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Services for Startups

Rod Mackay — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:26:34 +0000

Services for Startups

TriMech supports startups and inventors with expert advice, software, and manufacturing support. Bridge the gap between concept and market-ready products with help from TriMech.

TriMech Advantage

Why work with TriMech?

TriMech understands what it takes to launch a successful startup, that bringing a new product to market is a challenging journey – one filled with obstacles, uncertainties, and many moving parts.

TriMech are dedicated to supporting startups like you every step of the way. Our mission is to give you the tools, expertise, and support you need to go from concept to market with confidence.

Startup Services

Robust startup support strategies, education, and network provide a significant driving force for your financial success

Discovery

Personalized Consultation

TriMech startup services begin by getting to know your vision and goals. Through personalized consultations, they work to understand your product, your market, and what success means to you.

This understanding becomes the foundation for everything we do, TriMech are aligned with your needs from day one

Design

Concept Development to Prototyping

TriMech's design experts work alongside you to take your idea from concept sketches to working prototypes. They focus on simplicity, functionality, and manufacturability, ensuring that the product can be produced efficiently. This phase also includes refining your product to meet both technical and user needs.

Make

Manufacturing Preparation and Production

Once your prototype is perfected, we prepare for manufacturing; creating detailed plans and coordinate with trusted manufacturing partners to ensure high quality production runs. TriMech manage the first three manufacturing runs so you can be confident that quality control and efficiency are top priorities

Support

Market Entry and Beyond

We stay with you through the product launch, helping with strategic marketing support and industry connections. The goal is not just to create a great product, but to ensure that your product reaches its full potential in the market.

TriMech offers ongoing support, troubleshooting, and improvements to help you succeed well beyond launch day.

Startups Choose TriMech For:

01 | Proven Startup Expertise

TriMech specializes in helping startups thrive in competitive markets. TriMech has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to transform initial sketches into market-ready products. With experience and focus on startups, TriMech are well-equipped to understand your specific challenges and help you navigate them seamlessly.

02 | End-to-end Product Development

From that initial “a-ha!” moment to launching your product into the hands of customers, TriMech provides comprehensive services designed for startups — a one-stop shop for design, prototyping and manufacturing. TriMech handles the details so you can focus on building your business and get ready to disrupt the market.

03 | Speed and Efficiency

TriMech specializes in helping startups thrive in competitive markets. TriMech has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to transform initial sketches into market-ready products. With experience and focus on startups, TriMech are well-equipped to understand your specific challenges and help you navigate them seamlessly.

04 | Cost-effective Solutions

TriMech know that budgets are often tight for startups, that's why we offer world-class expertise at prices that makes sense for new businesses. By optimizing the design and prototyping processes, TriMech keeps costs low while maintaining high-quality standards, making sure your investment goes as far as possible.

05 | Industry Connections & Support

TriMech don’t just help you design and manufacture your product – we are here for the big picture. Our partnerships with industry experts, support networks, and marketing professionals mean we can help you plan for a successful product launch. From strategic consulting to marketing advice, we offer the holistic support you need to succeed.

Ready to find out more?

Talk with a Startup Expert about services and free software available from TriMech

Additional Services and Support for Startups

Coaching

Mentoring

Patents

Public Relations

Shipping

Logistics

Fundraising

Websites & eCommerce

Crowd Funding

Our S.M.A.R.T Model for product development:

TriMech offers world-class product development tailored to small businesses and startups.

To support innovators we created the S.M.A.R.T Product development model - a proved strategy that takes ideas from sketch to production quickly. Delivering high-quality products with strong market impact.

Skillful

Leveraging decades of experience and expertise, we ensure that every product is designed to the highest standards

Marketable

Our strategic approach ensures that your product is not only functional but also has a strong market appeal

Accelerated

We streamline the development process to bring your product to market in record time

Responsive

Our team is always available to address your concerns and make necessary adjustments to keep your project on track

Targeted

We focus on your specific needs, goals, and budget, ensuring that every aspect of the product development process in aligned with your vision.

“The team at TriMech/Mako helped CarGenerator create an amazing product that is not only revolutionary but a necessity. They helped me bring my idea to life with their award-winning concept design, engineering, prototyping and manufacturing services.”

Jonathan Schloo

CEO, CarGenerator

“I have worked with Mako / TriMech from product conception to manufacturing and I know that I would not be where I am today if I had not made the decision to work with them. It has and will always be one of my best decisions ever!”

Alison Brett

Inventor, Clasp Magic

Free Software and Special Offers for Startups

TriMech Startup customers can also obtain free SOLIDWORKS software and a special deal on a Formlabs 3D printer

Free SOLIDWORKS Software

As a Startup customer with TriMech you have access to SOLIDWORKS CAD software free for a year, so you can get your business up-and-running without massive overheads hanging over you.

Alongside the products above, you'll gain access to our technical support team, and exclusive discounts on SOLIDWORKS training.

Get Started

Formlabs SLA 3D Printer Offer

Get a Formlabs Form 4 (or 4L) SLA 3D Printer with no payments for 90 days.

Take your product design to the next level with a blazing fast Formlabs SLA 3D printer. Formlabs is the largest supplier of professional stereolithography (SLA) in the world, allowing designers, engineers and makers to rapidly create physical prototypes from SOLIDWORKS.

Start Designing Quickly

Learn more about the SOLIDWORKS For Startups Program

Clients

Who uses our Services?

Discover businesses who achieved success through with startup services from TriMech.

Ampere EV

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Ampere EV is the leading developer of complete electric drivetrains designed for the conversion of internal combustion vehicles.

Ampere's turnkey Atom Drive System was developed by world-class engineers, it’s built in-house, pre-configured, and ready to install.

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AstroBrew

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

AstroBrew is the world's most advanced cold brew coffee maker. Available for pre-order on July 9, 2024 through Kickstarter.

Thanks to SOLIDWORKS startup program, it was fully designed for manufacturing using SOLIDWORKS Professional.

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Atomiq

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

Atomiq is revolutionizing propulsion systems by leveraging its extensive aerospace experience and robust IP portfolio to develop a plasma-based propulsion system.

This technology reduces greenhouse gas emissions, enhances transportation speed, boosts payload capacity, and lowers operational costs.

With concepts already validated, Atomiq is dedicated to advancing and expanding this groundbreaking technology.

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Bang'n You

CATERING INDUSTRY

Bang'n You is a cheekily-named bakery specializing in artisanally crafted & small batch culturally Chinese & Southeast Asian treats.

Started out of quarantine boredom during the 2020 pandemic, bang'n you delivers new interpretations of traditional desserts & sweets, including mooncakes, mochi, and Taiwanese pineapple tarts, and always with 人情味 - a personal touch.

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Dexai Robotics

ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

Dexai’s mission is to protect the food service industry from difficult labor shortages and to help insulate it from economic ups and downs.

Discover how Dexai utilised the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program to help redefine sous-chefs and design automated solutions to everyday tasks.

"There’s a big human component that I really appreciate about TriMech. It’s very easy to get on the phone with them or email them and get an answer."

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Focalpoint Putters

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

Focalpoint Putters is a small, family-owned and operated putter company. We aim to provide all golfers with the best quality American-made putters at an affordable price

Visit Website & Buy Online

Innovative Technologies USA

ARCHITECTURAL INDUSTRY

Innovative Technologies USA, llc is a US company which creates technology, products and processes, to improve urban living.

Focusing on building performance, maintenance, energy consumption and MEP systems to reduce carbon emissions, lower energy use, improve energy efficiency and lower cost to residents.

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MAWE Technologies

CONSUMER INDUSTRY

MAWE Technologies empowers Africans living in the U.S. by enhancing their day-to-day life with culturally informed technology solutions.

Our flagship product, The Electric Unbraider, is a mechanically driven tool that drastically reduces the time spent loosening braided hair.

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MVP Robotics

ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

MVP Robotics are on a mission to improve safety and human performance through applied robotics in grueling environments.

From the sports field to the battlefield, they are intent on designing and building the "most sought after and widely used robots in the world based on superior quality, durability, realism and customer confidence."

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Shift Thermal

ARCHITECTURAL INDUSTRIES

Shift Thermal is cutting HVAC costs and decarbonizing heating and cooling for commercial and industrial-scale building owners.

Their FLEX™ technology provides plug-and-play technology to enhance existing HVAC and process cooling systems.

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SunThru LLC

ARCHITECTURAL INDUSTRIES

SunThru LLC is a small start-up company based in Schenectady, NY focused on producing highly transparent aerogel monoliths.

With a small team of mechanical engineers and chemists, we also focus on developing various aerogel techniques that allow for aerogels to be easily integrated into Insulated Glazing Units (IGUs).

Currently, SunThru is focused on scaling our manufacturing capabilities to meet the needs of our customers.

Comments from SunThru:

"The software is working out great, it is very useful for a small company to have access to SOLIDWORKS software and its capabilities. We definitely want to continue to use the software in the future and hopefully when our 1 year is up, we can figure out the next steps to take to continue the program in some capacity.

We became aware of the program through the CEO John Costa and his relationship with Sean Farrell (one of our former classmates and friends at Union College).

For feedback, I would say our engineers found the platform a little difficult to navigate and the installation process was a little confusing (e.g. having to find solidworks Connect as the actual location to install).

After reaching out to you guys, they were able to figure it out, but that is the only criticism that we have because the program is great overall."

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Tutor Intelligence

ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

Tutor Intelligence are a company rooted in the realities of industry, with a team operating at the leading edge of AI research.

Their goal is to be your greatest ally and collaborator in bringing your operations into the artificial intelligence era.

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X-Cor Therapeutics

MEDICAL INDUSTRY

X-COR Therapeutics is developing a revolutionary respiratory dialysis technology to directly remove carbon dioxide from the bloodstream of patients with respiratory failure.

Their technology offers high CO2 removal rates at ultra-low blood-flows, reducing complexity and improving patient care.

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Xpan Inc.

MEDICAL INDUSTRY

Xpan’s surgical device offers unparalleled safety for minimally invasive procedures.

It’s a compact, expandable tool that starts at a 3mm diameter, and widens to 12 mm, adapting to surgical needs.

This innovation leads to fewer complications, smaller wounds, quicker recovery, and enhanced operational efficiency, embodying flexibility and cost-effectiveness for healthcare providers.

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Contact us to learn more about our Startup program and find out if your startup business qualifies for the free SOLIDWORKS software offer.

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SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Rod Mackay — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:53:26 +0000

Software

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

The ultimate end-to-end product development solution from SOLIDWORKS

Go Beyond Design with Ultimate

Today’s designers and engineers face challenges that extend beyond just design. SOLIDWORKS® Ultimate provides a holistic approach to expand into all aspects of product development. A foundational solution for professional designers and engineers, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate builds on 3D design by laying the groundwork for simulation, manufacturing, marketing, and management tools that eliminate silos and accelerate your product development processes.

Your job does not stop at making great designs. Watch this video to learn how SOLIDWORKS Ultimate accelerates all phases of your product development process.

NOTE: This is 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, the desktop version is coming soon.

