CMM Machine with Inspection Pro

Precise, Practical and Productive

Inspection Introduction

Inspection has been a well-known software to generate FAI (First Article Inspection) report, to get approval and authorization on the report for QC checking for the sample or production units. When the software rolled out during 2014, the simplified user interface and operation procedure allow non-CAD users to pick it up easily. Users will use the software to do checking, create tolerance for the input data and generate latest QC report whether to use CMM data or key in the value manually, while using color to show if the data pass or failed the tolerance value. Instead of using SOLIDWORKS drawing, it also supports .jpeg picture format or .pdf drawings. So, you can use it without the SOLIDWORKS 3D design package.

Relationship Between Inspection & CMM

We’ve always seen eh videos about Inspection: how they create the balloon; how they trace the tolerance value; how they use color to interpret data; and only heard about the Pro version can use CMM machines to generate FAI report.

Hence, “How we can use the benefits of CMM devices on Inspection?” – This is the mystery path that we going to cover in this section.

At first, when we heard that Inspection Pro supports CMM, we all thought that we can just plug in the CMM devices then let the machine do the job to collect data to Inspection software. Well, it’s kind of true, but there’s a trick behind this operation procedure. Instead of directly plug in the machines to do it, we import the data obtained from the CMM machines. Yes, and you might think this is crazy. if you have different types of CMM machines, you might need to invest a little bit of time to understand and customize the template to ensure the data are exported correctly in Inspection. So, before you implement the solution, make sure you check your CMM model, and cross section if there’s any existing template for your machine to speed up the troubleshooting process.

Hopefully in near future, R&D team can include this enhancement for the CMM machine, like the sync feature used in SOLIDWORKS 3D printing.

Required time to study how to fine tune the captured data setting between Inspection and CMM datasheet

Setting It Up

Before you start implementing the data import feature, you may require attending the Inspection training. Get familiar with the user interface and features to ensure you are clear on the inspection workflow, getting the idea how the data is related or connected to the software.

Hence, you need to check your CMM machine model. Different CMM machines come with different templates provided by Dassault Systèmes. For example, PC-DMIS, Calypso, Faro CAM2, and others that will be shown in the software.

Each template must be created or fine-tuned based on the datasheet generated by the CMM model. If your machine is not listed in the software, you may be required to spend some time to discover the data. CMM data spreadsheet comes with coordinate systems and value obtained from the CMM measurement.

In the CMM template editor, you will have to add the correct data connection to specific section, such as, Axes, Columns, and the shape of the geometry measured or captured by the machine. The next part you may need to add on the tolerance value, to generate the correct result based on the data captured from the drawings.

The example of CMM data obtained from the machine

Section to import the data template from the CMM datasheet

Insert the CMM data in the correct section to ensure the inspection can generate the result

The result generated from the inspection after captured from the drawings

Seek Support

If you are having issue of dealing and understand on how the data import feature in SOLIDWORKS Inspection works, you can always seek support from your local reseller, to support your implementation and escalate the matter to our principal.

If you are interested in seeing the SOLIDWORKS Inspection demo to getting more information for CMM with Inspection Pro, please
contact us
 for a demo session.

Stay tuned to our blog page for latest updates, information and hidden features in our solutions.

Until the next time, Henry out.


CNY Lantern – 3D Creator and 3D Sculptor (xDesign & xShape)

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year.

Now, pandemic won’t stop us from celebrating CNY with our loved ones. So, design your own CNY lantern and send it to your families!

Here’s the step-by-step guide on how to design your own CNY lantern by using 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Start the design of CNY Lantern with the closed primitive shape under Subdivision tab.

Lantern’s body

Use QuadBall to build up the body.

Adjust the scale and position of the QuadBall.

Lantern’s Accessories

Use Cylinder and scale to desire size, then locate on top of the QuadBall.

Switch to xDesign apps to continue on the Lantern’s Accessories.

Fillet on the sharp edges in xDesign apps.

Switch back to xShape, use the Globe to create the part.

Rotate some elements of the surfaces to look more “hook”.

Switch to xDesign apps just one click and use the mirror feature to complete the other side.

Switch back to xShape to create the remaining accessories.

Use Cylinder and simply push, pull, drag, scale and crease your subdivision model to get the shape you desire.

Switch to xDesign apps to create the pattern for the part.

Switch back to xShape to create the remaining accessories.

Create a semi-Globe then apply at the middle.

Use Cylinder to create the last accessories by pushing and pulling on the subdivision model.

Create the pattern by using the circular pattern in xDesign.

Then import the file to SOLIDWORKS Visualize to render look more with Chinese New Year’s feel.

Here’s a quick video to show how you can design it:

May wealth and treasures fill your home!

– Yoke Ling, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Choosing your Draftsight

DraftSight has released its latest packages and licenses and the biggest change is the fact that it will not be available as a free version anymore.

But we’re not here to worry you about the prices. Instead, we will now tell you why DraftSight should be in your bucket list and how it is worth every single penny of yours!

DraftSight has a number of different licenses, and we know it is such a headache to figure out which one is the best for you and your organisation. Let us list down all the licenses for your references below:

DraftSight Standard

DraftSight Professional

DraftSight Premium

DraftSight Enterprise

DraftSight Enterprise Plus

DraftSight Standard is the most basic package for DraftSight. It has all of the essential features of the program and is suitable for 2D CAD drafters with an easy and straight-forward user interface and all the fundamental tools needed for 2D drawing.

For other licenses other than Standard, they are the recommended packages and most affordable ones if you know of its features and benefits. These licenses are suitable for companies, designers, manufacturers or casual hobbyists.

But for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus licenses, there are a few features that make us strongly recommend this for you and your organisation.

The DraftSight Enterprise license provides the same number of features and capabilities as the DraftSight Professional license. That includes a comprehensive toolbox, and a number of features such as batch printing, drawing compare, G-Code Generator and much more which are not available in DraftSight Standard.

But the reason why the Enterprise licenses are very much recommended to you is because unlike the Professional license, Enterprise is actually a network license. Similar to SOLIDWORKS network license, that means that your organisation will be able to float the license on the network. By floating a license, instead of locking a single license to a single computer and user, you can increase the uptime of using the license by sharing it across multiple computers and users automatically.

With a network license, you are also entitled to deployment wizard which enable large groups of users to install or upgrade DraftSight. That just saves at least 80% of your time.

The main selling point of DraftSight is actually the Community Resources. This means, almost all the solutions to your problems and questions are already up on the online forums if you search it up. You will be just a click away from them.

With an Enterprise license, your organisation will be able to enjoy full technical support from IME Technical Support Team. We are ready to answer your questions or troubleshoot issues related to DraftSight. This technical support is only available for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus license.

The Plus variation of the Enterprise license has all of what was mentioned plus additional features which are 3D Modelling Tools and 2D Constraints.

3D Modelling Tools in Enterprise Plus introduces 3D modelling using basic geometrical shapes (ex. Box, Pyramid) or other methods (ex. Extrude, Evolve) with Boolean operations (ex. Union, Subtract).

For 2D Constraints feature, you can control your drawing entities parametrically by specifying geometrical and dimensional properties of your entities.

These are just a glimpse into DraftSight features and the list goes on and on! Please do not hesitate to contact us to request a quotation or you can try DraftSight for free with the 30-day trial period and see which package works best for you.

In conclusion, IME really recommends you to purchase DraftSight Enterprise and DraftSight Enterprise Plus. This is because they are actually cost effective and convenient if you look at the bigger picture.  You will get FREE technical support during your active subscription with us and entitled to so many additional features compared to other licenses. In this regard, we believe DraftSight works magic for those who want to create one!


Congratulations to 5 Sarawakian Enterprises that won State-Level Shell LiveWIRE 2022!

Recently in December 2022, IME was invited as a guest by one of our partners, Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak Sarawak (TEGAS) as a competition judge for Shell LiveWIRE event in 2016, even during the COVID MCO period.

The Sarawak Shell LiveWIRE program started in 2016 and has seen entrepreneurs from Kuching, Bintulu and Miri participate and go on to become winners, and through this programme, more Sarawakian entrepreneurs will be recognised.

The event was officiated by Premier of Sarawak, YAB Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Abang Haji Abdul Rahman Zohari bin Tun Datuk Abang Haji Openg, Premier of Sarawak, who also witnessed Shell and TEGAS finalising the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding for their collaboration in Shell’s LiveWIRE programme.

Premier of Sarawak, Chairman of Shell Malaysia and Chairman of TEGAS on stage with 5 winners of Shell LiveWire Sarawak 2022 winners and Shell Global Runner-Up Winners

Among 60 participants whi joined the programme, 10 were selected as the finalists for the final pitching competition. The entrepreneurs were assessed based on their business pitches and demostration of their business ideas and five winners were chosen on the same day by us (IME, being on of the judges).

The winners received a start-up fund of RM10,000 from Shell and additional RM5,000 and a year of business coaching to flourish their business plans into well-established businesses and access facilities and opportunities made available by TEGAS. They will alse be given the opportunity to connect with the global LiveWIRE ecosystem and share their knowledge with entrepreneurs around the world, while standing a chance to compete in the annual Shell Global Top Ten Innovators Awards.

Out of 5 winning teams, one of the groups caught our attention, whichos EasyGrow by Satok Bridge Digital (SBD). Fun fact, SBD also one of the winners the MYHackaton 2022 Cohort 2 programme, where they developed and AI-based system, GajahSafe. It is a technological solution that helps to detect and scare the elephant from afar without harming them. This time,  the team bring in new project known as EasyGrow project, a modern complex system where they use IoT solution to manage, to innovate the new norm of water plant agriculture in East Malaysia.

