Streamline Product Documentation With 3DVIA Composer - Part 6

Part 6. Creating vibrant, exciting marketing content and web-based catalogs

Because CAD data enables you to create imagery for print and online marketing purposes with a 3D authoring tool, it is an incredibly valuable asset. Many manufacturers spend millions of dollars annually on professional product photography to present and market their products when a more cost-effective, high-resolution, CAD-derived image could satisfy the same need. Some media, such as television and magazines, always will require live-action video and photography. However, the burgeoning need for digital content and the explosive growth in online, web-based catalogs both demand visual content that manufacturers can best supply by re-purposing product design data.

Even if a manufacturer already derives catalog visuals from CAD files, the process requires the input of both an engineer and a marketing professional to separate engineering data from marketing needs. With an integrated documentation system, marketing professionals can render, modify, and change images to meet specific printing or marketing needs, such as controlling resolution—pixels and dots-per-inch—which is not easy to do with CAD screen captures. Because the CAD model can be used to update views and animations that match the final product, marketing professionals no longer need to wait for Engineering to finish the product to create content.

With CAD-derived imagery and animations, manufacturers can make their online and digital media marketing vehicles more exciting, dynamic, and interactive, while saving money at the same time. With an integrated 3D authoring tool, just about anyone can transform a CAD model into a dazzling interactive animation.

Furthermore, manufacturers can begin marketing the product upon its release for production rather than waiting on initial production runs or photography to begin creating market demand. By re-purposing CAD models as marketing visuals and animations with content creation software, you can reduce photography costs, increase visual flexibility, and get out in front of product introductions.

Check back tomorrow for the concluding Part 7

To learn more about 3DVIA Composer, visit cati.com or email us at cati@cati.com.

 

*This article provides excerpts from the "Streamlining Product Documentation across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer White paper, published by  DS SolidWorks Corp.

Streamline Product Documentation With 3DVIA Composer - Part 5

Part 5. Publishing effective training materials

The ongoing development and publication of product training materials—for customers, new employees, and global partners—is another area where the repurposing of CAD design data can pay big dividends for today’s manufacturers. Because the native CAD files serve as the single source for all product content, using a 3D authoring tool to customize training materials for specific groups is far easier and more efficient than crafting these materials independently. This capability is especially useful—you can create effective training materials without using the costly textual translation services once required for communicating with overseas audiences.

With integrated documentation software that can embed 3D content, markups, and animations in any ActiveX-compatible business application, manufacturers have the power to create, manage, and deploy product training documentation on a global scale, at much lower cost. This capability allows you to embed product training content in common communication applications, such as Microsoft® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint®; as a standalone executable for viewing with free player software; or in HTML format to distribute over the web.

Many manufacturers spend millions of dollars annually on professional product photography to present and market their products when a more cost-effective, high-resolution, CAD-derived image could satisfy the same need.

Check back tomorrow for Part 6 of 7 covering "Creating vibrant, exciting marketing content and web-based catalogs."

To learn more about 3DVIA Composer, visit cati.com or email us at cati@cati.com.

 

*This article provides excerpts from the "Streamlining Product Documentation across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer White paper, published by  DS SolidWorks Corp.

Streamline Product Documentation With 3DVIA Composer - Part 4

Part 4. Delivering accurate field service, maintenance, and repair information

In a global economy where customers reside in different countries, the ability to provide accurate and universally comprehensible field service, maintenance, and repair documentation is critical.

Providing this type of product documentation has presented greater challenges, added demands on engineering resources that do not carry primary responsibility for its development, and increased operational costs. For example, documenting the intricate details necessary for showing how to dismantle a machine, perform a maintenance service or repair, and reassemble it might require a series of step-by-step graphics from Engineering. Service technicians frequently call in to engineering departments to get this type of information for use in the field. Complicating this challenge even further is the fact that the field-service technician may speak another language, requiring translations of service or repair documentation materials, which adds further costs and also delays product shipment in many industries.

With 3DVIA Composer, manufacturing can replace text-based field service instructions with graphics and video animation, therby improving service operations, minimizing the need for language translations, reducing training needs, and decreasing operational costs.

Check back tomorrow for Part 5 of 7 covering "Publishing effective training materials."

To learn more about 3DVIA Composer, visit cati.com or email us at cati@cati.com.

