CAD Manager's Guide to 3D

This 3D guide is designed for people who need to implement 3D CAD throughout their company. You may be a CAD manager, a designer, or an engineer who believes that your company can benefit from 3D.

Or you may be an IT person who has just received a mandate to evaluate 3D software. Whatever your title may be, part of your job is to get your company up and running on 3D CAD software.

Five Ways PDM Can Help You Succeed through Design Reuse

How often do you find yourself spending valuable time searching for a model or a file? Have you ever had to recreate a model because you could not find the original? Have you ever spent time creating a design only to discover later that one of your colleagues had previously modeled a similar design that would have met your needs? If you are not using an integrated product data management (PDM) system, chances are you can relate to these time-consuming scenarios.

Designing Better Products with SolidWorks Premium

SolidWorks® Premium CAD software provides the advanced capabilities you need to design better products–from design, automation, and simulation to validation, collaboration, and data management–all in one comprehensive package.

Depending on their job functions and industry roles, designers, engineers, managers, and manufacturers will cite differing factors as to what makes a better product. The answers, in short, are rooted in people’s perceptions—which, in turn, are influenced by their life experiences and unique sets of criteria.

Bridging the Worlds of 2D and 3D CAD Design

As manufacturers rapidly transition from 2D to 3D CAD in today’s digital world, designers are demanding 3D to enhance their designs and improve communication.

From websites to rapid prototyping, customers, designers, and engineers now depend on the latest 3D modeling tools. In this paper, we highlight the advantages of designing with SolidWorks® 3D CAD software as well as explaining how to leverage your existing 2D CAD data once you have decided to go 3D.

SolidWorks SWIFT Technology

SWIFT provides all users, even those who are novices transitioning from 2D to 3D, with the ability to design like an expert without having to master all of the capabilities of the entire system.

While most designers understand how powerful the capabilities of 3D CAD software can be, many of these same users may have felt they were forced to spend a significant amount of time mastering the system to recognize the inherent benefits. SWIFT is just one of the things that lets any SolidWorks® user realize the benefits of 3D CAD without having to learn complicated techniques. In other words, SWIFT lets you focus less on the CAD tool and more on your design.

Designing Better Products with SolidWorks Premium

Product data management systems perform a variety of tasks to help collaborate, control, connect, and communicate information throughout an engineering organization. Getting the most out of your PDM efforts starts with the Intelligent PDM Vault from SolidWorks.

Sustainable Design - Not Just for Architecture Anymore

How CAE tools combine better product design with savvy business decisions for positive environmental impacts. Environmental, economic, and competitive market conditions make sustainable design a desirable approach to engineering today.

With an ever-growing list of cost and regulatory issues complicating the choice of materials and geometry, designers need tools that automate and simplify material decisions. SolidWorks® simulation and analysis tools can help you to lower costs and comply with new standards to make positive environmental impacts.

Using Design Automation to Reduce Costs, Increase Profitability

By implementing design automation, engineer-to-order manufacturers can complete days of custom engineering in just minutes. By implementing design automation, engineer-to-order manufacturers can complete days of custom engineering in just minutes.

Design automation also expedites and simplifies the creation of SolidWorks® models, drawings, quote documents, manufacturing data—virtually any requirement of the custom sales process.

The Path to 3D: 10 Successful Strategies Every Design Leader Should Know

Few design professionals today could question the value that three-dimensional CAD technology can bring to their daily operations. Faster design cycles, fewer engineering change orders (ECOs), major savings in prototypes and testing – 3D can dramatically accelerate the pace of your business.

Of course, most design professionals have already seen and tested a range of 3D CAD technologies. But, for many shops, the challenge isn’t understanding 3D’s benefits or persuading design managers about the importance of migrating to 3D. Fact is, 2D technologies – while solid and reliable – no longer yield the game-changing breakthroughs that companies rely on to move their business forward.