Lavindar Singh and Rizal Roney, Founder of EasyGrow Project

Sarawak Shell LiveWIRE 2018 winner, Heineken anak Laluan presenting his business to the Premier of Sarawak

Shell LiveWIRE is th flagship enterprise development programme of Shell to strengthens local economies across the globe by promoting entrepreneurship and developing entrepreneurs. It was such an inspiring programme to inspire young entrepreneurs to innovate and bulid real businesses solutions that meets today’s socio-economic needs.

We at IME congratulate all the winners and wish all of them ‘Good Luck!’ in competing against other five winners each from Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia at the national final of Shell LIveWIRE Malaysia, which will take place this year.

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COOL……..iris……..

 This post will change the way you search pictures from website.

When we want to search pictures or images from website, we will usually type in some keywords in a search engine and the search engine will showed results in small thumbnail style(as shown in picture below)

If you installed cooliris in your computer, this experience will changed completely. I have recorded a video to share with you how image searching can be so fun and effective with cooliris. This small program is one of the cool features shared in Solidworks World 2009 technical tips session.

click on this link to download this freeware.
https://www.cooliris.com/

I have included the link to download this fantastic freeware….well,  all i hope is ………you enjoy this tool. COOL……iris…..good night!

~ah lau~


Create your own SOLIDWORKS ID or Customer Portal Account

 The reason why we need SOLIDWORKS ID when you are a SOLIDWORKS user is because you can access numerous number of SOLIDWORKS resources. SOLIDWORKS users with ID also have the access to download software, watching training videos, being a part of the forums, and the most important thing is to have access in logging into the new 3DExperience. After the purchases a license of SOLIDWORKS, users are firstly encouraged to create the SOLIDWORKS ID to get access to the SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal.

Having a SOLIDWORKS online account can help you design better products faster. With an active subscription service contract term, all our customers are entitled to a number of SOLIDWORKS tools conveniently located in one place, 24 hour x 7 days a week.

How to create SOLIDWORKS ID?

Go to
https://customerportal.solidworks.com/

Click on Create a SOLIDWORKS ID.

Key in your email address and Serial Number (standalone license / Network license serial number)

Take note that many users can share one serial number so it should be no issues creating multiple accounts using the same serial number.

SOLIDWORKS will send a validation code to your registered email. Please key in the validation code and click next.

Please fill in the required information. Tick to agree on the policy. Click Next. Follow the instructions.

Your Customer Portal account will be created.

If you have any other questions or inquiries,  feel free to send it to
swsupport@cadcam.com.my
.

– Intan Farradiana, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Creating Animation Using SOLIDWORKS Composer

SOLIDWORKS Composer is a standalone software where you can repurpose your 3D CAD engineering model for creating technical publication, graphical content, interactive document and animation to explain processes and procedures in captivating and attractive way. You can create your own technical documentation with the ease and one without engineering background also can using it without hassle.

For this article, I will talk about one of the SOLIDWORKS Composer capabilities which is to create animation video.

When it comes to your assemblies, most of the time you need to showing how it is put together and how it functions. A proper instruction needs to follow and clarify inside the animation to explain those important steps. Creating complete animation in SOLIDWORKS can sometimes be time-consuming and tedious due to limitation tools set available.  With SolidWorks Composer, creating complex animation is super easy.

When creating animation in SOLIDWORKS Composer, there is a several methods to operate and manipulate our 3D modelling to designate area and location which is by using:

Control key set basic timeline

Using Animation Library

Import the exploded view direct from SOLIDWORKS

Check out the video to shown how easy to create animation video using SOLIDWORKS Composer.

Creating animations in SOLIDWORKS Composer is a super simple process. Simply set the starting state and drag your component as your desired and set you ending state into timeline. Watch as SOLIDWORKS Composer do the magic by connect all the dots and create a fluid animation. You can manage high degree of detail by includes parts, labels, the digger, measurements and many more into your animation to showcase all aspect of your assembly.

For more information, contact our technical at 1300-88-2797 or just email to
swsupport@cadcam.com.my
 .

We hope you found this article useful!

See you again on our next sharing.


Creating animation with SOLIDWORKS animation function with camera views

SOLIDWORKS enables you to create compelling animation of AVI video files by using the animation features. With this tool, it allows you to communicate design concepts and collaborate more effectively. No special expertise is required to use SOLIDWORKS Animation feature which is available in all SOLIDWORKS packages.

For this article, I will talk about one of the SOLIDWORKS Animation capabilities which are using camera views to showcase your model or design with cinematic motion and animation.

When it comes to animation with camera views, it is usually used for industrial floor plan design or large models. Which, you can utilize this tool to simulate how it is to view the floor plan or the model as you are looking at it in person.

When creating animation in SOLIDWORK, there are several tools or criteria to control, in order to create a good quality cinematic animation:

Control Key point in the timeline

Adjusting your camera views (either in Cartesian coordinate or following a reference path).

Check out this video as it demonstrates how easy it is to start creating animation of your model using camera views.

– John Foi, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Creativity make things amazing!

Good day to my friends here! I would like to say happy holiday to all the Malaysian as today is Wesak Day! Here,  I would like to share a video which shows how can we fully utilize our living space through creativity. You will found that creativity and innovative really make things great!

From here you will found that furniture design no longer stay in 2D sketching. Due to the trend of how flexible the furniture can be transform nowadys to perform multifunction within a narrow space, most of the time you will need to design  it in 3D to ensure the occupied space, mechanism, and its functionality. Don’t you agree with me?


Crystal Apple

Hihi, I am Tyler and nice to meet you all. This is my ‘FRIST TIME’ posting to this blog, kinda nervous, hehe..

For those who like japanese drama, sure you will remember the ‘Crystal Apple’. During 2004, the japanese drama ‘Love Generation’ made the crystal apple become famous and until now still u can see this crystal apple in many shops.

Just yesterday, i was chatting with my friend and suddenly this idea flashed up in my mind, therefore i decided to create this crystal apple by Solidworks. Also, i wonder about whether PhotoView360 is able to render for glassy or crystalline effect or not.

After i tried, what i can say is.. Woow.. it looked like a real crystal apple.. hehe.. and this is the effect.. nice ke? ^^

Following is the two major steps for the apple modeling:

(For those experts, just ignore it la..)

1st Step: Body of apple

Use the spline line to sketch out the cross sectional area of apple. After that, use the revolve features to make it into 3D..

2nd Step: Stalk of apple

For this Stalk, u may use either Swept or Loft feature to make it. Here, i tried for Loft feature.. jz as the picture, i used two profile and two guide lines to make this stalk.

Ermm~ so, this is my 1st post.. welcome to comment..

About the next post.. hopefully, my next idea will come soon~

Thank you & Hv a nice day~

:: Tyler ::


CSWP: It’s now compulsory in Malaysian Industries (part 2)

Gong Xi Fatt chai and a Happy “Ssssss” year. We talked about what is CSWP and the benefits of it to the user with this recognition. Let’s do role changing; now we jump into the employer shoes. Now we are the boss, why would we hire somebody with CSWP compare to other candidate. What is special about them?

First, we need to understand that CSWP exam is a challenge to do 3D modeling in advance level in short period of time period. For that, mastering technique and to have deep understood on all the commands is a must. They also need to plan their designing flow carefully as the time constraint plus there will be instantaneous design changes during exam.

So, this mean candidate with CSWP is a natural fast designer. They will utilize keyboard shortcuts, mouse gesture shortcuts, rather than dragging mouse, menu to menu, icon to icon in traditional way. They will not take time to zoom or rotate to selected area as the 3D image already been synching from their brain to the desktop.  Although this can obtain by years of using SolidWorks, but CSWP will subdue way of designing to this fast stage.

Next, having CSWP means to work with SolidWorks in the ideal way. This is the most overlook concept from employer perspective, as they think it is not important. As for self-learner of SolidWorks, their designing objective is to get it done. But for people with CSWP, they had been train to use SolidWorks as the way it should works, and their designing objective is to get it done, properly!

To get it done is only the matter of to complete the design, while ignoring the warning, error, under define dimensions, whatever the cause… just complete it. To get it done, properly means to complete the design, with no warning and error, and fully define dimensions and prepared for future changes!

Why this is crucial? The most obvious reason is time.

By designing properly, is like a leaving a bread crumb on your trail. The designer can turn back, rewind back the time to exact where he wants to modify, so it later will reflect the outcome in the future/final design instantaneously. Great Scott!

If just to make the design to be done and ended, the previous error will interfere during modification and may lead to more error as the designer
didn’t
 pay attention to warning earlier. Time will be lost for sure of this fixing relations and dimensions and in worse case, need to start back the design from scratch.

For the last part, there may be an incident during work transition where the resigned guy, which in this case the self-learner with no CSWP may do the work half way done, and pass to the new recruit guy.

Imagine this, if the resigned guys are much happy with his departure, chance that he left his work properly… is high. Else, get ready for truck load design error, undefined mate, missing linking part to assembly and other god forbid situation, depending how piss of that resigned guy with the company.

Again, CSWP personnel is well prepare for this, they know what to do as error correction have been bread and butter for them. They can fix it and continue the past work flawlessly. Hiring a CSWP person means that you are hiring designer that well compliance with industries standard, so his job can be pass on to everyone else without the hassle dealing non-proper designing method.

You will receive a “Certified SolidWorks Professional” certificate, which is suitable for framing of course.

In addition, an email that directs you to our electronic certificate access page. There you can login and download your electronic certificate and electronic business card logo); CSWP’s also receive discounts to partner products and SolidWorks World events.

