SOLIDWORKS Aerospace visualization

SOLIDWORKS Visualize is a new Rendering Tool for SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS Visualize is a new Rendering Tool for SOLIDWORKS

In year 2016, SOLIDWORKS® Visualization (formerly known as Bunkspeed) has launched along with SOLIDWORKS 2016. This products provide a suite of standalone software tools that enable easy and fast creation of visual content for designers, engineers, marketing, and other content creators. SOLIDWORKS® Visualize is in fact, “The Camera” that enables users of SOLIDWORKS and other CAD data programs to create, communicate, and collaborate with high-quality visual emotional content to drive innovation, design decisions, and business solutions.

welcome to the future of SOLIDWORKS visualization

welcome to the future of visualization

With the help of SOLIDWORKS Visualization products technical users or even nontechnical users able to leverage 3D CAD data to create photorealistic marketing content in minutes. From static images to animations and immersive web content, SOLIDWORKS Visualization products deliver photographical content that clearly and emotionally depicts products in the real world. The simple, intuitive interface gives users the tools to easily develop rich, photo quality content enabling all users of any skill level to have an enhanced 3D decision making experience in a fast, easy and fun way.

SOLIDWORKS Visualization products technical users

Currently, SOLIDWORKS Visualization products include two packages namely, SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard and SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional. With SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium license, user is now able to use SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard at no cost.

SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE STANDARD

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You no longer need to compromise your marketing and presentation materials by relying on screen grabs, or budget for costly photographs of prototypes, to show your latest product.

With SOLIDWORKS Visualize, you can quickly and easily create:

  • Lifelike photo-quality images
  • A mood board of different colors and finishes
  • High-resolution images ready for print and the web
  • Technical illustrations of key features

SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE PROFESSIONAL

With SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional you can tell a deeper 3D story about your product using your CAD data. SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional enables users to easily generate photo-quality stills and interactive animations to effectively communicate the most complex design details.

Enjoy all the features of SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard plus these additional features and more:

  • Demonstrate products more effectively with full animation of parts, models, appearances, cameras, and environments
  • Import your SOLIDWORKS CAD Motion Studies for truly photographic animations
  • Quickly show off the final design with one-click, 360-degree spins
  • Create interactive web content such as Interior Panoramas and Exterior VRs
  • Present and compare varying design solutions side-by-side with multiple viewports and included Configurator tool
  • Unleash your creative side with customizable Camera Filters

SOLIDWORKS Visualize professional

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional also includes key features to help increase productivity. The integrated Render Queue allows you to stack up jobs on your machine or a dedicated render farm to automatically complete one job after the other, providing remarkable time savings. SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost (network rendering) is also included for maximum scalability and higher speed, increasing productivity immediately to meet even the most demanding schedules.

In today’s constantly evolving global marketplace, time to market and design innovation matter more than ever. SOLIDWORKS Visualize enables you to validate your product’s market acceptance in record time with ease and flare, featuring:

  • Blazing fast performance and results that are easily scalable
  • Quality images indistinguishable from photos
  • Intuitive interface and minimal learning curve
  • Industry-leading Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) support

SOLIDWORKS visualize

CAM Part and Tool Table

Automated CAM-Part Definition allow you to reduce the time for setting up CAM-Part in SolidCAM. Creating a New parts already Pre-set for standard Post Processor, Coordinate System, Stock and Target. All you have to do is, if there is any setting that is no standard set in the pre-setting, you have to change it.

Understand all the function in Tool Table, to reduce the time for renumbering and changing the tooling number. Using Filter to filter out the Tooling Diameter, Tooling Type or Tooling Number.

Create a New Shape Tools. Today’s consumers demand more. More new products. Higher quality products. And often more products for less money. In order to stay competitive–often to stay in business–today’s manufacturers expect their suppliers to provide better, faster, and more cost-effective ways to produce and deliver those products. If your company has using “Special” Tooling. This will show you how SolidCAM create a Special Tools.

What is CAM-Part Definition

The CAM-Part definition process includes the following stages:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • CAM-Part creation-define the necessary system file and a folder to allocate the place to store SolidCAM data.
  • CNC-controller definition-The controller type influences the Coordinate System definition and the Geometry definition.
  • Coordinate system definition-the origin for all machining operation of the CAM-Part.
  • Stock model definition-stock model that describes the initial state of the workpiece to be machined.
  • Target model definition-the model of the part in its final state after the machining.

