SolidWorks World 2012: Third (and last by this year) General Session

The Wednesday, in SolidWorks World, is the day of the products. On the one hand, they expose the most requested characteristics by the users. By another, what goes to be present in the next version. Sometimes, they coincide. Usually they coincide partly. The staged were, as always, surprising. How enumerate 30 technical characteristics of a future product without boring to the personnel? They ask to the organisers of SWW.

There was a lot of interest between the audience in SolidWorks V6. It follows it having.

Fielder Hiss, responsible of Marketing of Products and Management of Products of SolidWorks, opened the session, in front of an immense audience, promising novelties. The script did not begin of form very different to the one of previous events. Before the novelties, the presentation of rigour of the Sponsors Platinum: Dell and HP. HP Took advantage of SolidWorks World to present to the presses his new station of work "everything in one" Z1... Although no abuse of the cuttingesy in the stage.

During SolidWorks World, and inside the 'Partner Pavilion', there is a place in the most expert and competitive of between the users, and also of between the distributors of the product, shut during a while to create a model in 3D, from some planes and instructions. It treats of the 'Model Mania'. Mark Schneider presented to the winners of the contest. The winner, Neil Custard, created the model in little more than ten minutes. Mark showed us afterwards the form to do it “faster possible”.

Following the senda of it medioambientalmente correct, SolidWorks organises also a 'Contest of Green Design' (Green Design Contest). The prize was for Russell Donovan, designer of a chair of airport, represented in green, as it could not be of another way, and realised in bamboo. In the meantime, in a world that works in real time one of the tuiteros asks after the design of the chairs of the centres of conventions. It is not comfortable in his.

Marie Planchard, responsible of Education in SolidWorks, announces us that they have sold 1,25 million licences for education. The students really do virguerías. Bruno, of Aldebaran Robotics, joins to Marie to explain us his history. His aim: do a nice robot, that do not scare to the elderly. The result: Nao. In the meantime, one of the robots Nao no for to move by the stage. And Bruno accepts challenges: A robot playing football? Yes, if a computer can win to the chess... Nao Will accept the challenge, also the one of interactuar with autistics. The interactiveness is the key.

The “top “ 10” complete presents to continuation:

1. Use more cores of the CPU of the computers: the current machines allow the execution in parallel of a lot of operations. [Ovation of the public]
2. would have to be easy put a point in the centre of gravity of the objects.
3. “No matt to your children, leave them hanging”: when working with groups and subsets, and decide that something disassembles , try be “the less destructive possible”.
4. Solve the problem of the shadows with blood in the edge.
5. Reduce the pictures delimiters of the seen of drawing so that only they comprise the visible components.
6. Capacity to control what expensive of a plane considers the frontal.
7. The dimensions would have to remain where draw them: some automatisms move them of place, and to the users does not like them that they carry them the contrary.
8. The key of leakage would have to give back the control immediately to the interface. Said of another form, although the software was in the middle of any calculation (long, probably), pressesing Esc has to can interrupt with immediate answer.
9. Add the possibility to block the rotation to the pieces generated by cylindrical symmetry.
10. Add an assistant for the creation of threads.

And what will have SolidWorks 2013? Then , frankly, a long list of characteristics. Some are details relatively small but that they can do the easiest life to the users. Others, really very specific for uses very specific. Without spirit to be entirely exhaustive [the author confesses humbly that it was too easy lose], present them the list:

• In the pieces multicuerpo: show or hide pieces. Something as well as the option to show or hide components or subsets in the surroundings of management of groups.
• Visualisation of group: order the pieces in function of his “graphic difficulty” (to know which drawings consume resources of the computer)
• Matter the marked of eDrawings to SolidWorks: without going in in too many details, supposes that... It will be possible.
• SectionXpert: An utility with very good paints that it will facilitate substantially the realisation of sections to a model 3D, without need to do previously outlines.
• Bocadillos Of review: A form to mark gráficamente the changes effected during a process of review, a form to facilitate the control of changes/versions.
• Simulations of submodelos: using the conditions of outline and loads definidias, applies them to a subset of the design. If it modifies the group, the loads and restrictions update .
• Cameras of 3dVIA: it adds the capacity to use several cameras, and to adjust his points of view along the time.
• Fast selection of documents by type: Three icons in the menu of files allow to filter pieces, groups and drawings. It can use any combination of the same.
• Improvements in the wrappings: they can use in the data of pieces and groups. The components of the envolutra can reconvert in pieces anytime. With the drawings, the components of wrappings can show with lines ghost. They do not add to the list of materials.
• Insertion of several pieces simultaneously to a group.
• Configuration of several sights exploded.
• Rotar Pieces exploded: in addition to being able to them displace, will be able to rotarse.
• Folder of favourites: that it will be able to add to the tree of FeatureManager.
• Salient for setting: of immediate use by the designers of pieces of plastic.
• Improvements in the cosmetic holes: they can desactivar the lines punteadas without affecting to the texture. Holes of clavijas: they have added to the assistant for holes.
• Intersection of surfaces: can use the surfaces of bodies to add or remove material.
• Extrusion of several thin profiles.
• Gone in of equations in any place: in any dialogue where require a number in the PropertyManager, can use equations in his place.
• Change the dimensions of the patterns: can change the linear and angular dimensions of the same.
• Collaboration with others: in the tools of management of data (EPDM) can see the information of his creators, the information of contact and his on-line state.
• Integration of DraftSight with the tools of control of versions (checkin and checkout) of EPDM.
• Copy outlines of DraftSight in SolidWorks.
• Interoperability with the previous version: the files created in SolidWorks 2013 will be able to open using the version SolidWorks 2012 SP: the presentation of this characteristic deserved an ovation of the public. It is clear that change of version is painful, and any analgesic is welcome.

Will be again in Orlando, Florida, in the month of January. And SolidWorks World will celebrate his fifteenth anniversary. Happinesses.