1 more day to go

Tomorrow is the big day. Really sorry for my lack of posting. Jam pack with preparation. More posting after this. 🙂


3 dudes gone 3D

Everybody share, everybody win! This is the new day!

Let me put it right, SolidWorks moving into movie industry? Hmm.. interesting..

Recently SolidWorks Corp. post a new ‘movie’ into their website~

3Dudes gone 3D
.

It’s kinda funny but hey, this is what I like about SolidWorks, using Real innovative way to promote their products & educate us.

Back to the movie, there is a part where they were discussing about SolidWorks enterprise PDM , two words appeared from the VP, words that so..so perfectly describe SolidWorks enterprise PDM~

Collaboration efficiency!

& I’m totally agree with it!

I not going to share much about the video content, it will better if you can watch & enjoy it by yourself.

Did I heard macrobating?

Click me
 to watch all the available episodes.

~Sew~


3 Dudes Gone 3D

Remember Sew Share with us on the 3Dudes Gone 3D.

Everybody Share; Everybody Win

In this episode of 3 Dudes Gone 3D, Kish suggests a new way to reduce tension in the office.

See full episodes at www.3dudesgone3d.com was really interested and fun, it show a new series featuring three engineers who suddenly find themselves working together in an overflow trailer.

3 Dudes Gone 3D Preview: Sharing

3 Dudes Gone 3D Preview: User Forum

3 Dudes Gone 3D Preview: Tai Chi

3 Dudes Gone 3D Preview: Dancing


3D Printing in SOLIDWORKS

Did you know? You can use your 3D printer to print a model directly from SOLIDWORKS without having to use a separate tessellated geometry software to convert it to 3MF or XML file formats?

That’s right! In SOLIDWORKS, you have access to many printing functionalities, such as
generating slices.
 With the enhanced
3D Print
 command, you will be able to analyze your model and determine faces that require
support
, as well as
striation
 lines based on your own user-defined
layer height
.

The graphics area in SOLIDWORKS also shows you the printer’s
envelope
 and
print bed location
, where you can define the bottom plane and orientation of the model. Hence, you can easily visualize how your model will be positioned and printed. SOLIDWORKS can also suggest the best fit for your specific printer using the
Orient to Fit
 command.

But how does SOLIDWORKS know your printer size? Well, it’s 2021. Using one specific software for one specific 3D printer model is so out of date. In SOLIDWORKS, there is a
3D printer library
, where you can browse through and choose from
more than 500 3D printer models
 from various brands.

Not only that, you can select any 3D printer model from the list in the SOLIDWORKS 3D printer library, and make it as a
Favorite
. This way, it will be even faster and more convenient for you every time you’re printing your model.

In SOLIDWORKS 2021, there are even more supports available for the 3D Printing option. You can now
include materials and also appearances
 when exporting your 3D model to a 3MF file format.
Colour, textures and transparency
 are very important aspects of a design. These information can be stored directly from SOLIDWORKS into your 3MF file to be used of manufacturing or other application.

Save your time and money. Get rid of those additional tessellated geometry softwares and just use SOLIDWORKS instead. Watch the video below to see the step-by-step guide on how to do 3D Printing directly from SOLIDWORKS.

– Eka Darwin, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


3DEXPERIENCE: Unlocking the Potential for Business Success (Benefits and Purposes You Should Know)

The
3DEXPERIENCE
 Platform is a cloud-based collaborative environment that offers a suite of software solutions to help businesses innovate and stay ahead of the competition. It provides several benefits, including
shorter time to market, more integrated collaboration, greater visibility into projects and processes, faster experimentation, earlier identification of issues and risk mitigation, and inspiring and preparing the next generation of professionals
. In this article, we will explore on what are the
benefits
 and
purposes
 of
3DExperience
 Platform which drives success.

Shorter Time to Market

One of the key advantages of the
3DEXPERIENCE
 Platform is its ability to expedite product development lifecycle, reducing the time it takes to bring products, services, and experiences to market.
The platform’s unified interface allows businesses to iterate and refine their ideas at a rapid pace, accelerating innovation and enhancing overall productivity
.

More Integrated Collaboration

The platform also promotes collaboration by connecting all stakeholders in a safe and real-time environment. It eliminates barriers to inclusive collaboration and allows remote workers or teams traditionally excluded from the innovation process to contribute directly. Hence, it fosters cooperation, knowledge sharing, and increases project transparency.

Greater Visibility into Projects and Processes

The
3DEXPERIENCE
 Platform provides enhanced visibility into projects and processes by centralizing project management and integrating design, engineering, manufacturing, and project management. This visibility enables better coordination, reduces miscommunication risk, facilitates swift decision-making, and minimizes the likelihood of costly delays and rework.

“Its collaborative atmosphere encourages knowledge sharing and exchange of ideas, while its extensive libraries serve as valuable resources for young designers, engineers, and professionals in the industry”

Faster Experimentation

The platform supports faster experimentation through virtual twin experiences, allowing users to learn and experiment in a continuous cycle. It offers comprehensive simulation and analysis tools that encourage stakeholders to continuously improve their products, services, and processes. This technology can minimize the need for physical prototypes, reducing costs and speeding up time-to-market.

Earlier Identification of Issues and Risk Mitigation

Identifying issues and mitigating risks is essential for successful project delivery. The
3DEXPERIENCE
 Platform
stores comprehensive data analytics capabilities that enable businesses to proactively assess project risks and mitigate them before they become costly problems
. Leveraging past projects’ collective knowledge enhances overall project efficiency and delivers high-quality products and services.

3DExperience: Inspiring and Preparing the Next Generation of Professionals

The
3DEXPERIENCE
 Platform plays a crucial role in inspiring and preparing and shaping the next generation. Its collaborative atmosphere encourages knowledge sharing and exchange of ideas, while its extensive libraries serve as valuable resources for young designers, engineers, and professionals in the industry. The cloud based platform is
built with necessary tools for educators and students to maintain learning continuity, teamwork, and knowledge acquisition
.

In summary, embracing the power of the
3DEXPERIENCE
 Platform can transform businesses by shorter time to market, enhancing collaboration, greater visibility, faster experimentation and inspiring future generations. It is the future of collaborative innovation that businesses should embrace to reach new heights.

Interested to unlock your business potential with
3DExperience
? Find out more about 3dexperience here:
Unlock3DExperience


3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Business Innovator

Power by 3DEXPERIENCE. Unite employees, suppliers, customers, consumers and regulators into the framework for sustainable innovation.

The Business Innovation role delivers the underpinning apps and services that unites all users in the innovation value chain – to establish social communities with consumers and customers to share, experiment and innovate effectively. Businesses can power their innovation processes with transformative technologies, irrespective of the legacy tools and systems. It is the foundation
role that digitally connect all users in an organization – to break silo walls and foster innovation and collaboration.

With Business Innovator, you will be able to access all apps shown. Among all the apps, the most highlighted apps for this role are:

3DDashboard

3DDrive

3DSwym

3DPlay

3DDashboard

Create tailored dashboards to keep the most relevant information in one location and easily and securely share essential product data or key performance indicators with other stakeholders.

3DDrive

Upload files to the platform and share them securely with other members. Using 3DDrive connector for SOLIDWORKS, you can open file directly from SOLIDWORKS task pane.

3DSwym

Easily create social media style public or private communities to share and collaborate on ideas, topics of interest and projects. Engage with your colleagues in real-time using conversations, audio and video calls.

3DPlay

3DPlay is online viewer gives the ability to preview file anywhere and on any devices with no plugin or software to install. Take measurement, zoom, rotate, explode model, add markup and comment directly to the model.

With 3DEXPERIENCE Business Innovator, you can seamlessly collaborate and innovate with all teams in an organization on single platform.

No more

disconnected point
 where having to send files back and forth multiple times as part of the communication process.

Everyone have

access to CAD
 since more people could benefit from being able to preview 3D models outside of the CAD/Engineering team.

Increase productivity
 by minimizing traditional way of communication via emails or messages rather than task which might cost missing important deadline.

Securely sharing real-time
 information with everyone in your team at anytime, anywhere and on any devices.

3DEXPERIENCE Platform Is The Next Technology Shift Of Future. There are more hundreds of apps available under 3DEXPERIENCE which can suit in every business innovation needs.

To know more about Collaboration Business Innovation or other solution that we have in hand, please contact us at
marketing@cadcam.com.my
 or call us 03-7783 6866.


3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Industry Innovator

Power by 3DEXPERIENCE. Unite employees, suppliers, customers, consumers and regulators into the framework for sustainable innovation.

Collaborative Industry Innovator
 is the cornerstone role for organizing, managing and collaborating on content in a secure manner. It brings continuity to business processes and enhances the ability to make informed decisions by leveraging real-time data.

Collaborative Industry Innovator includes the ability to store, share and manage content including technical documentation; search and find relevant data and information for reuse; navigate through a product structure in a web-browser; easily view and compare 3D content; manage issues; and readily organize, fine-tune, share and access work using tasks and change actions.

Collaborative Business Innovator
 is a pre-requisite for Collaborative Industry Innovator.

With Industry Innovator, you will be able to access all the role apps shown below. A collection of integrated cloud-based product data and lifecycle management applications that are enabling secure and efficient team collaboration.

Access 3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Industry Innovation Seamlessly inside SOLIDWORKS task pane.

Enables product data and lifecycle management and real-time collaboration.

Collaboration is provided by Apps to organize, manage and share content and data.

5 key benefits with Collaborative Industry Innovator:

With 3DEXPERIENCE Industry Innovator, you can work with a globally dispersed team with concurrently design in real-time.