For a standard way, we need to manually define all the process stage.

By using Automated CAM-Part Definition we can skip all the process above, we just need go to solidCam setting and Pre-set it as automatic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filter and renumbering Tool table

To reduce the time for renumbering and changing the tooling number. Using filter to filter out the tooling Diameter, Tooling Type or Tooling Number.

Permanent tool number

In some workshops people has “tool sets” with the same tool positions in the machine magazine. This can easily solve in SolidCAM with option “Permanent tool number”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shape Tools

Create a New Shape Tools. Today’s consumers demand more. More new products. Higher quality products, and often more products for less money. In order to stay competitive-often to say in business-today’s manufacturers expect their suppliers to provide better, faster, and more cost-effective ways to produce and deliver those products. If your company has using “special” Tooling. This will show you how SolidCAM create a Special Tools.

You can start to choose the shape & size for you customize tool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tips and Trick working with Sheet Metal

SOLIDWORKS has a specific sheet metal features that allow the creation of sheet metal quickly. It also allow user to convert the model into flatten state so that user can get the blank size for production planning and material ordering.

Today, I am going to share some useful tips and trick when creating sheet metal in SOLIDWORKS.

Cut-extrude with Normal Cut option

It is recommended that always use the “Normal Cut” option whenever a cut/hole is created in sheet metal unless with specific reason that cannot be compromised. Since hole wizard and hole feature do not have “Normal Cut” option, hence hole shall be create using cut-extruded feature (if possible).

For instance, we look at the below example, apparently a Normal Cut would not be needed to create the cut.  Inside the cut, edge-flange has been created for both ends of the cut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, if we zoom in to examine the edge-flange, we can notice that one of the edge flange do not create proper relief.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However if the ‘normal cut” is used, the relief is now in correct manner.

 

Bounding Box and Grain Direction

The bounding box feature is to find the minimum area in which a flatten pattern can fits into. Sometime, the direction of bounding box given might not be the most effective. In this case, we can specify the grain direction using a sketch/edge in the Flatten Pattern Feature Manager.

Lofted bend ‘Bent manufacturing method’

Lofted bend ‘Bent manufacturing method’was first introduced at SOLIDWORKS 2014. This method generates “True” bends and bend line. Unlike ‘Form manufacturing method’, it does not required sketch filleted corners.

The option “Refer to endpoint” can be check, if possible, system will find a solution by rounding the corner area.

Sheet Metal Cut list in Flat Pattern View

A common misconception is that the sheet metal cut list can only be displayed within a table.

In fact we can show it in the flat pattern drawing view.

To do that, right click on the view > Annotation > Cut List Properties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s all for today’s sharing. Hope you find this info useful. Cheer~~

 

SOLIDWORKS Inspection-AQL

What is SOLIDWORKS Inspection?

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a First Article Inspection (FAI) and in-process inspection software that streamlines and automates the creation of ballooned inspection drawings and inspection reports (AS9102, PPAP, etc.).

SOLIDWORKS Inspection consists of a stand-alone application and a SOLIDWORKS add-in that enables users to leverage their legacy data regardless of whether they have SOLIDWORKS files, PDFs, or TIFFs.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a simple and intuitive application that can reduce the time needed to create inspection documentation by up to 90 percent, and helps to virtually eliminate input errors, thus improving quality and reducing time-to-market.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional extends capabilities by giving users multiple ways to enter measured values directly into the project to help simplify part inspection. Each characteristic value can be entered manually, by using a digital calliper, or by importing coordinate measuring machine (CMM) results.

What is AQL(Acceptable Quality Limits)?

The Acceptable Quality Limit, commonly referred to as AQL, is a method widely used to measure a production order sample to find whether or not the entire product order has met the client’s specifications. The customer then has the data to make an informed decision to accept or reject the lot.

Three types of defects are distinguished. For most consumer goods, the limits are:

  • 0% for critical defects (totally unacceptable: a user might get harmed, or regulations are not respected).
  • 5% for major defects (these products would usually not be considered acceptable by the end user).
  • 0% for minor defects (there is some departure from specifications, but most users would not mind it).

