporting Bill of Material now includes graphical view to improve visibility process.

Detailing Mode

Apart from assemblies, detailing mode is also available for drawings. It is very useful for you to minor edit your assemblies and drawings due to no component loaded in that process. With this enhancement, you can also open any drawing file even if they do not have their referenced models.

Editing Several Dimension Type
Chain, Baseline and Ordinate dimension can be directly edited. You will no longer need to create new dimension again to add information.

In-context Menu
Several in-context menus has been added. The most useful one is the circular dimension type.

Geometric Tolerance
Defining geometric tolerance now becomes easier with the new interface.

Pre-defined View
Creating template using pre-defined view now supports flat pattern view type.

What’ New

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Flag Note Bank to highlight notes

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Change Sheet Scale Directly

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Emphasize Detail View

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Create Mirror View

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Hole Callout Feature

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Trailing Zero Adjust

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Tolerance Modifier Dimension

✓

✓

✓

✓

Hole Table extra settings

✓

✓

✓

✓

Graphical View when exporting BOM table

✓

✓

✓

✓

Detailing Mode

✓

✓

✓

Edit custom scale directly

✓

✓

✓

Edit Chain, Baseline and Ordinate dimension directly

✓

✓

Open drawing that do not have referenced models

✓

Circular Dimension In-Context Menu

✓

Geometric Tolerance new interface

✓

Pre-defined views for Flat

✓

We have a couple parts left for this series, so feel free to reach out to us at
talk2us@cadcam.com.my
 and let us know what you think!

Or you can head over a
get a quote
 or
try out SOLIDWORKS
 for yourself

See you in the next part!


Touch Of 3D

There is a new technology had been introduce during SolidWorks World at partner pavilion.

SolidWorks is investigating the future of technology and the CAD interface together with Microsoft Surface & IdentityMine . In the Partner Pavilion, they have a Microsoft Surface table set up with a basic 2D sketcher and eDrawings running on it.

During the second day of SolidWorks World’s General Session, Jon Hirschtick had introduced the
“Touch of 3D”
 Technology to all the participants. It shown that this is an experimental project involves Microsoft Surface, IdentityMine and SolidWorks.

The Microsoft Surface table uses 5 infrared cameras to track user’s fingertips and the camera array will track up to 100 different contacts. This is very exciting to see, and it is easy to visualize the many uses for this technology, such as working collaboratively and design presentation and reviews.

Imagine one day, we will able to design through our fingertips with SolidWorks .……

lets have a video clip on the “Touch of 3D”


transform in SolidWorks

Video speak all. Cool animation, cool transformation in SolidWorks animation.

For more video, log in to
SolidWorks youtube page
.


Transformer

Autobot, Transform!!!

Yea, yea… it’s transformer fever strike back… again!

I believe most of you have watched (or going to watch) the latest blockbuster movie->
Transformer 2: Revenge of the Fallen
.
People will laugh at you if you miss this must-watch movie, “Wah! you so out-dated ar… haven watch tranformer ar!~”

So, to be a “in-date” human being, hereby I would like to share my humble designs for the hero & villain signature logo,
Autobot
 and
Decepticon
! I believe you can easily identify what features had been used to create it.

~Autobot Vs Decepticon~

Sew saw it and come out with this funny idea, “Hey, why not we just use the flex feature in SolidWorks to bend it & print it as a mask”! Hmm… sound interesting! Now we have this planning to send this models for 3D printing to make it become the real mask!