SolidWorks Corporation will also add your name to a web-based directory of Certified SolidWorks Professionals, which serves as a reference to instantly establish your credentials.

Source:
https://www.virtualtester.com/solidworks/branding/user-portal/user-portal.html#

So, what you waiting for? There are total of
17494
 certified CSWP worldwide and now
344
CSWP holders in Malaysia, and growing. Don’t get left behind in this competitive challenging designing world. Act now and get yourself a CSWP to secure your future.

Meanwhile, maybe you would like to join our “
Let’s Be CSWP together
” program. More info, call us at 1300-88-2797.

Term & condition applied.


CSWP: It’s now compulsory in Malaysian Industries

CSWP
 or
Certified SolidWork Professional
 is acknowledgement given to personnel that have advance skill in SolidWorks modeling after passed the require examination.

 It’s the same as other professional field like
CCNA
(Cisco certified network associate) in computer networking and
CSSGB (
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification) for project management and process improvement in factory. What all have in common are;
it stands you out from the crowd.

Let’s get into perspective here. You go to jobstreet.com, type in ‘solidworks’ in search box, you will see how many job opening been listed as a result. If the first thing came into your mind is   “
Wow! I can easily get job now
”

 then you are making a mistake.  Nowadays, it means you have to fight your way through with other candidates that applying same job as you.

Actually, it has to do with SolidWorks itself. Because the software is so easy to learn compare to other 3D CAD, more and more people have start using it over the year. Most companies that stepping from 2D designing to 3D more likely to prefer SolidWorks. They will need people working with it, but unfortunately
 one designer skill with SolidWorks is not the same as other
, although
both them, claim to have same years experienced using it
.

So this is one of the issue been facing lately. It affects both parties, the designer (employee) and the industries (employer). We go more details on both of it and explain how CSWP can overcome this issue.

CSWP to Employee

Fresh graduates listen up; you need to know that there will be at least 2 designers for every manufacturing company in Malaysia. Designer can also be a person assign as Mechanical Engineer, Design Engineer or R&D Engineer. People that graduate from Mechanical, Mechatronic, Industrial Automation & Robotic, Industrial &, Product Design field have possibilities been expose to SolidWorks during their studies will apply for that mention position. So unless you have a gifted mind,
graduated 3.5 CGPA above in

engineering,
you will have hard time getting to big companies
.
This because there are a lot of candidates, so requirement of outstanding CGPA will act as the company hiring filter.

That is why if you have a leverage, like CSWP, it will nullified that applied filter as employer notice that they no need to train you, saving time and cost, thus giving you higher chance to be recruited.

So how about experienced people, especially the junior level, experienced around 3 4 years working with SolidWorks. Well other than that added spice to your resume, CSWP is a way telling your future employer that you have the necessity skill with SolidWorks. Backed up with your experience in modeling jig & fixture, mold or sheet metal, CSWP is a proof
 that you can take anything in your designing job.
 That is important, as the employer main concern is to know that
you are ready, as there are ready.

Employer are not psychic that can read people mind. All that they think during interview is
“why should I hire this guy compare to a person before/after him”
. You can tell them that you able can do this and that on SolidWorks during interview, but in the end, unless you have a good persuasion skill, having a proof is the only ticket for scoring a job. CSWP is your ticket!

Last but not least, see how much people at US been getting with CSWP.

Source:
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Certification=Certified_SolidWorks_Professional_(CSWP-CORE)/Salary#by_Job

Take note that most of the companies that using SolidWorks in Malaysia are US base. So there bound to be almost similar salary expectation in Malaysia branch as well. In any case, professional with CSWP been paid more compare to others!

Got the idea? That’s all for today. Next post, we shall talk about how CSWP benefits the employer and more about CSWP.

Meanwhile, maybe you would like to join our “
Let’s Be CSWP together
” program. More info, call us at 1300-88-2797.

Term & condition applied.

Finally, wish you a happy & prosperous Snake year.


Customize your materials properties

Are you aware that you can actually customize your material properties inside SolidWorks? As known, SolidWorks already has a library of standard materials. Now, let say you also have your own property library that you get from your customer/vendor, thus you want to use it as the material properties for your modeling. This is not a problem, you can always customize your library to fulfill this need. Now, I will show you how to make this, it is really simple!

1.

Open SolidWorks, then open a new Part. Right click At the Material and select Edit Material.

2. Now, you select the type of materials that you want to customize. In my example over here, I want to customize the ABS inside the SolidWorks Materials (folder)> Plastic (folder)> ABS. Copy the selected materials using Right Click> Copy.

3. Close the Window and now select the Custom Material (folder). Expand the folder. Paste the ABS material inside the Plastic Category.

4. Click on the ABS and rename to ABS Molded. You can now change the properties of your material. Shown below are the screen shot of how I changed the Yield Stress values and make my custom specific properties.

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.


Demand for DraftSight Sparks in Cable Manufacturing Industry

The practice of standardizing the cable production drawings has spike the demand for DraftSight software.

Chapter 1 – Submarine Cable VS Internet Satellite

Internet data transfer technology has been developed way too fast – from 3G to 5G within a decade. The evolution of internet technology has created plenty of opportunities for cloud solutions, products, and services. But large data transferred using high-speed internet still relies on submarine cable under the seas, which indicates that, cable production or fabrication in manufacturing industry remains quite active this day. Even the future 6G technology, might still rely on submarine cable.

You might be thinking, “why not we start using satellite internet and finally get rid of cable connection?” Well, mainly because satellite internet is still expensive today, and the data capacity per transfer is low compared to submarine cable. Because there are more cons than pro in using internet satellite, the submarine cable application is still being heavily used today.

The two main types of submarine cables have been used nowadays – which are power cable and internet optics fiber cable. Due to deep sea conditions, the cable is designed to be able to sustain high under water pressure, thick and tough enough to protect this cable under the seas. The cable usually consists of multiple layers of gel and materials to ensure the core in the cable is protected under extreme situation in the seas, and be able to reduce or absorb heat from the core based on the cable application.

Satellite is good, but operation cost is expensive, unable to support large data transfer from different locations

Example of power cable used to supply power across different countries

The optics fiber under the sea protected with different materials, to ensure it works properly under the seas

Chapter 2 – DraftSight Steps In

Mass production of submarine cables has been a crucial to the industry, due to high demand of high-speed internet, supplying power, and high data transfer to the cloud server. As the number of users is increasing, the usage of submarine cables increased as well.

To produce submarine cables up to the specific specification, the positions, materials and production process must be precise with 0 errors. QC checking process is extremely strict to ensure each cable is produced in the same standard, no defect should be found in the product. Imagine if there is a cable loose within the cable, it will cause catastrophic event under the seas. Not only does it affect the global internet stability, it may even lead to black-out for the whole country.

Thus, to have a standard cable fabrication drawing, drafters will be required to use the standard tool to do cross-section drawings, hand drawings are no longer recognized in manufacturing industry, to ensure absolute 0 human error be found in this drawing details. This is where DraftSight comes in to provide the features for drafters to do their job.

DraftSight is well known as a recommended tool for drafting and producing drawings in manufacturing industry. The basic features, such as layers, lines, circular pattern drafting features are sufficient for normal cross-section drawing, paired with the UI that allows users to easily pick up and implement DraftSight in no time. The output file in DWG/DXF format, general file format, not only for fabricator, but also suitable for machine to fully automate producing and assembling the submarine cable.

Standardized drawing required for checking, consistent quality from different fabrication factory

The extruded submarine cable, come with dozens of rolls, installation at the boat and let it sink in the seas

Chapter 3 – Stardard Design

To meet the high demand of submarine or underseas power cables, simplified and standardized drawing is required for production or fabrication, and QC checking before delivering the cables for the end users.

For production of submarine cables, our focus is to speed up the production process. As we know that, at the end of the day the cable will just lie on the seabed or floating in the deep sea, it is unlikely that we are going to have the on-site assembly drawing; most crucial part will be the length of the submarine cables, the cross-section profile of the cables, the type of cable to be produced.

There is a standard regulation for submarine cables production that has been introduced around the world, to ensure all cables fabricator produced are using the same dimeter standard – the materials used in the extruding machine; profile used in the drawing profile; QC heavily depends on the profile shown in the drawing to ensure rest of the wire is in correct alignment in the submarine cable.

As long, the drawing able to categorise the materials, able to show the cable types, the profile, and rest of dimension information sometime depends on the standard extruding machine they used to produce the cables.

Layers Managers allow user to preset the color to differentiate the materials

Circular entities to create circular pattern

Utilizing the circular pattern to create duplicate pattern, to save more time drafting

Using hatch to create line to represent the area

Apply color to identify the materials layers

Create balloon for BOM table, if needed

Additional information can add on the drawing sheet for fabrication and QC checking

Conclusion

Interested to try out DraftSight? Drop us an email at chchai@cadcam.com.my. We are keen to show you more hidden features that DraftSight can provide, even can synchronizing files on cloud, so you can easily access all the files in the palm of your hand.

If you are from the cable industry, do reach out to us, we are happy to serve you as a local partner in this industry, and we can learn together and share our knowledge together.

Always remember, treat us like a friends or partners, we always welcome everyone to seek us for support or services in engineering field, or manufacturing industry.


Design: Bottle

It seems like the design posted by sew is very interest and it make me feel hungry….. I hope there will be more great designs share in this blog in the future. Last few week during my free time, i did a bottle design with Solidworks. Initially, it was planned to be a perfume bottle design but when it comes to rendering portion, i can’t find a suitable material for perfume liquid that satisfy me. So it ended up to be a bottle or container for ………….(guess what?please see it yourself!)