These proportions vary in function of the product and its market. Components used in building an airplane are subject to much lower AQL limits.

AQL Tables

Lot Size: The quantity of each product is a lot size, and it is advised to perform separate inspections for each lot.

Inspection Level:  Different inspection levels will command different numbers of samples to inspect.

Example:

For a hypothetical inspection of a production with 4,000 units, with an Acceptable Quality Limit of II, Table A indicates a general inspection level of “L”.

Referring to Table B row L. For a sample size of 200, with an AQL of 2.5, no more than 10 units may fail for a passed report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lightweight, Large Assembly Review, Defeature, SpeedPak

We will be looking at how SOLIDWORKS tools can help you in large assembly design process. By using these tools in your large assembly, you may handle large assembly easily, minimize loading time and better performance.

Lightweight

Lightweight components are a key factor in improving the performance of large assemblies. Lightweight components only load   subset of information into memory. Mainly graphical information and default reference geometry.

Lightweight can be applied to sub-assemblies and parts. The lightweight component can speed up assembly work, keep mate intact, maintain placement, keep orientation, be moved and rotated, be displaced in shaded or hidden line and also have mass properties or interference detection performed on them. However, lightweight components cannot be edited and show their features in FeatureManager design tree.

When components loaded in lightweight, lightweight components indicated with a blue color feather symbol over the components icon in Feature Manager tree. While the out of date lightweight parts are indicated with a red color feather symbol. There are no major downsides and serious limitations by using lightweight. Therefore, you can use lightweight all the time.

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Large Assembly Mode

Large assembly mode is collection of system settings that improves the performance of assemblies. Large assembly mode can be turn on at any time, or set a threshold for the number of components, and have large assembly mode turn on automatically when threshold is reached.

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When opening assembly with large assembly mode active, appropriate settings are chosen to make the large assembly faster.

 

Large Design Review

Large design review lets you open very large assemblies quickly, while still retaining capabilities that are useful when conducting design reviews of assemblies. Large design review mode enables you to quickly open, navigate, walk-through, measure, section, and creates snapshot views with comments of massive assemblies containing huge numbers of parts, helping to clearly communication your design. If you want to ensure that all items are updated properly, you must open your assembly as lightweight or fully resolved. In Large Design Review mode, you cannot edit components or mates because large design review mode intended as an environment for quick review.

In Large Design Review mode:

  • Quickly open, mark up,  and investigate extremely large assemblies
  • Select items to open for editing
  • Section through your design
  • Measure the dimensions
  • Hide and show components
  • Create a design walk-through to highlight key areas
  • Create snapshots with comments
  • Selectively open and edit a part or assembly while reviewing the design Large Design Review

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SpeedPak

SpeedPak creates a simplified configuration of an assembly without losing reference. A SpeedPak configuration is essentially a subset of the parts and faces of an assembly. SpeedPak simplifies an assembly without suppressing the components. A SpeedPak configuration is essentially a subset of the parts and faces of an assembly. SpeekPak simplifies without suppressing. Therefore, you can substitute a SpeekPak configuration for the full assembly in higher level assemblies without losing references.

Defeature

Dealing with a large assembly can have its frustrations however SolidWorks has some tools to help. That is another tool called Defeature. This tool lets you remove details from the large assemblies, multi-body parts, and parts to simplify the geometry. The feature can be found under tools.With the defeature tool, you can remove details   from a part or assembly and save the model into a new file which details are replaced by the dumb solids. A dumb solid is a solid part without any feature and   history in the feature manager. This tool is often used to share files without revealing all the design details of the model. Benefit of defeature tool can improve performance by simplifying the graphics and model information. With the defeature tool, the file size and rebuild times can be significantly reduced.  However, the new file after apply defeature tool has the same mass and center of gravity as assigned mass properties.

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Filleting Master Class-Learn How to Conquer Fillets in SOLIDWORKS

Fillet, is always important when doing 3D design, especially you who involve in consumer products design and industrial designers. But making a good fillet, is always very challenging.

Today I’m going to share with you how can we conquer the fillets in SOLIDWORKS and some advanced techniques in handling tricky fillets.