                                                                    Transformer mask

Will snap some funny pictures to share if succesfully print it & wear it~

Hmm… I’m thinking to give a free 3D mask for anyone who dare to model a Transformer and submit to me.
 I DARE YOU!
~
*hint: you may consider start with a 80′ style transformer.

written by charlie
edited by Sew(please don’t kill me)


Travel With Sampan

Hai all, this month the month of Malaysia Independence (August).. so with slogan “
Malaysia Boleh”, M
alaysia citizen already did something we can’t expected. we have Malaysian travel to space, Climb up to the peek of Mount Everest, 1st people travel alone around the world and etc… so this time i like to show something related with travelling. i dont have a picture about Dato’ Azhar mansour ship, so this is a fishing sampan will replace that ship and this sampan also a useful transportation and many fisherman depend on the wooden sampan to earn for his family…

Happy Puasa!


tutorial: 3D curve I

Do you know how to create a 3D curve in SolidWorks? In SolidWorks, there are many ways for us to create a 3D curve. There are Project Curve, 3D Sketch and Intersection Curve. Here I’m going to show you how to use this 3 feature to create a 3D curve.

First of all, all 3 features have the similarity to create a 3D curve. It use the standard 3 views as a guide.

Let’s start with the 1st method,
Projected curve

Choose 2 planes and sketch a curve in each plane.

then select “
project curve
” feature, which drop under curves.

Select “sketch on sketch” in the property manager.

Then select the 2 sketches and click OK. What you get next is a blue colour 3D curve. This blue colour 3D curve cannot edit directly. What you can do is edit the 2 original sketch.

Do give a try. Next week I shall share with you all on the 2nd method.

Jackson (jacksonlim@cadcam.com.my) is part of the team member who good in sufacing skill in SolidWorks. You won’t believe it until you see some of the exotic cars he model with SolidWorks.


Tutorial: 3D curve II

I’m back with the second method to draw a 3D curve in SolidWorks.

Refer back to the 1st 3D curve tutorial, use back the same sketch. Now extrude it with
Extruded Surface
, and then you will get this:

Now, open a
3D Sketch
then select
Intersection Curve
. On the Select Entities, Select both surface and click OK.

Then you’ll get the black color 3D curve.

This curve can be edit by editing the 3D sketch created just now. The length can be edit by dragging the end point of the curve. If you want to edit the shape of the curve, delete the relation.

there we go, the second method to create a 3D curve. The last method, next week.

Jackson (jacksonlim@cadcam.com.my) is part of the team member who good in sufacing skill in SolidWorks. You won’t believe it until you see some of the exotic cars he modeled with SolidWorks.


Tutorial: 3D Curve III

My final post on 3D curve-
3D sketch
.

3D Sketch is a powerful tool to create a 3D curve. But if you don’t know how to use it, this powerful tool will become difficult to use. Here I’m going to show you the way I use this tool.

How are we going to create a nice 3D sketch in this 3D environment, when we actually only viewing in 2D?

Without rotating the view, all sketches we created are creating on any of the 3 standard views.

If you cannot imagine what I’m mention above, you can open a 3D sketch; press
Crtl
 +
7
 to change to Isometric view and sketch a curve. Then press
Crtl
 +
5
 to change to top view, you can found that the sketch in created in the front plane.

To create a 3D curve, sometimes we need some imagination. It is better if we can imagine what the curve look like in the front, top and right view.

What I’ll do to create a 3D curve with 3D sketch is create the sketch on a standard view (Front, Top or Right) first. Then I’ll change the view to Top View to drag the point of the sketch which I create just now until I get what I want it to be on the right view.

If the curve view from top not same as what you like, you can adjust it until you feel it is perfect. Hope this tips help you on your future design.

Happy design!

Jackson (jacksonlim@cadcam.com.my) is part of the team member who good in surfacing skill in SolidWorks. You won’t believe it until you see some of the exotic cars he modeled with SolidWorks.


Tutorial: Curtain hook

When helping you mother to change the curtain, have you ever come across this thing?

Yes, it is a curtain hook.

This is the most popular type in the market and of course, you would find several of other design out there. But that is not the point; have you ever wonder how to create this curtain hook in 3D modeling? Well, it is pretty simple actually. All you need is a little imagination and the right tools to work on it!

Before making this part, let see what sketch tool or feature that might be necessary is. I’ve done my analysis
(no need Simulations for this one, just need to figure out what is the best feature to be select and how to do it the fastest way)
 and this is my result.

