A bunch of us here at CAPINC attended the SolidWorks 2012 rollout event for the East area at Mohegan Sun in CT on Wednesday. First let me just say, “Wow!” Mohegan Sun has some amazing architecture. I kept staring up at the ceilings when we were walking around.
Many of you will be joining us for our Explicit SolidWorks User Conference in October where we’ll cover these improvements in detail, but I wanted to provide a sneak peek at some of the great enhancements in the 20th release of SolidWorks! Key themes of the 2012 release include:
- Automation of Design functions you Use Most Often
- Improvements in Performance and Quality for a More Continuous Workflow
- Fundamental Changes to your Product Development Process
- Extensive Support for Project Collaboration and Team Connectivity
Costing!
- Automatic manufacturing cost estimates – looks directly at the geometry of your model, rather than the features.
- Sheetmetal & machined parts
Parts & Features:
- FeatureFreeze: for complex parts, this allows you to freeze all features so you can switch between configurations without rebuilding. This will greatly accelerate product development of molds and tooling.
- Exploded views of multi-body parts and weldments
Sheetmetal
- Forming tool enhancements
- Swept flange
Equations
- New user interface
- Easier to use & more capabilities
Drawings & Detailing
- Highlight changed dimensions
- Magnetic lines
- Ordering balloons
Tool Box
- Improved performance
- Customizable
Large Design Review (LDR) – You can now open very large assemblies quickly & do the following:
- Search, section, measure, walk-through, snapshots & comments
Enterprise PDM (EPDM)
- More 64 bit support
- Customization of user interface
- Menus
- Copy menu settings
- Display full user names in user interface
- Run windows search in same window
- Version toggle on where used
- Exporting indented BOM
- Improved performance
Simulation
- Design studies & optimization in motion
- Beam display improvements
- Greater workflow between Flow and Stress
Sustainability
- Visibility of the numbers and where they’re coming from
- You can now customize transportation information
3DVIA Composer
- Textures from SolidWorks automatically come through
- Custom Properties from SolidWorks are available for filtering display
- Stunning graphics enhancements
Which enhancements are you most excited to see?
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