Solidworks Software Development (Product Development) is
like a tree that never stops growing.
Having used Soildworks for over 10 years basically for
40 hours a week Solidworks continues to develop new enhancements.
Having begun my working history in the 2 dimensional
world and recently revisited the last in that software, in the last week where I
was shocked to find interface development yet no real tools that speed up the
design process.
One can imagine that the new functionality in the latest
release in Soildworks has been based on designers input. It makes me feel that I
need to model my business development in terms of customer feed
back.
How much of soildworks 1 Million + seats sold can be
attributed to customer feed back.
Anthony Hamilton
Managing Director
Hamilton By Design
Managing Director
Hamilton By Design
New in SolidWorks 2012: Assembly Enhancements
SolidWorks 2012 includes lots of usability and workflow enhancements in the area of assemblies. Some of these include:
- Creating subassemblies: You can preselect components in the parent assembly's graphics area when creating a subassembly. Previously, you could preselect only components in the parent assembly's FeatureManager design tree.
- Editing flexible subassemblies: You can edit flexible subassemblies in the context of their parent assemblies.
- Face and edge names in lightweight components: When replacing components in assemblies, if you select Re-attach mates, the software can access previously assigned face and edge names in lightweight components. If you have previously assigned names to mated entities (faces or edges), then when you replace one component with another, you can reattach the mates automatically without resolving the original component.
- Finding missing references: While opening an assembly that has multiple missing references, the process of finding those references is simplified. The software tracks each folder where you find a missing reference and checks those folders for subsequent missing references.
- Smart fasteners: When inserting Smart Fasteners, the software recognizes more holes that were not created with the Hole Wizard or Hole Series tools, such as holes created by various mirroring and patterning operations.
- Modifying component dimensions: You can edit the dimensions of a multiple-configuration component in the assembly or drawing environment, regardless of which configuration is active in the component document.