Now, basically I need 3 features over here. A few Sweeps feature would do the main body and Extrude Boss together with Dome features will complete this part! Sounds simple and yet great! Dare to give it a try?

Here, I show you the steps by making it into a video.

Your end product will look like this. A bit of rendering might help you to visualize this part in more attractive way!

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.


Tutorial: Patterning a flange in sheet metal part

A sheet metal part will always contain the basic flanges such as base/tab, miter and edge. Some of the sheet metal design may need a set of the same geometric flanges. In SolidWorks 2011, these flanges are allowed to be copy instantaneously. Within this tutorial I will show you how to create a flange and pattern it. We will be creating this Fin to learn on how to use these tools.

1.

Create a sketch for a base flange from Front Plane with dimension as stated below.

TIPS: You can always start with only one line as sheet metal do not require close sketch to create a part.

2.

Specify the
thickness
and the
 radius
of this model as
2mm
and
1mm
 respectively. Use
K-Factor 0.5
and
Auto Bend Relief as Obround
 with
0.5 Relief Ratio
. Set the direction of the thickness to be in
Reverse Direction
.

3.

The base flange result will look like this.

4.

Create the edge flange. Click on the Edge Flange Features and click on the desired edge. Use parameters as shown below.

5.

The Edge Flange will look like this.

6.

Copy the Edge Flange by using the Linear Pattern. Set the parameters as shown below.

7.

The copy of the flanges will look like this.

8.

Then, use the
Right Plane
 to
Mirror
 the edge flange and the linear pattern to the other side. The mirror part will look like this.

9.

Again,
Mirror
the whole body with the
Front Plane
 and add a
hole 5mm
 to the center of the part. The end product will look like this. The part then can be flattening.

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 is the latest join member but trust me, she is good in ‘playing’
SolidWorks and a fast learner. She can easily answer you in no time.


Twisty Bookshelf

Hi, Tyler here. Good day to everyone. Here is my second post, Twisties + Bookshelf~

Just last week, when i was eating for Twisties.. eat.. eat.. eat.. Suddenly, an idea prompt out in my mind. Why don’t i make something boring twisted in shape? And afterward, i decided to use a simple shaped bookshelf as my model for twisting~

Inside SolidWorks, firstly, i model a bookshelf which is in a normal linear form. After that, i use the twisting feature to twist the bookshelf along its center axis.

Next, i had just played around with Photoview 360, and here are the rendering results~ Hehe, the book shelves ain’t boring anymore~

Colour Series

Car-painted Series
Stylish Series

Perhaps, you may to twist on your existing designs.. and perhaps again that some surprisings will come out~ 🙂

Thank you & have a nice day ^^

:: Tyler ::


Unleash beneath desire of design: SolidWorks Innovation Day 2010

You can call it a game show, drama, technology sharing, prize giving day etc. Whatever you call it, it’s back!

SolidWorks Innovation Day is back!
From Idea to Result. Now!

Remember IME style ‘Wheel of Fortune’? You make the pick on which SolidWorks what’s new feature to be reveil and you get the prize.

This year, more prizes will be given out, for you who join our upcoming SolidWorks Innovation Day 2010. Of course, you have more reasons than just come here for the prizes. Majority of Malaysia experience Solidworks users will be gather here again and together we shall experience how SolidWorks 2011 can further enhance our working environment.

Be the first to try on SolidWork 2011. We shall prepare a few high-spec workstation installed with SolidWorks 2011 for you to try by yourself. Special thanks to our platinum sponsor, HP Malaysia.

The Highlight of the event:

• What do the majority of the world’s most-innovative companies have in common?

• What is the next big thing in the market?

• Lots of lucky prizes to be won on the event day.

As usual, it going to held in 3 places: northern, southern and center region of peninsula Malaysia, as below:

Penang

Date : 5 October 2010 (Tues)

Time : 9.00am – 4.00pm

Venue: PSDC, Bayan Lepas

Klang Valley

Date : 12 October 2010 (Tues)

Time : 9.00am – 4.00pm

Venue: TPM, Bukit Jalil

Johor Bharu

Date : 14 October 2010 (Thur)

Time : 9.00am – 4.00pm

Venue: JIT, Nusa Jaya

Would like to register now?
CLICK ME

Furthermore information please log on to
https://www.imetech.com.my/
.
We sincerely look forward to your kind support and participation at the event.


