SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual: Design forgetting of the details

SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual heads to the professionals and equipment of design in the sector of the industrial machinery, in concrete those that are involved in the conceptualización of the machine.

The product will test (in production) between a group reduced of customers from May of 2013. It foresees that it was available for the public in general from November.

This new program is complementary to the current version of SolidWorks. It simplifies and it speeds up the conceptual mechanical design and allows to the users develop, confirm and choose the best and more robust concepts. To continuation can move the concept to the version of SolidWorks CAD to do the design of detail.

In place to do garabatos in a leaf of paper, outlines to thick stroke, the system allows to develop concepts directly in some surroundings of modelado digital. It is something as well as ‘software for creative that up to now do not use software'. It deletes the limitations of the CAD traditional and does that it was easy for the users expresses his ideas and iteraciones of design directly in a digital model. It combines ‘design without structure' with the ‘direct edition' of parametric geometry, of form highly interactive.

The creation of ‘models without structure' allows to develop concepts of different ways (of group to piece, of piece to group or any another combination).

The direct edition transforms easily native geometries or mattered, with independence of which was the aim of the initial design, what allows the easy reuse of what already is fact and allows to centre in the concept of what wants to do new.

The software facilitates the social interaction with all the parts interested in a project of design, what allows a more frequent feedback and better, and help to obtain the best final solution possible in the lower possible time

can ‘chatear' privately with the mates of work directly in the tool to argue the solutions of design, or send a design to the providers for his comment, before it was entirely finalised.

SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual stores of continuous form the data of each design while it works . Although SolidWorks has not employed the expressesion ‘in the cloud', is a perfect and reasonable possibility, although it also can that the database was in a local network. The data are in an only place and sure, and the designers, or other involved, access to the correct ‘data' anytime and from any place.

If three years ago SolidWorks wanted to go to the cloud, seems that it already has found the way. And if it does two argued and rediscutía on if SolidWorks went to change the core ParaSolid by V6 (what have confirmed us that they do not have intention to do, at least during the two next years), has paint that Mechanical Conceptual will be based in Catia V6, although the terminology that now is using (and does not help) is the one of ‘platform 3DExperience'.

That is to say, if the announcements to change SolidWorks radically, move it to the cloud or change his core, in his moment had bad received, seems that the solution has been: we do not touch SolidWorks. What works works. We go to do a new product, and the worst that can happen is that it do not like. A good form to swim and save the clothes. Or said of another form, the experiments, with gaseous. And the result can be a very good product.

• “New Product: SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual”, Ricky Jordan (in English)
• “Introducing SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, to new way to jumpstart your design process” Blog of SolidWorks, (in English)