 

*This article provides excerpts from the "Streamlining Product Documentation across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer White paper, published by  DS SolidWorks Corp.

Computer Aided Technology Inc., Acquires Tridaq Inc.’s SolidWorks Business in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois

We are proud to announce our further expansion with the acquisition of SolidWorks business from Tridaq, Inc. Tridaq clients in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois will have access to CATI’s comprehensive solutions to their product development challenges. As the oldest operating reseller of SolidWorks® software in North America, the goal of CATI has been to continuously improve the depth and breadth of support offerings available.  In addition to SolidWorks Products and related value added services, such as training and support, CATI is proud to offer best-in-class 3D printing solutions from Objet, Ltd.

Tridaq Inc.’s Kansas City, MO office will serve as the new home of CATI’s office and training center in Kansas City, serving clients in Kansas and the surrounding Kansas City area. Tridaq clients in Missouri will also have access to CATI’s office and training center located in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, MO.  CATI will be retaining all of Tridaq’s Kansas City and St. Louis staff members.

Learn more about this announcement:
View full press release

View our Tridaq client welcome page

Jim TeDesco
Marketing
CATI

Changing Component Line Fonts

Not sure where you might see fit to use this, maybe it's been activated accidentally and you want to turn it off... but how?

Well if you wanted to change the font of a drawing view of a component maybe for a tech pub showing where component would be might be useful and selecting every line in the component seems like a waste then I have good news for you. There are 2 other options.

1) navigate to your drawing Feature Manager Design Tree, drill down to the view, and then to the component to change, and right click the component. Choose Component Line Font.

Here you have many options available.

You could also turn on the Line Format toolbar by right clicking the Command Manager ribbon and select Line Format. Then go to the Feature Manager Design Tree, drill down to the component, select it, then launch the Layer tool from the Line Format toolbar, then click the new layer and the Move button.

Happy holidays,
John Van Engen
CATI Tech Support

Streamline Product Documentation With 3DVIA Composer - Part 3

Part 3. Creating better user manuals and product documentation

While product documentation can fulfill a range of uses, its core purpose is twofold: to provide customers with the information they need to use and enjoy a manufacturer’s product and to develop customer loyalty for that product. Therefore, the production of user manuals, part lists, and product schematics is an important function for building customer satisfaction and loyalty—one that requires the contributions of illustrators, writers, and publishing specialists. Whether product documentation personnel are engineers or have a limited engineering background, they can substantially increase their chances of success by creating graphical content directly from CAD models.

With a 3D authoring tool like 3DVIA Composer, product documentation specialists can avoid using a CAD system or asking an engineer to produce product information such as exploded views, vector line art images, or annotations.

Instead of re-creating visuals from the finished product, they can create 2D and 3D visuals to meet any documentation requirements. Whether the need is vector line art of an exploded view for technical illustrations or a detailed view of a high-resolution raster image for a user manual, documentation
professionals can save time and improve the visual’s quality by accessing and reusing native CAD data.

Product documentation professionals can save time and improve the quality of documentation visuals by utilizing a 3D authoring tool like 3DVIA Composer to create documentation graphics directly from native CAD data. 

The interactive nature of 3D provides an effective means for showing your customers how to use a product and for illustrating how that product works. Integrated documentation software provides the capabilities for creating interactive content from the actual product CAD file.

Check back tomorrow for Part 4 of 7 covering "Delivering accurate field service, maintenance, and repair information."

To learn more about 3DVIA Composer, visit cati.com or email us at cati@cati.com.

 

*This article provides excerpts from the "Streamlining Product Documentation across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer White paper, published by  DS SolidWorks Corp.

Streamline Product Documentation With 3DVIA Composer - Part 2

Part 2. Automating manufacturing and assembly instructions

By implementing an integrated documentation solution, you also can enhance an important internal function—the efficient creation of more effective 3D manufacturing and assembly work instructions. Traditionally, manufacturers have relied on the use of 2D engineering drawings—with exploded views, annotations, callouts, and balloons—to instruct manufacturing personnel and assemblers in producing components, subassemblies, and assemblies.

In a global economy, unanticipated language and literacy barriers between design and manufacturing personnel can get in the way of achieving right-first-time production. Often, time is wasted in finding and verifying components, or in trying to understand manufacturing and assembly work instructions. Manufacturing personnel on the shop floor—who may speak another language or reside in another country—cannot simply place a call to engineers to clarify a design.That’s why nontextual, visual 3D content is becoming increasingly important for communicating vital manufacturing information.