OVERVIEW

Take a First Look at SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Included Ultimate Tools

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes SOLIDWORKS Premium, and expands your capabilities well beyond design, into simulation, collaboration, management, marketing, and manufacturing. Learn more about the additional tools below:

Project and Resource Management

Shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.
Lean Teamwork

Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.
Release Management

Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.
Product Structure Management

Reduce development time with the ability to create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context, reducing design iterations by making the review of designs and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders.
Virtual Experiences & Renderings

Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging virtual twins. Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements

Sheet Metal Design on the Cloud

Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities.
Mold Design on the Cloud

Provide specialized, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mold cores, cavities, and inserts.
Weldments Design on the Cloud

Create structure members; add plates, gussets, and end caps; and generate a manufacturing cut list with associative, feature based frame design capabilities.
Structural Analysis for Cloud Design

Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress analysis.
Motion Analysis for Cloud Design

Understand the impact of assembly motion on your design with motion simulation in the cloud. Study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your designs by checking the range of motion, component interference, and performance.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Features

All the design and cloud collaboration tools you need are included with the Ultimate version

Design and Simulate

Professional, flexible, and trusted design tools combined with robust simulation solutions

Industry-standard SOLIDWORKS design solutions found in the Premium offer
Freeform, subdivision design tools
Vast library of fasteners, hardware parts, and a catalog of over 50 million components from manufacturers worldwide through our online catalog
Specialized design tools for routing, large assembly design capabilities, weldments, mold design, sheet metal, and more
Flexible cloud-based design tools so you can create on-the-go
Simulation tools to account for linear stress, frequency/modal, thermal, linear buckling and motion analysis
Ability to leverage cloud-computing for simulation

Collaborate and Manage

Cloud-based BOM and product lifecycle management tools that are secure and always available, and greatly improve communication between teams

Built to support cross-discipline collaboration between disparate teams
Easy sharing and markup capabilities for outside stakeholders
Secure, CAD-aware cloud storage
Easy revision management with branching and merging
Flexible, cloud BOM and lifecycle management tools
Associate project tasks to your design data
Conceptualize and release entire product structures online
Collaborative planning tools, Gantt charts, and project management
Whiteboarding and organization tools that follow Lean principles

Document and Market

Solutions to create product documentation along with stunning and compelling marketing assets

Connect engineering and marketing directly to single source of truth
Cloud-based solutions to create technical illustrations, user guides, photorealistic images, and immersive experiences
Cloud-based studio for capturing lifelike photo renderings quickly and easily
Marketing content creation and product illustration for everyone, everywhere, at any time
Impactful 3D experiences for commercial customer engagements from VR to web

Manufacture

Advanced CAM tools combined with cloud-based 3D machine programming solutions to manufacture correctly the first time

Rule-based machining that enhances programming processes and accelerates quoting
Automatic feature and hole recognition
Real-time toolpath verification for improved accuracy and efficiency
Nesting to easily cut multiple parts on one sheet for routers, lasers, plasma, and water-jet machines
Manufacturability checker for quick part design validation to determine optimal manufacturing process
Extended capabilities specific for wire EDM, laser, water-jet, and plasma cutting

Roles included with Ultimate

Discover the 3DEXPERIENCE Roles included with the SOLIDWORKS Ultimate version

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Design
Manufacturing
Marketing
PDM / PLM
Simulation
Technical Communication

3D Creator

3D Demonstrator

3D Mold Creator

3D Motion Creator

3D Product Architect

3D Render

3D Sculptor

3D Sheet Metal Creator

3D Structure Creator

3DSwymer

Collaborative Industry Innovator

DELMIA Lean Team Player

Manufacturing Definition Creator

NC Shop Floor Programmer

Product Communicator

Product Release Engineer

Project Planner

Structural Designer

Compare SOLIDWORKS Versions

Standard, Professional, Premium, or Ultimate offering

Capabilities	Standard	Professional	Premium	Ultimate
Cloud Collaboration
Cross-Discipline Collaboration Collaborate in real time using configurable dashboards, social communities, Kanban-style task management, activity streams, persistent chat, and video calls. Easily search, visualize, explore, and mark up SOLIDWORKS and other files directly in your browser, from any device.	●	●	●	●
Share and Markup Invite anyone, inside or outside your organization, to view, share, and mark up your 3D designs in the cloud, directly within SOLIDWORKS. Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a link from within SOLIDWORKS, with no download required.	●	●	●	●
Project and Resource Management Shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.				●
Lean Teamwork Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.				●
Cloud Data Management
Store and Revise Utilize secure cloud storage that’s purpose-built with CAD relationships and collaboration in mind. Save your data to the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS. Lock designs to ensure no one overwrites your work, easily manage revisions, and create detailed markups with redline, measurements, and annotations.	●	●	●	●
Data and Lifecycle Management Manage the life cycle of any type of content, such as CAD files, simulation models, and documentation, across disciplines and CAD solutions. Assign tasks, track issues, communicate and coordinate design changes, manage reviews and approvals, and capture decisions.	●	●	●	●
Administration Monitor license usage, manage members, and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative dashboard, lowering administrative overhead. Easily stay up-to-date and benefit from the latest enhancements.	●	●	●	●
Release Management Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.				●
Product Structure Management Reduce development time with the ability to create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context, reducing design iterations by making the review of designs and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders.				●
Cloud 3D Design and Modeling
Parametric Modeling Create, review, and evaluate 3D models through an intuitive parametric modeling solution that interacts seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.	●	●	●	●
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation Define, organize, and communicate key manufacturing information such as dimensions, tolerances, and notes all from a web browser with a combined 2D drawing and model-based solution.	●	●	●	●
Subdivision/Freeform Modeling Create organic shapes quickly and easily with an intuitive modeling solution that interacts seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.		●	●	●
Sheet Metal Design Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities				●
Mold Design Provide specialized, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mold cores, cavities, and inserts.				●
Weldments Design Create structure members; add plates, gussets, and end caps; and generate a manufacturing cut list with associative, featurebased frame design capabilities				●
3D Design and Modeling
Part and Assembly Modeling Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models	●	●	●	●
Specialized Design Tools Speed up the design of sheet metal, plastic and cast parts, weldments, molds, tools, and dies.	●	●	●	●
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation Create production-ready 2D drawings or go drawingless and use intelligent, automated 3D dimensioning and tolerancing capabilities.	●	●	●	●
Productivity Tools Easily analyze, compare, check and report on your designs	●	●	●	●
Industry 3D Component Catalog Access over 50 million components from manufacturers worldwide through our online catalog.	●	●	●	●
Interference Check Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit, assemble and operate correctly	●	●	●	●
Design Reuse & Automation Simplify the reuse of existing design data with search, automation and configuration tools that help you speed up the creation of new designs	●	●	●	●
Manufacturability Checks Review your designs for Draft, Undercut, Thickness and Hole Alignments early in the development process to ensure manufacturability.	●	●	●	●
Advanced CAD File Import/Export Convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators	●	●	●	●
Linked CAD Models Use models saved in other CAD formats directly inside SOLIDWORKS assemblies, parts, and drawings while maintaining associativity with the original CAD model.	●	●	●	●
AR/VR Exporter Export CAD data for AR, VR, and web viewing experiences while retaining geometry, appearance, motion studies, display states, and more	●	●	●	●
ECAD/MCAD Collaboration Share, compare, update, and track electrical design data so users can quickly resolve electrical-mechanical integration and collaboration issues.	●	●	●	●
Intelligent CAD Libraries Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard fasteners that configure on the fly and assemble automatically in your design.		●	●	●
CAD Standards Checking (Design Checker) Establish design standards and check drawings (or models) against them to create uniform designs and documentation.		●	●	●
Automated Tolerance Stackup Analysis (TolAnalyst™) Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and verify tolerancing schemes before manufacturing your designs		●	●	●
Design for Cost (SOLIDWORKS Costing) Continuously check your designs against cost targets with automatic cost estimation tools fully integrated within the 3D CAD solution		●	●	●
Reverse Engineering (ScanTo3D) Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data		●	●	●
Advanced Surface Flattening Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces typically encountered in products made from textiles, like clothing, or sheet metal, like metal stampings			●	●
Pipe and Tube Routing Simplify the design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping.			●	●
Electrical Cable and Wiring Harness Routing Quickly add cables, wires, and harnesses to your design. Create flattened drawing representations of your 3D cables and harnesses with wire lists, connection information, and bills of materials			●	●
Rectangular and Other Section Routing Route rectangular and round sections that include ducting, cable trays, conveyors, material handling chutes, and other systems.			●	●
Cloud Immersive Experiences
Training and User Guides Create stunning digital content including interactive product presentations and technical illustrations to showcase product values, enable partners, guide use, and win customers.				●
Virtual Experiences Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging virtual twins.				●
Rendering Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements.				●
Rendering
Basic Animation and Visualization Move assemblies by dragging components or using motors, create CAD videos, and generate basic CAD renderings and 3D walk-throughs.	●	●	●	●
GPU Rendering Utilize the full power of your hardware with GPU rendering capabilities.		●	●	●
Artificial Intelligence Denoiser Leverage artificial intelligence to eliminate noise from your renders with a single checkbox, dramatically boosting your render speed.		●	●	●
Full Animation Suite Tell a more compelling story with your CAD data by using the full Animation suite. Easily animate exploded views, appearance properties, cameras, and much more to create photo-quality videos to showcase even the most complex projects.		●	●	●
Immersive Virtual Reality Create immersive virtual reality experiences with 360-degree cameras and interactive output.		●	●	●
Advanced Lighting Techniques for Sun and Sky Simulate the lighting at a specific location and time, and create sun study animations.		●	●	●
Physics Simulation Create more realistic and immersive content with rigid-body and vehicle-driving physics simulations.		●	●	●
Simulation
Linear Static Analysis for Parts and Assemblies Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods and running linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.			●	●
Motion Analysis Realistically visualize your product moving throughout its operational cycle, measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to correctly size motors and ensure product performance, quality, and safety.			●	●
Structural Analysis for Cloud Design Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress analysis.				●
Motion Analysis for Cloud Design Understand the impact of assembly motion on your design with motion simulation in the cloud. Study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your designs by checking the range of motion, component interference, and performance.				●
Training and Support
Support Get up to speed fast using online training content, a vibrant community, and support from TriMech	●	●	●	●
Learning Experiences Improve your skills with a library of over 200 learning modules comprising thousands of on-demand lessons.				●

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Benefits

How you and your team can benefit with the Ultimate tools

Scalable Solution

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate lays the foundation for companies at any stage, from startup to sustaining.

As you expand beyond design, you can utilize the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate to tackle today’s product development needs and overcome tomorrow’s challenges.

Single Source

Everything in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate connects to a single source of truth.

Seamlessly take your CAD data downstream without the need to export or import, improving accuracy and eliminating the need to move or duplicate data. Your data stays safe and in your control, while providing accessibility to your trusted stakeholders.

Set Up for Success

Engineers and designers can experience challenges when they are required to expand into other disciplines.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes access to thousands of training lessons to help you quickly learn how to use new tools and be productive. You can master the included applications and level up your skills with in-depth learning modules.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate FAQs

Get answers to your questions

What is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is an end-to-end software package from SOLIDWORKS that builds on the tools and functionalities included with SOLIDWORKS Premium. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate adds specialized design tools in the cloud, product release and structure management, cloud-immersive tools for documentation and marketing content, and on-demand learning experiences enabling and accelerating seamless collaboration for any product development workflow. By unifying design, engineering, simulation, manufacturing, and go-to-market activities, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate eliminates siloed processes, allowing rapid iteration and exceptional product delivery.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is available for 3DEXPERIENCE® SOLIDWORKS and will be available with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD at a later date. Contact your us to discuss which option is best for you.

Who is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate for?

What industries does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate support?

What is the difference between SOLIDWORKS Standard, SOLIDWORKS Professional, SOLIDWORKS Premium, and SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

SOLIDWORKS Standard is the basic SOLIDWORKS CAD package that comes with industry-standard 3D design software, production-ready 2D documentation tools, advanced CAD file import/export, cloud-based share and markup capabilities, and more.