Lets me share with you on the process and main feature that i used in the modeling stage…….

Then, i used FLEX feature to bend the hexagon extrusion by 180 degree. (click on the image to view my setting)

Finally, the result and rendered image as below. TANG TANG TANG TANG………

You need to enlarge the rendered image to find out what i put in the bottle……..Have you figured out what is in the bottle?

~ah lau~


Design That Matters, The people behind Project Firefly Phototherapy

10% of newborn children in the world suffer from jaundice disease which left untreated might cause brain damage, lifelong disability or even early death. The cure for jaundice is a simple procedure of exposing a child to high intensity blue light directly to their body surface.

Parts of the developing world might not have excess to proper medical devices or provide proper care for children with jaundice. Rural clinics are burden with limited machines and under train staff to provide the correct treatment needed to cure newborns. The people at
DTM

(design that  matters) took in the challenge and produce the Firefly phototherapy   incubator. A product designed in context to rural healthcare system.
One  of the  key innovation is providing top and bottom phototherapy with  longlife, high power LEDs, providing state-of-the-art intensive  treatment in a compact package. In one study, Firefly’s unique 2-sided  design reduced total treatment time by 40%, showing potential for  earlier  hospital discharge, lower incidence of newborn infection and  freeing resources to treat more infants.

Throughout  the design process, DTM had to work with local doctors and manufactures  to attain a world class product that is effective and sustainable. They  were able to quickly adjust their design to healthcare specifications  and ergonomics making it easy to maintain and be sustainable for longer  use. They where able to showcase their ideas effectively using 3D  renderings and models to help source local manufactures to produce the  parts they need.
Design  that Matters chose SolidWorks® Premium 3D design and simulation  software to support its development efforts because it is easy to use,  is widely used by the group’s student contributors, and provides a  complete range of design, simulation, and rendering tools. The group  also uses SolidWorks Composer™ technical communications software to  demonstrate and show design concepts to advisors in developing  countries. By implementing SolidWorks solutions, Design that Matters  accelerated concept development, improved its ability to communicate  design concepts visually, cut the cost of a phototherapy treatment unit  from $7,000 to $350, and is helping doctors work to save infant lives in  the developing world.

” There’s no such thing as a dumb user; there are only dumb products”

Sources

https://www.solidworks.com/btd/innovations/newborn-phototherapy.htm


Design Validation Day 2011- Let’s Analyze

“Does F.E.A provide me in the right information about my design”? A very common question pops out in your mind when we talking about how F.E.A can help us to save development cost and time. It’s time to clear the doubt.

An experience technical Manager and a young F.E.A specialist of IME technology Sdn Bhd will join force to tell you how SolidWorks Simulation work in various industry and how is the result can be achieve. It all happens on 7 June (Tuesday) 9.00 am – 1.00pm, in CADCAM Training Centre PJ.

This time, IME Technology Sdn Bhd is really grateful and is our honour to invite our customer- Mr. Norazman (Managing Director for Malift Sdn. Bhd.) to spend precious moment with us to share how Malift actually gain the ultimate benefit of the SolidWorks Simulation as a sky lift builder where human lift involve.

Let’s Analyze, join us in our Design Validation Day 2011, we shall take you to the virtual simulation world and analyze every parts of your design to lead you to realistic your design now.

Just
CLICK HERE

and join us now!!!

About Malift Sdn Bhd

The Malaysia first Sky Lift builder.From design, testing, casting, fabrication and installation, all is done in Malaysia.


Design your own Ketupat with 3DEXPERIENCE 3D Sculptor and 3D Creator!

Do you know that you can create Ketupat in xShape app in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform by using primitive subdivision components?

Here’s how you can design your own 3D Ketupat!

Wishing everyone Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir & Batin!

– Yoke Ling, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Design your Own Transformer

Transformer! Transformer! Transformer!

Someone told me that, Transformer toy manufacture by Hasbro, inc was design using SolidWorks. I was so excited wising to post the news to all Transformer lovers immediately.

Hasbro, Inc.
 is a worldwide leader in children’s and family leisure time products and services with a rich portfolio of brands and entertainment properties that provides some of the highest quality and most recognizable play and recreational experiences in the world. As a brand-driven, consumer-focused global company, Hasbro brings to market a range of toys, games and licensed products, from traditional to high-tech and digital, under such powerful brand names as TRANSFORMERS, PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER BROTHERS, CRANIUM and WIZARDS OF THE COAST.

While, remember Charlie guiding us to design our own Transformer Key Chain in the early post? Now you can even design an actual 3D transformer by yourself. Haha…. Let’s SolidWorks
“3dcontentcentral.com”
Help you. There are some ready part and design which had been share in the central, you can just easily download and re-design your unique Transformer….. Hurey! Hurey! Sound so easy, but it seen very difficult to me…. Emm, who’s know one day I will do my own design as well….

Dear Engineer and Transformer lover, let’s design our own “Optimus Prime”….

You can forward your design to me, or posting your own at “SolidWorks Malaysia group in facebook”, together we share our common interest………….. Transformer…..

Waiting for your design…….


Designing in 3D is a blast with SolidWorks

This is a commercial advertisement to promote the products and services of Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. This interactive video showcast 5 categories of Solidworks Productline from:

1) Managing 2D Drawings
2) 2D to 3D Transition Tools
3) Ease of Use
4) Design Visualization and
5) Digital Prototype

After seeing these advertisements, i personally recommend “
digital prototype
” because it highlight tools or features in Solidworks that used to verify design before manufacturing like:

1)Interference Detection
2)Clearance Verification
3)Hole Alignment
4)Collision Detection
5)Stress Simulation
6)Displacement Simulation

(click on image below will lead you to the interactive video file)

~ah lau~


Do not mislead by the PhotoView360 preview!

Cheers~

Have you ever encounter preview problem especially when you are trying to apply material such as water to your SolidWorks model? Supposingly when we drag in the “water” onto the solid body that we wish to apply, it will give us a transparent appearance, but most of the time, instead of transparent effect, the preview will give you black color! Don’t get suprise with that, this is actually due to the level of preview quality setting! If the current setting for preview quality is “
Good
“, try to increase the level to “
Better
” or even “Best”, then you will notice that the water appearance will turn into transparent as what you expected!

Preview Quality Setting= Good

Preview Quality Setting=Better

The 1st picture is my design of wine bottle ! Wish to know how to make the “ring” along the bottle body and how to create the water inside the wine glass? Keep following SolidWorks Malaysia Community! Happpy reading~


~Do you agree?     PhotoVIew 360, It’s easy~

Have you ever heard before,
design is not easy as what you thinking about  !~~

I only spent almost 2 hour to create this chair,
It’s look simple.
But i like it ~
hope you like it so~

The software rendering function smart and friendly,
so easier to render the product into reliable.~
Not only single part, but also the assembly model as well.


Do you know about 3D Content Central?

Does my NOKIA 6500 looks cool? This is not the actual model, this is the image of SolidWorks file rendered with PhotoView360! Well, this photo was rendered by me but I am not the person who create this model, this model was downloaded from 3D Content Central through SolidWorks!

3D ContentCentral is a community of both users and suppliers. This website supplies millions of free parts and assemblies which are available in all major 2D and 3D CAD formats. SolidWorks is one of the supported format. In order to download all the supplied parts, basically what you need to do is just register as a member of 3D Content Central, then you will have the access to all the supplied parts. Besides that, you can also become a 3D Content Central supplier to contribute all your 3D models to this community.

Throughout 3D Content Central, you can search for supplier component using part numbers, product name and so on, you can also configure those parts base on your requirment such as customize the dimension or feature control. Besides 3D model, it also supply 2D blocks, library features and even macros for SolidWorks! All this functions are definitely save our time from create those standards or common parts by ourself~!

Do you know you can actually access 3D Content Central from SolidWorks? Here are the picture to show you where can you access the website from SolidWorks!

Callout the task pane (the smaller window on right hand side) of SolidWorks, click on the Design  Library tab, and get the access to 3D Content Central!


Do you know how to improve your designs & save cost?

From the beginning until now, we didn’t post any blog regarding analysis, right? Ok. I guess is time to start with an analysis blog. No long essay
(for this time)
 but a fun way to start with. Below link will guide you to a quiz for some questions to be answer.

CLICK ME

After this quiz, you will know more on how to improve your design and save
$$$
 with a 3d CAD, SolidWorks & SolidWorks Simulation.


Do you want to get a Transformer Key Chain? Come on! Build your own key chain with SolidWorks! Here is my design by just transform the Transformer logos that i have created previously into a pair of key chain! Some of you may wonder how the chain is being created, so i would like to share some tips and steps over here…..

Note: Be careful, this is not suitable for couple keychain, because the logos are autobot & decepticon! haha….

STEP 1:

First, select a plane (for example Front PLANE) to draw an arc to define the curve of the link.

STEP 2:

One the same plane, insert another new sketch, draw out the shape of the chain. This will be the sweep path for you to create the first chain.

STEP 3:

Create a new plane normal to the arc of the path as shown in the figure.

STEP 4:

On the new created plane, draw out a circle, this will be the sweep profile.

STEP 5:

Apply sweep feature and identify the sweep profile and sweep path

First Chain
STEP 6:

Use curve driven pattern to obtain a 2nd chain lying on the arc. Define the arc in the 1st sketch as the driven direction. Follow the option setting as shown in the property manager of curve driven pattern.

STEP 7:

Create one more plane by referring the 1st chain and the patterned copy. Choose a point and an axis as the reference in order to locate the new plane. (Note: you have to prepare the reference point in a 2D sketch (on FRONT PLANE in this example))

STEP 8:

On the new plane, draw a shape represent the path for the 2nd chain.