 
By Providing universally understood 3D manufacturing and assembly work instructions, your company can minimize iterative cycles and disagreements between engineering and production.

A simple animated 3D work instruction can convey manufacturing and assembly instructions more clearly, effectively, and universally than text-based 2D drawings, helping reduce production errors and lower manufacturing costs.

Check back tomorrow for Part 3 of 7 covering "Creating better user manuals and product documentation."

To learn more about 3DVIA Composer, visit cati.com or email us  at cati@cati.com.

 

*This article provides excerpts from the "Streamlining Product Documentation across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer White paper, published by  DS SolidWorks Corp.

Streamline Product Documentation With 3DVIA Composer - Part 1

Today, product developers are gaining competitive advantage, saving time, and cutting costs with a new class of integrated software tools. With 3D authoring software like 3DVIA Composer, your company can use 3D CAD data to automate the product documentation process—without modifying product designs. By addressing the changing nature of CAD data, this associative documentation tool seamlessly and effortlessly keeps your documentation up to date.  This 7 Part series will explain the benefits of streamlining your product documentation across the manufacturing enterprise.

Part 1. Introduction

While 3D CAD has made designers and engineers more productive and efficient, the innate value in the CAD models they create often ends with the delivery of 2D drawings or printed materials to manufacturing. As manufacturers strive to find ways to become leaner, more efficient, and more competitive in global markets, generating CAD data to satisfy all the product documentation requirements of the manufacturing enterprise may hold the greatest potential for improving productivity.

Product Documentation is often a separate step that currently takes place after product design in many product development processes, creating delays and the need for additional rework.  Shortening this step by using a 3D authoring tool to develop documentation content concurrently can accelerate time-to-market and increase competitiveness.

While many organizations already leverage 3D CAD content in some fashion, a 3D authoring tool allows you to avoid the rework associated with updating CAD models to incorporate engineering changes into downstream documentation. Software that updates content directly from the CAD model can distribute design modifications throughout all related deliverables.

As the design changes, 3D authoring software enables technical illustrators to create and update exploded views. Manufacturing specialists can develop and update graphics in assembly instructions, and customer service personnel can do the same in service documentation.

By implementing a documentation authoring solution, your company can realize greater accuracy, increased efficiency, and a more significant return on investment (ROI) within the first year.

Using a 3D Authoring tool like 3DVIA Composer, Manufacturers can generate CAD data to meet the documentation, assembly, manufacturing, training, service, and marketing content needs, automatically and simultaneously.3DVIA Composer enables you to produce documentation as much as 30% faster than with conventional methods, and realize significant ROI by reducing documentation, training, and localization.

Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of 7 covering "Automating manufacturing and assembly instructions."

To learn more about 3DVIA Composer, visit cati.com or email us  at cati@cati.com.

 

*This article provides excerpts from the "Streamlining Product Documentation across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer White paper, published by  DS SolidWorks Corp.

 

Top Five Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle - Part 6

Part 6: Additional considerations

Cost and time savings are the primary drivers for incorporating 3D printing into the product development process. But for some organizations, other factors influence the need for in-house technology.

The ability to drive revenue – pertaining primarily to service bureaus – by offering 3D printing services or to use the services as a way to encourage customers into giving them ancillary business such as manufacturing. When Fawcett Design was evaluating rapid prototyping technologies they settled on a high-end Objet 3D printing system because it offered the speed and finish quality required to have the competitive edge as a rapid prototyping service provider.

Organizations oftentimes weigh the need for in-house technology against the efficiencies of outsourcing. A typical maturity curve is to start off with outsourcing, and then bring it “in house” as the volume of projects grows.

Many Objet customers have realized that an in-house solution has significant additional benefits like the ability to protect the confidentiality of their designs. Customers have also found that the 3D printing system can be useful for many different applications some of which were originally unexpected.

Having this technology at their fingertips gives them the freedom they need to be more creative and efficient with their designs.

Learn more about 3d Printing at cati.com.

*Information provided by Objet, Ltd., Republished from Objet"s Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle White Paper.

Top Five Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle - Part 5

5. Seeing is believing

Design is both an art and a science that starts with the imagination. 3D printing helps quickly transform something imagined into something that can be seen and touched. Prototypes are often used to help sell new concepts, so the more realistic the prototype, the better.