SOLIDWORKS Professional builds on the design tools in the Standard package with SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, a library of hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard models and commonly reused CAD data, a design for cost feature, ECAD/MCAD collaboration, and beyond.

SOLIDWORKS Premium expands your design tools to include specialty tools like wire and tube routing, circuit board import, photo rendering, kinematics, linear static stress, and more.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes SOLIDWORKS Premium, and expands your capabilities well beyond design, into simulation, collaboration, management, marketing, and manufacturing.

Can I test out SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

Does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate work with my existing environment?

Is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate in the cloud?

How do I learn how to use the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

How does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate connect to the cloud?

The cloud-based product development tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate are based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a business and innovation platform that scales with users. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD connects to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, while SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS deploys directly from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. All of the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate, whether installed locally or in the cloud, are interoperable and connect with one another.

Can I upgrade from SOLIDWORKS Premium to Ultimate?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Examples

Rod Mackay — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:37:25 +0000

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Examples

Photo-realistic images created with SOLIDWORKS Visualize software

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Aerospace
Architectural
Jewelry
Mechanical
Packaging
Product Design
Trade Show
Transportation
Watches

Free SOLIDWORKS for Startups

Rod Mackay — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:30:40 +0000

Service

Free SOLIDWORKS for Startups

Get free CAD software, SOLIDWORKS training offers and support to help you and your business succeed.

OVERVIEW

What is SOLIDWORKS for Startups?

TriMech supports Startups and Entrepreneurs with free SOLIDWORKS software to help conceive, design, test, manufacture, and launch amazing products.

SOLIDWORKS for Startups provides eligible businesses with access to industry-leading 3D CAD software as well as robust data management tools and a comprehensive PLM system for free for a year.

Eliminate physical prototyping costs by validating designs with FEA and CFD simulation, and demonstrate realistic virtual twins through intuitive visualization, marketing, and collaboration tools.

Apply to get SOLIDWORKS for FREE

SOLIDWORKS for Startups Eligibility Requirements

The Program is open to Startups who are new SOLIDWORKS customers and meet the following criteria:

Up to $1M Revenue

To apply for the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program, your business must have less than 1 million dollars in revenue and funding.

Businesses Under 5 Years Old

As long as you've been in business for less than 5 years, you could be eligible for the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program.

Developing Physical Products

Only businesses committed to developing physical products will be accepted onto the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program.

How to Apply for the Startups Program

Double-check your business meets the eligibility criteria above and browse the products and services offered in the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program below.

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Core Benefit

Free SOLIDWORKS Products

Access these SOLIDWORKS products for free with SOLIDWORKS for Startups.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

3D Sculptor

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

SOLIDWORKS Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Composer

SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Project Planner

SOLIDWORKS MBD

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Collaborative Industry Innovator

SOLIDWORKS CAM

Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS

3DSwymer

3D Creator

Social Business Analyst

3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner

Additional Benefits

Offers & Resources

Partnering with TriMech also gives you access to additional offers and resources

Exclusive Offer

Get a Formlabs Form 4 (or 4L) SLA 3D Printer with no payments for 90 days

Take your product design to the next level with a blazing fast Formlabs SLA 3D printer. Formlabs is the largest supplier of professional stereolithography (SLA) in the world, allowing designers, engineers and makers to rapidly create physical prototypes from SOLIDWORKS.

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Exclusive Webinars

Onboarding Resources

Free Online Training Videos

In-person Training Options

Technical Support

Co-Marketing Opportunities

UNIQUE OFFERING

Startup Services from Mako

Partnering with the TriMech Group means you have access to exclusive design and consultation services

Founded in 1999, with the vision of supporting inventors, startups and ecommerce businesses, Mako is the original firm bridging the gap between concept and market-ready products by offering comprehensive affordable solutions.

* Startup Services from Mako are an additional purchase

Why Startups Choose to Work with Mako

Mako understands what it takes to launch a successful startup, that bringing a new product to market is a challenging journey – one filled with obstacles, uncertainties, and many moving parts.

That’s why Mako are dedicated to supporting startups like you every step of the way. Their mission is to give you the tools, expertise, and support you need to go from concept to market with confidence.

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Proven Startup Expertise

Mako specializes in helping startups thrive in competitive markets. Mako have worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to transform initial sketches into market-ready products. With their experience and focus on startup, Mako are well-equipped to understand your specific challenges and help you navigate them seamlessly.

End-to-end Product Development

From that initial “a-ha!” moment to launching your product into the hands of customers, Mako Design provides comprehensive services designed for startups — a one-stop shop for design, prototyping and manufacturing. Mako handle the details so you can focus on building your business and get ready to disrupt the market.

Speed and Efficiency

In the fast-paced world of startups, speed is crucial. Mako has perfected a streamlined process that will get your product to market faster without compromising quality. The product development model is specifically tailored to startups, offering accelerated development with an emphasis on marketability and responsiveness to your needs.

Cost-effective Solutions

Mako know that budgets are often tight for startups, that's why they offer world-class expertise at prices that makes sense for new businesses. By optimizing the design and prototyping processes, Mako keeps costs low while maintaining high-quality standards, making sure your investment goes as far as possible.

Industry Connections and Launch Support

Mako don’t just help you design and manufacture your product – they are here for the big picture. Mako partnerships with industry experts, support networks, and marketing professionals mean they can help you plan for a successful launch. From strategic consulting to marketing advice, Mako offer the holistic support you need to succeed.

Mako's Approach to Startup Success

End-to-end solutions for Startups

Personalized Consultation

Mako begins by getting to know your vision and goals. Through personalized consultations, they work to understand your product, your market, and what success means to you. This understanding becomes the foundation for everything they do, Mako are aligned with your needs from day one.

Concept Development to Prototyping

Mako's design experts work alongside you to take your idea from concept sketches to working prototypes. They focus on simplicity, functionality, and manufacturability, ensuring that the product can be produced efficiently. This phase also includes refining your product to meet both technical and user needs.

Manufacturing Preparation and Production

Once your prototype is perfected, Mako prepare for manufacturing; creating detailed plans and coordinate with trusted manufacturing partners to ensure high quality production runs. Mako manage the first three manufacturing runs so you can be confident that quality control and efficiency are top priorities

Market Entry and Beyond

Mako stay with you through the product launch, helping with strategic marketing support and industry connections. The goal is not just to create a great product, but to ensure that your product reaches its full potential in the market. Mako offer ongoing support, troubleshooting, and improvements to help you succeed well beyond launch day.

Alumni

Who uses SOLIDWORKS for Startups?

Discover businesses who achieved success through the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program.

Ampere EV

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Ampere EV is the leading developer of complete electric drivetrains designed for the conversion of internal combustion vehicles.

Ampere's turnkey Atom Drive System was developed by world-class engineers, it’s built in-house, pre-configured, and ready to install.

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AstroBrew

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

AstroBrew is the world's most advanced cold brew coffee maker. Available for pre-order on July 9, 2024 through Kickstarter.

Thanks to SOLIDWORKS startup program, it was fully designed for manufacturing using SOLIDWORKS Professional.

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Atomiq

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

Atomiq is revolutionizing propulsion systems by leveraging its extensive aerospace experience and robust IP portfolio to develop a plasma-based propulsion system.

This technology reduces greenhouse gas emissions, enhances transportation speed, boosts payload capacity, and lowers operational costs.

With concepts already validated, Atomiq is dedicated to advancing and expanding this groundbreaking technology.

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Bang'n You

CATERING INDUSTRY

Bang'n You is a cheekily-named bakery specializing in artisanally crafted & small batch culturally Chinese & Southeast Asian treats.

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BrewNature

ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY

BrewNature revolutionizes waste management with its cutting-edge in-vessel composter, transforming organic waste into high-value compost in just 5 days. Powered by advanced microbial aid and zero-emission technology, BrewNature offers a fast, eco-friendly, and scalable solution for sustainable waste-to-resource conversion.

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Dexai Robotics

ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

Dexai’s mission is to protect the food service industry from difficult labor shortages and to help insulate it from economic ups and downs.

Discover how Dexai utilised the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program to help redefine sous-chefs and design automated solutions to everyday tasks.

"There’s a big human component that I really appreciate about TriMech. It’s very easy to get on the phone with them or email them and get an answer."

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Focalpoint Putters

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

Focalpoint Putters is a small, family-owned and operated putter company. We aim to provide all golfers with the best quality American-made putters at an affordable price

Visit Website & Buy Online

Innovative Technologies USA

ARCHITECTURAL INDUSTRY

Innovative Technologies USA, llc is a US company which creates technology, products and processes, to improve urban living.

Focusing on building performance, maintenance, energy consumption and MEP systems to reduce carbon emissions, lower energy use, improve energy efficiency and lower cost to residents.

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MAWE Technologies

CONSUMER INDUSTRY

MAWE Technologies empowers Africans living in the U.S. by enhancing their day-to-day life with culturally informed technology solutions.

Our flagship product, The Electric Unbraider, is a mechanically driven tool that drastically reduces the time spent loosening braided hair.

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MVP Robotics

ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

MVP Robotics are on a mission to improve safety and human performance through applied robotics in grueling environments.

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Shift Thermal

ARCHITECTURAL INDUSTRIES

Shift Thermal is cutting HVAC costs and decarbonizing heating and cooling for commercial and industrial-scale building owners.

Their FLEX™ technology provides plug-and-play technology to enhance existing HVAC and process cooling systems.

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SunThru LLC

ARCHITECTURAL INDUSTRIES

SunThru LLC is a small start-up company based in Schenectady, NY focused on producing highly transparent aerogel monoliths.

With a small team of mechanical engineers and chemists, we also focus on developing various aerogel techniques that allow for aerogels to be easily integrated into Insulated Glazing Units (IGUs).

Currently, SunThru is focused on scaling our manufacturing capabilities to meet the needs of our customers.

Comments from SunThru:

We became aware of the program through the CEO John Costa and his relationship with Sean Farrell (one of our former classmates and friends at Union College).

After reaching out to you guys, they were able to figure it out, but that is the only criticism that we have because the program is great overall."

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Tutor Intelligence

ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

Tutor Intelligence are a company rooted in the realities of industry, with a team operating at the leading edge of AI research.

Their goal is to be your greatest ally and collaborator in bringing your operations into the artificial intelligence era.

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X-Cor Therapeutics

MEDICAL INDUSTRY

X-COR Therapeutics is developing a revolutionary respiratory dialysis technology to directly remove carbon dioxide from the bloodstream of patients with respiratory failure.

Their technology offers high CO2 removal rates at ultra-low blood-flows, reducing complexity and improving patient care.

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Xpan Inc.

MEDICAL INDUSTRY

Xpan’s surgical device offers unparalleled safety for minimally invasive procedures.

It’s a compact, expandable tool that starts at a 3mm diameter, and widens to 12 mm, adapting to surgical needs.

This innovation leads to fewer complications, smaller wounds, quicker recovery, and enhanced operational efficiency, embodying flexibility and cost-effectiveness for healthcare providers.

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SOLIDWORKS for Startups FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about the Startups Program.

What are the key benefits of the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program?

The SOLIDWORKS for Startups program gives you access to professional CAD software free for a year, so you can get your business up-and-running without massive overheads hanging over you.

Alongside the products above, you'll gain access to our expert Technical Support team, and exclusive discounts on SOLIDWORKS training.

The SOLIDWORKS for Startups program is designed to help businesses develop their products and connect you with a supporting network of experts.

Desktop SOLIDWORKS or 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS?

Our SOLIDWORKS for Startups offer provides access to 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and the traditional desktop SOLIDWORKS.