STEP 9:

 On FRONT PLANE, open another sketch to draw the circle represent the profile.

STEP 10:

Apply sweep feature to create the 2nd chain. Under feature scope for the sweep function, select the body generated by the curve driven pattern (the 3rd chain),this will merge the new sweep feature together with the 3rd chain as one body in the part file.

STEP 11:

Apply curve driven pattern to copy the 2nd and 3rd chain, define the number of copies that you want to obtain along the curve.

Finaly, here’s the chain image rendered with PhotoView360!


Donate to rise sustainable design awareness

Important message: I’m not asking you to donate~

The best donation is that we just need to play a simple small role and others will donate on behalf of our small effort. We run for donation, we eat for donation (this is the best 1), we scarify sleep for donation, we doing heavy duty labor job for donation, and so on…. So, do I have an easier way to get donation to rise sustainable design awareness beside using above method?

Yes!~ let Dassault Systèmes (DS) SolidWorks Corp do the donation and all we need to do is download
SolidWorks® SustainabilityXpress solution
. You download, you use it and you playing an important role to save our earth and the donation, just leave it to SolidWorks Corp, they will do the rest. 🙂 Senang dengan legal download!~

What are you waiting for? Have you downloaded SolidWorks Sustainability Xpress?

“Dassault Systèmes (DS) SolidWorks Corp. has launched a donation program to promote environmental sustainability among designers of products as simple as water bottles and as complex as industrial machinery.

SolidWorks will donate
$1
 for every download of its
SolidWorks® SustainabilityXpress solution
, up to $10,000, to
Formula Hybrid™,
 an international competition of university engineering students to develop high-performance fuel-electric hybrid vehicles. SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress is professional-grade software providing advanced functionality that aids engineers in determining a product’s carbon footprint, energy consumption, air and water impact. By downloading SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress, engineers and designers will help educate the next generation about environmentally friendly design while gaining a tool to help them create “green” designs today. SolidWorks’ goal with this new program is to spread the idea that any product can be designed with the lowest possible environmental impact.”

For the complete press release, click
HERE


Draftsight Packages That You Might Want To Consider

DraftSight was designed as a totally functional 2D CAD with limited 3D CAD authoring application. DraftSight is a convenient way to communicate designs to inspection, manufacturing, and also to customers. You may or may not be aware that DraftSight is no longer be free.

Why DraftSight is different from previous versions. These are the features that you might want to consider upgrading your Draftsight license. Let us go through a few of the new features in summary:

Features

Draftsight Standard

Draftsight Profesional

Draftsight Premium

Draftsight Enterprise

Draftsight Enterprise Plus

Image Tracer

✖

✔

✔

✔

✔

Block Attribute Manager

✖

✔

✔

✔

✔

HomeByMe Integration

✖

✔

✔

✔

✔

Trimming a Hatch

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

Drag and Move

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

Drawing Frames and Title Blocks

✖

✔

✔

✔

✔

Formulas in Tables

✖

✔

✔

✔

✔

3D Feature

✖

✖

✔

✖

✔

As summarized above, DraftSight is available in five different packages.

DraftSight Standard

Draftsight Standard is ideal for those who need a direct 2D CAD drafting solution with a user-friendly interface. The top new features include Insert Centerlines, Paste to Active Layer, Discard Duplicate Entities, Quick Modify, and PDF Import

Draftsight Standard may be purchased only on the DraftSight online store. You shall be purchasing a serial number and as an annual subscription. After the purchased done, it is activated by entering the serial number during installation with an internet connection.

DraftSight Professional

DraftSight Professional offer more advanced 2D CAD drafting solution. It offers API and a powerful boosting features. Professional companies might want to consider this package as it will help them to design very easily and fast to maintain their productivity. The top new features include Using Formulas in Table Cells, Block Attribute Manager, Viewport Layer Freezing, Image Tracer, 3DEXPERIENCE® Marketplace Make Integration, and HomeByMe Integration

Like Draftsight Standard, DraftSight Professional is completely sold on the DraftSight online store. It is purchased with a serial number and as an annual subscription. The license it is activated by entering the serial number during installation with an internet connection.

DraftSight Premium

This package offers a robust 2D drafting and 3D design experience. Ideally for individuals and professionals and also companies that need supports in meeting their needs on drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, laser cutting and 3D printing.

Draftsight Premium includes all DraftSight Professional features plus a comprehensive set of 3D DWG design and constraint capabilities.

Like Draftsight Standard, DraftSight Professional, it can be exclusively purchased on the DraftSight online store. It is also activated by a serial number online and entering it during installation. Internet connection is required to activate your serial number.

DraftSight Enterprise

If your company has many users or as a large organization that needs an advanced 2D CAD drafting solution, you may consider DraftSight Enterprise. DraftSight Enterprise offers very powerful, productivity boosting features as well as API to ease in doing designs speedily.

With DraftSight Enterprise, you can enjoy all DraftSight Premium features and you may enjoy full technical supports as well as network licensing to enable simultaneous usage across the organization.

DraftSight Enterprise sold exclusively via your local SOLIDWORKS Reseller with minimum of 2 licenses with every purchase. You may opt for either as an annual subscription or a perpetual license.

To activate DraftSight Enterprise which purchased through your reseller, you have to choose either an SNL (SOLIDWORKS Network License) or DSLS (Dassault Systèmes License Server) network license.

DraftSight Enterprise Plus

DraftSight Enterprise Plus is also for large organizations with a huge number of users that require a robust 2D drafting and 3D design experience in order to fulfil their needs on drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, laser cutting and 3D printing.

DraftSight Enterprise Plus consists of all DraftSight Enterprise features with an extra of an all-inclusive set of 3D DWG design and constraint abilities, full technical support and network licensing to permit concurrent usage through the organization.

You may purchase DraftSight Enterprise Plus via SOLIDWORKS Resellers as an annual subscription or perpetual license.

Similarly, to activate DraftSight Enterprise which purchased through your reseller, you have to choose either an SNL (SOLIDWORKS Network License) or DSLS (Dassault Systèmes License Server) network license.

Important: DraftSight Standard, Professional and Premium are only available as a 12-month subscription. The non-subscription is not offered for these products anymore. DraftSight Enterprise and Enterprise Plus are sold as both subscription and non-subscription.

That is all. Those packages and features that you might want to consider for upgrading your DraftSight software! To purchase, do contact us now.


DRAFTSIGHT 2021 Enhancement: All you need to know about IMPORT PDF

Import pdf has been a useful tool for all the drafting users. when come to user who saves plenty of time without redraw all the entities when they receive PDF drawing from customer. So, today, let us talk about it, go through it. Let us understand the proper workflow of import pdf, and the improvement that needed to make the experience even better.

Before we get into the import feature, there are some information that we need to aware before we purchase the DRAFTSIGHT software. Import PDF feature used to be an additional plug-in in DRAFTSIGHT, which cost around RM1500 for a year. Now then, the DRAFTSIGHT 2021 come with the import pdf feature, but there is a catchy part. Import PDF feature only can be found in the
Premium and Enterprise Plus version of DRAFTSIGHT
. The other version of DRAFTSIGHT may still require purchasing additional plug-in to import pdf. So, make sure you to choose the correct version of DRAFTSIGHT software before you request for quotation or purchase the license online.

In addition, before we use the import PDF feature in DRAFTSIGHT, perhaps we need to understand the difference between the normal pdf drawings or pdf with layers information in the drawing. The pdf file types is based on the supplier export methods. Some supplier may use the printing method to generate pdf, so we will be getting pdf drawing without any layer properties. If the supplier, using the dedicated export tools to generate the pdf file, then the pdf file will come with layer properties.

Some PDF export drawing files come with layers properties, some PDF drawing without layers properties.

When you get to the IMPORT section in DRAFTSIGHT, you will see the PDF option over there. When you click on it, the window pop-up will allow you to choose, which import option you wish to use, import as in block, or batch processing. If you choose on batch processing, the DRAFTSIGHT will execute the process with several pdf file. If you click on this option at the right side, allowing user to define, the import pdf behavior, you can choose to import the necessary information that you see fit, based on your situation. When you move to the layer option, you may use the PDF layer properties, or import as a single layer entity in DRAFTSIGHT.

Import setting allow you to import single pdf drawings, or import pdf files by batch.

Additional options allow you to decide, to include additional information or ways to import layer properties.

After selecting your pdf file, you can select where is the insertion point of your drawing. You can define the location base on the coordinate you have, or you can define later after this window pop-up. Same goes to the scale unit and rotation. in the window pop-up. Make sure, you are clear, where is the best location for your drawing, and the scale that you need, to do minor or major editing after import the drawings. Example, if you need to fix the drawing at dedicated coordinate, X=100, Y=800, Z=30, editing scale 1:35, 15 Degree rotation, you can direct insert it, and click okay to execute the import PDF process.

The import also include option for you to define the location of the drawings, scale and rotation for your drawings.

After select the location of the drawings, the entities will import into DRAFTSIGHT.

Once the import process is complete, you can continue to edit, modify, and evaluate the drawings from DRAFTSIGHT.

After import the drawing from PDF, the line become entities, ready for user to modify or measure.

If you interested to know more about DRAFTSIGHT enhancement feature, do drop us an email (chchai@cadcam.coom.my), and let us know.

– Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


DraftSight for AEC Industry

A Replaceable/Alternative for AEC Industry?