‘With the Objet Connex500 multi-material 3D printer, we don’t have to rely on imagination to convey how an over-molded part will actually look, feel and operate.’ – Dan Mishek, Co-owner of Vista Technologies.

“No matter how good our 3D graphics are, there is nothing like a model in your hands...” – Henry K. Kawamoto, M.D., D.D.s, UCLA Medical Center.

“You can show someone something on paper all day long, but when you give them a real part that they can touch, they really get excited” –Shawn Greene, Fender Musical Instruments.

Learn more about 3D printing at cati.com.

*Information provided by Objet, Ltd., Republished from Objet"s Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle White Paper.

 

Celebrate this holiday season with a Turducken!

The CATI team would like to wish you and yours a Happy Holiday Season. To celebrate this year, the CATI team grilled a delicious Turducken feast at our Buffalo Grove,IL Headquarters. For those that don't know, a Turducken is essentially a boneless duck stuffed inside a boneless chicken, stuffed inside of a boneless turkey, with layers of stuffing between. Here are a few snap shots of the cooking in action.

 
 
How do you cook a Turducken?

Setp 1. Buy a Weber Grill

Step 2. Buy a Turducken or make your own.I recommend buying a pre-made Turducken. If you are in the Chicago area you can buy one pre-made from Dorflers Meat Market in Buffalo Grove, IL.  All you have to do is cook it.

Step 3. Prepare coals and separate on either side of the grill leaving room in the middle for a standard size bread pan.

Step 4. Fill bread pan half full with water and place in the space between the groups of coals (in the middle of the grill).  This will help keep the bird moist and catch any drippings.

Step 5.  Place 1 layer of foil under the bird so that it doesn't burn on the bottom. Cook for approximately 4-5 hours(12-15 pound bird at roughly 325-350) in the center of the grill over indirect heat or internal temperature reaches 170 Degrees.*Cook times very depending on the grill, heat, and the person doing the grilling.  CATI makes no guarantees when it comes to cooking.  Understand the dangers of eating undercooked meat.

Step 6. Remove from heat and let rest for 30minutes - 1hour

Step 7. Slice and enjoy.

Additional Cooking instructions and recipes.

Happy Holidays From All Of Us AT CATI!

 

Jim TeDesco
Marketing
Computer Aided Technology, Inc.

 

Top Five Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle - Part 4

4. Improve customer satisfaction

3D printing can help improve satisfaction for both internal and external customers. Designers using 3D printing have the ability to quickly produce realistic prototypes for internal decision makers, as well as external clients. Having the ability to touch a real world concept, combined with testing functionality allows all constituents of the design and manufacturing process to make better product decisions.

The bottom line, 3D printing helps organizations get better products to market faster than ever before. “Frequently during a project, clients request design changes or wonder how particular changes may impact the overall aesthetic,” said Piet Meijs, Rietveld Architects. “Our Objet system lets us create a whole new model right away, and that wows the client every time.” “Now that we have it, we tend to use it for all our projects, and the feedback from our customers has been terrific. It’s pretty amazing to see someone’s face when you give them a real model that brings their idea to life. It really blows them away.” -Brian McLaughlin.

Learn more about 3D printing at cati.com

*Information provided by Objet, Ltd., Republished from Objet"s Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle White Paper.

Take a Look Inside Microsoft’s 3D Printing Model Lab With Objet

I came across this great video on the Objet Blog.  In this video you can see a total of 3 Objet 3D printers (2 Objet Eden's and a brand new Objet Connex500) that are being used to rapidly prototype the next generation of Microsoft products! Read the full post here.

Top Five Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle - Part 3

Part 3. Field test with prototypes that resemble the final product providing insight into potential design flaws

More prototyping means more opportunity to evaluate whether or not a part will function as intended.
Shawn Greene from Fender Musical Instruments describes a recent project to develop a light-up front panel for an amplifier. Using 3D printing, Greene produced prototypes of the panel using a clear material, tested it with different types of lights and discovered that light didn’t deflect the way they thought it would. “We had to adjust the design to make it work,” says Greene. “In the past, we would not have done a prototype for that kind of part because it would have taken too long and cost too much money. So by the time we noticed that problem we would have already paid for tooling, and then we would have had to pay for amendments for the tool. The ability to rapid prototype in house saved us a fortune on that project.”