The core functionality of both SOLIDWORKS versions is near identical, but 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS is tightly integrated with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to provide a single cloud-based product development environment with unlimited potential for growth.

There are differences in how the two versions are licensed, installed and updated, as well as how they interact with add-on software. We will help you choose the best version for your business, if you would like to read more about the differences visit our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS page.

Who is eligible for the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program?

To apply for the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program you must:

Be a new SOLIDWORKS customer.
Have been in business for less than 5 years.
Be designing and building a physical product with an aim to sell it in the market.
Currently make less than $1 million in revenue.

Full eligibility requirements can be viewed when applying.

If you're unsure, then contact us when you are ready to apply, complete the online registration form and we can have you set up within 24 hours.

How can I collaborate with my colleagues/suppliers?

How can TriMech help my business?

TriMech and our partners have been providing professional CAD solutions and services to businesses across a variety of industries for over 25 years.

Our certified experts offer assistance throughout your design journey to help you find the best software solutions and maximize your efficiency, diagnose problems, and overcome challenges.

We also run CPD-accredited training courses for all of our products to support your professional development and that of your team.

To learn more about TriMech and the services we offer, visit our about us page or contact us directly.

What happens at the end of the program?

It sounds great, but what is the catch?

Startup Services Contact

Contact us to learn more about our Startup program and find out if your startup business qualifies for the free SOLIDWORKS software offer.

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Ask a TriMech Expert

Kelly Clancy — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:25:56 +0000

Solution

Ask a TriMech Expert

Get your SOLIDWORKS design and manufacturing questions answered through a LIVE online consultation session with a TriMech certified expert.

Consult with a TriMech Technology Expert

TriMech engineers are here to answer your design and manufacturing questions.

From 3D design to MBD to complex simulations, TriMech experts can solve your technical challenges and answer questions that are not the usual technical support issues.

If you are looking to move your business to the cloud, start reverse engineering, or fully automate your workflow we can offer you the best advice and show you how to make better use of your SOLIDWORKS technology.

NOTE: This technical session is an exclusive benefit for TriMech Elite subscription service clients with a current contract.

Learn what you can expect from a live session and the benefits of consulting with a TriMech engineer:

Types of Sessions

TriMech provides clients with a complete product lifecycle solution from concept to production. Your session could include any of the following SOLIDWORKS topics:

3D DESIGN
ANALYSIS & VERIFICATION
AUTOMATION
COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING
CLOUD COLLABORATION
DATA MANAGEMENT & WORKFLOW
ELECTRICAL & PCB DESIGN
INSPECTION & QA
MODEL BASED DEFINITION
ROBOT SIMULATION
VISUALIZATION & ANIMATION

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Session Benefits

Research New Technology Discover New Techniques Improve Your Business

Research New Technology

RESEARCH

Research New Technology

We know that finding the right technology to meet your needs is often time consuming and frustrating. So we want to make it quick and easy for you to research new SOLIDWORKS technology for your business with a live session with an expert.

Book Your Session

Discover New Techniques

Improve Your Business

Session Agenda

We provide a live session with an expert. The process for the sessions includes:

BOOK YOUR SESSION

A Discovery Call

A quick call to determine your requirements for the session.

Live Session

A live online session on your chosen topic that answers your questions.

Session Booking

Arrange a date and time that suits your schedule.

Summary & Next Steps

Confirm that the session met your needs, and determine any next steps.

Innovation from TriMech

Ask An Expert

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Pick the topic you are interested in talking to an expert about, plus any additional information:

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Additional information about your project or requirements

Your contact information

Please enter your name and contact details for the live session:

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Terms and Conditions

Sessions must be pre-scheduled and are normally available 5 business day lead-time.
Summary of key topics (with examples) should be provided ahead of time, for an optimal experience.
A company will get an equivalent number of “Ask an Expert” sessions to the number of SOLIDWORKS Elite seats on Subscription.
“Ask an Expert” sessions cannot be combined into a larger consulting project, nor can an “Ask an Expert” session be broken up into multiple shorter sessions.
“Ask an Expert” sessions are non-transferrable between companies, not redeemable against other offerings and expire at the conclusion of each Subscription period.
TriMech reserves the right to limit the scope of the “Ask an Expert” session when the topic presented exceeds the available time allowance.
Sessions are delivered online only. We will provide a video/screen sharing app link.
Client retains sole responsibility for the final engineering review of the validity of the design advice given.

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Michael Ash — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:45:18 +0000

Software

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Your online collaborative hub for complete product development

What is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a business-wide tool that provides access to Dassault Systèmes' huge range of engineering software solutions to enable complete product development through browser-based applications.

As a modular solution, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is scalable, and can be adapted to grow with your business and empower collaboration between departments.

How does the 3DEXPERIENCE platform work?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is comprised of purchased roles which contain individual applications.

MODULAR

What are Roles?

Functionality on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is broken down into different job roles which can all be licensed separately.

Each role unlocks access to tools from one of Dassault Systèmes' major software brands including CATIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, and many more.

SOFTWARE

What are Applications?

Every role contains a unique set of tools that are the software applications.

For example, the Project Planner role contains applications for project management, while the Structural Engineer role contains applications for linear FEA analysis.

TRACEABILITY

What is the Digital Thread?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is built around the concept of the digital thread to aid collaboration across departments.

This ensures all users work on the same files by eliminating data silos and file duplication with complete product lifecycle management.

Where do I start with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

Explore the three core methods for implementing and using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Entry Level

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

These applications provide a brilliant introduction to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform through seamless integration within the SOLIDWORKS interface.

Access formal CAD data management and open the door to powerful tools for advanced simulation, freeform modeling, marketing, and much more on the wider 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Discover Cloud Services

Expansion

3DEXPERIENCE Works

Extend your product development capabilities and solve new problems faster with the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio.

This suite of Cloud-connected design, simulation, and lifecycle management applications are perfect for businesses who use SOLIDWORKS and are looking to expand and enhance their workflows.

Discover 3DEXPERIENCE Works

advanced

Enterprise Solutions

Empower your teams to better design, collaborate, validate, document, and manufacture through our comprehensive Enterprise Solutions.

We partner with businesses to help them realize their visions by implementing advanced design, validation, and PLM solutions optimized for your processes and centered around the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

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WHO USES THE 3DEXPERIENCE PLATFORM?

Trusted by Global Leaders

Client Testimonial

Dexai Robotics - Transforming Commercial Kitchens

"There’s a big human component that I really appreciate about TriMech. It’s very easy to get on the phone with them or email them and get an answer.

Even as we were researching 3DEXPERIENCE and comparing it with other products on the market, they seemed to have unlimited time to go through the decision-making process, which was amazing. And later, TriMech allowed me as an individual with no IT experience to roll out a PLM product to a big team."

Justin Rooney

Hardware Team Lead at Dexai Robotics

Read the full case study

Learn 3DEXPERIENCE

To help you learn how to use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and get started with the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services, we've prepared a series of short and easy-to-follow guides.

We also offer a paid Quick Start service to get you set up quickly and equip you with efficient workflows to maximize your productivity.

During this service, one of our engineers will run through the initial setup with you and make sure that everything is configured optimally for your company's requirements.

FREE Starter Guides

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3DEXPERIENCE Platform FAQs

What are the benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

What areas of 3DEXPERIENCE are most useful for SOLIDWORKS users?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a vast range of capabilities with solutions for virtually every aspect of product development.

Alongside the cloud data storage, design management and collaboration tools we have mentioned, the areas we believe will be most beneficial to existing SOLIDWORKS users include: advanced cloud data management, sub-divisional modelling and digital manufacturing.

This subsection of the platforms tools is also known as 3DEXPERIENCE Works. Learn more about these advanced capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on our 3DEXPERIENCE Works page.

How can you purchase 3DEXPERIENCE?

How are the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services related to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

The SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services provide a connection from SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and access to a small subsection of tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The platform's capabilities are vast, but they are also completely modular, we recommend that you start by taking advantage of the cloud data storage and collaboration tools and expanding into other areas as and when you need.

Why use the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform as a SOLIDWORKS user?

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There are many potential reasons but one that we can recommend to most users is that with the platform you get secure cloud-based data management.

This data management is CAD intelligent and it has many advantages, you don't need to purchase and maintain servers, you avoid any cyber security issues and you can access your data anywhere and on any device.

How can I get started?

To help you make the most out of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and the new SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services included in your subscription, we are preparing a self start guide for you to follow.

The guide will be comprised of short tutorial videos that have been grouped into digestible sections, it has been designed to allow you to learn about the different aspects of the platform at your own pace.

This guide will become available later in May on this site, so make sure to bookmark this page.

If you can't wait to get started and want the most efficient set up possible then we also offer a paid Quick Start service. During this service one of our engineers will run through the initial setup with you and make sure that everything is configured optimally for your company's requirements.

Who can use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

How can I get more information or see a demo?

Please explore this site for more information about 3DEXPERIENCE or contact us with your questions.

We regularly run online demos though the schedules for these vary between the U.S.A., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland. To find out more or organise a demonstration at a time that is convenient for you then we recommend that you contact us.

During the demo we will cover common use-case scenarios and be available for you to ask questions that apply to your specific project or company needs.

How much does the 3DEXPERIENCE platform cost?

To access different tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform you need to purchase roles. There are many different roles available so the cost of purchasing 3DEXPERIENCE will vary depending on your requirements.

We're here to advise you and can help to tailor a package that perfectly suits your company's needs.

For many users the new SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services will be included in the price of their subscriptions, this grants access to three 3DEXPERIENCE roles and provides a perfect entry point for SOLIDWORKS users.

Can I use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to avoid hardware costs?

What is the difference between SOLIDWORKS Cloud, SOLIDWORKS Desktop with Cloud Services, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works?

There are a number of similarly named offers available surrounding SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE, and while there is overlap between them they are not the same thing.

To clear things up here is a brief explanation of the main offerings including SOLIDWORKS Cloud, SOLIDWORKS Desktop with SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

SOLIDWORKS Cloud
SOLIDWORKS Cloud is a bundle of cloud-based modeling apps that allows users to access and use best in class CAD functionality and files from any device with an internet connection.

These apps provide many of the same design capabilities as SOLIDWORKS Desktop but without the need to install the software on their local devices. These apps will feel very familiar to SOLIDWORKS users but they have been developed from the ground up and are not the exact same as SOLIDWORKS Desktop.

The apps in the SOLIDWORKS Cloud offer make an ideal solution for users who need to access CAD tools on multiple devices or locations and those who do not want to maintain the software locally. These apps all run on the cloud based 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Learn more about SOLIDWORKS Cloud.

SOLIDWORKS Desktop (with SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services)
SOLIDWORKS Desktop is a standard installation of SOLIDWORKS software on a local device. It provides users with the full range of capabilities and features of SOLIDWORKS but requires the software to be installed and maintained locally.

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services is a collection of tools that will be included with new SOLIDWORKS Subscriptions and term licenses.

They connect desktop SOLIDWORKS to the cloud based 3DEXPERIENCE platform and enable SOLIDWORKS users to easily share and markup designs, access CAD intelligent online storage and manage their design data effectively. In a nutshell, they provide a secure online hub for storage and collaboration.

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services is best suited for traditional SOLIDWORKS users that want to take advantage of better design sharing and cloud data storage.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS is a cloud-focused version of SOLIDWORKS that has a virtually identical set of capabilities as SOLIDWORKS Desktop but has a built in connection to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS launches from and saves files to the 3DEXPERIENCE but it still runs locally, this means that you still need a machine with the power to run SOLIDWORKS.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS software provides access to the same tools contained within SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services and can be bundled other cloud applications for flexible sub-divisional modelling and simulation.

