Our SolidWorks Training & User Group Meeting is set for August 14th & 15th at Foxwoods Resort Casino in
Standard Registration is $200 and ends August 8th.
Workshops, materials and meals are all included in the price.
Should you need overnight accommodations, we have set up a room block at Foxwoods. The rooms are $165 per night, plus tax and you make the reservations directly through Foxwoods. You can do that on-line at www.foxwoods.com or by calling 1.800.Foxwood. Be sure to use our group code: F25262 at the
To register for this event please visit: www.sharpenmyedge.com (course descriptions can be found below)
1 on 1 tech sessions will be available again during partner pavilion hours and at the user reception. Contact Nicole to make your reservation.
Course Descriptions:
Optimizing Large Assemblies
Explore ways to managing large assemblies & optimizing performance. The use of configurations, modeling techniques and settings.
Leveraging the Xperts
Improve your design process with: “DFM” Design for Manufacturing will show you areas in your design that can not be manufactured. This can eliminate sharp inside pockets or small drill holes to deep. “Tolerance Analysis” will run automated simulations on your min/max conditions on an assembly and prevent errors. “DimXpert” will auto dimension a part as it is manufactured instead of using dimensions you needed to create the model. “Design Checker” can do the mundane task of reviewing drawings for consistency.
Excelling in Top Down Assembly Modeling
Explore how to build parts in context of an assembly and see how one change updates many parts. You will learn how to break this link if needed.
Surfacing and Freeform Shapes made easy
Getting to know what surfaces can do. Surfaces are no harder then solids and we will show you. You can extrude, revolve, sweep or loft surfaces just like solids. There are also tools like fill, planar, ruled, boundary surface.
Building Mold Tools
This presentation will take a look at going beyond planar parting lines in creating a core/cavity. Understanding the basics and moving through how to get around the most obscured parting lines.
Cosmos Shells VS Solids
Description coming soon.
Drag & Drop from the Design Library
Look deeper at how a little time with the Design Library can save you lots of time. Learn how to create smart components or add mate reference to assist you when adding parts to an assembly. Have you heard of library features? You will here! You will have library features and not be afraid to use them.
Simplify Tubing, Piping, & Cabling with Routing
Using Routing to connect your wire harnesses, tubing or pipes in an assembly. We will give you a look at ways of speeding up the process of getting your electrical or pipe systems into your assembly and documented at the drawing level.
Cool Animation (including FEA) Cosmos Motion
Description coming soon.
Sheet Metal Made Easy
We will show you just how easy sheet metal can be. Look at designing parts to fit your needs and then flatten it, or start with a flat sheet and bend it. Talk about ways that SolidWorks calculates the material stretch or compression in the corners.
Incorporating Best Practices
A look into preferred approaches to modeling techniques.
Utilities/Toolbox/FeatureWorks
Make your design process easier with: “SW Utilities” Did you ever have 2 of the same models and not know what was different? Compare features or geometry. Did your company name change? You can find and replace text. “Toolbox” - not just nuts and bolts, you can do O Ring groves, bearing and beam calculators or Cams. “FeatureWorks” - add some intelligence to your imported parts.
Everything you wanted to know about drawings
Drawings A to Z. Start with basic views and explore items you might not have known existed.
Tips & Tricks for SolidWorks
A look at items you might have forgotten existed. Have you been using SW for a long time? There might be new tricks that you over looked. From Parts, Assemblies to Drawings, we will show you a tip or trick to make your modeling easier.
Exploring PDMWorks Enterprise
PDMWorks® Enterprise is a product data management (PDM) software solution that can be deployed in a fraction of the time required by other enterprise PDM systems. You will see how PDMWorks® Enterprise can help your company manage and share all the data related to your designs more effectively allowing you to work together efficiently to bring quality products to market more quickly.
Class “A” Surfacing
Take a look at some advanced surfaces. You might be surprised at how much surfacing functionality exists in SolidWorks.
The World of PhotoWorks
Now that you have that cool model, you can make it look like it already exists using PhotoWorks. We will show you how to add materials, scene, and lighting to bring your design to life before it even exists.
An Introduction to Weldments
A look into how to create welded frames easily. We will also show you how to create your own profiles and add weld beads. Let’s not forget that we need to get our drawings out the door with a cut list so that we can manufacture the design.
Gain a better understanding of view states, colors, textures, real view and configurations. In a part, or an assembly, we will explain how to make the design look better for you. 2D drawings has layers, 3D modeling has view states to control what you see or what is removed.
3D Sketching made Easy
Are you tired of getting in and out of sketches in order to create sweeps and lofts? You can draw everything, including reference plains all inside one 3D sketch. From Weldments to advanced Sweeps and Lofts, 3D sketching can make your designs easier.
Eliminating CAD Administrator Challenges
Do you hate having to install SW on several computers, or run around installing upgrades? Learn how to create and patch admin images. Uninstall and clean out off traces of SW as well as managing licenses. If you have to manage the SW installations, this is for you.
Cosmos Tips & Tricks
Pick up some useful tips that will help you our specific to the Cosmos product line.
Customizing & Setting up SolidWorks
Templates & Customization Made Easy. Parts/Drawings setting up A,B,C,D size
Do you start a new model and constantly have to go in and adjust the units or image quality? We will show you how to set everything up once and then forget about it. You can have materials or properties assigned ahead of time so that you never forget. This is the best way to have consistency in everyone’s layouts.
Sketching your Designs
SW 2008 added ways to increase your speed, and decrease your sketching time. We will also take a look into sketch blocks. These can be used to test out mechanical layouts before you even start a 3D model.