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The purpose of a design automation system is to control different aspects, or parameters, of your CAD models. These could be dimensions, features, component instances, and more. Creating a truly powerful and profitable automation requires a good number of parameters. Keeping track of these parameters can get tricky, so some CAD model organization techniques are in order. Continue Reading
DraftSight, a new 2D drafting program from Dassault Systemes, is available in public beta for free, and to enterprises for a small fee (to access extended features and support). It can be downloaded here. The tool is meant to offer all of the same functionality in AutoCAD, and to read and author data in DWG files just as AutoCAD does. Despite similarities to SolidWorks’ DWG Editor product, DraftSight is altogether separate and different (based on different technology). Continue Reading
The SolidWorks API (Application Programming Interface) is immensely powerful. In fact, if something is doable within SolidWorks, the chances are good that there is a corresponding API. As a result, automation possibilities are endless. The SolidWorks API documentation is outstanding and, in most cases, provides exceptional detail. However, one area that is somewhat tricky to navigate is event handling. This article will cover an example for event handling when developing for SolidWorks. Continue Reading
Virtualization has progressed considerably in the past few years, but graphics performance has been notoriously poor because VMs (virtual machines) have been unable to take advantage of the host’s video card. Even if your workstation has the latest from NVidia, ATI, or some other video card manufacturer, the VM has had no way of taking advantage of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processing power or VRAM (Video RAM). There are still a handful of things you can do to optimize graphics performance (for CAD) with virtualization. Continue Reading
Whether you’re among the ranks of Engineering or Quality, creating inspection sheets can be a real pain. InspectionXpert is a valuable tool for automating processes around inspection sheets, and worth a look if your industry requires documented inspections. Continue Reading
There is a performance problem with a specific element of the SolidWorks API in SolidWorks 2009 SP4.1 and SP5.0 that can cause problems with the ENOVIA SmarTeam integration for SolidWorks. If you’re using the stated version of SolidWorks with SmarTeam, consider downloading and applying the relevant hotfix for SolidWorks. Continue Reading
For those of you not able to attend SolidWorks World 2010 in Anaheim, CA earlier this year, let us recap some of the most significant events related to the show. As usual, SolidWorks lined up a number of interesting and motivational speakers (James Cameron, James McLurkin, Jeff Ray, and Bernard Charles). There were also a handful of product and technology announcements related to PDM and Design Automation that made this year particularly interesting. Continue Reading
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