Overall using 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS will be very similar to using desktop SOLIDWORKS with Cloud Services, it's a great choice for companies looking to simplify license management and consolidate their tools in one place, providing a more consistent user experience.

Learn more about 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS

3DEXPERIENCE Works

3DEXPERIENCE Works refers to a wider portfolio of applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that are the most beneficial for typical teams that use SOLIDWORKS.

3DEXPERIENCE Works includes 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS alongside a number of cloud-based tools for simulation, manufacturing, data management and marketing.

All of these applications are seamlessly connected and make use of the same SOLIDWORKS CAD data, which enables the key stakeholders of every project to work smoothly together.

Ready to get started with 3DEXPERIENCE?

Click the link to view our guides on how to activate and start using these great new tools.

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CATIA Composer Essentials

Rod Mackay — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:03:57 +0000

Training Course

CATIA Composer Essentials

How to create 2D and 3D images and animations for instructions/documentation

Training Course Overview

CATIA Composer Essentials teaches you how to use the CATIA Composer software to create 2D and 3D outputs from CAD data. You will also learn how to create animations and update your view data when CAD files change.

This training course will help you:

Create 2D and 3D images for product documentation applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.
Create animations to use for documentation or marketing of your product designs.
Update product documentation when changes are applied to your CAD files.

Course Duration

In-class 3 Days (6 hours/day)

Online 3 Days (7 hours/day)

Or Online 4 Days (4 hours/day)

Skill Level

Basic/Intermediate Course

Course Type

Live Hands-on Instructor Led Training

Course Preview

Take a look at some of the images and animations you will be creating during the course

Creating Bills of Materials

Creating Additional Views

Creating Exploded Views

Creating Detail Views with the Digger

Creating Section Views

Creating Animations

Requirements & Benefits

Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the course

Requirements

Familiar with Windows OS

At least 1 month using software

Able to take time out for training

Features Targeted

The digger / detail views

Lighting and textures

Camera and animation keys

Acquired Skills

Able to create cover and detail images

Able to create exploded view and BOM

Able to create vector images and animations

"The CATIA Composer Essentials course was hands-on training with good examples and a great instructor."

— Mohammed Tauhiduzzaman, L3-Wescam

"The instructor was great at explaining every step. The training approach was very user friendly and understandable, the instructor took the time to answer all my questions. My new knowledge will assist with work instructions."

— Katrina Strickland, Stryker Medical

CATIA Composer Essentials Lessons

The following lessons are included in the course

Lesson 1: Getting Started

What is the CATIA Composer application?
Starting CATIA Composer
CATIA Composer terminology
CATIA Composer user interface
Preferences and document properties
Creating 2D output
Exercise 1: User interface
Exercise 2: Terminology

Lesson 2: Creating Cover and Detail Images

Overview
Views
Rendering tools
Navigation tools
Camera alignment tools
Create 2D output
Digger
Exercise 3: Navigation tools
Exercise 4: Digger
Exercise 5: Updating views

Lesson 3: Creating an Exploded View

Overview
Visibility tools
Exploded views
Collaborative actors
Styles
Vector graphics output
Exercise 6: Exploded view
Exercise 7: Styles
Exercise 8: Markups and annotations
Exercise 9: Visibility and rendering tools

Lesson 4: Creating Additional Exploded Views

Overview
Paper space
Importing files
File types
Update views with selected actors
Align actors
Explode lines
Custom views
Linking between views
Exercise 10: Importing assemblies
Exercise 11: Merging and aligning actors
Exercise 12: Custom views

Lesson 5: Creating Bills of Materials

Overview
Bill of materials
Vector graphics output
Another BOM table
Exercise 13: Exploded views, BOMs and callouts
Exercise 14: Vector graphics files

Lesson 6: Creating a Marketing Image

Overview
Selections
Textures
Lighting
High resolution image
Exercise 15: Lights and textures
Exercise 16: Render effects

Lesson 7: Creating an Animation

Overview
Timeline pane
Position keys
Exercise 17: Creating an explode animation

Lesson 8: Creating Interactive Content

Overview
Selections in the key track
Position and property keys
Filters
Animating collaborative actors
Digger keys
Events
Exercise 18: Managing the timeline pane
Exercise 19: Animating changes to actors
Exercise 20: Events

Lesson 9: Creating a Walkthrough Animation

Overview
Camera keys
Adding views to the timeline
Grids
Exercise 21: Camera Keys 1
Exercise 24: Camera Keys 2

Lesson 10: Creating an Explode and Collapse Animation

Overview
Assembly selection mode
Scenarios
Exercise 23: Animating actors and the digger
Exercise 24: Compound motion and scenarios

Lesson 11: Updating CATIA Composer Files

Overview
Update an entire assembly
Changing the geometry of an actor
Exercise 25: Updating from CAD

Lesson 12: Publishing from CATIA Composer

Overview
Preparing a file for publishing
Publishing to PDF
Publishing inside Microsoft Word
Publishing to HTML
Exercise 26: Publishing to PDF
Exercise 27: Publishing inside Microsoft Word
Exercise 28: Publishing inside HTML

Appendix A: Additional Applications and Workshops

Overview
3DVIA check
3DVIA path planning
Simplification workshop

Training Methods

Choose the training method right for you

Group/Public Training

Receive training as a group (limited amount per class) from certified instructors using vendor approved training content and methodologies.

Training is delivered either live online or in a traditional classroom environment.

Advantages

Cost effective training method.
More effective than video based training, with videos learners are often not as focused on the training and skip exercises.
Learn more through group questions and feedback.

Private Training

This style of flexible training is perfect for teams or individuals who are faced with a specific challenge and require personalized courses with on-the-job coaching.

Training is available live online, in-person classroom or onsite at your location.

Advantages

Use our state-of-the-art mobile classroom at your facility.
Bring your team up to a consistent level of knowledge by having them take the same training at the same time.
Benefit from flexible scheduling options.

Upcoming Training Courses

Choose a scheduled CATIA Composer Essentials course

Sorry, there are no scheduled CATIA Composer Essentials courses at this time.
View our training schedule or contact us about adding a course date or try a private course.

DriveWorks Professional

Erin Elliott — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:03:38 +0000

Training Course

DriveWorks Professional

Learn how to automate model creation and document outputs for sales and marketing products from SOLIDWORKS

DriveWorks Professional Training Course Overview

The DriveWorks Professional training will provide you with the tools necessary to automate model creation and document outputs from SOLIDWORKS. You will learn how to work with Excel Functions and Formulas to generate design rules, which will in turn control these outputs.

You will also learn how to generate custom input forms, that can be used by sales staff and engineers in your company to generate quotes or designs with ease.

This training course will help you to:

Build a user interface in DriveWorks
Be able to design and develop specific rules for model creation in SOLIDWORKS
Create output documents and forms such as drawings/quotes, etc. with DriveWorks
Link existing company data to DriveWorks for use in model and document generation

Course Duration

Online 6 Days (5 hours/day)

Skill Level

Intermediate/Advanced Level

Course Type

Live Hands-on Instructor Led Training Course

DriveWorks Professional Course Requirements & Benefits

Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the course

Requirements

Completed SOLIDWORKS Essentials

At least 1 month using software

Able to take time out for training

Features Targeted

Capture models & create rules

Building a user interface in DriveWorks

Automatic drawing & document creation

Acquired Skills

Build automation rules in DriveWorks

Run and manage projects

Build user interface (UI) forms

"The DriveWorks Professional course was well laid out and followed a logical structure. The software will certainly streamline our design process significantly."

— Imran Atcha, Polar Racking

"The instructor was very knowledgeable and the course was very informative. New skills will help to generate multiple models at once drastically cutting down quoting and modeling time."

— Mathew Marantette, Polar Racking

DriveWorks Professional Lessons

The following lessons are included in the course

DriveWorks Basics

Lesson 1 - Creating a Group and Capturing Models
Lesson 2 - Building a User Interface in DriveWorks Administrator
Lesson 3 - Building Rules
Lesson 4 - Running your Project
Lesson 5 - File Name and Relative Path Rules
Lesson 6 - Static Replacement Files
Lesson 7 - Tables
Lesson 8 - Form Navigation
Lesson 9 - Dynamic Replacement Files
Lesson 10 - Documents
Lesson 11 - Drawings

DriveWorks Advanced concepts/controls

Lesson 1 - Advanced Form Controls
Lesson 2 - Specification Control
Lesson 3 - Linking to External Data
Lesson 4 - Rollup Data Tables
Lesson 5 - Hierarchical Properties
Lesson 6 - Macro Buttons
Lesson 7 - Generation Tasks

Training Methods

Choose the training method right for you

Group/Public Training

Receive training as a group (limited amount per class) from certified instructors using vendor approved training content and methodologies.

Training is delivered either live online or in a traditional classroom environment.

Advantages

Cost effective training method.
More effective than video based training, with videos learners are often not as focused on the training and skip exercises.
Learn more through group questions and feedback.

Private Training

This style of flexible training is perfect for teams or individuals who are faced with a specific challenge and require personalized courses with on-the-job coaching.

Training is available live online, in-person classroom or onsite at your location.

Advantages

Use our state-of-the-art mobile classroom at your facility.
Bring your team up to a consistent level of knowledge by having them take the same training at the same time.
Benefit from flexible scheduling options.

Upcoming Training Courses

Choose a scheduled DriveWorks Professional course

Date & Time

February 11, 2025 - February 13, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

February 18, 2025 - February 20, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

March 18, 2025 - March 20, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

March 25, 2025 - March 27, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

April 15, 2025 - April 17, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

April 22, 2025 - April 24, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

May 6, 2025 - May 8, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

May 13, 2025 - May 15, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

June 10, 2025 - June 12, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

June 17, 2025 - June 19, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

July 15, 2025 - July 17, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

July 22, 2025 - July 24, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

August 12, 2025 - August 14, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

August 19, 2025 - August 21, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

September 16, 2025 - September 18, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

September 23, 2025 - September 25, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

October 14, 2025 - October 16, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

October 21, 2025 - October 23, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

November 11, 2025 - November 13, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

November 18, 2025 - November 20, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

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SOLIDWORKS Visualize

Paige Woolley — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 06:48:39 +0000

Training Course

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

Learn how to create photorealistic renderings & animations

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Overview

In the SOLIDWORKS Visualize Rendering course you will learn how to work with 3D CAD models to create unique photorealistic renderings for electronic and paper output.

The course is designed around a process or task based approach to training rather than focusing on individual features and functions. Case studies are used to illustrate processes, allowing you to learn the necessary commands and work flows to setup, manage and complete any rendering task.

This training course will help you to:

Create renderings of your Part and Assembly documents
Apply scenes and lighting
Apply advanced visual effects
Create and apply decals to your models
Use cameras effectively
Application of sun studies
Advanced scenes & lighting
Basic/Advanced Animation/Motion

Course Duration

In-class 2 Days (6 hours/day)

Or Online 4 Days (4 hours/day)

Or Online 2 Days (7 hours/day)

Skill Level

Intermediate/Advanced

Course Type

Live Hands-on Instructor Led Training Course

Course Preview

Examples of images created with SOLIDWORKS Visualize Rendering

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Example Makeup

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Example Landscape

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Example Car Interior

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Example Headphones

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Example Earrings

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Example Power Tools

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Course Requirements & Benefits

Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the SOLIDWORKS Visualize Rendering course

Requirements

Completed SOLIDWORKS Essentials

At least 1 month using software

A working knowledge of Photography

Features Targeted

Applying and managing appearances

Scenes, Lights and Cameras

Texture Mapping and Decals

Acquired Skills

Able to set up scenes & render

Able to create basic animations

Apply camera and lighting effects

"Learning about the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Visualize Rendering should greatly improve the speed and quality of work that I will output"

— Daniel Miller, CleanRiver Recycling Solutions

"The instructor knows the product inside and out, he is close to the development team that he can almost solve problems in real-time."