 

Learn more about 3D printing at cati.com

*Information provided by Objet, Ltd., Republished from Objet"s Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle White Paper.

Top Five Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle - Part 2

Part 2. Better collaboration resulting in improved design and manufacturability.

The ability to quickly produce real working prototypes that teams can see and touch helps bridge the gap between the virtual CAD design and the final product. Design and manufacturing engineers can use these prototypes as a tool to better communicate how a design looks, feels, and operates. This allows designers to better integrate their product designs with manufacturing at an earlier stage in the development lifecycle.

Brian McLaughlin from Orchid Design, a division of Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, says “Often, something the designer sees on a rapid prototype – such as an undercut, or some other area of difficulty – will cause them to tweak the design before it goes to the customer or to machining. Or, a customer will say, ‘You created it just as I described, but now that I see it, I think we need to change X, Y or Z.’ 3D printing has definitely had a major impact on the quality and manufacturability of our designs.”

According to Jon Fawcett from Fawcett Design, his team now uses Objet’s 3D printing system for “Anything and everything. Functional prototype, aesthetic prototypes, rigid molds for urethane cast parts, rapid manufacturing… our Objet 3D printer is very versatile. We can now do same-day turnaround on prototypes, which in turn allows us to do a lot more prototyping. We can very quickly see if something will work; we no longer have to guess or take a chance.”

Learn more about 3d printing at cati.com.

*Information provided by Objet, Ltd., Republished from Objet"s Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle White Paper.

Free CSWP Exam code

Solidworks has some sepecial holiday offerings for subscription customer.  If you feel that you would like to take a certification exam, Solidworks is offering a free exam thru the end of the year.  Don't wait!  Log in now to get your chance.

CSWP Offers for Subscription Service Customers*
Special Promotional Offers for Subscription Service customers:

1) Redeem one (1) free CSWP or CSWA exam using this coupon code:
    Promotional code: CPN01034161396

    Note: If purchasing the CSWP Segmented exam, add all three CSWP Segments

    to your cart before checking out with the above coupon.

 

2)  Redeem one (1) free CSWP-SMTL, CSWP-SURF, CSWP-MTLS, CSWP-WLDM or CSWSP-FEA
     exam using this coupon code:  
     Promotional code:  CPN06416454280

Note:

•Promotional codes should be entered during the webstore checkout process.
•For details on the testing process, visit the Certification page.
•If you experience any difficulty, send a detailed email to certification@solidworks.com. Allow a minimum of five (5) days for a resolution.
•These coupons are valid through December 31, 2011. Redeemed coupon tests must be completed no later than June 30, 2012.
•The coupon code is not a voucher code. When starting the exam using our virtual tester client, there is a field called 'Redeem a VT voucher' which you do not need to complete.  This field is only used when someone buys exams in bulk on one credit card and wants to transfer those credits to other individuals.

Top Five Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle - Part 1

Rapid prototyping technology has progressed significantly over the years improving on both the cost and quality fronts. Circa 2000, Objet introduced its 3D printing technology to the market, a jetting process of photopolymer resin in ultra-thin individual layers that builds 3D models and prototypes.

This 6 part series will explain why your should consider using 3D printing technology as part of your product development process?

1. Designers can prototype more iterations without blowing the timeline or budget

3D printing – particularly when performed in-house – enables design teams to quickly produce a high-quality, realistic prototype with moving parts, at relatively low cost when compared to other methods such as CNC machining or outsourcing. This means teams can use prototyping on projects where it wasn’t feasible in the past due to time or cost considerations.

“We needed a faster, more streamlined system: one that would let us do the engineering, development and production of clinical trial-ready devices in-house. We had heard about rapid prototyping and were very excited about seeing how it could help us” said Andre’ A. DiMino, Vice Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Ivivi Technologies. The integration of the Objet Eden350 into the product development and production cycle at Ivivi has been an unqualified success, yielding a positive return on investment in less than one year. “We’ve cut an average of five to six weeks off the clinical trial device production process,” said DiMino.

Ivivi Technologies

Learn more about 3D printing at cati.com

*Information provided by Objet, Ltd., Republished from Objet"s Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing in Your Product Development Cycle White Paper.