INTRODUCTION

AEC industry is well known as, architect, engineer and construction industry. One of the biggest industries in Malaysia
’
s development – use the standard 2D CAD drafting tools to speed up the drawing of the construction project; use cloud markup, to ease the contractor or civil engineer to check the latest revision, to ensure the project is on-going with no issues. Being fancy in 3D is not the kind of thing for the AEC industry, the drafting tools will remain as the standard drafting practice when needed to produce the construction drawing.

What are the main reasons DraftSight remain as an unknown tool in the local industry? The local culture or practices in Malaysia and lack of awareness of DraftSight in the AEC industry. 20 or 15 years ago, using AutoCAD has been one of the government
’
s initiatives to push evolution of digital transformation. In order to receive projects from government, using AutoCAD has been one of the criteria for the local firms, contractors and vendors. When there were changes in the government structure with the restriction of CAD software lifted, they have already became too attached and rely on AutoCAD too much due to years of local practice. This caused AutoCAD remains as the main option for them that is a must-have in order to bid for government projects, making it a difficult decision for the local to accept and try DraftSight software.

DraftSight VS Another CAD

DraftSight should not be considered as alien software in the AEC industry. The software has been on market for more than 10 years. The black color background, the command bar below the window options, that software UI developed based on window UI layout. The similar UI from DraftSight provides users to have a familiar feeling on the interface with other CAD software, allowing them to have minimum guidance and tutorials needed to pick up on DraftSight software. This makes DraftSight not much different compared to AutoCAD, ZW Cad, and other CAD software that are being used in Malaysia.
Similar functions and commands in DraftSight with different names make it easier for them to convert to DraftSight from existing CAD software such as standard layer properties to define the entity into different group by colors, and the ability to temporary show and hide entities in different layers.

Cost Effective and Wise Investment

If you love your products, why are you still looking for alternatives? If you
’
re able to cover the cost of maintenance for the products, why are you still here? How do you feel, when you
’
ve been forced to pay for a product, not to mention, payment of a full brand-new price products, again and again every year, just because you need it to do some project?

Currently, most of the drafting software, come with SAAS model. It is compulsory to renew subscription for you to continue to use the software, regardless if your company is looking for a temporary or permanent solution for the tools.

DraftSight comes with perpetual and subscription type licenses, providing the options for users to invest into the correct product for long-term or short-term planning for the company.

Features & Smart Power Tools

Instead of coming out with new, fancy functions and features in the software, the DraftSight engineers are more focused on the reliability and functionality of the software, providing more related features to solve the users
’
 issue such as importing entities from PDF format; tracing images and convert those edges to drawing entities, it can even trace topographical pictures, to study the contour of the mountains. R&D started to accept suggestions from the community, started to include new enhancements that are in high-demand from customers and prospects such as support dynamic blocks and
LISP
 automation files.

Review from Converted Users

You will getting similar reviews from different converted users. One thing for sure is they do not feel any regret for converting to DraftSight. If you watch their videos, most of them have mutual point
–
 that, DraftSight is easy to use, cost effective for long term investment if you purchase perpetual license with useful power tools that help users to improve their design workflow, based on years of using conventional drafting CAD software, transitioning to DraftSight is quick and easy. There are also new enhancements developed by DraftSight R&D department every year.

Traditional Culture VS Smart Transformation

Instead of relying on your current CAD software, the drafter or the management team in AEC corporate should give a try on DraftSight. Instead of doubting the capabilities of DraftSight based on the prices of the products, they should be more open-minded to fully utilize the 30-days trial to evaluate the software and push the limit of the software. Stop giving excuse, lying to yourself, saying AutoCAD DWG is not supported in DraftSight, tolerance error appears in DWG file after import in PDF.

By collaborating your DraftSight with 3DEXPERIENCE tools, it allows you to directly manage, update, and review your files on cloud without compromising the storage on your phone; reduce communication breakdown within your corporate; lets you to take charge of project schedules via your mobile phone with internet access. Dedicated discussion only between you and your team, or task discussion between you and contractors – all can be done using the mobile web at any place, any time.

If you’re interested in knowing more about DraftSight, watch our on-demand webinar – curated specifically for AEC industries. You can also drop me an email –
chchai@cadcam.com.my
, if you want to test it out or know more the capabilities of DraftSight.

– Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


DraftSight Has Upgraded

DraftSight Has Upgraded

DraftSight Steps Up the CAD Industry’s Game Again.

DraftSight is still standing strong after so many years in the CAD industry despite the numerous low-cost CAD software coming out these days. Due to the functionalities and capabilities of DraftSight and the commitment from Dassault Systemes’ team, most prospects and users still come back Dassault Systemes’ solutions.

On-going Enhancement from R&D

Recently, Dassault Systemes released a series of videos displaying what’s new in their software and enhancement of the software, highlighting more on their solutions in industrial application. More case studies have been shared by them to prove that their solutions are as good as other solutions in market.

DraftSight does not only able to read all types of DWG files, it also comes with unique drawing management system

One of the notable examples from the case studies is the landscape design using different tools and functions in DraftSight to convert the entities form the picture. By using the overlay mode, it allows users to pinpoint the location of the trees using the hand-sketched images.

Hand-sketches the drawing line within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Using insert picture and change the transparency of the picture to overlay with the other picture

Bringing the New Toy to the Playground

DraftSight Mechanical was introduced early this year. Finally, Dassault Systemes decides to release it this coming December 2022 or early January 2023.

DraftSight Expertise explains the difference between DraftSight Mechanical and other DraftSight

So, what is the catch of this version? What is so special about it?

DraftSight Mechanical is a special version of DraftSight specialising in mechanical design. The version itself consists of all the DraftSight features and more mechanical tools and datasheets that can be used to speed up mechanical design in 2D and 3D design.

The comparison matrix between the DraftSight and DraftSight Mechanical

Back in the time, when a drafter needed to design the block template and reinsert the block without the mechanical properties, tons of data must be manually keyed in tablet or spreadsheet in the drawing. Due to manual key-in system, minor typo errors or human errors are unavoidable.

The unique mechanical blocks specialised for mechanical design

With the pre-build in mechanical dataset, it consists of the standard toolbox in 3D design view or in 2D block.

How do these datasets help users to speed up their design process in DraftSight?

User can use this feature any time to add on the mechanical part into their existing drawings. The magnetic pin in the mechanical block is easily attached to the existing entities and block. The users can click on the block, check the properties detail, modify or change the properties of the blocks, the data or properties form the blocks can easily generate dedicated mechanical Bill of Material table. These tables can be used to identify the number of items in the drawings, similar to the BOM we have seen from the SOLIDWORKS features.

The mechanical pin-point system in the mechanical block, easily pin the block with existing drawing block

The mechanical block comes with different preset properties with standard design and properties information

With the existing mechanical block included in the drawing, BOM table can be easily generated with standard mechanical information

Commitment and Reliability

As mentioned last time, the Dassault Systemes’ R&D team put a lot of the effort in the software enhancement. Last year, DraftSight only supports the import dynamic blocks. In the new release, DraftSight is able to convert the dynamic blocks to Custom Block, allowing users to modify and edit the custom block based on their reference.

Users can now create or modify existing dynamic block to their own custom block, exclusively in DraftSight

Able to generate block location table based on specific block group

For improvement on the UI, the hatch line command now has their own command bar. It is easier to add hatch line and edit the hatch properties in the drawing block. The overall software stability has been greatly improved, the crash issue from HomeByMe section and dark mode UI mode has been resolved. But the import feature – it is exclusive for subscription users only.

The reported HomeByMe issue has been resolved, you may start to create drawing directly from your HomeByMe project (T&C apply)

Final Verdict

The DraftSight Mechanical version seems promising with the added tools or features.

So far, this is the latest information that we can obtain from their video. We expect to get our hands on those new enhancements once the 2023 version is released next month.

Have you tried your DraftSight with 3DEXPERIENCE cloud system?

If you have any question or enquiries on DraftSight, please do not hesitate to drop an email to us at
talk2us@cadcam.com.my
!

While waiting for the new release of DraftSight, learn more about current DraftSight offerings
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DRAFTSIGHT Hidden Gem: Topo Tracer

DRAFTSIGHT always being known as the best alternative drafting solution. Instead of comparing the price, getting more drafter started to pay attention to all the features, that the DRAFTSIGHT can offer to the drafter. In 2021, DRAFTSIGHT bring us in a lot of interesting features, such as sheet set manager, build in pdf import, image tracer. So today, we going to focus on, one of the hidden gems in DRAFTSIGHT, which is the TOPO tracer.

Topo tracer has been introduced in year 2020, same year when DRAFTSIGHT introduce image tracer to the world. This hidden feature, is more suitable for topo engineers, who study the behavior and shape of the landscape before developer start to develop the land.

What is the different between image tracer and topo tracer?

The operation steps are quite similar between these two features. You will need to import picture, before you start the tracing process. However, Image tracer mainly used to convert the line from the pictures to become drafting entities. Meanwhile, topo tracer, create the lines, to generate 3D landscape view for the topographic picture.

Let us go through the steps, to let you have a better idea, how to operate the topo tracer feature in DRAFTSIGHT.

Let us start, by importing the topographic picture into the DRAFTSIGHT. Make sure you use the correction scaling, base on your reference, and the rotation of the picture before you start the tracing process. Topo tracer function can be easily found under the Powertool section.

Import your topographic picture with the correct scale and rotation.

Topo Tracer can be found under the section of powertool in DRAFTSIGHT.

Once the picture is ready, highlight the image area that needed for the tracing process. Once you done the highlight area, the DRAFTSIGHT will pop-up asking if you wanted to go for auto-tracing or manual tracing.

Topo Tracer will give you the option to autotrace or manually trace.

If you go for auto tracing, it might take a while to process the tracing operation. Tracing process duration base on the hardware performance, and the complexity of the line. If the topo graph line consists of complicated curve line, the software will take longer time to trace the line.