— Chris Armour, Tigercat

— Gary Pasternak, LUR Studio

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Lessons

The following lessons are included in the course

Lesson 1: CAD to SOLIDWORKS Visualize Objectives

Rendering from CAD
Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Importing to Visualize
- Open
- Visualize User Interface
- Toolbar
- Viewport
- Palette
- Heads Up Display
- Drop-downs
Render Selection
- Easy Mode
Appearances
File Libraries
Scenes
Rendering
- Output Tools
Summary
Questions
Exercise 1: Cooler
Exercise 2: Sun Glasses

Lesson 2: Import Settings and Appearances

Objectives
Import Settings
Appearances
Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Part Grouping
- Automatic
- Flatten
- Group/Appearance
- Layer
- Appearance
- Appearance/Layer
- Retain Structure
- Monitor File
- Snap to Floor
Structure and Organization
Selection Tools
Object Manipulation
Split
- SOLIDWORKS Visualize Add-In
Copy and Paste
- Appearance Types
- Anisotropic
- Backscattering
- Emissive
- Flat
- Generic
- Glass
- Gem
- Matte
- Metal
- Metallic Paint
- Multi-Layer
- Paint
- Plastic
- Subsurface
- Thin Film
- Textures
- Bump
- Alpha
- Specular
- Colour
Texture Mapping
- UV
- Box
- Planar
- Spherical
- Radial
- Cylindrical
- Perspective
Appearance Type Parameters
Merge Parts
Summary
Questions
Exercise 3: SOLIDWORKS Add-In
Exercise 4: Arbor Press

Lesson 3: Decals Objectives

Decals
- Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Decals
Decal Depth
Wrapping Decals
Blend Texture Multi-Layer Decal Process
- Alpha Mapping
- Multi-Layer Appearance
Summary
Exercise 5: Pencil Sharpener
Summary
Exercise 6: Water Bottle

Lesson 4: Cameras

Objectives
Cameras
Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Cameras
Aspect Ratio
Keep Above Floor
Grid Overlay
Perspective
Camera Orientation.
- Distance/Dolly
- Longitude
- Twist
- Position XYZ
Camera Positioning
Depth of Field
Distance
Aperture
Filters
- Enable Post-Processing
- Apply to Geometry Only
- Bloom
SOLIDWORKS Contents v Summary
Questions
Exercise 7: British Car
Summary
Exercise 8: Watch

Lesson 5: Backplates, Environments and Lights

Objectives
Project Description
- Stages in the Process.
Environments
- HDR Environments
- Sunlight Environments
Questions
Lights
Questions
Exercise
Summary
Exercise 10: Water Bottle Backplate

Lesson 6: Productivity Tools

Objectives
- Productivity Tools.
- Project Description
Stages in the Process.
Multiple Views
Render All Cameras
Time Limit Rendering
Configurations
Export
- Shared File Libraries.
Render All Configurations
Render Queue
Visualize Boost
Summary
- Questions
Exercise 11: Ice Pick
Summary
Exercise 12: Guitar Colours

Lesson 7: Animations and Grouping

Objectives
Animations
- Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Groups
Animations
- Rotation Animation
- Animation Timeline and Controls
- Basic Animation Controls
- Advanced Animations Controls
- Animation Properties
- Animation List
- Timeline
Animation Output
Motion Blur
Keyframe Animation
- Auto Keyframing
Summary
- Questions
Exercise 13: Cooler Animation
Summary
Exercise 14: Pencil Sharpener Explode

Lesson 8: Camera Animations

Objectives
Camera Animations
- Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Camera Movement with the Triad
- Position Camera
- Position View
Camera Animation
Keyframe Properties
- Time Point
- Transition
- Tension
- Motion Ease
Summary
- Questions
Exercise 15: Guitar
Summary
Exercise 16: Pencil Sharpener Camera Animation

Lesson 9: Animating Appearances, Scenes

Objectives
Appearance and Scene Animations
- Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Scene Animation
Appearance Animations
Summary
- Questions
Exercise 17: Guitar Colour
Summary

Lesson 10: Alternative Outputs

Objectives
Alternative Outputs
- Project Description
- Stages in the Process
Turntable
- Viewport Turntables
- Output Tools Turntable
Interactive Images
- Orbits
- Images per Orbit
- Start Angle
- End Angle
Panorama View
Sun Study
360 Camera
- Mono
- Stereo Two-Up
- Stereo Anaglyph
Conclusion
- Questions
Exercise 18: Computer Room
Summary

Training Methods

Choose the training method right for you

Group/Public Training

Receive training as a group (limited amount per class) from certified instructors using vendor approved training content and methodologies.

Training is delivered either live online or in a traditional classroom environment.

Advantages

Cost effective training method.
More effective than video based training, with videos learners are often not as focused on the training and skip exercises.
Learn more through group questions and feedback.

Private Training

This style of flexible training is perfect for teams or individuals who are faced with a specific challenge and require personalized courses with on-the-job coaching.

Training is available live online, in-person classroom or onsite at your location.

Advantages

Use our state-of-the-art mobile classroom at your facility.
Bring your team up to a consistent level of knowledge by having them take the same training at the same time.
Benefit from flexible scheduling options.

Upcoming Training Courses

Choose a scheduled SOLIDWORKS Visualize course

Date & Time

February 3, 2025 - February 4, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

April 7, 2025 - April 8, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

June 9, 2025 - June 10, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

August 18, 2025 - August 19, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

October 6, 2025 - October 7, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

December 1, 2025 - December 2, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

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SOLIDWORKS Composer Essentials

Erin Elliott — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:00:35 +0000

Training Course

SOLIDWORKS Composer Essentials

How to create 2D and 3D images and animations for instructions/documentation

Training Course Overview

SOLIDWORKS Composer Essentials teaches you how to use the SOLIDWORKS Composer software to create 2D and 3D outputs from CAD data. You will also learn how to create animations and update your view data when CAD files change.

This training course will help you:

Create 2D and 3D images for product documentation applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.
Create animations to use for documentation or marketing of your product designs.
Update product documentation when changes are applied to your CAD files.

Course Duration

In-class 3 Days (6 hours/day)

Online 3 Days (7 hours/day)

Or Online 4 Days (4 hours/day)

Skill Level

Basic/Intermediate Course

Course Type

Live Hands-on Instructor Led Training

Course Preview

Take a look at some of the images and animations you will be creating during the course

Creating Bills of Materials

Creating Additional Views

Creating Exploded Views

Creating Detail Views with the Digger

Creating Section Views

Creating Animations

Requirements & Benefits

Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the course

Requirements

Familiar with Windows OS

At least 1 month using software

Able to take time out for training

Features Targeted

The digger / detail views

Lighting and textures

Camera and animation keys

Acquired Skills

Able to create cover and detail images

Able to create exploded view and BOM

Able to create vector images and animations

"The SOLIDWORKS Composer Essentials course was hands-on training with good examples and a great instructor."

— Mohammed Tauhiduzzaman, L3-Wescam

— Katrina Strickland, Stryker Medical

SOLIDWORKS Composer Essentials Lessons

The following lessons are included in the course

Lesson 1: Getting Started

What is the SOLIDWORKS Composer application?
Starting SOLIDWORKS Composer
SOLIDWORKS Composer terminology
SOLIDWORKS Composer user interface
Preferences and document properties
Creating 2D output
Exercise 1: User interface
Exercise 2: Terminology

Lesson 2: Creating Cover and Detail Images

Overview
Views
Rendering tools
Navigation tools
Camera alignment tools
Create 2D output
Digger
Exercise 3: Navigation tools
Exercise 4: Digger
Exercise 5: Updating views

Lesson 3: Creating an Exploded View

Overview
Visibility tools
Exploded views
Collaborative actors
Styles
Vector graphics output
Exercise 6: Exploded view
Exercise 7: Styles
Exercise 8: Markups and annotations
Exercise 9: Visibility and rendering tools

Lesson 4: Creating Additional Exploded Views

Overview
Paper space
Importing files
File types
Update views with selected actors
Align actors
Explode lines
Custom views
Linking between views
Exercise 10: Importing assemblies
Exercise 11: Merging and aligning actors
Exercise 12: Custom views

Lesson 5: Creating Bills of Materials

Overview
Bill of materials
Vector graphics output
Another BOM table
Exercise 13: Exploded views, BOMs and callouts
Exercise 14: Vector graphics files

Lesson 6: Creating a Marketing Image

Overview
Selections
Textures
Lighting
High resolution image
Exercise 15: Lights and textures
Exercise 16: Render effects

Lesson 7: Creating an Animation

Overview
Timeline pane
Position keys
Exercise 17: Creating an explode animation

Lesson 8: Creating Interactive Content

Overview
Selections in the key track
Position and property keys
Filters
Animating collaborative actors
Digger keys
Events
Exercise 18: Managing the timeline pane
Exercise 19: Animating changes to actors
Exercise 20: Events

Lesson 9: Creating a Walkthrough Animation

Overview
Camera keys
Adding views to the timeline
Grids
Exercise 21: Camera Keys 1
Exercise 24: Camera Keys 2

Lesson 10: Creating an Explode and Collapse Animation

Overview
Assembly selection mode
Scenarios
Exercise 23: Animating actors and the digger
Exercise 24: Compound motion and scenarios

Lesson 11: Updating SOLIDWORKS Composer Files

Overview
Update an entire assembly
Changing the geometry of an actor
Exercise 25: Updating from CAD

Lesson 12: Publishing from SOLIDWORKS Composer

Overview
Preparing a file for publishing
Publishing to PDF
Publishing inside Microsoft Word
Publishing to HTML
Exercise 26: Publishing to PDF
Exercise 27: Publishing inside Microsoft Word
Exercise 28: Publishing inside HTML

Appendix A: Additional Applications and Workshops

Overview
SOLIDWORKS sync and SOLIDWORKS Enterprise sync
3DVIA check
3DVIA path planning
Simplification workshop

Training Methods

Choose the training method right for you

Group/Public Training

Receive training as a group (limited amount per class) from certified instructors using vendor approved training content and methodologies.

Training is delivered either live online or in a traditional classroom environment.

Advantages

Cost effective training method.
More effective than video based training, with videos learners are often not as focused on the training and skip exercises.
Learn more through group questions and feedback.

Private Training

This style of flexible training is perfect for teams or individuals who are faced with a specific challenge and require personalized courses with on-the-job coaching.

Training is available live online, in-person classroom or onsite at your location.

Advantages

Use our state-of-the-art mobile classroom at your facility.
Bring your team up to a consistent level of knowledge by having them take the same training at the same time.
Benefit from flexible scheduling options.

Upcoming Training Courses

Choose a scheduled SOLIDWORKS Composer Essentials course

Date & Time

January 27, 2025 - January 29, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

February 24, 2025 - February 26, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

March 24, 2025 - March 26, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

April 28, 2025 - May 1, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

May 12, 2025 - May 14, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

June 23, 2025 - June 25, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

July 28, 2025 - July 30, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

August 25, 2025 - August 27, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

September 29, 2025 - October 1, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

October 27, 2025 - October 30, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

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SOLIDWORKS Essentials

Rod Mackay — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:47:25 +0000

Training Course

SOLIDWORKS Essentials

The SOLIDWORKS Essentials course will teach you the basics for creating parts, assemblies and production drawings.