The Secret behind Fillet

One thing that you might interested to know is, fillets always need to find somewhere to end, looking at the below example:

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SOLIDWORKS fillet tool is able to automatically extend the RED faces; the fillet now has a place to end.

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Types of Fillets

So, how many types of fillet SOLIDWORKS has?

  1. Constant Size Fillet

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2. Constant Size Fillet- Keep Edge/Keep Surface 

Keep Edge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Constant Size Fillet- Round Corners

Constant Size Fillet- Round Corners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Conic Fillets

The Conic fillet tool creates fillets based on sections of a hyperbola. These fillets shapes can change depending upon input values. Numbers closer to 1 have a sharper appearance. Numbers closer to 0 have a flattened appearance. As a rule of thumb, use values larger than .5

Conic Fillets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Setback Fillets

Setback Fillets offer additional options for corner treatments. Setback fillets create softer corners where 3 fillets meet a common vertex. All three common edges must be filleted in the same feature. Enable Multiple Radius Fillet for different sizes. Select the common vertex under Setback Parameters. Select a size and hit Set All.

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6. Variable Size Fillet

Variable Size Fillets change is size along their length based on user specified inputs. It support Conic Fillets as well.

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7. Variable Size Fillet- Smooth/Straight Transitions

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8. Face Fillet

Face fillets can create the same types of fillets as the Constant size command. Their power lies in their ability to select faces to define a fillet, instead of an edge between two faces.

Face Fillet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Face Fillet- Constant Width

Constant Width Face Fillets appear to be the same size along their length, but the radius value changes along is length. These fillets are loved by designers because of the clean look they give.

Face Fillet- Constant Width

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. Full Round Fillets

Full round fillets are useful for rounding off geometry. They will change in radius along their length to ensure the fillet is tangent to three adjacent faces.

Full Round Fillets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Handling Tricky Fillets

It is very often when we trying to make a fillet, there is an error pop out and you can’t add fillet.  A fillet usually fail is due to 2 reasons:

  • The software is unable to extend one or more faces along the path of the fillet giving somewhere for the fillet to end.
  • The fillet is too large for the geometry. It might only be in one small portion of the fillet path, but it will still cause the feature to fail.

Let’s have a look at one of the example below:

This part requires a .25” fillet along the highlighted edge. However, SOLIDWORKS is unable to add a fillet at the desired radius.

Handling Tricky Fillets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hence, you may try to do following steps to solve the problem:

a. Identify Potential Fail Points

The fillet is most likely failing at the corner because SOLIDWORKS  is unable to extend the corner faces to terminate the fillet.

Identify Potential Fail Points

 

 

 

     

 

 

b. Cut Away the Fail Point

Cut Away the Fail Point

 

 

 

 

 

 

c. Repair the Corner

Use delete face and fill to close the corner.

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Alright, that’s all from me for today’s blog. Hope you enjoy reading. Cheers~

 

 

Preview of What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2017 Top Ten Features (PART 2)

3. More Powerful Modeling Tools

In SOLIDWORKS 2017, users can rest assure that their modeling will get even faster and even more convenient. With the new Hole Wizard feature, we can create multi stepped holes in a single operation. These multi-stepped holes are a common design feature in many industries, and with this new feature, we can create them much faster and with less hassle. Other than that, we can also reuse these customized advance holes with the all-so-familiar Favourites tool in SOLIDWORKS.

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Lastly, SOLIDWORK’s Sheet Metal Modeling can now support corner reliefs for intersections of 3 bends. When selecting the Corner Relief option, just proceed as we would normally by letting SOLIDWORKS 2017 collect the appropriate corners and choose from the various relief options. The material will be removed where appropriate in both the bent and flattened state.

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4. Rendering and Animations Get a Boost from Visualize

In SOLIDWORKS 2016, we have introduced the new SOLIDWORKS Visualize, an extensive tool set to easily create images, animations, and interactive content. For 2017, we have introduced a few new enhancements to dramatically improve render speed and workflow between modeling, rendering, and viewing.

First off, the new ‘Visualize Boost’ lets you render output to one or more dedicated computers with network rendering. This allows you to increase render speeds and improves content productivity, not to mention that it will also free up your local computer for other actions that require graphics computation. We can also import animations and motion studies clips into SOLIDWORKS Visualize to continue our rendering work immediately.