If we go for the manual process, there will be a few buttons we need to know, before we start tracing the topographic curve line. We will have the start tracing option, split, join end to end, and update button.

Start tracing option, allow us to click on the curve to trace partial of the curve line, consider as first step to start your tracing process. When you complete first step, you can use the split option, to continue or modify existing trace lines. Usually, you can use this step to manual trace and complete the tracing region. Join end to end option, allow user to complete the traced region, by joining two broken lines. Update button allow us to update the tracing setting, before you start the second tracing process.

The 4 main option for you to do manual tracing in DRAFTSIGHT.

Next part, we will cover the option we need to aware, before we start to do the tracing process.

There are 4 setting or additional option allow us to set the height of the landscape. The first, will be the ground level, the base layer for the topographic map. Base on your reference or your project required. You may set the ground level on different height instead of zero. Then we can define the height for the second line, at the line elevation section.

Make sure each time you change this definition setting, you need to click on the update button. Line thickness, always refer to the tracing line in DRAFTSIGHT, mostly for visualize purpose. The last option, tessellation, is the section to control the width of the square used to trace the line segment.

The setting to define the height for different topo line.

After you generate 3D view in topo trace, it allows you to preview the landscape with different height.

That’s all you need to know, to kick start topo tracing in DRAFTSIGHT.

If you have any enquiries to ask, regarding to DRAFTSIGHT, please do not hesitate to contact us.

–
Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


DraftSight is not free anymore but worth every penny!

Draftsight is a fully functional 2D authoring application which let you create, edit, view and markup any kind of 2D drawing. It is a way to communicate designs and solution among architects, engineers and construction service providers, as well as professional CAD users, designers, as well as educators.

It was once had free versions for everyone to download. Starting 2019, the free versions have expired and there were a few alterations as how the availability of the services being offered. There are licensing options and new packaging too.

With over 8 million downloads worldwide, with more than 2 million active users, the value of DraftSight as a professional product is well proven.

The user-friendly interface in DraftSight you may find with no proper trainings needed if you’re moving from other top 2D CAD software tools. With the application of DraftSight, DraftSight Professional or DraftSight Enterprise, you are able to start designing and documenting without ado.

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Increase user efficiency and productivity

DraftSight’s has skilful and trained technical support team that may assist users get up to speed swiftly and have their questions answered speedily.

Power up your current processes

Those businesses that have customized, integrated or automated, their present DWG-based CAD structure over LISP or other macros will find important value in the APIs offered by the DraftSight Premium Pack. DraftSight does has programming interfaces including C++, COM, and LISP with Javascript which shall be available in 2012.

Keep your CAD up-to-date

Upgrades to the most up-to-date versions shall be automatic in DraftSight, by which it is including major releases and service packs. Access to DraftSight API updates also has no exceptions to that,

Get more control thru your CAD investment

By getting everyone worked in the same version, the challenges of dealing with multiple versions of 2D CAD across your group could be eliminated. With Drafsight, you may also avoid excessive costs related to data conversion and data-mismatch issues.

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Further to SEW blog on one million SolidWorks licenses sold, today I would like to share with everyone on the an article from SolidWorks Corporation on
“DS SolidWorks Surpasses One Million Licenses” .

It is article about OGIO International, Inc. bought license number one million for aluminum design engineer Sean Peterson, who is working on OGIO’s new line of motocross racing accessories. Lets go through below detail on how the founder Michael Pratt develop his in-house design department and further expend his business.

Below article by DS SolidWorks Corporation

CONCORD, Mass., USA, April 30, 2009 – Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) today announced that a cutting-edge athletic equipment company has bought the one millionth license of its 3D CAD software. In the 14 years between this landmark and DS SolidWorks’ first sale to a robotic arm designer, thousands of innovative products have been developed with SolidWorks® software.

Utah-based OGIO International, Inc. bought license number one million for aluminum design engineer Sean Peterson, who is working on OGIO’s new line of motocross racing accessories. Peterson will use SolidWorks software to design products such as ramps, stands, and hardware for motocross bikes. OGIO is famous for designing creative and edgy athletic bags with innovative features like the zipper-less ball pocket on its golf bags. The company’s designers use SolidWorks software to model injection-molded plastic pieces such as carrying handles, wheels, and golf bag frames.

OGIO has been a SolidWorks customer for four years. From its founding by Michael Pratt in 1987 until about five years ago, OGIO’s design staff relied on manufacturing partners to help them create the 3D models needed to produce injection molds for parts. The company brought CAD in-house so its designers didn’t have to rely on a third party’s interpretation of a sketch to produce a 3D model. SolidWorks enables OGIO’s designers to freely experiment with new ideas without the constraints of working with an outside vendor.

“SolidWorks allows our designers to innovate freely and quickly,” Pratt said. “We want them using their imaginations, trying out all kinds of solutions and innovative ideas that can turn into winning products. SolidWorks is the right software for that. It’s powerful but easy to use, so our designers can concentrate on being creative instead of constantly figuring out the software. In today’s super-fast-paced competitive environment, we need to give our designers tools like these to realize our ideas better and faster, because it’s all about who has the best product right now.”

Creativity like OGIO’s is indeed the hallmark of the products designers and engineers have conceived with SolidWorks software – everything from medical instruments, to children’s toys, to windmills, to solar cells, to components of NASA’s Mars rover. Jon Hirschtick founded the company in 1993 to provide Windows-based 3D CAD software that offered sophisticated features and functionality in a reasonably priced, easy-to-use format. Dr. William Townsend’s then-new company, Barrett Technology Inc., was SolidWorks’ first customer. Fourteen years later, Barrett’s WAM™ robotic arm is now in every major university and has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World  Records as the most advanced robot, while SolidWorks has become the world’s most widely used 3D CAD software.

“We are excited to reach the million mark and very grateful for each customer that has trusted SolidWorks software to help drive his or her organization’s success,” said SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray. “Because of this responsibility, we’re constantly working to make SolidWorks products worthy of customers’ loyalty by supporting their creative visions. As companies such as OGIO push the boundaries of products, we are using their input to push boundaries of 3D computer-aided design. This milestone is really only the beginning. The future holds some very exciting possibilities.”


eDrawings is now available for Android users, Droids are pleased.

eDrawing is now available for the Android platform. People with iOS devices had already been using the app for awhile now and allot of request has been given to bring it Droid side.
With eDrawing users can view native eDrawing and Solidworks file on their mobile devices. You can scroll and twirl around a 3D model and present it to clients and peers. It’s highly effective for reviewing CAD models on the go.
The features for android are listed below:

Features:
* Intuitive and easy-to-use user interface
* Open 3D (EASM, EPRT, SLDASM, SLDPRT), 2D (EDRW, SLDDRW) and associated files from any source: email attachments, cloud storage services (Dropbox™, SkyDrive®, Google Drive, Hightail®, and others), web and FTP sites and network folders.
* Zoom, pan and rotate your 2D or 3D CAD data using multi-touch
* Animate 3D standard views
* Browse your 2D drawing sheets
* View your designs in full screen and double tap to fit it on screen

 There are a few features that are not included in the Android version from the iOS  version.But it will probably be incorporated in Android in the near future. The one feature i am really looking forward to is the Augmented Reality(AR) viewer which will surely Impress anyone in the room, Check out the video example below.


Electrical Design – Manufacturer part library

Are you ready for another electrified week?

An electrical symbol is used to represent an electrical component. It was in a simple and easy to understand format. But an electrical component can be manufactured by many companies and each of them has their own characteristics.

An engineer has to decide which component he wants to use, what will be the power rating, what will be the voltage rating and so on. Once they have their requirements on the components, they will search for the catalog to check the availability of the component and get the part number.

There are more than 40 manufacturers on the market, and each manufacturer produces more than 1000 types of components. To search for a component which can fulfill the requirement of the engineer may not be easy. Have you ever had to search through stacks of different manufacturers catalog before finally finding what you want?

The manufacturer part library in SolidWorks Electrical will be able to save the hassle! It consists of 45 manufacturers’ catalog:

ABB

Eland

Hammond Manufacturing

Lenze

Rittal

Anixter

Eldon

HARTING

Mitsubishi Electric

Rockwett Automation

AutomationDirect

Emerson

Himel

Murr Elektrinik

Schneider Electric

Beckhoff

Eupen

Hitachi

Nexans

Siemens

Belden

FESTO

Hubbell

Omron

Socomec

Danfoss

Finder

Hurecx

Pepperl+Fuchs

TCI – Trans-coil

Delixi

Fuji Electric

IGUS

Phoenix Contact

Unitronics

Delta Electronics

GE

Lapp

Pilz

Wago

Eaton

Hager

Legrand

Prysmian

Weidmuller

You can also search their components by inserting the reference number, description, number of circuits, voltage, frequency or other information to search for the available components from every manufacturer. Once the manufacturer part is being selected, the attributes of the manufacturer part will be shown on the symbols automatically.

That would make me a very happy Electrical Engineer – what about you?

Jackson Lim
Application Engineer
IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Electrical Symbol Attribute

Are you still typing your electrical component’s information on to the symbols manually? Manually typing the component’s information is very time consuming and may cause mistake. Copy paste to reuse a symbol will speed up the process but you still need to edit the symbol mark. In a large multipage electrical schematic diagram, how can you ensure that your symbol marks did not overlap? Do you check it page by page to make sure every symbol have its own mark?

I always make sure I don’t spend my time on non-value added activities, and I make sure I utilise technology/ system for those repetitive tasks.