SOLIDWORKS Essentials Overview

By getting up to speed quickly, and learning best modeling practices, the SOLIDWORKS Essentials course ultimately ensures maximum efficiency and productivity for all SOLIDWORKS users.

New CAD users, seasoned users of other CAD systems or veteran SOLIDWORKS users can all benefit from Essentials training.

Real life case studies are used to illustrate processes, teaching everything you need to know for building parametric models of parts and assemblies, and making drawings of those parts and assemblies.

This training course will help you to:

Create parametric sketches
Create parts and build assemblies
Create and control different versions of your parts with configurations
Automate design modification with equations and excel design tables
Create drawings of your designs

Course Duration

4 Days (7 hours/day)

Or 6 Days (5 hours/day)

Skill Level

Basic / Intermediate Course

Course Type

Live Hands-on Instructor Led Training Course

Overview Demo

Watch a preview of the SOLIDWORKS Essentials course

SOLIDWORKS Essentials Course Requirements & Benefits

Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the SOLIDWORKS course

Requirements

Basic Windows Knowledge

Reviewed basic Tutorials included with SOLIDWORKS

Features Targeted

Sketching & Feature creation

Bottom-up Assembly Modeling

Drawing Views & Annotations

Acquired Skills

Able to create Parts

Able to build Assemblies

Create Production Drawings

"The method of instruction in teaching SOLIDWORKS Essentials was very effective. Each lesson was informative and complemented with time for practice in the form of exercises that reinforced the skills that were clearly demonstrated during lecture time. Extremely patient, the instructor always made sure to answer questions and clarify answers. I am certainly better prepared with more skills and more efficient CAD techniques."

— Joe Felice, Self Employed

"I'm transitioning from AutoCAD to SOLIDWORKS and this course has allowed me to get up to speed quickly so that I can confidently work in SOLIDWORKS now."

— Gerard Cormier, SPI Health and Safety

SOLIDWORKS Essentials Lessons

The following lessons are included in the course

Lesson 1: SOLIDWORKS Basics and the User Interface

What is SOLIDWORKS Software?
Design Intent
File References
Opening Files
The SOLIDWORKS User Interface
Using the Command Manager

Lesson 2: Introduction to Sketching

2D Sketching
Stages in the Process
Saving Files
What are We Going to Sketch?
Sketching
Sketch Entities
Basic Sketching
Rules That Govern Sketches
Design Intent
Sketch Relations
Dimensions
Extrude
Sketching Guidelines

Lesson 3: Basic Part Modeling

Basic Modeling
Terminology
Choosing the Best Profile
Choosing the Sketch Plane
Details of the Part
Boss Feature
Sketching on a Planar Face
Cut Feature
Using the Hole Wizard
View Selector
Filleting
Editing Tools
Detailing Basics
Drawing Views
Center Marks
Dimensioning
Changing Parameters

Lesson 4: Symmetry and Draft

Case Study: Ratchet
Design Intent
Boss Feature with Draft
Symmetry in the Sketch
Sketching Inside the Model
View Options
Using Model Edges in a Sketch
Creating Trimmed Sketch Geometry
Copy & Paste Features

Lesson 5: Patterning

Why Use Patterns?
Linear Pattern
Circular Patterns
Reference Geometry
Mirror Patterns
Using Pattern Seed Only
Up To Reference
Sketch Driven Patterns

Lesson 6: Revolved Features

Case Study: Handwheel
Design Intent
Revolved Features
Building the Rim
Building the Spoke
Edit Material
Mass Properties
File Properties
SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress
Using SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress
The SimulationXpress Interface

Lesson 7: Shelling and Ribs

Shelling and Ribs
Analyzing and Adding Draft
Other Options for Draft
Shelling
Ribs
Full Round Fillets
Thin Features

Lesson 8: Editing: Repairs

Part Editing
Editing Topics
Sketch Issues
FilletXpert
DraftXpert

Lesson 9: Editing: Design Changes

Part Editing
Design Changes
Information From a Model
Rebuilding Tools
Sketch Contours
Replace Sketch Entity

Lesson 10: Configurations

Using Configurations
Other Methods to Create Configurations
Modeling Strategies for Configurations
Editing Part that Have Configurations
Design Library

Lesson 11: Global Variables & Equations

Using Global Variables and Equations
Renaming Features and Dimensions
Design Rules Using Global Variables and Equations
Global Variables
Equations
Using Operators and Functions

Lesson 12: Using Drawings

More About Making Drawings
Section View
Model Views
Broken View
Detail Views
Drawing Sheets and Sheet Formats
Annotations

Lesson 13: Bottom-Up Assembly Modeling

Case Study: Universal Joint
Bottom-Up Assembly
Creating a New Assembly
Position of the First Component
FeatureManager Design Tree and Symbols
Adding Components
Mating Components
Using Part Configurations in Assemblies
Sub-assemblies
Smart Mates
Inserting Sub-assemblies
Pack and Go

Lesson 14: Using Assemblies

Analyzing the Assembly
Checking for Clearances
Changing the Values of Dimensions
Exploded Assemblies
Explode Line Sketch
Bill of Materials
Assembly Drawings

Appendix

Options Settings
Document Templates

Training Methods

Choose the training method right for you

Group/Public Training

Receive training as a group (limited amount per class) from certified instructors using vendor approved training content and methodologies.

Training is delivered either live online or in a traditional classroom environment.

Advantages

Cost effective training method.
More effective than video based training, with videos learners are often not as focused on the training and skip exercises.
Learn more through group questions and feedback.

Private Training

This style of flexible training is perfect for teams or individuals who are faced with a specific challenge and require personalized courses with on-the-job coaching.

Training is available live online, in-person classroom or onsite at your location.

Advantages

Use our state-of-the-art mobile classroom at your facility.
Bring your team up to a consistent level of knowledge by having them take the same training at the same time.
Benefit from flexible scheduling options.

Upcoming Training Courses

Choose a scheduled SOLIDWORKS Essentials course

Date & Time

January 20, 2025 - January 23, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

Location

Live Online

Language

English

Date & Time

January 20, 2025 - January 23, 2025
8:30 am - 4:30 pm ET

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SOLIDWORKS Visualize

Rod Mackay — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:50:21 +0000

Software

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

Photo-realistic Rendering & Animation software

What is SOLIDWORKS Visualize software?

SOLIDWORKS Visualize provides a suite of standalone software tools that combine industry-leading rendering capabilities with visual design-oriented features and workflows, allowing easy and fast creation of visual content that communicates a design’s vision, passion, and emotion.

Who can benefit from SOLIDWORKS Visualize?

SOLIDWORKS Visualize has been created for anyone who needs to create professional photo-quality, images, animations, and other 3D content in the fastest and easiest way possible. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is hardware-agnostic, which means designers, engineers, and content creators who use SOLIDWORKS or other CAD creation tools (such as Rhino®, Autodesk® Alias®, 3ds Max®) for product, architectural, yacht, mechanical, and other designs can produce an enhanced 3D decision making experience in a fast, easy, and fun way

No CAD knowledge required

With its simple, intuitive user interface, SOLIDWORKS Visualize requires virtually no learning curve and lets users produce content quickly. Detailed training materials, in-depth help files, online tutorials, and user forums provide more detailed instructions to help ensure that even non-technical staff can start creating amazing content instantly.

Overview Demo

Get to know SOLIDWORKS Visualize

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Capabilities

“The Camera” that enables anyone to create high-quality visual, emotional content to drive innovation, design decisions, and business solutions.

Bring Products to Life

Now you can create convincing, lifelike movies and images to use for product comparisons, print and web content, design reviews, or even interactive experiences. You can show your product in multiple visual configurations with different scenes, lighting, and artistic filters.

Create Animations

With SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional you can create high quality rendered animations. These animations can be setup inside Visualize or imported from a SOLIDWORKS motion study, which can save you time and help you achieve greater realism.

Real-world lighting and materials

SOLIDWORKS Visualize accurately simulates real-world lighting and advanced materials, while scaling rendering performance to meet the highest demands. Easily add movement, create 360-degree spins, or animate cameras, materials, models, or even the sun. Changes are displayed in real time for maximum flexibility and speed.

Seamless connection with SOLIDWORKS

Because SOLIDWORKS Visualize is connected directly with SOLIDWORKS, you can automatically update your models using the “Live CAD Update” feature for a truly seamless workflow that provides the flexibility you need to work dynamically.

Create Photo-realistic images

SOLIDWORKS Visualize is used across many industries and is capable of creating realistic rendered images of a wide range of products.

View examples »

Panoramic Content for VR

Panoramic visual content can be created for static images or moving video. This can be viewed on a number of devices including VR headsets.

Interactive Images

Create interactive Images to view a model in a series of 360 orbital spins within a web browser. This interactive media can be used to demonstrate a mechanism or product animation.

Fast Performance

In today’s constantly evolving global marketplace, time to-market and design innovation matter more than ever. SOLIDWORKS Visualize enables you to validate your product’s market acceptance in record time with ease and flare, featuring:

Blazing fast performance and results that are easily scalable
Quality images indistinguishable from photos
Intuitive interface and minimal learning curve
Industry-leading GPU (graphics card) support

"Evolve Design Solutions appreciates the excellent customer service, product knowledge and technical support provided by TriMech, our SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR).”

Aldo Balatti

Principal, Evolve Design Solutions

“Our engineering processes are well defined and well documented. I can tell new customers with confidence that we’re delivering on milestones because we’re tracking our performance on speed and quality every day.”

Ray Minator

Owner, Inertia Engineering + Design

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Features

Create photo-realistic images, animations, and VR experiences for any industry

Create lifelike photo-quality images

You no longer need to compromise your marketing and presentation materials by relying on screen grabs, or budget for costly photographs of prototypes, to show your latest product.

With SOLIDWORKS Visualize, you can quickly and easily create:

Lifelike photo-quality images
A mood board of different colours and finishes
High-resolution images ready for print and the web
Technical illustrations of key features

View Example Renderings

Visualize Professional Features

With SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional you can tell a deeper 3D story about your product using your CAD data. Professional enables users to easily generate photo-quality stills and interactive animations to effectively communicate the most complex design details.

Enjoy all the features of SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard plus these additional features and more:

Demonstrate products more effectively with full animation of parts, models, appearances, cameras, and environments
Import your SOLIDWORKS Motion Studies for truly photographic animations
Quickly show off the final design with one-click 360-degree spins
Create interactive web content such as Interior Panoramas and Exterior VRs
Present and compare varying design solutions side-by-side with multiple viewports and included Configurator tool
Unleash your creative side with customizable Camera Filters

Animations - Exploded Views

Animations - Mechanisms

Walkthroughs

Interactive Images

Click and drag to rotate the model.

VR Content

Watch on a phone or VR headest or use to look around the environment.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost

Add-on product to SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional that instantly increases render speeds and content productivity.

Similar to a printer queue in your office, SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost allows SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional users to send jobs to other machine, freeing up your machine to keep using Visualize or other demanding applications.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost is a separate installation and should be installed on a separate computer(s) for the best experience. SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost is easy to set up as a single node, or as a cluster so that you can scale your productivity efficiently.

Produce more SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional content faster!

Stack up multiple jobs in your Render Queue and offload
your local machine.
Install SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost on the machine(s) you want in your render farm, from the one included node or scale to a larger cluster.
Leverage both CPUs and GPUs across your network
Send SOLIDWORKS Visualize render jobs directly to those machines; then sit back and watch the render jobs fly off your Render Queue!

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Packages

Two packages to choose from

Package

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is the fastest and easiest way to produce photo-quality images for taking “photos” of 3D data, cutting costs, and accelerating time-to-market with compelling imagery.