Shout outs

...so using the term "shout out" gave me pause. I am getting to the age where my daughter tells me what is cool and what isn't, and it is too late to wake her to ask her if shout out is an acceptable term to use in 2011.

Hopefully, our readers are as socially awkward as I am and will forgive me lack of social awareness.

In any case, I simply want to recognize one of our customers that has achieved some amazing results in the area of Lean Manufacturing. Ryan King of Arpac in Schiller Park was written up in AutomationWorld this month for his efforts in creating a lean environment and his automation of their ERP system. His next step will be to feed data from SolidWorks Enterprise PDM and to eliminate additional overhead and duplication of efforts.

http://www.automationworld.com/operations/it%E2%80%99s-contribution-continuous-improvement

Big Files = Big Problems

Think your part is way bigger than it should be? Maybe it is... Little known facts from 2011 SP2 there was an error that caused file size to balloon.

The problem was in the creation of multiple redundant display states that are all expendable. In 2011 SP3 the issue was corrected, however files with this issue will continue to have the issue. 2011 SP3 and later added a right mouse click menu to the display states called "purge redundant display states".

This will clean your file, and in some cases a lot. We saw a 200MB+ file go down to around 17MB. Big savings there.

Please make sure to back up your files before attempting this to make sure nothing undesirable happens to any wanted display states.

Happy Purging!!
John Van Engen
CATI Tech Support

Search the SolidWorks Forums on the CATI Web Site

You can now search the SolidWorks Forums right from the CATI Web Site. We have been working with SolidWorks to make it easier for you to find the on-line help you need, right from our support web site.

Just enter your question and the system will search the forums for discussions, documents, links, etc for information regarding your question. Give it a try and let us know how it works for you.

Here is the link: http://www.cati.com/support/3d-cad-solidworks-support-get-help.html

Stubborn Program Removal

We used to have a great tool for uninstalling failed installs in XP with the MicroSoft uninstall clean up utility. Since going to Windows 7 this option was no longer available as the tool was not supported with Windows 7. Great News!!! There is now a link to an updated version of the tool that is suited for Windows 7. This utility runs from their website or has options to download for machines not on the internet.

I have tried it a few times with mixed results. Not thrilling, but if there is nothing else left to loose, why not give it a shot?

 Here are the links to the new Microsoft cleanup utility:

 The Windows Installer Cleanup utility (MSICUU2.exe) has been retired by Microsoft and has been replaced a new utility (this is the download link):

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall

 

 The Microsoft KB article that has more information about this tool can be viewed at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2438651/.

John Van Engen
CATI Tech Support

 

Register for CATI's SolidWorks 2012 What's New Webcast

Join us December 14th from 2pm-3pm Central TIme for our SolidWoks 2012 What's New Webcast.  SolidWorks 2012 is the 20th release of the industry leading 3D CAD software. With SolidWorks 2012, you’ll experience faster design, a more continuous workflow, shorter development times, and more efficient collaboration.

>>Register

New Features(Partial List):

• Costing Tool


• Large Design Review


• Magnetic Lines and Balloon Enhancements


• Feature Freeze


• Enhanced Equation Editor


• Command Search


• Motion Optimization

Jim TeDesco
Marketing
Computer Aided Technology, Inc.

Stop asking for a SNL License!

If you have Solidworks and eDrawings installed on the the same machine and you are pulling a license for the Solidworks but when you open up eDrawings you are Publishpresented with this......

 

 

 

 

 

Since you have eDrawings installed on your machine you do not need to pull a SNL on a standalone machine. Start eDrawings and go into tools options and un-check the box for the SNL option and while you in there un-check the RSS feeds and CHECK the box for performance report. This is the stuff that gets sent back to Solidworks to make the product better. Your machine is already generating the log files so you might as well send them to Solidworks to make better products for you the user.Hope this helps.....

 

Todd Werginz

Technical Analyst

CATI

Northern Indiana SolidWorks User Group Meeting December 6th

The Northern Indiana SolidWorks User Group's next meeting is December 6,2011.  CATI's own Ketul Patel will be presenting at this event.  Come out and see his presentation on Weldments.

Event Information:

Date: December 6, 2011
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Place: Swan Lake Resort
Address: 5203 Plymouth Laporte TRL
City, State, Zip: Plymouth, IN 46563

Visit the NISWUG Website for More Info.  Please contact ASAP if you will be attending.

 

Jim TeDesco
Marketing
CATI