Upcoming Dassault Systèmes Major Event 2022

OLD VS NEW

After the 3DEXPERIENCE platform rolled out, Dassault Systèmes is putting more effort in developing and marketing the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

We used to have SOLIDWORKS World every year, physical event at United State, exclusive event, only invited personnel, resellers or VIP guests are allowed to join. During the event day, they would talk about SOLIDWORKS new features, development plan of R&D team on SOLIDWORKS, cover a little bit on the DraftSight development, specific areas to highlight of other solutions and manufacturing products. It also comes with a model mania event to test our participants’ skills. All those great things happened in the past events left everyone feel nostalgic.

Right at the time, when COVID-19 pandemic struck, all physical events have been cancelled to ensure everyone is safe. Cloud solutions have been widely introduced, online events are happening everywhere to ensure everyone gets in touch virtually, to update themself to the latest information from Dassault Systèmes. Now, the physical event is back, instead of SOLIDWORKS WORLD, the event now is known as 3DEXPERIENCE World. It is a sign of everyone to move forward, to accept changes and digital transformations in manufacturing industry.

Gian Paolo Bassi kick-starting 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021

What can we expect from the event?

We will expect to have a grand opening from Dassault Systèmes’ directors, general sharing on Dassault Systèmes’ vision for incoming year 2022, briefing or introduction to the panel session, and invited guests who display their company products in these few days.

Since the name of the event is 3DEXPERIENCE World, we are going to expect more new features, applications and roles, and improvements that have been introduced in the platform. As usual, we are going to see more success stories after implementation of the platform, details of the platform application and how this cloud solution speeds up the transformation in manufacturing industry. We will expect to have more sessions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform during the event days.

Design on cloud using web browser

Showcasing how the 3DEXPERIENCE platform collaborate with SOLIDWORKS

How the design and simulation solutions help to minimize incidents in the mining industry

As SOLIDWORKS is still part of the main solutions under Dassault Systèmes, we will still expect to have several sessions of SOLIDWORKS, which we will talk about What’s New, the enhancements and improvements on SOLIDWORKS and other multi-products. Several sessions will also be running to introduce how 3DEXPERIENCE innovates and collaborates with your existing SOLIDWORKS software.

Application of SOLIDWORKS in IKEA from furniture industry

Surprisingly, based on this year’s agenda, more DraftSight sessions have been scheduled. If you are interested to convert to DraftSight from other 2D CAD tools, this is the time for you to explore. There will be another session where we will talk about 3DEXPERIENCE collaborates with DraftSight, be sure to join all the sessions to let yourself update to date all the information about DraftSight!

How to join 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022

Currently, based on the schedule released in the event calendar, we are going to have three types of event style. The first one will be the physical, in-person style of event, where people gather in the event hall in order to be the first person to get the information before others. Interactions, Q&A session with the solutions partner will directly happen during the day.

Since the event is going to be hybrid style (physical and virtual event run simultaneously) as well, the virtual event comes with two different access: the normal access and the VIP access. VIP access comes with more special sessions, especially on the software demonstration and explanation, and key features for the solutions.

If you choose to go with the normal virtual access, which is free now, mostly probably you can join the general session, and some of the basic virtual session during the events.

We still have not received any information whether all the sessions will be available for everyone as recorded session or it’s going to be uploaded to their official YouTube channel after the major event. I guess we only can wait for more updates soon.

3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 is open for registration now

The event will be held in February 6th to 9th 2022 at Georgia World Congress Center in Alanta, GA.

You may click on the following link to register now:
https://bit.ly/3dexperienceworld2022

If you wish to know how the event is going to be like, you may go to their YouTube channel to watch previous event sessions or event highlights in 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021!