SolidWorks World 2014, designing without limits

Is an annual appointment expected. Each edition, thousands of people assist to the superevento SolidWorks World of the hand of Dassault Systèmes. And it is that here everything is superlative, the magnitude of the room where each morning celebrate the general sessions, the invited surprise, the shows nocturnal and the novelties of some partners, presentations of world-wide character. It could say that of the 26 to 29 January the North American city of San Diego went back to convert by some days in the capital of the mechanical engineering and of the design of the world. The protagonists were a lot of but if something was focus of attention during the tenth sixth edition of the contest this went definitely the launching of SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, an application that advances in the conceptual design, allowing to the users capture and develop digitally with rapidity his ideas to create only designs.

SolidWorks World 2014 started his first general session in a room of the centre of conventions of San Diego with near of six thousand assistants related with the world of the engineering and of the design in a day presented by Bertrand Sicot, CEO of SolidWorks. A vehicle with form arácnida went in in the room for surprise of the presents and gave by inaugurated the tenth sixth edition.

Sicot Headed to the presents to speak of the community SolidWorks, to where directs and how helps the signature to the professionals to “design without limits”. With 2,3 million users all over the world, the community SolidWorks is the elder in the industry of the CAD three-dimensional.

Today the wallet of products of SolidWorks has expanded to cover the areas of CAD three-dimensional, the simulation, the management of data, the sustainable design and the tools of documentation. In the last years, have added new tools for the plastic and electrical design, as well as free tools such as eDrawings and DraftSight. Sicot Continued the day with the announcement of two new products that will see the light during the next months: SolidWorks Inspection and eDrawings Meetings.

The team of SolidWorks also has worked in new products based in the platform 3DExperience of Dassault Systèmes. Said platform, based in the cloud allows services of researches, labeling, exchange colaborativo, messages and storage in the public or private cloud. One of the novelties that presents the company in SolidWorks World is the first application Solidworks on the platform 3DExperience: Solidworks Mechanical Conceptual, based in four basic pillars: intuitive, conceptual, social and connected.

In the era of the ‘experience of use', the world of the design has changed radically: it is more social and conceptual and the collaboration is critical. SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, on the platform 3DExperience, gathers the essence of this new philosophy. With this solution, Dassault Systèmes opens to new horizons in the world of the design and offers to the community SolidWorks the power of all his applications, contents and services.

“Of the same way that the technologies and the models of business evolve, our users expect that we provide them the newest tools to help them to collaborate of form more extensive and to take advantage of the manufacture and impressesion 3D with the aim to be more competitive and innovative. With SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, have done precisely this. For the first time, all the industry of manufacture can benefit of a revolutionary social platform that serves so much to the global community of SolidWorks as to the new generation of experiences of processes headed to the world-wide community of Catia”, signals Bertrand Sicot, CEO of SolidWorks of Dassault Systèmes. “The opportunities of cooperation for the users of SolidWorks are greater that never. This opens the door to our customers of all type of industries and companies in which Dassault Systèmes and his others applications are significant pieces”.

The assistants to the congress attended also to conferences of customers that already have begun to use the product in a phase of proofs and production. SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual advances in the conceptual design, allowing to the users capture and develop digitally with rapidity his ideas to create winning designs with which conquer quota of market. “I have used the conceptual archive to investigate and test different forms to develop my idea at the same time. They exist different forms in which I can develop my concept, but the limitations always are the same”, explains William MacLeod, engineer of Kennedy Hygiene. “With SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, was able to produce quickly three or more conceptual configurations in the time that had needed to produce an alone configuration in the solutions 3D CAD conventional. Quickly, I can realizar iterations on a design and move the concept selected to SolidWorks for the detailed final”.

Of complementary form to the software of design 3D, SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual combines the best technology of design of his category developed by Dassault Systèmes with the simple and familiar interface of SolidWorks. This helps to simplify and to optimise the conceptual mechanical design, allowing to the users develop, confirm and choose the best concepts to attract to the customers and sell more.

One of the key advantages of the new solution SolidWorks based in the platform 3DExperience of Dassault Systèmes is the on-line collaboration through his capacities cloud preconstruidas. The social appearance of the conceptual design and the taking of decisions is integrated in the capacities of SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual.

