INTEGRATING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING WITH SOLIDWORKS:

INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE

CHAPTER TWO

INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD

SOFTWARE

CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER 1: RECAP

In the first of our series of eBooks on Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS®, we discussed the advantages offered by adopting an integrated design and manufacturing solution, which can help companies make the transition from design to manufacturing a seamless one, with fewer errors due to translation problems and with less miscommunication between teams due to use of tools that don’t speak a common language—all of which will translate to boosted productivity, reduced costs, and higher-quality products.

In this eBook you’ll learn how SOLIDWORKS CAD can help you bridge the gaps created in the non-integrated approach to design and manufacturing.

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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD capabilities include:

• 3D Solid Modeling turn ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models quickly and easily

• Conceptual Design begin 3D designs quickly using imported images, simple sketches, or scanned 3D data, and then add more details as the design evolves

• Assembly Structure Planning: SOLIDWORKS Treehouse quickly lay out your design assembly structure and then export to SOLIDWORKS to automatically create your CAD files

• Direct Model Editing manipulate and modify 3D geometry working directly on the 3D CAD model

• Configurations automatically create variations of parts or assemblies with spreadsheet-like part and assembly configuration tools

• Large Assembly Design performance tools to handle even your biggest and most complex products and systems

• Advanced Surface Design generate complex organic shapes, including curve continuous (C2) surfaces

• Sheet Metal Design create sheet metal parts that can be easily manufactured

• Weldments quickly develop structural supports, frames, brackets, and bases

• Plastic Part Design create plastic parts that can be easily molded

• CAD Productivity Tools special capabilities that help you work faster

• Reverse Engineering work from 3D scan data generated from existing designs to speed new product creations

• Mold Design generate molds and tooling to produce plastic, cast, and forged parts

• Piping and Tubing Design complete your design by adding hydraulic, pneumatic, and other systems

• Electrical Cable Harness and Conduit Design include necessary control, power, and other electrical systems in your design

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD For all your modeling needs whether large or small, simple or complex. Effective product design involves a wide range of tasks that demand flexibility in your software. 3D solid modeling offers several advantages over traditional 2D design, but you want 3D CAD tools that you can use every day while being powerful enough to handle all the aspects of your design process.

With SOLIDWORKS, you get an intuitive 3D CAD system that combines ease-of-use with powerful modeling capabilities that can handle your most complex design projects. SOLIDWORKS accelerates your design, saving time and development costs, and making you more productive.

VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

No re-assembly required. Even the most complex design made simple.

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SOLIDWORKS 2D DRAWING FUNCTIONALITY For fast and easy creation of production-ready manufacturing drawings. Quickly create production-ready 2D drawings that are always current, and clearly communicate how your design should be manufactured and assembled. SOLIDWORKS associativity links a 2D drawing directly with a 3D solid model, so updates to the 3D model can be automatically reflected in the 2D drawing. SOLIDWORKS accelerates your design process, saving time and development costs while increasing productivity.

With traditional 2D CAD, drawings are often out-of-date and/or drawing views do not accurately reflect the design, leading to expensive manufacturing errors that slow down product delivery. Without an automated update system, all drawing views must be updated manually whenever a design change occurs. This becomes an even bigger problem when a component or assembly exists in many different assemblies or at many different levels of the same assembly, because it requires that all the drawing views containing the modified components be updated.

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD capabilities include:

• Automatic Drawing View Creation and Update–drag and drop the 3D model onto a drawing for automatic generation of drawing views with automatic update of changes to the 3D model

• CAD Dimensioning, Tolerancing and Annotations–SOLIDWORKS includes standard ANSI, ISO, GD&T, and other dimensioning methods

• Bill of Materials (BOM)–automatically generate parts lists and cut lists to track material needs

• CAD Standards Checking (Design Checker)–compare your drawings to company standards to ensure consistency using the SOLIDWORKS Design Checker tool

• Revision Control–control drawing revisions and graphically compare drawings to identify differences

• Automated Creation of Radial/Cylindrical Exploded Views–significantly speed up the creation of exploded views for designs that have fasteners and components positioned radially/cylindrically around an axis

• In-Process Drawings–use SOLIDWORKS configurations functionality to quickly create model and drawings of machining and assembly processes at various stages in the manufacturing process

VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS Drawings

Discover innovative drawing generation methods in SOLIDWORKS

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SOLIDWORKS MBD For the support of drawingless manufacturing (Model-Based Definition) per MIL-STD-31000A.

SOLIDWORKS MBD is an integrated drawingless manufacturing solution for SOLIDWORKS. It helps companies define, organize, and publish 3D Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) including 3D model data in industry-standard file formats, such as 3D PDF and eDrawings. Unlike traditional 2D drawings, SOLIDWORKS MBD guides the manufacturing process directly in 3D, which helps streamline production, cut cycle time, reduce errors, and support industry standards such as Military-Standard-31000A, ASME Y14.41, ISO 16792, and DIN ISO 16792.