Unique Industry Focus –
Comply with standard and benefits from end-to-end processes rather than disjoint applications

Digital Continuity –
Be confident that the solution will grow with your needs

People-Centric Software –
Unleash the power of your extended value network

Unified Product Definition –
The single multi-discipline definition enables full digitalization across the enterprise

Mobile First –
Empower the workforce of the future with access to everything at any time on any device

3DEXPERIENCE Platform Is The Next Technology Shift Of Future. There are more hundreds of apps available under 3DEXPERIENCE which can suit in every business innovation needs.

To know more about Collaboration Industry Innovation or other solution that we have in hand, please contact us at
marketing@cadcam.com.my
 or call us 03-7783 6866.


3DEXPERIENCE Design Solutions: Designing Zodiac 2021 on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

In the ancient times, the Chinese zodiac is used to represent a cycle of 12 years. 2021 is a year of the Ox. To celebrate the Chinese New Year festival, zodiac animal mascot doll will be designed yearly to symbolise luck and happiness. A model of Ox mascot is created with the 3DEXPERIENCE Design Solutions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

To create the Chinese zodiac mascot, all you need to use is 3D Sculptor role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with an internet connection and a web browser.

Start the design of cow’s head with the primitive Globe shape under Subdivision tab with the push and pull method to re-shape to the desire head shape. A second Globe is added to build the cow’s ear. Just simply push, pull, drag, scale and crease the subdivision model to get the shape you wanted. Think of it like playing with clay or playdough. For the cow’s eyes and cow’s hoof is created by primitive QuadBall whereas the cow’s muzzle is started with primitive Cylinders. The rest of the bodies are used primitive Cones to start out. Most of the times are performing push, pull, rotate, crease adjust and scaling operations. Once the part is done, the surfaces will then knit it into a solid automatically and quickly.

In the video, the step by step are shown, some of the parts are created by using xDesign in the 3D Creator role while the complex organic shapes mostly utilize the xShape app in the 3DSculptor. By leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you can switch between xShape and xDesign within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Is just that easy! You can create any model without the expert CAD background.

The cow mascot is then added the accessories such as Chinese New Year cap and sycee, known as ‘Yuan Bao’ to ready in the Chinese New Year celebration. The steps of creating ‘Yuan Bao’ can be found in the link as below:

https://imetech.com.my/yuan-bao-autotrace-and-visualization/

The cow mascot in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform can be exported to the different file types such as SLDXML, 3DXML, 3MF, IGS, STEP and STL.

To create a photo realistic content for the cow mascot, the model is then rendered by using SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional.

Here’s a tutorial video from #HuatMoo:

Wishing you a prosperous, good health, good luck and good fortune throughout the year. Happy Chinese New Year 2021!

– Yoke Ling, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


3DEXPERIENCE: Mixture of Tools within a Cloud Platform

Recap Webinar on 30 April 2021, don’t worry, we got you covered for this webinar session. We will recap the main points on this webinar, hosted by Gian Calise and John Martonaro III. When come across to 3D experience, we always emphasize on collaborations between users and communication bridge between users from different departments. Through this webinar, we will deep dive on this cloud platform, and let us see the great example of 3D Experience workflow from Gian and John.

Gian and John as presenter in this webinar session.

XDesign application always come with 3D Creator roles, you must have Business Innovator and Industry Innovator to purchase this role, to get access to this application. Instead of start doing your design in xDesign part file features, you can directly open assembly file in xDesign to create,import and to mate your components in the assembly files. To speed up the design workflow, user can always use shortcut key to access to specific features in xDesign, similar like how you do it in SOLIDWORKS software.

The example on how they design the workflow on 3D Experience.

To ensure good transition from SOLIDWORKS to 3D Experience, the xDesign having the similar design steps and procedure allowing you easily to pick up 3D experience from SOLIDWORKS. When come to insert new components, user either drag and drop into the xDesign, they also can insert manual one by one within the xDesign.

Similar insert component feature in xDesign, compared to SOLIDWORKS assembly.

Advance provide gear joint mate to attach two gears within the assembly, which you seen similar mate feature found in SOLIDWORKS. The freedom of movement in the xDesign assembly, allowing the user to move and rotate the gears to observe the movement of the gears and to further modify the parts if the user found abnormal collision between the components.

Advance mate, to mate the two gears in the assembly.

Multiple planes shown in the assembly, to allow user more options to choose which reference plane is needed to perform the sketch process in xDesign, instead of using the origin plane in xDesign. Instead of using multiple icon for different feature, revolve, extrude and sweep is combined in a single extrude feature, to reduce the space needed for the feature, and easy for user to choose and identify which feature they needed to extrude their sketch profile.

All extrude feature group together, which consist of Extrude, Revolve and Sweep.

Visible of planes on all the components to allow users to create component in xDesign assembly.

Similar feature that can be found in xDesign will be design feature trees manager on the left, apply materials and colours on your component with few simple steps in xDesign. Flexibility of editing the sketch, allowing user to twerk the sketch, to do minor adjustment on existing feature in xDesign.

Apply materials in the components with standard scientific materials properties.

Feature design manager tree that shows the components and features which similar the one you seen on SOLIDWORKS.

The next part will be some show off on the xShape and xSheetmetal feature in 3D experience. Before Gian proceed on xShape feature, warning message pop up. That remind him that, he does not have the access to save any changes, because he does not have the permission to access the file. This one of the features from Enovia, which is under industry innovator roles. Admin or owner of the project get to control the users to access the file. It provides more security for the project from being stolen or corrupted when other user access to the files.

When user do not have the access to the file, unable to make any changes without owner or admin permission.

After gaining the access from John, Gian will proceed on the xShape design and xSheet metal. More focusing on surface design and sheet metal design.

Can direct use xShape to design with existing assembly model from xDesign

Combining xShape and xSheet metal feature in xDesign assembly to speed up the project design process.

When finishing the whole project, Gian can just directly drag and drop the file into the project task, to update his task competition stages, and the platform itself will send a notification to John, like a Facebook notification. Everyone can get to know that Gian has completed his part in the project planner widget.

Flexibility to change background picture, provide better presentation picture for your design project.

When complete the task in project planner, you can directly drag and drop the task in complete section and you also can drop your file on that task, to show your task progress.

On the next webinar, they will be focusing on cloud simulation on 3D Experience. If you don’t want to miss out these interesting sharing, do follow the SOLIDWORKS channel in YouTube. Explore yourself in the cloud solution.

– Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


3DEXPERIENCE WORLD 2020

Today is the last day of the
3DExperience World 2020
, an astounding 4-days event which gathers the avid designers and innovators around the world that is happening in Nashville since last Sunday – 9th February 2020.

For decades, the SOLIDWORKS community has inspired designers and engineers to create amazing products and the mission of this event is to provide the community with tools to build a better world.

In case you missed out the action in Nashville, here a little recap of what’s happening there!

Sunday 9th Feb 2020

“How do the products we create improve human life?”, the question posed by SOLIDWORKS CEO Gian Paolo Bassi while opening the 3DExperience World 2020. Bernard Charles, Dassault Systèmes CEO and Board Vice Chairman, also shared his vision for empowering SOLIDWORKS users to dream bigger about the future and this future is at the intersection of technology and humanity. The two mesh to open a new world of possibilities and progress that is uniquely human.

Image obtain from: https://bit.do/fttDM

You will also witness their exclusive
Magic Wheelchair reveal
 that was built by a group of makers who have made it their mission to build dream wheelchairs for physically challenged kids. Magic Wheelchair’s group is known for making theme chairs the likes of monster trucks and rocket ships. Find out more:
https://youtu.be/MVPXi2OuRzI

Monday 10th Feb 2020

Exclusive interviews with co-founder of Kickstarter Charles Adler and Mike Schultz, a Paralympic Gold and Silver Medalist, 10 time X Games Gold medalist, and Founder and Inventor of BioDapt. Mike Schultz lost his leg in a snowmobiling accident and 10 years later, he won a gold medal at the Paralympic Games using a prosthetic leg he designed in his garage using SOLIDWORKS. Today Mike’s company makes prosthetics for people from around the world.

Image obtain from: https://bit.do/fttDM

You’ll also get an in-depth look at the
3DEXPERIENCE Playground
, where you’ll see a real-world, design-through-manufacturing process. Find out more at:
https://bit.do/fttDv

Tuesday 11th Feb 2020

Expand your professional skill set by watching their technical sessions at:

https://bit.do/fttQf

https://bit.do/fttQk

https://bit.do/fttQn

https://bit.do/fttQq

https://bit.do/fttQs

Wednesday 12th Feb 2020

Learn about how the skills and strategies shared at
3D
EXPERIENCE World can power innovation, growth and prosperity for users, business leaders and entrepreneurs — now and into the future.

Catch the live session here:


3DPlay Enhancements

3DPlay Enhancements

You Must Know

Introduction

          As we know, 3DEXPERIENCE comes with different roles and application, different widgets with different functionalities. Dashboard’s main section for users to customise the web application based on their preferences.

           To show their dedication to support the platform, once a while, Dassault Systemes will roll out some new updates on the web-app to make sure this enhancement can improve the end users’ experiences.

           So today, we are going to explore the major enhancements that have been rolled out by Dassault Systemes’ engineers. We assure you that it will amaze you and get your mind blown.

3DEXPERIENCE platform consists of roles and apps based on the package you choose

What is 3DPlay?

Let us go back to the basic. So, what is 3DPlay and what does this widget or web-app do in the platform?

If you are one of the active users using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, then 3Dplay is the most basic web application you have been using since Day 1.

3DPlay is a file preview application in the dashboard that allows you instantly open the files from 3DDrive or 3DCommon Space.

As it is a cloud or web based application, not only you can use 3DEXPERIENCE in any web browser, you can also use it on mobile web application and directly access your dashboard on Android OS or IOS web browser with ease.

The same goes to 3DPlay application, you can preview all your files in the mobile as well – easy and convenience. You no longer required any powerful hardware to utilise this platform.

