SolidWorks World 2013: The year in which all flew by the airs

Every year SolidWorks World offers us news of some new product. In occasions the announcements turn into tangible products to the cape of little time and, in other occasions, need of a period of upper incubation to the planned. In this edition discover that to finals of this year will be available a new application, designated SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, and that has like aim offer a tool to do mechanical designs to conceptual level, that is to say, without going in in details. To some extent, pretend to be the tool used by all those that, up to now, basically worked with outlines, done with a tool that was not thought to do outlines, or that, simply, used a pencil and a leaf of paper. They open a market, because it supposes that 30% of the time of a project devotes to create concepts and for this SolidWorks does not have specific tools.

For resumir the product in four words, will use the four employees by his presenters to define it: conceptual, social, instintivo and connected. Conceptual means to ignore the details, concentrate in the essential. Social and connected wants to say colaborativo and prepared for the interlocución between all the involved, from the one who commissions the product until those who have to build his distinct parts, going through the one who designs it. Instintivo, frankly, am not exactly sure of what wants to say, although I imagine that it appeals to the conception of the tool so that it was very easy to use.

According to reiterations of Fielder Hiss, vice-president of marketing and gestión of product, SolidWorks goes to be followed working (at least during the next years) based in the same technology with which was conceived. On the other hand, one of the products announced in the past edition, SolidWorks Live Buildings, progresses, although it will launch to the market something later of the foreseen originally.

During the first general session of the evento, Bernard Charlès, president and general director of Dassault Systèmes [2], devoted a good part of his time to matizar the positioning of his company. One of his lemmas was "Dassault Systèmes provides to the companies and the people universes of Experience3D to imagine able sustainable innovations to harmonise product, nature and life". As all good lemma, has a part of marketing and a politically correct terminology. Dassault Systèmes, appointed 4ª more innovative company of the world in the area of Software and Programming, wants to turn into the referent of all what have to see with the 3D. If Google is the platform of research of the planet Tierra, Facebook is the social platform, or Wikipedia a platform of knowledge, Dassault Systèmes wants to position his 3DExperience like the platform for the three-dimensional representation of the Universe. The aim is ambitious, definitely, because it pretends no only situate in the business surroundings of design but it wants to cover to the public in general. It is thus, we believe, that the distinct products of the company go incorporating progressively more characteristic 'web 2.0', as they are the radical simplification of the interfaces of user to achieve ease of use, the incorporation of mechanisms of collaboration and communication: one some democratisation and socialisation of the technology, do it more affordable so that it was ubicua. The audience did not finish it to understand.

In the meantime, shortly after the past summer, SolidWorks presented SolidWorks Electrical, that allows to design the electrical part of a machine, so much to level of pure electrical diagram (even in his simpler version: the sinóptico) like the three-dimensional model of each one of the electrical components, well was in the electrical cupboard, well are motors, detectors, cables or other components that form part of the interior of the machine [5].

Each edition of SolidWorks World seems to have a true central subject, that usually serves of 'excuse' to show the potentials of the product. To the mechanical engineers, the greater part of users of SolidWorks, love them the vehicles. This year, we have seen a pile of vehicles, in a very wide sense, whose common characteristic was that they were thought to go by the airs. Of this form, had occasion to know to Art Thompson and Jon Wells, of the company Sage Chesire, Inc. and that they were those who designed and built all the team that allowed to Felix Baumgartner, of the instrument Network Bull Stratos, jump to the empty from more than 39 km of height, and surpass during the fall the speed of light.

The four presentations of things that move by the air had an element in common, that the greater part of the assistants appreciated. In all the cases treated of users of SolidWorks, as those that were seated in front of them. And for a community that considers to himself same community, see to some of his members in the stage... It arouses them, it puts them, it stimulates them. And they appreciate it.

Every year, during the general session of the Wednesday of SolidWorks World, the users can throw a first glimpse to what will come in the next version of SolidWorks. It is an evento that many expect with interest (all are curious cream) and is a big way to arrive to the colophon of the week. The enumeration of this year was teatralizada, as it is habit, with three products crashes used to show all the new characteristic. The products crashes were frankly fun: a computer reconverted in sandwhichera/hamburguesera, designated SolidGrill (and that imagine using to any of our mates of work), a bicycle pro that allows to work while one exercises , call SolidWorkOut (and in which we imagine mounted to the one who directs this publication) and a belt tool holders designated DesignBelt (that we imagine in the waist of our autonombrado responsible of maintenance).

The list of characteristics was really long (some 40) and presented of a form really hilarante. Thanks to the three 'products', the assistants troncharon while they discovered the most notable novelties and that cover all the areas: pieces, groups, drawings, charts, sheet, electricity (SolidWorks Electrical), enrutado, simulation, CircuitWorks, simulation of fluids, interface of users and SolidWorks plastics.

Summary of characteristics of SolidWorks 2014

•     Ranurados
•     Dimensions

•     automatic Disposal of screws
•     Take advantage of the symmetry in the simulation (symmetry of results)
•     Transparencies with independence of the order
•     Lighting with natural sunlight and his animations
•     Render of animations in network

•     Dimensions of length of route
•     Splines of fixed length
•     Splines of different styles
•     Replace entities in the outlines
•     Replace model in the seen
•     Icons of seen
•     contextual Menu for the style of the sight
•     Seen shaded of high quality
•     angular Dimensions accumulated
•     Tables of materials divided according to number of rows

•     eDrawings with reality increased

•     Cartelas in the corners
•     Transitions of folded with big arches

•     Wired up (mazos of cables)
•     Reuse of wired up
•     Clips in flat representations
•     Pines of connection coloreados

•     thermal sensors Properties in CircuitWorks
•     Link with the simulation of fluids of SolidWork

•     Subjects
•     Folder of history
•     contextual Menu of flexible groups
•     Save like copy simplified

•     Analysis of residual tensions

Of turn west, SolidWorks World 2014 will celebrate the next year again in San Diego, of the 26 to 29 January.

References and more information

1. www.interempresas.net/a37769
2. www.3ds.com/es/company/about-dassault-systemes/management/bernard-charles/
3. All the articles related with SolidWorks World 2013: www.interempresas.net/a105934
4. SolidWorks plastics: www.interempresas.net/a106049
5. SolidWorks Electrical: www.interempresas.net/a105914