Treats of some surroundings of modelling centred in four key elements of the conceptual design:

• Conceptual: the users can create and develop quickly his concepts of the form that want without barriers of design, and can capture automatically his ideas to use them anytime in a future.
• Instintivo: The users can design such as they think, with tools of agile design and instintivas in some surroundings of modelling without structures and with capacity of direct edition.
• Social: the familiar tools of social collaboration included in the interactive surroundings 3DExperience allow to the users handle the collective intelligence of his company, the customers and the providers.
• Connected: the collaboration has improved with the saved automatic of the iterations of design to keep the data to save, updated and accessible anytime and in any part.

Bernard Charles, CEO of Dassault Systèmes, president of the signature from 17 years ago, went up to the estrado to explain to the present how in the last years have helped to “transform the world of the manufacture and the design and connected the processes with the products”. The past year, Dassault Systèmes attained the position number 3 in the ranking international of software and engineering in the list Forbes of the most innovative companies. The maximum exponent of the multinational announced three new products: Exalead OnePart, HomeByMe, and 3d.by.me.

In each edition, SolidWorksWorld brings some invited special to the General Sessions. If in other occasions famous characters like the director of cinema James Cameron or the tycoon Richard Branson, founder of the group Virgin, participated in the event, in SolidWorks 2014 miscellaneous invited deleitaron to the presents, leaving them boquiabiertos and in some occasion starting them more than a smile. The hit of impact, the lesson of humanity, of superación and the tangible proof of what the technology is able to do by the medicine and the society, went to charge of Hugh Herr, manager of the department of investigation biomecánica in MIT Half Lab and of one of the companies with greater international projection in the investigation and manufacture of intelligent prostheses, BioM.

“BioM Develops electromechanical systems that plant in the body or implant in the interior of the organism, normalising the capacities of the human body or awarding him more capacity”. To continuation, the manager of the company raised the legs of the trousers, while it affirmed “Carry two prostheses. I have designed them I”, for stupefaction of the room.

Engineer, biophysical and climber, Hugh Herr lost his two legs under the knee after remaining trapped in a storm of snow during three days while escalaba the mountain Washington.

Hugh Herr is also the manager of the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT, specialised in the design and investigation of intelligent prostheses and exosqueletos.

Engineer, biophysical and climber, lost his two legs under the knee after remaining trapped in a storm of snow during three days while escalaba the mountain Washington (New Hampshire) in 1982. Instead of resignarse to not going back to scalar, Hugh designed his own prostheses, that have allowed him reach the same level of climbing that before the accident.

With a degree in physics in the University of Millersville, Master in mechanical Engineering in MIT, and titled in biophysics, Hugh Herr has founded his own company, BioM, and is the manager of the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT, specialised in the design and investigation of intelligent prostheses and exosqueletos. Hugh has a vision of a world in which there is not place for the disabilities, a world where the prostheses and exosqueletos are a way of daily transport for us. To show the extremities into use, Hugh showed a video of a soldier with both legs amputated in Iraq running with the legs ortopédicas BioM by a hill without losing the breath.

SolidWorks Has a fundamental paper in the design of the intelligent prostheses.

The second day began with the presentation of the organisation eatArt, that presented the Mondo Spider, a machine with form of arachnid and eight able legs to walk, created in Vancouver by engineers and artists in 2006. Years afterwards, date in which it participated in the Olympic games of Winter in Vancouver 2010 reconverted to work with power electrical, what allowed him work of form more silent, load with power solar and avoid the broadcasts of carbon.

International presentation of the first three-dimensional printer of fibre of carbon of the world.

Gian Paulo Bassi, vice-president of Investigation and Development of SolidWorks, welcomed Greg Marcos, founder and CEO of MarkForged, the responsible company of the design of the first printer 3D of fibre of carbon of the world. The printer, with double cabezal of extrusion, is able to realizar pieces in nylon reinforced with fibre of carbon. The máquinase calls Mark One and works with a process of manufacture of continuous filament (CFF) of fibre of carbon.The pieces in ABS can be until 20 more rigid times, according to the company.

Bertrand Sicot, CEO of SolidWorks lived in first person the experience to launch to more than100 km/hour in a bobsled.