3DPlay is the most basic tools you need in 3DEXPERIENCE

Capabilities

Let us deep dive on the functionalities and capabilities of 3DPlay in 3DEXPERIENCE.

Earlier, we mentioned that 3DPlay is a file preview application in 3DEXPERIENCE. 3DPlay does not only allow the preview of standard 3D CAD files, it also supports other non-CAD type files such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Words and DWG file format. Since you can directly access this within your mobile web browser, you can instantly check on the 3D CAD files or DWG drawing files without using any workstation or laptop.

The tools in 3DPlay allow you to perform screen, measure and even leave a comment and upload into your corporate 3DSwym instantly. This allows you to easily communicate with your team and even quick update on your current project progress.

Unfortunately, 3DPlay only allows you to preview or review files and unable to do direct editing files. As long as you have Bi & Ii, the basic package in 3DEXPERIENCE, you can have these powerful tools in your hand.

Direct drag the files from 3DDrive or 3DCommon Space

Able to measure and leave comment on the files

Can directly upload the current images as screenshots into your corporate 3DSwym

No issue to read CAD files, including DWG drawings files and 3D CAD files

The new update – 3DPlay now able to preview non-CAD files, such as Words, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF

Final Verdict

As we can see, 3DEXPERIENCE offers us a number of productivity tools in the platform. But it is up to us to explore, to adapt and to innovate our workflow with the platform.

If you are interested in this platform’s capabilities, feel free to drop us an email at
marketing@cadcam.com.my
 . As usual, stay tuned to our page and
TikTok channel
 for more information on Dassault Systemes’ solutions, such as DraftSight, SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE.

Last but not the least, our
IME Innovation Day 2023
 physical event is back, please
register now
 to stand a chance to win an early bird gift!


3DS Experience: Initiative of turning 3D design industry into Cloud Base Platform

In Sibu, one of the universities, UCTS, has taken the first step to initiate the industry 4.0 design platform. UCTS decided to invest drawing tablet with powerful workstation, to create a lab, a place that allow the students to do their design with only the access of the internet.

3DS experience, is one of the platforms, that allow users to control the administration / security restriction of the user to use the features from the platform. Since its education version, the platform provides varieties or multiple feature which include mechanical system design, assembly design, CATIA part design, and etc.

CAD application is assigned base on the role given to the user.

When come to education, full CAD feature is included in 3D experience, including SOLIDWORKS connector.

From my point of view, I will consider it as a design platform secured with SW PDM system, and sync like google drive in your computer. With only the access of internet, it allows you to download the necessary product plug-in with ease, like those common extension we often used in google chrome. After the plug-in installed, you can directly use the feature in browser form, simple and easy. Each user come with different unique id and password, which providing you a more secure way to access into your vault/cloud database.

User with unique id and password able to access to 3D experience platform.

Cloud sharing Spaces, allow multi user to share file or CAD data.

When you access into your 3D experience account, empty area in your dashboard layout, allow you to customize the items detail and position within the dashboard. You can create a section to show the detail in your cloud drive. Similar features like google drive, allow you to control the privacy of the drives, and share your files with other users.

Customization of dashboard allow user to create their own layout, or preferred layout that suit their own work pattern/behaviour.

CATIA design plugin in 3D platform, once the design complete, will auto sync to the cloud drive.

Creating the 2D sketch profile, same design process, entities, dimensioning and relation features in 2D sketch.

During the design process in CATIA 3DS experience, the system setting, allow you to select which drive/folder you want to use to store your CAD data from the plug-in. Instead of creating new data for your project, you are allowed to import existing cad data (in supported format), directly upload to the 3DS driver. The powerful search tools in the system, easily find and group up the data with simple key words.

If you interested to try out this platform, contact us now! It’s time for you to do design in cloud base platform.


3DVia Mobile, in HD

Iphone, Ipad, Iphone, Ipad…. Everywhere, everyday. Ever happen that 1 day in your life that you never heard, saw or mention the word ” Iphone” or “Ipad”? No, right? Since this is the current trend, 3DVia did something with the ‘I’ too.

Very common nowaday we bring data to share with our mobile infrastructure. Ever share your design data with your mobile? Stil in 2D right? how cool will it be if you manage to share your design to your friends or clients in 3D? in HD?

together let’s welcome 3DVia Mobile HD (for Ipad). Below quoted from  the 3DVia mobile website
(for those who lazy to click and browse throught the website)

“With 3DVIA Mobile HD for the iPad, users can access, view and interact with thousands of high-quality models hosted on the 3DVIA.com content warehouse with the swipe of a finger.”

Now you can create a 3DVIA.com free account and upload your varies 3D format. With 3DVia mobile (HD), share your 3D anyway, anytime.

3DVia Mobile HD for Ipad apps is not free but  is available on the App Store for a limited time at $1.99 USD. After this time, it will be available for $4.99 USD.

Screenshot from apps store

Grab it early, follow this link>
https://www.3dvia.com/products/3dvia-mobile/


3rd National Inter-Varsity Design Competition 2009-Finale

Sorry for my late post. Don’t blame me, blame the internet service provider. Okay la, I also quite busy for this week Simulation Seminar for E&E industries.

Okay, if you follow our
Facebook fans page
, last 2 weeks we had kick-started the online voting for most preferred student design. Big thanks for your participation and the final result, Eco-drill won the online voting with over 600 votes.

3rd National Inter-Varsity Design Competition- finale was held in an auditorium hall at Technology Park Malaysia (TPM), thanks to our co-organizer, MAD Inc for the wonderful venue. On that day, the top 10 team which short listed from over 20 submissions; was given 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes of Q&A from the judges’ team of 7.

Within these 15 minutes, team would need to perform their best to sell their innovative invention and convince the judges that their design is the best of the best. These 15 minutes really tested our participants in term of presentation skill and their capability to sell their design. A successful inventor should capable to design great product and market their product.

No doubt, they can design well but not all team performed their best on the stage, especially in front of the judges’ team, formed by representative from SIRIM berhad, Malaysia Design Council (MRM), Sapura Research, SolidWorks Corp. & a local famous inventor (representative from MACRI), Mr. Robest Yong. The heat is up when the presenter challenged by the judges in the Q&A session. They managed to perform their best in answering all judges’ questions, shown they were well prepared and understand their design very well.

Sentimental moment~ during the lunch break, I realized that one of the participants invited his parents to join in the event. Parents are invited to give their moral support and it really touched my heart. I wish my parent will do that for me as well. For coming event, I hope to see more parents participate, to support and encourage their children to design. If we do not support local design, who else will do?

Is an honour that Yang Berhormat Senator Heng Seai Kei, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture, invited for the official award ceremony. An inspiring speech was given and follows by the most awaiting award ceremony.

This is the moment where all team is battling for, total cash prize of RM10, 000.00, SolidWorks licenses
(sss)
 and prizes
(sss)
 from our platinum sponsor, HP, which included the latest model of
HP netbook
 for each of the winner!

And the winners are:

1st winner

Green Sweeper, USM

1st runner up

Water trap, USM

2nd runner up

Sea Wave and Wind Power Generator, TARC

Consolation :

#1 Ultimate Air Converter, UTEM

#2 Hybrid Green Charger, USM

Congratulations for all winners for claiming the best of the best. For the rest, you had showed your confidence and courage to present and to design. Don’t give up! There are always room for improvement and a lot of chances for you to prove to the world.

For more photo on the day, feel free to hit this link and join our fans page:
CLICK ME
 or
https://ccliangphoto.blogspot.com/2010/04/ime-solidworks-grand-finale-8th-april.html

See you again next year!~


4 is better than 1.  Or even  6

How Multi-copters are dominating the skies and our imagination.

Vera Markus

I’ve never been a big Fan of aviation, and most of the time you would associate aviation to planes, helicopters and Goodyear blimps. But something caught my interest as of recently and it comes in no surprise that buzzing flying lawnmower are making people look up to the skies.

So what’s with Quad copters and what are the true potential applications for Quad copters? Well people have been fiddling with it and there a 3 actually useful applications for Multi rotors.

Amazon

Transportation

We aren’t talking about people transport (yet) it might carry an infant child like a Stork delivering a baby, but that’s very comical and highly unlikely. Very recently Amazon has announced their concept delivery system called Prime Air. Depending on how far you are from an Amazon warehouse, you can op for a Drone Drop-off for your online purchases, bringing a whole new definition to air delivery. Now there has been much skepticism on the idea and there are pretty obvious ones, free eastern gifts from the skies anyone? But there are more sensible uses like transporting food and medicine to hard to reach places like jungles or disaster zones.

 BBC

Photography and Surveillance

The second really useful application is photography and surveillance. The BBC has already Adopted Professional Hex-copters for filming live news coverages and documentaries, being smaller and a whole lot cheaper that hiring a helicopter; these drones are suitable Arial shooters of the future. And again in a safety and rescue situation, multiple drones can be put out on the field to search for victims in dangerous situations like a forest fire or a flood.  Now I know I did mention surveillance which sounds allot like the controversial NSA or military spyings of late, let me assure the readers that there are laws and regulation prohibiting such acts use against civilians (Google up

Philip Steel
).

 Uni Adelaide

Education

The third really useful application for Quad copters is in education.  Multi rotors are an easy concept to grasp; you get 4 to as many motors as you want, half of them spinning clockwise and the other half spinning anti-clockwise. You Get a Flight controller to help maneuver the copter in its Tilt, Role and Yaw. And you can add-on as many gadgets as you like; Grips, Cameras, Sensors, Paintball guns ,A laser show, you name it. This involves Physics , Electronics, Programing and a dash of Fun! Seriously who doesn’t want to see Drones take over the classroom and making teachers really wish they didn’t approve of this. I know I do.

How IME Does it

Stay tuned and see how IME design a simple Quadcopter using Solidworks. You may also share with us your design so that we could share it with our followers as well.