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Another great feature is that we can map existing familiar SOLIDWORKS camera navigation and hot keys like mouse gestures to further dramatically quicken your competency and mastery of SOLIDWORKS Visualize. Lastly, the new SOLIDWORKS Visualize has new support for Virtual Reality gadgets like the HTC® Vive™, Oculus, Google® Cardboard, and the Samsung®.
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Stay tuned with us for more what’s new preview for SOLIDWORKS 2017! -Coming up next: Preview of What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2017 Top Ten Features (PART 3)

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Preview of What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2017 Top Ten Features (PART 1)

1. 3D Interconnect

Ever feel upset when your customer or supplier used a different design tool which is incompatible with yours? The design process becomes more complex due to the variety of design tools in the market. Now, SOLIDWORKS 2017 provides a solution for this problem by introducing flexible and powerful new workflows when working with 3rd Party design data with 3D Interconnect.

The new 3D Interconnect supports numerous different file formats which include PTC Creo, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens Solid Edge and NX. As well as CATIA V5 for SOLIDWORKS Premium. It allows you to work with CAD data from a variety of design tools as though they were native SOLIDWORKS files. This new function streamlined the collaboration between different parties regardless of which CAD tools they are using. 3D Interconnect breaks the barrier of design workflows and make it faster with lesser cost.

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2. Improved Large Assembly Performance

There are about 1800 separate parts in a car. How long will it take to assemble all these parts? The time consumed in large assemblies can be significant and slow down the whole design process. This is due to the sheer number of models that get loaded and the interactions that need to be solved between these components in large assemblies. This can particularly difficult when working with layouts to optimize space and organize equipment.

Several new tools in SOLIDWORKS 2017 can help to enhance workflows that directly address many of these challenges. First, parts and assemblies can be published as assets that allow easy drag and drop mating. Upon insertion, components are immediately snapped onto a ground plane, and can be rotated for approximate positioning with a simple tab key. Magnetic Mate can applied as an asset approaches another to allow mating in a fast manner. These new Magnetic Mates make it easy to organize equipment and maximize space utilization.

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Stay tuned with us for more what’s new preview for SOLIDWORKS 2017!

Watch SOLIDWORKS Whats New 2017 live near your place : www.cad-vision.com.my/cvsswid2017/

Other article you might be interested:

http://www.cad-vision.com.my/preview-of-whats-new-solidworks-2017-top-ten-features-part-2/

DIY! Customized your Phone Cover Design in SOLIDWORKS

Hi guys, today I’m gonna share with you how do I use SOLIDWORKS cover all aspects of a product development process with a seamless, integrated workflow—design, verification, sustainable design, and data management. For you who involve in a product design, you can span multiple disciplines with ease, shortening the design cycle, increasing productivity and delivering innovative products to market faster.

Let’s take a look what am I going to design today! It is a phone cover!

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Starting from conceptual until detailed design, SOLIDWORKS made my job easier, especially the newly launched website: http://my.solidworks.com/ , it include everything I need! From self-learning tutorial, online library, forums, manufacturers worldwide, and etc.

Now I wanted to add a new logo. As this is a plastic product, the overall product thickness is important to me by consider the injection molding process. SOLIDWORKS Utilities did a really good job here, by using the Thickness Analysis utility , I can determine different thicknesses of a part. This utility is especially helpful when using thin-walled plastic parts.

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It will colored the part into different color region and I could visually inspect the region that might causing cooling problem when going to injection molding.

Not only thickness analysis, SOLIDWORKS Utilities also comes with others capabilities:

  • Compare Utility
  • Feature Paint
  • Find/Modify Utility
  • Find and Replace Annotation
  • Geometry Analysis
  • Power Select
  • Report Manager
  • Simplify Utility
  • Symmetry Check Utility
  • Feature Parameter vs. Volume-based Feature Simplification

 

Next question that comes into my mind, if my product meeting the design requirement? Would it over or under design? Can it be more optimum by considering cost & quality? or could it be more environmental friendly? This is how Simulation Xpress and Sustainability Xpress that really helps me out, virtually analyze my product follow the testing criteria, dramatically reduce the prototyping cost.

This is the result obtained from Simulation Xpress, looks pretty good to me. J It can display the high stress region, how much deformation if apply a certain bending load, and also factor of safety level. Give me really in-depth concepts how would my product be after it is physically built out.