Package

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional lets you tell a deeper story with your CAD data by generating photo-quality imagery, interactive animations, 360-degree spins, immersive Virtual Reality (VR), and much more. Communicate the most complex design details with ease and beat your competition to market.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Matrix

Compare the two versions of SOLIDWORKS Visualize software

Capability	SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard	SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)	●	●
Accelerated Rendering	●	●
Hybrid Render Mode	●	●
Physically-Based Raytracing	●	●
Intuitive User Interface	●	●
CAD and Graphic File Support	●	●
CAD Live-Update	●	●
Surface/Part Splitter	●	●
Interactive Depth of Field	●	●
Import SOLIDWORKS Animations and Motion Studies		●
Full Animation Suite		●
Animation Ribbon		●
Visualize Boost Support		●
PowerBoost Real-time Network Rendering		●
Browser-based Interactive Image and Panoramic Outputs		●
Customizable Photographic Camera Filters		●
Integrated Render Queue		●
Configurations		●
New Area Lights and Light Placement		●
Create VR Content		●

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Produce Interactive VR & Panoramic outputs

The VR output renders a user-specified number of images from around the model and stitches them together so the model can be viewed from all angles, creating a truly interactive experience tumbling around the model.

Work with Configurations

Within a single Visualize project file, rapidly generate multiple design variations, product variants, material options, environments, camera angles and more, then click one button to automatically render out all Configurations at once. Very powerful tool for projects with multiple part/material options.

Custom camera Post-Processing (camera filters)

Unleash your creativity and add additional effects to your Visualize content with customizable camera filters and the new Bloom Filter, perfect for glowing LEDs, lights and sun highlights.

Real-time raytracing

SOLIDWORKS Visualize PowerBoost opens up new doors to interactive real-time raytracing for the best visualization experience. SOLIDWORKS Visualize PowerBoost works hand-in-hand with your SOLIDWORKS Visual Boost cluster or NVIDIA Quadro® VCA(s).

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to SOLIDWORKS Visualize for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

Learn more

SOLIDWORKS Composer

Rod Mackay — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:00:00 +0000

Software

SOLIDWORKS Composer

Create technical documentation parallel with product development

What is SOLIDWORKS Composer?

Communicate your designs with content authoring software that allows anyone to create high-quality raster images, vector line art, or interactive product animations. The resulting materials will be as stunning as your designs.

Create documentation content from your design data

SOLIDWORKS® Composer™ helps your organization, including nontechnical users, leverage 3D CAD data to create dynamic graphical content that clearly and effectively depicts even your most complex products.

The simple, intuitive interface gives you tools to help you easily develop informative graphics for a broad range of technical communications; this includes assembly instructions, product manuals, training materials, and marketing collateral, with content that can be updated automatically.

Overview Demo

Develop Informative Graphics

SOLIDWORKS Composer Capabilities

With SOLIDWORKS Composer just about anyone can create stunning graphical content or transform a CAD model into a dazzling interactive animation.

Create 2D / 3D Graphics

With the intuitive SOLIDWORKS Composer interface, you can create highly detailed 2D and 3D graphics with precise control to highlight areas of interest and focus on specific components.

Synchronize technical communication

Because SOLIDWORKS Composer is associative, you can automatically update any changes you make to the CAD models in your technical communication deliverables. For the first time, you can get products to market faster with the assurance that your documentation is both high-quality and accurate.

Create 3D Interactive Animations

Easily output 3D interactive animations to create a realistic 3D environment for interactive training or compelling marketing presentations.

Simplify Instructions

SOLIDWORKS Composer pictures and animations are particularly valuable in simplifying assembly instructions and work orders. You can directly show 3D views of how your product is assembled or repaired, reducing errors on the shop floor, eliminating language barriers, and significantly minimizing localization costs.

"TriMech's quick response time, sales and technical support are all very good. We implemented SOLIDWORKS in 1998 and to date, remain a satisfied customer"

Brad Toole

Engineering Manager, Breaker Technology Ltd.

SOLIDWORKS Composer Features

Make all of your product-related communications more powerful and effective

Enhance product communication and marketing collateral

You no longer need to compromise your communications by relying on rough drawings to show your concepts or waiting until your design is finished to start creating product communication deliverables.

With SOLIDWORKS Composer, you can quickly and easily create:

Detailed views.
Exploded views.
High-resolution images.
Technical illustrations.
Interactive animations.
Interactive bills of materials and parts lists.

Compete for more business

Today, visuals are more important than ever.

The right product graphics can mean the difference between making or missing the mark in key sales situations.

Create more lifelike visuals and eliminate the need for physical prototypes in creating product marketing materials.
Demonstrate products more effectively with interactive storyboards.
Highlight key differentiators with detailed views, glow effects, and transparent components.
Impress prospects with a quick turnaround of updated designs and create interactive animations to effectively communicate the most complex product details.

Get products to market faster

Help reduce errors and ensure that deliverables get to market faster.

Start documentation earlier in the design process, and update it faster when design changes occur.
Create interactive 3D content that can be viewed by anyone with the free SOLIDWORKS Composer Player.
Add interactive graphics to training materials.
Create high-resolution, shaded renderings with a three dimensional appearance for presentations and brochures.
Use web templates to quickly publish complex product details online.

SOLIDWORKS Composer Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Manuals

Instructions

Animations

Easy to keep up-to-date

Historically, documentation has been disconnected, complex, and time-consuming; not to mention an unwelcome burden if you’re an engineer. With SOLIDWORKS Composer, anyone can leverage and repurpose 3D CAD data.

In fact, research suggests that SOLIDWORKS Composer helps cut the time it takes to produce images by 75%.

No CAD Knowledge Required

With its simple, intuitive user interface, SOLIDWORKS Composer requires virtually no learning curve. Detailed training materials, in-depth help files, online tutorials, and user forums ensure that even nontechnical staff can start publishing professional 3D visuals almost instantly.

Clear Rendering Styles

Composer allows ‘Rendering Styles’ to be applied to your 3D model, allowing users to have a consistent aesthetic to their illustrations. You can choose to represent the model exactly as it looks in SOLIDWORKS or simplify the detail, so it is easier to comprehend. Companies like IKEA take this methodology to heart with their instructions having a ‘cartoon’ look to only include the necessary detail for performing the task at hand. IKEA utilizes Composer in this way to produce and update instructions for their 3,500+ products every year.

Clear product documentation

SOLIDWORKS Composer makes it possible to promote your products with rich full-colour graphics and interactive 3D animations created directly from 3D CAD data. You’ll now be able to create dynamic artwork for a range of materials.

Plus, with interactive animations, you can give your customers the opportunity to virtually experience your products before they buy.

Animations & Imagery creation

In addition to images, Composer can also output animations in the form of video or, interactively, through the free Composer Player. Just like images, animations are simple to create in Composer and will provide the same, unified, aesthetic that is critical in a professional publication.

Powerful Authoring Tools

Conveying motion and how components interact with each other can be a challenge to illustrate through static images, but Composer has extremely powerful authoring tools to make this a breeze. The secret lies within the arrows that can be associated directly to the model geometry in Composer. Linear and circular arrows can be aligned with model edges and faces, and the arrows will move with the components to which they are associated. While being easy to place and adjust, these arrows have special functionality to always stay flat to the computer screen. This means the arrows looks great from every angle and are immediately image ready.

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to SOLIDWORKS Composer for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

Learn more

Using NETVIBES to Cut Through the Noise in Your Market

Matt Kokoski — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:55:57 +0000

NETVIBES Social Business Analyst, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, has dashboards and applications inside their portfolio that allows you to follow your social networks, be alerted of breaking news or read relevant, interesting articles.

About This NETVIBES On-Demand Webinar

Watch as TriMech Technical Manager and Elite Application Engineer, Matt Kokoski, reviews the power and insights available at your fingertips thanks to the NETVIBES portfolio. He shows how the portfolio can give you the ability to easily and quickly derive meaningful social analytics from online data so you can gain better insight into your online presence, market and industry. This can result in better decision-making through business intelligence, staying ahead of the competition and always being informed.

In this demo, Matt covers the many benefits of NETVIBES including:

The unique position to gain insights, notice trends and execute plans strategically
Social business intelligence to help product management
Sharing dashboards, allowing organizations to bring marketing, sales and engineering together with executive oversight
Creating custom dashboards through various data sources easily
Easily sharing aggregated content

DELMIAWorks Digital Manufacturing

SolidSolutions Marketing — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 07:34:35 +0000

Learn how to leverage DELMIAWorks ERP to overcome the barriers to Digital Manufacturing. This Recorded webinar is an introduction to Digital Manufacturing and Design with SOLIDWORKS, DELMIAWorks, and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

This 40 Minute video focuses on:

Expand usage of existing SOLIDWORKS data from design through manufacturing and production
Gain visibility to manufacturing operations in real-time
Using dashboards to communicate, collaborate and drive decision making

RealTime Production Monitoring

DELMIAWorks RealTime Production Monitoring takes plant management to a higher level, supporting machine management in true real-time. All aspects of production are tracked immediately as parts are being made and applied to the shop orders, automatically updating the schedule and finished product counts. The result of this embedded solution is improved efficiency, visibility and productivity. Take control of the plant floor with the DELMIAWorks Production Monitoring module from DELMIAWorks.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is broadly touted for its potential to help boost productivity for manufacturers. DELMIAWorks is a proven leader in this technology. Building on experience from customer automation projects for two decades, DELMIAWorks has been innovating automated monitoring of equipment and process parameters on the shop floor with proven Return on Investment (ROI):

Automatically and continuously measure production output, equipment capability and process parameters such as temperature, pressure, flow, current, position, speed, size, etc.
Monitor the heartbeat of your plant on the intuitive shop floor overview display and SPC charts from your equipment’s smart sensors, existing automation controls or DELMIAWorks designed and built integration PLCs to instrument older machines with add-on sensors.
RT Charts analytics constantly monitor parameter behavior against set limits on capabilities.

The event-based notification system enables you to capture and evaluate data for predictive alerts, proactive decision making, and timely corrective actions.

Simplify your automation project with one-stop integration engineering

When it comes to thoughtful application of technology, you can trust DELMIAWorks digital manufacturing to simplify the process. DELMIAWorks provides comprehensive and experienced planning and set up of integration to your equipment, automation controls and/or sensors added to older equipment with DELMIAWorks own interface hardware – PLCs, machine state light poles, RT Station rugged industrial touch screen tablets and more. Whether you need “big data” capture and software tools for management and analysis or simply a comprehensive view of your entire shop floor, you will work with DELMIAWorks automation engineers to assure a successful technology project.

Mobile technology enables you to stay connected as you are on the go

DELMIAWorks MES 4.0 tools and options interface with today’s mobile technology. While it is impractical to try running your entire operation from a smartphone, it can be a handy window into key information to enable you to quickly respond to customer, supplier or team member questions.

From the dozens of apps available, choose to review production metrics, check inventory, accept workflow requests and approve document changes on the fly.

Your data is your data – see it flow where it needs to go

With the powerful and flexible data exchange web-service interface, DELMIAWorks digital manufacturing system can be integrated with your existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to enable you to make fact-based decisions in real-time, with all of your critical information flowing easily back and forth between the systems. If it is time to consider replacing your aging ERP system, DELMIAWorks has a comprehensive wall-to-wall manufacturing enterprise solution. DELMIAWorks native capability is unique in covering your entire business from the front office processes like CRM, Estimating, Quoting, Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, HR, Payroll, and Accounting, through to MES, Shipping and EDI managed on a single, scalable database.