PS: Have a Merry Christmas and Safe Holiday!


7 ways to improve your Data Management – The intelligent PDM vault from SolidWorks

Today I just received a white paper from SolidWorks Corporation, topic about
“Value your time with better Product Data Management System (PDM) in your design works place”.
 PDM systems perform a variety of tasks to help collaborate, control, connect, and communicate information throughout an engineering organization. Getting the most out of your PDM efforts starts with the Intelligent PDM Vault from SolidWorks.

As a usual business operation, you store your design and manufacturing data on a network drive for all to use. Because you’re savvy about the need for an administrator to control access while offering the rest of the staff ease of use, you’ve taken a centralized approach and put completed projects on the network. While, today I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you the “PDM system”, with that your engineers and designers can focus more on design rather than administration tasks.

Seven steps to intelligent PDM
1 – Intelligent data relationship knowledge
understands the relationship among parts, drawings, and assemblies.

2 – Controlled check-out
Easy to access a file, by click on check out from the vault, and the system will automatically locks the file so that other users can only view but not make changes to the same file at the same time

3 – Globally known check-out status

While a file is in use, its status is available for all to see.

4 – Absolute overwrite protection
The Vault ensures that another person can’t overwrite the changes that someone else is in the process of making.

5 – Controlled check-in
When a user has completed changes to a file, there is a simple but structured process for checking a file back into the Vault

6 – Intelligent version/history branching
PDM Vault keeps a full history that stores all operations performed on each file, so you always know who has worked on which part, assembly, and project.

7 – Simplified revision nomenclature
Intelligent PDM Vault, file naming can be automatic when you are satisfied with your latest version

Please click no to
“Inteligent PDM Vault from SolidWorks
”
for more information


A bowl of Ramen please or Ramen Bowl please

5.17pm, Sunday-
 home alone without having lunch~ Raining! Partner went for shopping with her friends, not following because need to prepare some on-demand flow benchmark & who knew, insufficient information to proceed.

SolidWorks was on & I knew that I starving which mean I can easily consume few bowls of ramen! Damn, so wish that i can have a bowl of warm ramen with grilled sliced beef on top of it. Of course, I would need a bowl to pour my ramen into it!

Hereby, I present to you; another great design from Sew, Ramen Bowl with Ear!
(huh)
 Ear?
Why? Why?

Below picture answered all your
 why!

Designed with SolidWorks without rendering and some touch up (
wording
) with PhotoShops

So far for now, will post more views from different angle later on~ need to put something into my stomach now else you will never see my design anymore! Bye!

~Sew~


A Ramen bowl please! Part II

Guys & girls,

Let’s go into the detail of the bowl. this is not an ordinary bowl, this is a bowl with ear. The bowl was easily design with 3 revolves, everyone know how to use the revolve function right? then you will also notice a few cuts at my bowl. No, it is not for you to pour the soup out nor putting straw into it to drink the soup.

Do allow me to explain about my masterpiece with printscreens + the
G button
 on my keyboard
(What? You did not know that the
G button
 is for you to turn on the magnifying glass in SolidWorks 2009!)
See the cut in my magnifying glass? Yes, is for you to put your thumb when holding your bowl of maggie mee while watching Lee Chong Wei Vs Lin Dan
(btw, Dato Lee won)
Very obvious, the slot + 2 holes is to put the pair of cute chopstick which come along with my design. A Set!
Lastly i created two rendered images, 1 with PhotoWorks and another with PhotoView 360. Guys, make a guess, which 1 was created with PhotoWorks?


Adding SolidWorks Holewizard holes on an Angle

Have you ever been frustrated with trying to add a series of holes on at an angle of even compound angle in SolidWorks? I find that the easiest way to solve this problem is to use the surface extrude fuctionality of SolidWorks. As you can see from the video we can very easily make a series of surfaces and even compount surfaces from one sketch.

** Click on the image to know more


Aerodynamic design with SolidWorks flow simulation

Sharing with younger generation is a noble task. I never bored of giving talks and inspiration to students that passionate on innovation and design.  Let’s think, back to your teenager age, how many of you know about 3D CAD? Even 2D CAD is not in our mind. We just know about sketching with our favorite 2D pencil and ruler. Isometric drawing view? That’s killing me!

Last week, I had a visit to Melacca. Satay celup and nadaje layer cake is part of the reason. The main course is to give a sharing to a (big) group of secondary students who are in a competition. 1
st
 of all, I’m jealous as they have this great exposure but no doubt, it’s a great start for them. Most of them knew SolidWorks basic modeling technique for a national competition – F1 in school.

This is Formula One

This is Formula Student

This is F1 in school

Part of the presentation, I talked about flow simulation. I always have this worry is that are they too young to talk about flow simulation? Do they know about drag and lift force? Again, they gave me another surprise; they are good in this too! Mainly because of the competition, they need design a scale down CO2 formula 1 to compete with others. The main considerations are the weight and the aerodynamic design of the vehicle. Weight can easily monitor in SolidWorks but apply the right material.

SolidWorks flow simulation offers them a straight forward wizard base setup for external flow which allows them to learn flow simulation, easily. They can study the air flow over the vehicle. With better visualization, flow simulation gives a better insight on the pressure acting onto the design as well as the velocity. Like I said in the sharing, you don’t want your vehicle to have lift force instead of down force. If you have lift, your sport car will fly when ‘pump’ out from the compressed CO2. A cross section at your spoiler will let us know the pressure distribution above and below the design. Easily, you know your design is a car or a plane.

A cut section of flow simulation result

3D flow trajectories of a flow pattern

Okay, I try stopping myself to talk too much on technical feature. Just one last point to highlight, you can set an equation goal to calculate the drag and lift force. Example, coefficient of drag (Cd) can’t be obtain directly but other known value can be set a goal. At the end of the calculation, you have the drag and lift for you to compare the result. Easy?

sample result

After the sharing, I saw a lot of young and passionate designer. Truly wish with the assistant from a great tool – SolidWorks and SolidWorks flow simulation, they can visualize their imagination and design better and faster dragster to win the F1 in school competition. All the best young man!

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 to know more about F1 in school

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 for more product information about SolidWorks flow simulation

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AIO Drafting Solutions You Need to Know

AIO Drafting Solutions You Need to Know

AIO term has been circling quite around the world, especially the computer hardware. When you see a monitor labelled with AIO, you will expect to see a complete computer hardware with monitor. The AIO in here is referring to All-In-One, which means all features are included within a specific system or hardware.

There was a time when AIO desktop is considered as a computer trend

If you followed our blog closely, we’ve been talking about Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing and cloud solutions over the years. Now the server PC system also comes with AIO function. It not only allows you to store your file in a local or cloud server, but you can easily manage and preview your files without having the files in your current computer at the same time. With the new high-speed and high-performance server hardware, a lot of smart system has been included. It not only synchronises the files between server and web app system, approval system and task management, but the corporate internal group intranet are also included. These are what we call as a complete AIO solution in cloud server.

Previously, we mentioned that we can use existing premises or legacy software, such as SOLIDWORKS & DraftSight to manage and preview our files with added 3DEXPERIENCE BI & LI solutions. However, do you know that now DraftSight also comes with AIO package – where you can directly install DraftSight from 3DEXPERIENCE platform, no activation step needed once you login to your 3DEXPERIENCE account? This is what we are going to talk about today – AIO DraftSight from Dassault Systemes.

Legacy premises software required you to lock or bind serial to a specific hardware

DraftSight comes with CLOUD AIO edition that works the same as the premise version.

As far as we know, when we encounter any cloud solution or cloud base application, instead of using serial key for activation, these platforms started to implement with email registration to obtain a unique login access restricted with that end user.

So does the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud platform. Normally, when a company implements a server PC, additional software is required to protect the data from external source or external hacker which is not cheap. Sometimes, rival companies’ mole can easily login to the server to sabotage your files in your server. Unique login access does not only provide a more secure method to access the platform, but also provides double security measure to prevent your data being hacked or stolen. Only the end user himself knows the access, unless he shared out his access login with others which we don’t quite agree with this sharing method. It totally compromises the security measured provided from Dassault Systemes.

Deployment cost is consider as a hidden cost when implementing these solutions either on your workstation or server computer. To reduce these hidden deployment cost, Dassault Systemes comes out with an idea. What if all the application can be obtained from the platform? What if the execution steps are so easy that anyone can deploy them without any IT technician services needed? This is how Dassault Systemes step up the cloud game. As long as you have bought the necessities, you can directly download all the roles and software from the platform without serial number or special email to verify the installation. Only you can perform this if and only if you login to your 3DEXPERIENCE account. Any personnel who does not get these roles or 3DEXPERIENCE access will not be able to download it, which totally remove the risk of crack issue for this software.

As aforementioned, DraftSight come with an AIO package. You can directly install the DraftSight Enterprise Plus package directly from 3DEXPERIENCE platform under the Drafter Roles, where the 3DEXPERIENCE role will be downloaded together, allowing user to directly deploy both applications. Each time you run the application, you may need to have internet and login credentials to gain the access of the software and the common space synchronise features from 3DEXEPERIENCE compass.

Always download from the 3DEXPERIENCE compass after you login

Each time you open up the software, login is needed to get the license information from your 3DEXPERIENCE cloud account.

The DraftSight AIO comes only with DraftSight Enterprise version

3DEXPERIENCE task panel will show which of your files are stored in cloud and the changes you might have missed out without saving it

Directly open the DWG drawing files with your DraftSight

Once you update the file to cloud, 3DEXPERIENCE will show the update status of your files

Directly view your DWG in 3DPlay, even on your mobile devices

According to MCMC during a technology event in TEGAS Digital Village, Sarawak, we will expect 5G to roll in by the end of this year, focusing on Selangor and KL area.