SolidWorks Electrical has the abilities to solve these problems. In SolidWorks Electrical, symbols are associated to the manufacturer parts which defined by the user. With this association, the information of the components will be shown on the symbol automatically. It saves your time to search for the components information and type in manually.

Copying the symbol is simple in SolidWorks Electrical. Once you paste the symbol, the symbol mark will automatically increase to an unused number. It reduces your time on editing the text to change the number and thinking on what will be the last number had being used.

Hope this would help you do your Electrical Design more efficiently!

Jackson Lim

Application Engineer


Electrical Symbol Library

My fellow Electrical engineers, what is your current practice on doing your electrical schematic drawing? Are you still using the traditional way: drawing line by line?

Working in the CAD field, I’m impressed how easy it’s making our lives – we only need to draw the symbols once, and then save them into our own library so that we can reuse them.

Few questions that I get asked a lot:  Where should the library being located?  How to manage and organize the symbols? How easy can you search for the symbols that you want to use?

I normally categorize them into folders, and use a standard naming convention – this significantly reduces the time taken to search for the symbol.

SolidWorks Electrical helps me complete my job much more effectively. There is a symbol library that has been pre-installed with the software, and by clicking on the “
Insert Symbol
”
, I can easily browse through the symbols library to choose the right one.

I normally categorise the symbols based on their classifications. If that’s not fast enough for you, you can also use the filter that allows you to search for the symbols by their description.

I’m so glad I could use this for my Schematic design – it made me much more productive and efficient!

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Engine Mechanism-built and presented in SolidWorks!

Hey, come on and have a look on this video! This is the student design project of a 1st year student from Oxford Brookes University. He has build this engine model in SolidWorks and render in PhotoWorks before produce the animation video.

Look at the way he created the exploded view, nice and organized. Besides that, he did shows the movement of the engine clearly. Nice modeling of each component!


Engineering Solutions

Engineering Solutions

 Evolved Anthropology

Ideology of Anthropology

Have you ever wondered why the tables and chairs are designed where the height of it is not too high or too low in order to provide the necessary function and the comfortability that we needed daily?

All these works and designs are thanks to the experts or researchers on the Anthropology study. Anthropology study is one of the odd topics or subjects around the world, yet they are the group who made countless of experiments and studies to ensure that the items are suitable to be used by human, provide comfortability to improve the users’ work performance.

  “

 Once they feel tired, want to have a short rest, this is

when the stool become useful.

                                ”

It sounds very ridiculous but let me ask you a question. When you go to the boba milk shop, do you prefer if the shop comes with sofa cushions for you to sit and enjoy the drinks, or do you prefer if the shop comes with very high stool for you to sit, like sitting in the club house? I believe most of the people would choose the first option. Because most of us prefer to enjoy the drink in a comfortable chair, so we can sit longer to socialise with our friends. The other hand, the high stool is more suitable for club houses. The main reason behind this is that the stools are meant to provide a short support when thepeople are dancing in the club houses. Once they feel tired, want to have a short rest, this is when the stool become useful. Each item and furniture is tailored for different situations and applications.

Many studies had been conducted in anthropology research, such as human comfortable height; the comfortable working surroundings and the satisfaction of sitting and resting. The focus of this study is to ensure human feels comfortable when using it. Today, we are going to look into the comfortable temperature for a human, and how engineering solutions can help to improve the human comfort level in a room, not only speed up the testing period and provide a more accurate statistics to provide a better suggestion for improvement.

Human Thermal Comfort

Today, we are going to talk more about human comfortable level within a room. There is an engineering term for this study, known as HVAC flow simulation study. Usually, developers choose to ignore this part because it is time consuming, not cost effective, and they prefer the owner or the unit owner to install their own air ventilation system to manage the temperature within the room by themselves.

This leads to another question, when does HVAC study helps in providing comfort environment for the workers? HVAC study is mostly needed when corporate wanted to setup a manufacturing factory – to study the recommended ventilation system in the factory; to ensure the factory is suitable for workers to work and able to ventilate the gases produced from the production process.

However, HVAC study also required for the developer who is in charge of the smart building. Where the developer wants to study how to install the airduct in the building, so the whole building will have the same temperature and able to control the temperature within the building using smart sensor and IoT system to manage the ventilation flow system.

Factors Manipulate Thermal Comfort

When it comes to HVAC study, this is the term that we need to know – which is the PMV, (Predicted Mean Vote). PMV is a measurement to access or evaluate the heat comfort within the occupied space, it can be affected by several factors in the study process. In extreme situations, if the body failed to maintain the body temperature, subject too hot or too cold, we will start to suffer brain damage, unconsciousness, sometime may lead to cardiac arrest. As mentioned, if we are in the extreme situation or environment. Sometimes, if you’ve been in a very cold room for long periods of time, you may suffer migraine headaches for short periods, it is advised to warm up the environment before it worsens the migraine issue.

These are the several factors that will affect thermal comfort of a human:

Air Temperature – the room temperature in the room that will directly affect our body temperature

Radiant Temperature – heat energy release in the room, or heat energy release by all the object within the room.

Air velocity – the speed of the air moving, usually the main factor, that transfer the heat out of the room or occupied spaces.

Relative humidity – humidity caused human to sweat and lose a lot of water vaporised under dry humidity. Higher the humidity, the wetter if feels outside.

Clothing insulation – thick clothing causes the skin to sweat a lot as well. Materials of the clothing also will affect the thermal comfort among human subject within the space.

SOLIDWORKS HVAC SIMULATION

Since HVAC falls under the engineering section, the person who conducts study on a building HVAC system must be an engineer and is aware of the concept and knowledge on heat transfer and fluid mechanics. This is where our main course starts to be served on the table.

Fatigue simulation, static simulation and flow simulation have been a common solution used widely in Malaysia. However, when come to HVAC simulation solutions, lack of HVAC project around the domestic market caused the solution to be less used by SOLIDWORKS users.

In order to conduct a HVAC simulation study in SOLIDWORKS, these are the license you are required to have. SOLIDWORKS license as the core license, UI to open any file or modelling in your project. Secondly, Flow Simulation license, as we know that, HVAC involved of movement of air particles affect the heat transfer in the study. Last but not the least, the HVAC license, which consist of complex heat transfer formula in the simulation section. Without any of this licenses, user is unable to conduct any thermal comfort study in the software.

In the simulation study, the software allows you to apply the environment temperature, to include the heat produced by the natural sunlight, and you even can select the faces that exposed to the sunlight.

Materials assigned on the wall to ensure the wall able to absorb to reduce the heat transfer from the sun based on their materials properties. Each material comes with different heat transfer properties, which will greatly affect the whole study process if you choose the wrong materials.

With the air inlet speed, we can define the airflow within the room and how the air ventilates within the room. When there’s an inlet, there will always be an outlet within the room. These are the core criteria condition for HVAC simulation. Unless you perform basic heat transfer study within electronic parts, then it is different story compared to this.

Stimulate the heat energy produced from the object within the room

To present the movement of air particles or ventilation system in the room

After the simulation criteria or condition is setup and ready, the software will take a little bit of time to run the calculation for the result. Once result is ready, the relevant result will come with different color plot to identify the hot area, the air flow, and PMV value in the room.

Stimulate heat radiation, and the heat energy emitted toward buildings

Determine the thermal comfort contour in the occupied room.

Determine the temperature of the subject based on the subject’s position

The effectiveness and the direction of air particles moving

Impact of sun radiation affect the premises temperature

So, let’s wrap up. SOLIDWORKS has been on market so many years, more than 20 years, and yet a lot of amazing features are still being ignored and underutilised. Most of users still use it for normal modelling, but when it comes to advance features such as simulation, users tend to use other CAD software, and caused a lot of hidden cost occurs in the company. The best to explore SOLIDWORKS right now is to consult your local reseller, regardless of if you are looking for basic modelling or just surveying other features in SOLIDWORKS.

With IME, we have all the expertise to support you and respond to your enquiries.

If you are looking for more amazing features in SOLIDWORKS, and yet you are not sure if you need it or not, do drop me an email anytime you want at
chchai@cadcam.com.my
. I will try my best to support you in the near future. Otherwise, feel free to learn more about
 SOLIDWORKS Simulation

here
.


Engineers need a break from documentation & data!

Nowadays, most of the engineers are multitaskers, they deal with thousand of drawings, documents, forms, reports and data everyday.

What do they produce?

Intellectual Property and valuable data of a company that used by several departments for revenue generation

Engineering Proposal Package for RFQ process

Product Image and Marketing Content

Process planning and Production Drawings

Bill of Material with preferred option

How do they handle these important data?

Shared Folder

Server

External Hard Disc

Pendrive

Dropbox

A Server is only Network System, it is not an Engineering Data Management System!

These methods are threats of a company that may lead to:

Lost of productivity

Risk of wrong data & document

Increase cost of scrap, compliance issue & quality

Prolong project and unable to meet the target date

Slow down time to market

SolidWorks Enterprise Product Data Management (EPDM)
system is intended to help Engineering & Manufacturing company to archive higher productivity, reduce cost of error and mitigate risk of a company.

It
is a full-featured data management solution for organizations large and small. It helps your team more easily find and re-purpose files, parts, and drawings; share design information; automate workflows and ensure manufacturing always has the right version.

What can EPDM do?

Security Assess Control

Revision Control

Electronic Workflow process

History and Audit Trail

Multi Location Assess Point

Rapid Searching Capability

CAD data Management

Bill of Material Management

more.

To request for a Free Demo or Product Trial, contact marketing@cadcam.com.my.

Ken Foong

Senior Data Management Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Expert (CSWE)| Certified Enterprise PDM Professional (CSWP-D)