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Whereas, this is the result I got from Sustainability Xpress. By choosing the material I’m using, and giving some necessary inputs, example: how long it can last, what is the manufacturing process, produce and use region, and etc, it could calculate the possible environmental impact by dividing into 4 categories:

  1. Carbon Footprint
  2. Energy Consumption
  3. Air acidification
  4. Water Eutrophication

 

Very informative!

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Well, it is ready to go! Next part would be input some important PMI data and share it to production team. Something that surprise me was SOLIDWORKS come with a great GD&T tools—DIMXpert!

You can inputs your GD&T standards in 3D, and all these information can be automatically generated in 2D detailed drawing, which really reduce my documentation time! With that, you can even link it to TolAnalyst to perform a stack-up analysis.

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Click here for more details self-learning video for DimXpert and TolAnalyst! http://my.solidworks.com/reader/wpblogsteacher/2012%252F09%252Fhow-dimxpert-and-tolanalyst-can-help-you-out-in-school.html/how-dimxpert-and-tolanalyst-can-help-you-out-in-school

One greater thing here was SOLIDWORKS has even been equipped with a costing module which enable you to calculate material and manufacturing cost to produce your product!

With just a few info needed to provide SOLIDWORKS Costing, such as manufacturing method, material type, mold cost, labor cost and etc, SOLIDWORKS will take care the rest! It will even divide the costs into setup/operations cost. Pretty good tools for you who need to provide quick cost estimation to customer.

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Finally, all the designs data could be very frustrated if you did not manage it well. SOLIDWORKS PDM was well developed to integrate in SOLIDWORKS which allow you to secure, manage and control the revisions of your file. Paperless approval process, files sharing between departments made easy, duplicated data definitely has been reduced and a lot more benefits to you. While to learn PDM was pretty easy, what you need to know basically just check-in and out! Awesome!

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Click here for more details PDM info: http://www.cad-vision.com.my/solidworks-product-data-management-pdm/ 

 

 

And Hey!! This is my final product! Good looking ha? XD

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(PS: With my “primary level” of photo rendering skill, not too bad right? XD oh ya, I’m using SOLIDWORKS Photoview 360 to render it, pretty cool!)

 

Alright, that’s all from me today, hope you enjoy reading! Cheers~

 

Prepared by,

Chloe Chia

Application Consultant, CADVision Systems Sdn. Bhd.

Seven Wastes that should be avoided by Streamlined your process

We have explained the lean operation concepts in our previous blog post. This round, we are going to study on wastes in lean operation. In the principles of lean operation, wastes are non value-added activities. In other words, wastes are activities that do not bring values to customers, and are considered a burden to the process.

Traditionally, manufacturers can tolerate with the production of defective parts or inventories that need to be reworked. But as noted by the father of Toyota Production System (TPS), Taiichi Ohno, any process or parts that do not add value to customers and customers do not wish to pay for it, is considered a waste. Ohno has identified seven categories of waste that forms an important part of lean thinking. The seven categories of waste are:

  • Over-production: this waste refers to condition were companies are producing more than what is expected or ordered by the customers or over-produced inventories. Inventories of any kind, be it a work-in-process (WIP) or finished product, are considered waste.
  • Waiting or Queues: situations such as waiting time between production processes, machine Idle time, waiting time associated with storage and retrieval, interruptions during production shift change, etc. These are situations that add no values.
  • Transportation: inefficient material movements between plants or between work centers, moving products that are not actually required to perform the processing, etc.
  • Inventory: all raw materials, work-in-process (WIP), finished goods, and excess operating supplies are considered as waste when inventory related cost (such as storage costs and handling costs) are significant.
  • Motion: Movement of equipment or people that is more than what is required to perform the processing is waste.
  • Over processing: additional work or process that is performed on the product. This can be due to poor tools or inefficient workflow design that adds no value to the final product.
  • Defective product: product returns, warranty claims, rework and scrap are considered a waste as it requires extra resources for inspecting and fixing defects.

Do you know how to identify them in your organization?  You are invited to join our event “Lean Journey to Productivity“, as we take you on a journey to lean. The event is free and on a first come first serve basis. Find out more by register this event today.