I think it is the chance for us to look into our future, the possibility of upgrade and transformation, to adapt into the new era of Industry 4.0. Evolve and update ourselves in order to step ahead into the future.

Learn more about DraftSight
here

or get a taste of DraftSight with a
free trial
.

Feel free to fire us some questions you have in regards to DraftSight AIO package at
talk2us@cadcam.com.my
.
 We will be more than happy to assist you!


Aircaft built in SolidWorks

“I believe I can Fly… I believe I can touch the sky…think about it every nigth and day…spread my wings and fly away……”

It was the 1st sunny day I met after a long raining season. My master was singing his favourite R.Kelly’s song, riding on me flying freely through the sky.

The sky are blue, and the good weather really make me feel smart and energetic. In fact, it was my 1st try to fly on the sky!

I was born in 5th April, 2010 at Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Yes, can you recognise I was designed in
SolidWorks
? My master has spend one whole day to sketch out my body shape, give me the strong and powerful wings with excellent aerofoil shape, fixing the propeller and wheels onto my body. Of couse, I was also tested with
Stress and Flow Simulation
 to ensure that I can fly greatly and safely.

Finally, I was sprayed with her favourite red before brought to the photo session.

Here are some of my photo with different pose that has been captured by using
 PhotoView360
!

Steady Pose

360 turn after make up with different color
(another version of me!) -Make up artist-Mr.Sew

With a Nice Background–
 by Photographer Sew
(this is just the 2D background setup in PhotoView 360 Studio, my master didn’t actually bring me to such a nice place. =p)

Coming soon, I will be invited by the director called-
Motion Manager
, to capture my cool flying action ! Thanks to my master who have born me with
SolidWorks
!


Aircraft Modeling Video

Dear Friends, I would like to share my previous aircraft design in more details, whereby, I have recapture my modeling steps in video format, So that you can see how easy to construct a modeling in SolidWorks! Hope you enjoy it!


AMD PRORENDER is now supported in SOLIDWORKS 2020

Good news for AMD users!

SOLIDWORKS Visualize now supports AMD Radeon ProRender. With that, SOLIDWORKS Visualize could be run on AMD’s high-performance graphics cards.

AMD Radeon ProRender is coming from a physically-based rendering engine that usually used by creative professionals to produce superbly photorealistic images.

Built on AMD’s high-performance Radeon™ Rays technology, Radeon ProRender’s complete, scalable ray tracing engine uses open industry standards to harness GPU and CPU performance for excellent results.

AMD Radeon ProRender could now be beneficial to SOLIDWORKS Visualize worldwide users as it is now a native integration of SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020. Radeon ProRender runs on any GPU that supports OpenCL 1.2.

To use ProRender, select Tools > Options > 3D Viewport and, under Render Engine, select AMD Radeon ProRender.

If you own and AMD Radeon ProRender, you may now start to leverage the speed on your existing hardware to create impressively result on the output images from SOLIDWORKS Visualize!


And the AWARD goes to…

Remember this 3 dudes -> Stephen, Kish, and Bob?

They are funny but they are serious when come to award. Recently they have won an National Marketing Award: Effie Award for marketing effectiveness in the “Computer Software” category.

Effies are awarded by the independent organization Effie Worldwide, Inc. to recognize “the most significant achievement in marketing communications: ideas that work.” Other 2010 award recipients include IBM and PlayStation in the software category and Apple in the consumer technology category.

For more detail description, feel free to pay a visit to
designworldonline
.

For more video, visit to below link:

https://www.solidworks.com/pages/3dudes/

Hmm, should I start my own show as well? hmm~ Okay, time to dream, night!~


And the Green Award goes to…… SolidWorks Sustainability

Best Green Product Innovation
Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation
The winner: Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. – SolidWorks Sustainability (USA)

SolidWorks Sustainability incorporate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to analysis the environmental impact of a design in SolidWorks in term of carbon footprint, air & water pollution & energy consumption. It help the designers to understand the environmental impact and by monitoring the data, engineer can easily reduce the impact by using side-by-side comparison and a report will be generated at the end to show the improvement.

Accredited by the UK Royal Society of Arts, the awards recognize creativity that conveys the importance of corporate and social responsibility, sustainable development, and ethical best practices. Best Green New Product Innovation was a new category this year.

Of course, you may click this
LINK
 for complete article on the award detail and HERE to
Green Award


Announcement: SolidWorks 2011 sp2.0

“Sorry for my MIA. Too much holiday le~”

SolidWorks 2011 recently (to be exact, yesterday) launched the latest service pack, sp2.0. Feel free to download it from below link.

CUSTOMER PORTAL

More SolidWorks 2011 posts coming up, in this week. I promise.

Stay tuned.

rgds,
wind_walker


Announcement : We Are Participating In The Upcoming METALTECH 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Celebrating its 21
st
  anniversary, METALTECH is the event for the machine tool, metalworking  and manufacturing industry, hosting more than 1,800 providers of  metalworking and machine tools technologies from 37 countries as well 5  national pavilions.

We will be exhibiting and demonstrating  design and manufacturing solutions that meet the complex and customized  demands of customer applications. There will be lots of inspiring  activities going on at our booth, ranging from product design (CAD),  product lifecycle management (PLM), 3D Printing, manufacturing (CAM),  reserve engineering / 3D scanning to production planning.

Kindly visit our booth to explore and learn more about latest technology in design and manufacturing industry.

Exhibition Date:

:

20th – 23rd May 2015 (Wednesday – Saturday)

Venue

:

Putra World Trade Center (PWTC) , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Time

:

9:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m

Hall No.

:

Hall 3

Booth No.

:

3700

Please mark you calendar and  follow us on
Facebook
 for more updates!

We are looking forward to meeting you at the event!


another Car modeling with SolidWorks- Audi R8

Audi R8 model with SolidWorks. Nice, isn’t it? So, again he answer a lot of you who asking can SolidWorks can perform complex surface modeling for car. After hours spent to model a R8, the designer is now ready to share his design and step by step to the world by capturing his step in a DVD.

Yes, he is selling his tips and steps. If you want to have a copy of it, you can purchase from him at this link,

CLICK ME

by the way, inside the link there is a quick 5 minutes teaser to quickly show you some of the steps or you may enjoy the movie here.


Answer of SolidWorks Word Puzzle!

Hey guys!

Have you tried the SolidWorks Word Puzzle? Here is the answer , wish you can score the highest mark!


APPEARANCES~ Ninja~

BOOOM~~ *APPEARing…*

hiiyooooo~ Good days everyone.. finally, tyler here again. This is my latest work by SolidWorks, Ninja~~~

For this ninja.. What i wanna share here is… Once we finish the modeling, we may do the appearances assignments in the SolidWorks environment before we import it to the PhotoView. As you see for the picture above, i assigned the appearances: fabric to ninja custom, plastic to skin and neon light to eyes.

BOOOM~ all of them were APPEARing~ Once i imported it into PhotoView~

Fuyoh.. so we may do the appearances assignments in SolidWorks or PhotoView depend on how you like~

Have a nice weekends and sayonara~

hiiyooooo~

BOOOM~~ *disAPPEARing…*

:: Tyler ::


Assigment Video Clip from Unikl MFI

Interesting Video clip from Mhd Saidzul Dzulkifli from UNIKL-MFI


Automate your design using DriveWorksXpress

Did you know that every SOLIDWORKS purchase is included with powerful design automation tools which we call as DriveWorksXpress. In this blog, I am going to show you how to start using it and how to automate your modelling process.

Basically, DriveWorksXpress is an easy to use tool that allows you to automate repetitive design tasks. It is a rule based tool that will allow you to create multiple versions of your SOLIDWORKS Parts, Assembly’s & Drawings, quickly and accurately. DriveWorksXpress works by capturing information from your existing models. That information (which can consist of Dimensions, Features and configurations) can then be controlled by a series of rules. These rules can be controlled from a simple input form, so that all you need to do is put the details in for the new variations, and then DriveWorksXpress will create them for you.

The input form can be reused as many times as needed, each time creating a brand new set of files and update automatically their relevant drawings.

Let explore together on how to start using DriveWorksXpress. We will go thru the concept how to use this rule based tools to help you and your design team perform better using SOLIDWORKS.

To understand the concept on how to use DriveWorksXpress, we will use this Box model as our case study. This Box will represent the general information that we can control (dimension & feature) and use it to create new configuration or variation in matter of second.

Step 1: Activated the DriveWorks

First, you need to activate the DriveWorksXpress features under Evaluate tab in SOLIDWORKS. Or you can search under option
Tools> Xpress Products > DriveWorksXpress.

For those who first time click this feature, it will prompt out an
Enable DriveWorksXpress
 asking to insert product code. You can just click the
My.solidworks.com/xpress
 link and it will bring you to the SOLIDWORKS website where you can grab the product code and paste it to the empty box, then click OK.

Once DriveWorksXpress is loaded, it will appear at task pane right side of your screen.

Step 2: Create database

For the 1
st
  tabs, we need to create new database for our project. This will be the files that contain all the rules we create and link to the part/assembly/drawing files. To create new database, click
Create/Change Database
and locate where you want to save the database file.

Step 3: Locate the part files

Then move to 2
nd
 tabs, we will browse and locate where the part files we want to use for DriveWorksXpress. For this step, I can choose to
Browse
 and find where I save the Box part file or I can just select option
Use Open Model
if I already open the part in SOLIDWOKRS graphic area.

Step 4: Captured Models

Next for 3
rd
 tabs, we will capture all the information that we wish to control in this project. For this model, I want to change the
height
,
width
,
length
,
size of fillet
 and
the depth holes
. There will be 5 variable we will capturing for this Box model. To begin capturing the information, you can select
Dimensions and Features
group section, click on the dimension, rename it and click Add. Rename is optional but it very useful later in the process to make sure you select and link the correct dimension.