For the second day, SolidWorks also had some invited special: the designers of the sled of bobsled of the North American team: Geoffrey Bodine, a withdrawn pilot of motoring of American speed and manufacturer of bobsled and the engineer Bob Cuneo, that are behind the design of the bobsled Night Train 2 of the team of EE UU with which competes in the Olympic games of 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

Precisely, Bertrand Sicot that presented to the invited, starred a fun video in which it experienced a descent in bobsled the year happened in Park City, Utah. Bodine Spoke of his decision to turn into a conductive bobsled quoting his days of careers of Nascar like source of his inspiration. Winner of the Daytona 500 in 1984, Geoff got obsessed with this curious sport and knew that it had to devote his knowledges to help to the American team of bobsled to optimise his designs and begin to win careers. It hired to Bob Cuneo, a famous engineer and designer, that knew, would be adapted for the work, signalled.

Since, the team of EE UU has won numerous medals between them one in the Olympic games of Winter of Vancouver in 2010 and the Glass of the World of 2014. BoDyn Used SolidWorks to simulate the behaviour of the sled in the track and saved to the numerous company modifications in the design. “We work with our engineer of field, Jim ‘Cheech' that informs on the results of the careers and the performance of the sled. In an occasion, in a career in Germany, our sled suffered an unlucky accident. Cheech Went back immediately and were able to redo the fibre of carbon. In a week, restore our sled and was smart again for the career”, aimed Geoff.

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In what it does reference to the learning, an important pillar for SolidWorks, Marie Planchard, director of education, presented to the professors of Mt. Saint Antonio Community College, Max Lizarraga and Jerry Miranda, those who offer the program CSWA to his students like part of work of the course. “For his final examinations, requires that the student complete the examination CSWA because it provides to the students an industrial title and does simpler that obtain an employment after his graduation”, affirmed both educational.

Almost six thousand people attended to San Diego. The power of announcement of SolidWorks does not leave to surprise.

Arrolladora. Like this it resulted to be the parody that SolidWorks prepared to advance the novelties to the assistants to SolidWorks World, as it does his technical team of marketing every year, to present the new improvements for the next version. Alternated video and “reality”, a prime very far of the popular Batman and whose committed was to resolve the problems of the designers and users of the CAD of Solidworks, accompanied of his faithful escudero, Robin, presented the novelties that will see the light in 2015 and did reir to the room.

Some of the most stood out appearances of 2015 include a tool that divides the lines in equal segments, resulted in real time as it resolves SolidWorks Simulation or an interface web entirely rediseñada for EPDM, among others.

The next appointment of the event in 2015, Phoenix (Arizona) of the 8 to 11 February.

More information of the event: SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2014

Novelties SolidWorks 2014:

SolidWorks plastics Advanced

• From his launching in April of 2012, SolidWorks plastics has helped to his customers to optimise his designs of pieces and moulds of plastic.
• In the fourth quarter of 2013, the signature entered SolidWorks Advanced plastics that allows to the customers analyse the systems of refrigeration of moulds of injection and predict the alabeo of the piece moldeada, what allows to optimise pieces and designs of moulds for the manufacture with a maximum quality and lower cost.

SolidWorks Inspection

• SolidWorks Inspection And SolidWorks Inspection Professional to help to the companies to create drawings and reports inside SolidWorks or using the application of inspection.
• These tools are for the companies that need to create documents of inspection.
• Both will be available in April of 2014.

SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual

• SolidWorks Has presented a new tool directed to the conceptual design, SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, based in the Platform 3DExperience of Dassault Systèmes, as it develops in this article. It will be available in April of 2014.

Collaborative Sharing

• Promoted by the Platform 3DExperience of Dassault Systèmes for SolidWorks, offers an environingingment structured, social, sure and connected to the equipment of design and  professionals that want to manage the data in the cloud and collaborate without restrictions.
• Includes with the purchase of SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, providing to all the users of CAD all these capacities. Also it sells separately.

 
Simulia Product Design Simulation

• Is a package of structural analysis that allows to the users validate his designs in SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual . The users can validate product (pieces and assemblings).
•  It will be available in April of 2014 together with SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual.

SolidWorks 2015 in the Platform 3DExperience

• SolidWorks 2015 will integrate in the platform3D Experience so that the community enjoy of all the capacities of Collaborative Sharing.
• Collaborative Sharing For SolidWorks 2015 is based in the cloud, is easy to use, allows a transparent management of the data and a social solution that will provide the basic management of data and the collaboration of the users of SolidWorks of Mechanical Conceptual and the users of SolidWorks 2015.
• Expects that it was available in November like part of the launching of the Platform 3DExpererience 2015x.