Repeat this step to capture all 5 variables.

Step 5: Create Form

At 4
th
 tabs of DriveWorksXpress, this is where we will start to design a form to collect requirement for new models. The input we can set as text box, numeric text box, drop down, spin button or check box.

Step 6: Create Rules

On the 5
th
 tabs is where the rules needed to set up to link all the captured information with the input form created in the previous step. You need to solve all the red/missing rules in the summary task pane as shown.

Step 7: Test run

Once all the rules are created, you’re set to go and test out your project. The form you created on the step 5 now shown on the task pane. You need to fill in the form and click Create. It will automatically modify the input parameter from the form and create a new model based on the original model that was created.

If you miss anything, here the overall video on how to do the setup:

Here some real-life design application where you can fully utilize this design automation tools in your organization:

In conclusion, DriveWorksXpress work brilliantly with your repetitive design to generate new version of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawing in matter of seconds. Its just one-time setup and you can run again and again without have to wasting time to manually edit one by one. Its also can help eliminate errors while do all those design changes.

To explore more about DriveWorksXpress, please contact our technical support and we will happy to help you.

Until we meet again on next article!


Avatar’s director-James Cameron live in SolidWorks World 2010, Anaheim, CA.

What a great news I got today! The
BIG
 director is coming, live!

1st of all, have you watch Avatar? OMG! you haven’t watch it! Better be fast because you definately do not want to miss the chances to watch this fantastic movie by the great director of Terminator, Alien, Titanic, Mr.
James Cameron
.

James Cameron with his star @ Hollywood walk of fame

Yes, he is appearing live in
SolidWorks World 2010
, Anaheim, CA. Just wondering, will he bring the terminator along? Or an Alien? Well, don’t feel shock if you saw Arnold Schwarzenegger come along. He did filmed a couple of movies with the current 38th Governor of the state of California.

Last year we have Sir Richard Branson as keynote speaker of SolidWorks World 2009, Florida.
Sir Richard Branson
 is the founder and President of Virgin Group. He talked about the 1st commercial trip to space and going to happen very soon.

I guess I need to have a walk at Hollywood walk of frame and snap the start of James Cameron.

To know more about the keynote speakers (yes, the ‘s’ mean more than 1), please
click here
.

If you have not booked yet your seat for SolidWorks World in sunny Anaheim, CA – USA,
it is not too late.
 Early bird registrations go until January 8th.


Basic of DRAFTSIGHT: Dimension tools & Layer properties

DRAFTSIGHT has been introduce to the markets, as a smart alternative for the drafting user. The software itself, not only come with a familiar UI, it also come with a more user-friendly way to perform the drafting operation in DRAFTSIGHT. As we know that, DRAFTSIGHT is one of the products from Dassault Systems, some of the command in the software, more or less similar on what we use in SOLIDWORKS.

So, today, we going to walk through the basic of DRAFTSIGHT, we going to focus on dimension tools and the layer properties. To get to understand how this feature works, and in the same time, allow you to compare the difference between the DRAFTSIGHT and the existing drafting software that you using.

In DRAFTSIGHT, the dimension tools come with different type and different criteria to apply dimension base on situation that you see fit. Let us go through to the very basic dimension tools, the point-to-point dimension tools. This dimension tool actually is the simplest one by selecting two points in DRAFTSIGHT. However, you will have to define the type of dimension before you using it. Example, if you wish to create linear dimension, and you accidently selected angular, the point that you selected, will always be the create angle-dimension, instead of the length between the two points. Therefore, you will have to be clear which measuring options you need to create the next dimension.

Point-to-point dimension tools, you need to select the first point, followed with second end point to create dimension.

You need to pre-select the type of dimension you going to use for the dimension.

Followed up next, will be the smart dimension, this function is quite similar for those who used SOLIDWORKS smart dimension before. Smart dimension will direct recognize the entities shape and behaviour. So, you do not have to pre-select the dimension type then create dimension, which save up a lot of time to create dimension in your drawings.

Smart dimension provides more easier way of doing dimension, and faster compared to the basic point-to-point dimension.

The third tools, will be the auto dimension tools. Auto-dimension tools will be a bit unique, instead of select the entities one by one, the feature auto generate dimension for you in group of entities. By selecting multiple of entities, and include them in the dimension bounding box in DRAFTSIGHT. After that, click on the auto-dimension, and select the box of dimension that we created earlier.

Pre-select all the entities and define them in bounding dimension box.

The function will let you define the baseline reference. The base line reference allows you to define the starting reference for your dimension. It will create all the necessary dimension needed for the entities base on the baseline reference we select in the options. Once dimension is created, you can do some minor adjustment on the dimension position base on your personal reference.

The baseline reference, allow you to select the start reference line or points, so all the dimension created will start from the base reference line.

The auto-dimension tools will show you the preview, before you continue with the auto-generated dimension.

You still able to make some minor adjustment, to tidy up all the dimension positions.

For my personal record, I prefer the smart dimension and auto dimension. The flexibility of create dimension from these tools will greatly speed up my dimension task in DRAFTSIGHT. It is simple to use, and fast. When we talk about drafting effectiveness, we prefer speed and maximum efficient on doing drafting task in the software.

Using colours to group up or categories entities has been a standard practice for drafter. And you are right, DRAFTSIGHT do come with layer features, and it quite similar you seen and used in another cad.

So, let us get into it.

The layer properties can always be found at the home command bar. By accessing the layer properties, allow you to add new colour layer, rename, and define the colour you want to define the entities.

Layer properties, allow you to manage, edit, and create different layers in your drawings.

Colour palette, and flexibility to modify, allow you to create the unique layer colours to differentiate the entities.

How can we change the colour of the entities? Directly select or highlight the entities you want to change colour in DRAFTSIGHT. After highlighted the entities, click on then green icon to change the layer colours, make sure you select the correct layer for the entities.

Once you selected the entities, can direct change the colour base on the options available on the layer selections (Make sure you select the correct colour and name for the highlighted entities).

How does the layer properties help in drafting?

Beside categories the entities into different group. It allows you to temporary hide the entities to continue drafting. Which provide more flexibility when come to creating and editing the entities in your drawings.

You can show or hide the entities any time, to ease your drawing process in DRAFTSIGHT.

Stay tune on our blog page, we will always bring you the interesting knowledge on our solutions.

Stay tune for more.

-Henry Chai, Application Engineer, IME Technology Sdn Bhd


Beta 2 is Live!

The Evil spider is back! The SolidWorks Beta team is pleased to announce that SolidWorks 2011 Beta 2 has gone live and feel free to download it and test it.

Again, don’t forget the competition is on-going and a special competition is up. Free yourself to check out the contest details
here
.

Remember to check out the cool prizes available this year for the Beta contests as well. Over $15,000 in cash prizes, some newly added Apple iPads and some really cool T-shirts! I’m talking about lots of prizes to be won! Click
here
 to believe.


Blood donation

Come on,
don’t selfish
. Donate your blood to save lifes. In conjunction with IME 30th anniversary, we are organizing a blood donation campaign at our office, you all are invited to join.

Detail as below:

Date: 4th Sept 2010
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Building a Quadcopter Part 1

In this blog series we will be going through a step by step guide on making a Quadcopter
.
 With the help of SolidWorks we will be designing,

simulating and ultimately making the frame for the Quadcopter with 3D printing.

What you’ll need

Before you embark in your project, get the necessary parts first.

Parts List :

4 x Brushless Motors

4 x Electronic Speed Controllers (ESC)

4 x Propeller Blades

Flight Controller Board (FC)

4 Channel radio controller and receiver

Li-Po Battery pack

You can source all your parts through Hobbyking at
https://www.hobbyking.com

Make sure your parts are compatible with one another, for example. The Motors need the right amount of Amp power from the ESC for it to run at its highest potential and not to much to burn the motor. The battery should hold enough charge to have a flight time of more then 20 minutes. to learn more about selecting the right parts. you can check out this useful site here
https://www.intorobotics.com/5-best-examples-of-how-to-build-a-diy-quadcopter/

Start Designing

Start drawing up sketches of frames you want, the basic anatomy of a Quadcopter are just its main central body that houses the FC, Radio Receiver and the Battery pack. There are 4 extended arms that will hold the Rotors and ESCs.

The arms are face on equal 90 degree angles of each other and should stay firmly so. The motor to motor distance, which is the length of one motor placement point to the opposite motor point can be determine by the size of your Propeller blade, leave a distance of 3/4 or 1 Propeller length from tip to tip. For example, if you were using the popular propeller size of 10 inches diameter, the motor to motor distance would be about 450 – 500 mm. Thats basicly 2 propeller lengths = 20inches/ 500mm.

For the next post we will be looking into designing the frame.


Building a Quadcopter Part 2

Previous Post
HERE

Designing the Arms

A quad copter has 4 extended arms (logically)
. they all are connected to the main frame that houses the computing board and battery. Design a way to assemble the arm to the main body that would be sturdy and fixed in a axle while remaining easily detachable.
Our approach is to design an arm that is 180mm long point to point, with one end for the motor to be mounted on and the other end for the arm to mount onto the main body. The arm is attached via cylindrical mount joint that stays in position by a fix lock extrude. It will be sandwiched by two top and bottom bodies as shown on the concept sketch below.

Concept Sketch

The Three Variation

The above 3 design variation are to be compared together to see if the designs would be sturdy enough to withhold a 10N thrust force while  maintaining to be a light weight .

The

Yellow
 design has a Tapered outward form that is biased to the motor mount. it has  triangle truss like pattern, with a leg stand on the bottom.

The
Blue
design has a honeycomb pattern for structural rigidity. its has a simple straight frame and needs a leg mount assembly.

The
Red
design has a very minimalistic approach mass wise, with a triangle truss pattern to withstand side impact.

Simulation Analysis

To make sure all the above designs are able to withstand real world conditions. All design will be manufactured using ABS plastic.

The bottom table shows the physical properti value of ABS. ABS has a tensile strength of
30 N/mm^2.
 We can theoretically assume  that the yield strength of ABS is
24 N/mm^2(base on 80% tensile strength).
For our parts to pass, the parts cannot exceed a stress force of
24N/mm^2.

Using Solidworks Simulation
workbench, we can select a fix geometrical point for the structure to remain a constant. In this case we’ve selected the inside and outside wall of the cylinder mount as our gemological fixtures as shown below.

We can apply force on the area where the motor is mounted. Select the face and direction of force, in this case a maximum load of
10 N
 to emulated maximum possible thrust force on each arm.

The Result

Yellow
 Mass =
44.5g

Stress result

= 20.5 N/mm^2

Blue
 Mass =
43.5g

Stress result

= 14 N/mm^2

Red
 Mass = 26g

Stress result

= 21.5

N/mm^2

All the result shows that the designs have pass the yield strength stress allowance of
24 N/mm^2
.

Base on the simulation results and looking at the total mass of the designs,  We’ve choose to go forward with the
Red

arm design, it has less then twice the mass then the rest thus we will be saving on weight and material cost.

We finish of the arm design with a stand assembly part so the quadcopter can take of and land on different terrain surfaces.

End of Part 2


Building a Quadcopter Part 3

Previous post
HERE

We continue on development on the main frame of the quadcopter. The center frame will house some essential parts such as the control board, battery and the radio receiver.
The sketch above shows the placement of the Control Board and Battery which are placed center of the design. The board has an inboard gyroscope (tilt,shift,yaw) sensor which will help balanced the quadcopter by managing each individual motor. The battery is the heaviest component, so it will be better placed securely on the center of the body for optimum center of gravity,

Above shows the CAD development on the quad’s body, there are 6 points of contact to keep the battery sung inside. There are 4 pole extrudes for the Control board to be bolted on to. Make sure that the placements directions that are stated on the control board manual are follow, this particular one has its axis facing on the edges of the board thus having one point of the board face an arm.

After settling all the CAD data, we proceed to create a printed prototype for the proof of concept. Above shows the 3D printed parts that work flawlessly given a few tweaks on fitting tolerance.

Above shows a fully assembled quadcopter without blades

 Fully assembled and ready for test flight


CAD Chair, Breakfast Maker or Workbench? Have you vote?

An interactive web series.

Jeremy Luchini hosting an
interactive web
 wereby we can vote for which project to kick start. Currently 3 projects open for posting; CAD chair, breakfast maker or the workbench. The project with most vote will be the 1st project to kick start and together we shall involve in giving idea on that particular project.

Out of surprize, i voted the breakfast maker and found that it was the less voted project. Maybe most of started to forget about how important is breakfast to us. Haha!~

Okay, vote vote vote! It going to close the voting soon. Act fast. 🙂

https://www.solidworks.com/pages/programs/letsgodesign/
A bit about Jeremy:

Jeremy Luchini is a mechanical engineer, avid traveler, and custom vehicle enthusiast with 18 years of experience in design engineering. Throughout his career, Jeremy has helped create everything from games and musical instruments to machine tools and sports cars. Innovative companies like MegaBrands, Line6, and HAAS Automation have been known to draw on his considerable talents.

Over the past nine years, Jeremy has also worked at DS SolidWorks training and certifying thousands of advanced users. Most recently, Jeremy partnered with SolidWorks customer Factory Five Racing to build a high performance, hybrid dragster which was unveiled at SolidWorks World 2010.

Not surprisingly, Jeremy also designs in his spare time. His personal projects include creating his own drag race-influenced chopper and refurbishing a 1967 Jeep Kaiser M-715 military troop carrier – which he commutes to work in every day.


CAD Chair- episode #1

Remember my
previous blog
 about Jeremy latest website,
let’s go design
? Jeremy Luchini hosting an interactive web wereby we can vote for which project to kick start.

For you who following up with the interactive website, the result was out and most votes go to the CAD chair. the story continue. He split it into 5 episodes and the #1 episode is rolled out. You can go to his website and check it out!

Objective has been define:

– clean and funtional
– comfortable
– adjustable
– easy to assemble
– Feature- rich

From forums, followers throwing in ideas and easily with SolidWorks, Jeremy put the 2D hand sketch into SolidWorks, from different view and model a prototype of the idea-
 instant visualization!~

Next up, we have a space issue, so the next vote for the next video:
1. Guest chair? or
2. Work surface?

Can’t wait for #2 episode to out. 🙂 stay tuned.

p/s: you can download the SolidWorks files from his website too. cool!~


CAD helping lives

CAD and CAM is not just about engineering or manufacturing, it is a necessity in our daily lives. The car that we travel in to go to work everyday, ships and aeroplanes that allows us to cross oceans and travel across the globe, our phones, computers, machines that makes us coffee, toasts, all these are at one point designed with CAD, and manufactured with CAM.
Therefore, CAD and CAM is really not as hard to understand or far from us afterall. With the aid of CAD/CAM, the products that we are using daily are safer and more reliable. Below is a story that I like about how Engineering and CAD is helping lives (a duck in this case):
Dudley the Duck with its New 3D Printed Foot
Dudley the duck is a lucky fella to be able to walk again after losing one of its foot in an unfortunate encounter with a chicken. It’s prosthetic foot was designed in SolidWorks and printed with 3D printer. There are a lot of factors taken into consideration in designing a feasible and sustainable foot that is not only nice to see but also practical for a duck:

Requirement: Fully support Dudley’s weight

Solution: Main structural components  (upper-leg, lower-leg, connecting pin for joints) will be composed out  of a stronger ABS-type plastic final leg will be a medical grade  plastic).

Requirement: Multi-jointed to allow for a smoother gate

The ankle joint allows for approximately  20 degrees of rotation while the knee joint allows has a curved flexible  knee piece connecting the upper leg and lower leg which isolates the  rotation of the knee while still acting like a shock-damper.

Requirement: Lightweight to reduce Dudley’s energy consumption.

We are testing several lightweight plastics out to see if it is both light and strong enough for our application.

Requirement: Realistic foot to allow for more effective swimming

 – See more at:  https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2013/11/dudley-the-duck-gets-a-3d-printed-foot.html#sthash.kVQfOl5G.dpuf

Requirement: Fully support Dudley’s weight

Requirement: Multi-jointed to allow for a smoother gate

Requirement: Lightweight to reduce Dudley’s energy consumption

Requirement: Realistic foot to allow for more effective swimming

(Photos taken from the SolidWorks Blog)

Isn’t it great to see engineering surrounding us everywhere? Although I am not part of those who makes a difference in a duck’s life (pun intended), I am proud to call myself an engineer and be part of the SolidWorks community who is giving back to the society.

Happy Weekend to you 🙂

Requirement: Fully support Dudley’s weight

Solution: Main structural components  (upper-leg, lower-leg, connecting pin for joints) will be composed out  of a stronger ABS-type plastic final leg will be a medical grade  plastic).

Requirement: Multi-jointed to allow for a smoother gate

The ankle joint allows for approximately  20 degrees of rotation while the knee joint allows has a curved flexible  knee piece connecting the upper leg and lower leg which isolates the  rotation of the knee while still acting like a shock-damper.

Requirement: Lightweight to reduce Dudley’s energy consumption.

We are testing several lightweight plastics out to see if it is both light and strong enough for our application.

Requirement: Realistic foot to allow for more effective swimming

 – See more at:  https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2013/11/dudley-the-duck-gets-a-3d-printed-foot.html#sthash.kVQfOl5G.dpuf

Requirement: Fully support Dudley’s weight

Solution: Main structural components  (upper-leg, lower-leg, connecting pin for joints) will be composed out  of a stronger ABS-type plastic final leg will be a medical grade  plastic).

Requirement: Multi-jointed to allow for a smoother gate

The ankle joint allows for approximately  20 degrees of rotation while the knee joint allows has a curved flexible  knee piece connecting the upper leg and lower leg which isolates the  rotation of the knee while still acting like a shock-damper.

Requirement: Lightweight to reduce Dudley’s energy consumption.

We are testing several lightweight plastics out to see if it is both light and strong enough for our application.

Requirement: Realistic foot to allow for more effective swimming

 – See more at:  https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2013/11/dudley-the-duck-gets-a-3d-printed-foot.html#sthash.kVQfOl5G.dpuf

Requirement: Fully support Dudley’s weight

Solution: Main structural components  (upper-leg, lower-leg, connecting pin for joints) will be composed out  of a stronger ABS-type plastic final leg will be a medical grade  plastic).

Requirement: Multi-jointed to allow for a smoother gate

The ankle joint allows for approximately  20 degrees of rotation while the knee joint allows has a curved flexible  knee piece connecting the upper leg and lower leg which isolates the  rotation of the knee while still acting like a shock-damper.

Requirement: Lightweight to reduce Dudley’s energy consumption.

We are testing several lightweight plastics out to see if it is both light and strong enough for our application.

Requirement: Realistic foot to allow for more effective swimming

 – See more at:  https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2013/11/dudley-the-duck-gets-a-3d-printed-foot.html#sthash.kVQfOl5G.dpuf


Can you model this>> Sport Rim

I saw a good tutorial about techniques to model automotive sport rim last weekend, so i created my own version of tutorial on modeling an automotive sport rim and share with you. 🙂

Throughout the process of modeling we will only use some simple features which are revolve, cut revolve, cut extrude and circular pattern. Yes, just 4 simple features with some sketches, you can create your own custom design wheel, probably one for your own car.

To start off, open a new part file with MM unit and create a new sketch on front plane. Draw the basic shape of the rim profile as below (dimension it and make sure you draw a centerline that cut across the origin in y axis.)

Then add fillets to sharp corners, you can choose the radius you prefer but in this tutorial, i use R10 and R25 respectively. (please see the diagram below for better understanding)

This sketch will be the profile of your rims, revolve the rim profile for 360 degree to create this first feature. Pick the centerline of sketch as the center of revolve.

In order the modeling the spoke pattern, here i create a sketch at right plane and draw a cutting profile that look like diagram below. Here i’d planned to create a 7 spokes rim, so the angle that i use is pretty odd (51.43 degree), you can manipulate the angle to control the number of spokes that you wish to create for this project.

Use cut extrude to remove the material to reveal the spokes of rim. By then, you should have something looks like this. 🙂

For every sport rim, it must have some nuts holes to tight it to drive shaft (i guess only…..). Some car have 4 nuts holes, some have 5 holes (especially for bigger capacity car…..)

I’d sketched the nut hole profile with dimension on Front plane and use cut revolve feature to remove the additional material.

Next step, we will create a circular pattern to create the rest of the spoke and nut holes. All you have to do here is to select the number instances for spokes and nut holes.

Here i choose 7 for spokes and 5 for nut holes and the end result looks like this.

 Last but not least, the rim itself….

Start a sketch on Front plane again, create a sketch as below……(i am too lazy to write down detail in words….so i think 1 pictures can saves a thousand words…..)

Revolve 360 degree……..and That’s it…..

As usual, i will use Photoview 360 to render this rim….

Actually,this rim might looks like a ordinary rim that we have in our local market and nothing so special about this rim. But my main intention is not to create a tutorial about how to model a sport rim. What really interest me is to see how you can create your own designed rim after reading mine in this blog.

Here again, i took the initiative to design another type of rim that looks total different from the first one. But the approach is the almost same…..this is a deviation of the first design!!

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If you have time to create your own rim (i’m sure you have time since it only takes about 15 mins to complete this tutorial…. :-), please share with us. you can send your rim to
felicia@cadcam.com.my
 and she will help you in publishing your design.

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I am looking forward to see some great designs from you.

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~ah lau~


Can you model this >>Staple

First of all, a big thanks to those who attended our booth (no. 3410). As you know (who came to our booth), we had prepare something for you to kill time and rest; after a hard walk in PWTC.

For those who had tried, hope you enjoy the fun; those who haven try and want to try, why not challenge yourself now? Simple just follow the step-by-step (or your own method) and finish it in less than 10 mins! Give a try and drop your fastest time under comments. Winner gets… no prize (
hehe
)

Be hold, the staple!

Raw image without rendering but still looks good if the hardware equip with a piece of tested & certified graphic card. Of course you need not to re-draw the whole staple. All you need to do is just model this simply part;

Easy right? Scroll down (for the instruction )when you are ready.
READY?

GET SET?
 GO!


Capabilities Exploration: 3DDrive VS 3DSpace

3DEXPERIENCE has launched in the market for quite few years now, and it still appears new in Asia market, including the Malaysia market, Try ask around, you may hear people talk about the cloud solutions, but when it comes to 3DEXPERIENCE, they only can assume it’s another type of enterprise cloud solutions in Malaysia market.

After months of implemeting 3DEXPERIENCE solution in my working daily life, Now, we get realise that 3DDrive and 3DSpace are two different storages and provide different. We are amazed on how 3DSpace can do more than just a storage system in 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

3DDrive

Let’s make it simple –  3DDrive is quite similar to Dropbox, where it only allows you to keep, share and manage your files either on webpage or in the software in your local computer. But when it comes to accessibilty function 3DDrive does not provide any editing feature on the 3D CAD data, or the regular document files. You are only able ti click and drag the files to the 3DPlay to review it and do marking on your files. When it comes to files sharing, it only allows user to view on webpage or download a copy to their own local computer if they wish to make some changes on the files. Even though it is convenient to use the 3DDrive to keep your files, the storage system is unable to do the managing functionality such as tracking who reviewed your files or if there is any additional updates or changes on the files –  it serves more as a personal backup drive for the end user.

The lack of file management system within makes this storage system more suitable for personal backup or basic file sharing

3DSpace

3DSpace, on the other hand, is a completely different storage system for 3DEXPERIENCE users. You may view it like Google Drive, but it can execute much more compared to it –  accessing, managing and sharing your files with other users or with your vendors comes with a different advantage.

The properties of the project can be changed anytime by the project owner, or the main user

The visibility and the description of the project allow users to inform or control the access of the project from other users.

Let us dive deep into the file accessing ability in 3DSpace. 3DSpace allows users to create a project group to store the filew for specific group. Where the group allows users to store different types of files such as office files, pictures, slides, SOLIDWORKS files, as well as DWG files among others. Each of these files come with options to allow users to directly open the files with the software at local machine or by using web application to open the files. For example, if you have a SOLIDWORKS part file,  you can open it in xDesign software or using your SOLIDWORKS on Desktop to open the files.

The 3DSpace allows users to open the files directly on 3DEXPERIENCE webapp or premises software in their computer

The majority of the webapp from 3DEXPERIENCE platform can only open the files from 3DSpace

Similar like 3DDrive, you can click and drag your files into 3DPlay to check and add remarks. But you can do more – you can direct share the remarked files as a picture format to easily share to 3DSWYM tools with other users within the platform itself.

3DPlay allows you to screenshot the picture and easily shares your update to specific 3DSWYM group in 3DEXPERIENCE

Managing the files is another level when you using 3DSpace. 3DSpace allows you to share files with others and give access to the others, so they can make direct changes and update simultaneously in the platform, which speeds up the process for improving product design and history tracking system in the storage system will indicate which user made the last changes on the files. The reservation files function in the 3DSpace which allows the files to be edited by a single user, one at a time, so there is no overlap issue or error occurs when the files are being edited.

The file management system in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows you to control the file access to track the file revision and reservation of your files

The additional properties system in the 3DSpace system allow the storage owners to choose whether the files or project can be seen by publicly or private and only specific user with given permission can access or review. It provides more security measures to your project files in the cloud storage system to prevent the files being stolen or corrupted within the storage system.

Conclusion

To conclude our sharing on 3DDrive and 3Space, Dassault Systemes’ team really pays a lot of attention when it comes to cloud storage system. By providing different types of the storage systems, it allows end users to decide which file is for personal backup and which file is for sharing and collaborating. Users are provided with unique login credentials into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform so that we are able to trace which user make changes to your files and access permission features, allow end users to decide who can review the files or who can work together the improve the project design.

If you are interested with this cloud solutions, get a quote now by dropping us an email at
sales@cadcam.com.my
 or
talk2us@cadcam.com.my
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Challenge 1 Answer

Hi everybody, have you figure out the answer?

Congratulation to those got the answer, for those still thinking the answer, please try this.

Apply Extrude feature for 3D sketch. 3D sketch allow you to put multiple sketch entities at different layer at a time.

Draw a well defined 3D sketch, then apply the Extrude feature.
Define the direction of extrution (going up), and using Selected Contour to define the sketch.

Now you have your answer. Let’s try this. (
same method
)

Shu Yi (
sychan@cadcam.com.my
), application engineer for IME Technology, team up with Suhaila to find and figure out great tips and tricks to help you to save your time. She also in charge of providing best-in-class customer support services to all our customer.


Challenge 1: multibody with 1 extrude?

Time to challenge your mind.
Try to create this model only using 1 feature. Yes, one and it must be
extrude
, not revolve. *evil*

It will help you more familiar with the feature in SolidWorks. Let me know the answer. ^.^

Shu Yi (
sychan@cadcam.com.my
), application engineer for IME Technology, team up with Suhaila to find and figure out great tips and tricks to help you to save your time. She also in charge of providing best in class customer support services to all our customer.


Challenge 2 Answer

Manage to spot the different on my previous post:
Imported Scanned data
?

The answer is here. the main different is an additional list of scanned data file extension, which include mesh files (*.nzip, *.nxm, *.scn, *.3ds, *.obj) and PointCould files (*.xyz, *.txt, *.asc, *.vda, *.igs).

You just need to turn on ScanTo3D add-ins (tools>add-ins) in SolidWorks Premium. With this feature, you can utilize the scanned data for remodeling or reference.


Challenge 2: Import scanned data

Let’s continue with our monthly challenge.

Spot the different and tell us how to have this different appear.

Answer in next post.

Amirul (
azmi@cadcam.com.my
), application engineer for IME Technology, one of our dedicated technical engineer to solve your SolidWorks and 3DVia problem.


Christmas Gift, anyone?

Jingle bell, Jingle bell, Jingle all the way…. to shopping mall.

Aiya, same old same old. Nothing special nor unique to buy as Christmas gift for my special one. If only i can have something unique for this year Christmas. Finally, I found it, in SolidWorks official website. Yes, SolidWorks website.

We knew that over millions designers around the world create a new concept and product with SolidWorks. So, this year
SolidWorks jingle all the way
 to introduce us some great inventions and products. A
PAGE
 in SolidWorks shared some nice designs, if you still cracking your head for Christmas gift.

In that page, it featured an iPad 2 casing design that personally I like it a lot. Why? Because during SolidWorks Innovation Day 2011 it was use for ‘Feature Freeze” presentation and I was thinking, is this casing for real or just for display purpose. Now, I got the answer. When I drill in further, I found out that it’s not just for real. It is also customizable and 3Dprint-able as one of a kind design. Now, that is unique Christmas gift.

You can click below link to enjoy some of the customize design by “jbare design.”

https://www.jbaredesign.com/ipad-2-wrap/

“A back wrap for the iPad 2. Engineered to work with Apple’s Smart Cover, the wrap protects your iPad 2’s corners and back while allowing your fingers to still feel the wonderfully designed & engineered surfaces of your iPad 2. And does so minimally adding only 2mm of thickness.”

That’s it, all the best for your Christmas shopping.