Create dimensions, tolerances, and other PMI directly in 3D

SOLIDWORKS MBD defines PMI directly in 3D, saving significant time, reducing redundancy and clarifying design intent versus having to create a separate 2D drawing. Since the fully defined 3D model is available for measurement if needed, many companies only dimension features of their designs that fall outside the general tolerance settings, drastically reducing the amount of time spent detailing. In addition, dimensioning and tolerancing improves design clarity since 3D models are easier to understand and appropriate faces and edges on the model highlight when their associated dimensions, tolerances and annotations are selected. 3D PMI also helps speed up communication, cut quoting time, and reduce errors, thanks to its 3D data interrogation, interactivity, and rich meta properties.

Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS® CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE

VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS MBDTake a look at the powerful capabilities of SOLIDWORKS MBD

SOLIDWORKS MBD helped shape the development of the RipTide – the world’s fastest tank – produced by Howe and Howe Technologies, Inc.

INTERACTIVE 3D PDFSOLIDWORKS MBD

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00015538-001 13478.78 COUPLING ASSEMBLY A.7 IPN1

Part Number Weight (g) Description Revision PDF Issued By

Notes:

ALL DIMENSIONS IN MM EXCEPT AS NOTED.

DIMENSIONS NOT SHOWN SHALL BE TAKEN FROM THE 3D SOLID MODEL.

UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING PER ISO 16792

TOLERANCES

0.00 TO 3.00 ±0.08

3.00 TO 6.00 ±0.10

6.00 TO 18.00 ±0.13

18.00 TO 30.00 ±0.15

FEATURES WITH NO GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE

SHALL HAVE A PROFILE TOLERANCE OF ±0.15mm APPLIED.

Supplier Comments:

Customize 3D output templatesServe multiple deliverables and departments by customizing the 3D Output Templates. You can build the layout, insert company or group logo, position the 3D View Port and thumbnails, edit the text descriptions, embed meta property links, and add tables. SOLIDWORKS MBD covers them all.

Once they are set up, these templates will serve as internal and external process guidelines for all departments, such as Manufacturing, Operations, QA, and Procurement on multiple deliverables, such as engineering drawings, Request for Quote (RFQ), inspection reports, and work instructions. In addition, SOLIDWORKS MBD delivers a comprehensive set of predefined templates to use out of the box.

Clean and structured 3D presentationBeyond 3D PMI Definition, SOLIDWORKS MBD helps organize rich data into clean and structured 3D presentations with different views and display settings. It can even intelligently show and hide 3D annotations while you rotate the model to give you extra clarity while respecting all the critical-to-function annotations.

Messy display? Tedious navigation? Missing annotations? Problems solved.

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Comply with industry standardsSOLIDWORKS MBD helps comply with the predominant industry standards, such as ASME Y14.41, Military-Standard-31000A, ISO 16792, and so on. This compliance gives you the competitive advantages to win more contracts and deliver projects to strict requirements, on time and on budget.

Easy 3D output and distributionSOLIDWORKS MBD publishes widely accepted file formats, such as eDrawings and 3D PDF, according to the predefined or customized templates. eDrawings files can be opened in a free eDrawings Viewer and 3D PDF can be viewed in a free Adobe Reader, which is installed on 93% of Internet-connected machines. In addition to 2D information, such as engineering notes, BOM, and rich meta properties (Part Numbers, Materials, and Approvals), you can also interrogate the model in 3D using Pan, Zoom, Rotate, Measure, Section, and other 3D tools. The easy and popular 3D output provides additional clarity to help reduce errors, speed up communication, and cut cycle time.

This compliance gives you the competitive advantages to win more contracts and deliver projects to strict requirements, on time and on budget.

93%3D PDFs are viewable on 93% of internet connected devices.

3D PDFs are viewable on 93% of internet connected devices.

3D PDFs are viewable on 93% of internet connected devices.

93%3D PDFs are viewable on 93% of internet connected devices.

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Share and archive intelligent and intuitive 3D dataSOLIDWORKS MBD helps you share and archive intuitive 3D data, including the models, PMI, views, and Meta properties so that you and your suppliers don’t have to waste time in re-modeling based on traditional 2D drawings. With the 3D data, you can upgrade your legacy product configurations to new models much faster and design tooling and fixtures much more easily.

Need printouts or 2D drawings? No problem. SOLIDWORKS offers intuitive print support for both native files and 3D output. SOLIDWORKS MBD also delivers print-friendly templates for the best results. Furthermore, SOLIDWORKS MBD seamlessly integrates with SOLIDWORKS 2D Drawings. The PMI and views created in 3D are readily available for reuse in 2D, which can save you time, and fits well into existing processes.

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CAD DATA IMPORT, EXPORT, REPAIR, AND COLLABORATION TOOLS Import, reuse, and share data no matter where it came from, or where it’s going. Share designs, manage design files, and work closely with your team and other stakeholders while protecting proprietary data with the multiple tools and applications in SOLIDWORKS—saving time, reducing development costs, increasing productivity, and accelerating time-to-market.

SOLIDWORKS product collaboration tools help members of your design team work closely with other project stakeholders. SOLIDWORKS software also provides ways to protect your designs before sharing them with those outside of your organization and to manage project data and control design revision.

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD capabilities include:

CAD Import and Export convert CAD data into a format to meet your needs

Automatic Feature Recognition make future design changes faster by automatically converting non-SOLIDWORKS data to native SOLIDWORKS features

2D DXF/DWG Data import and export 2D DXF/DWG data in order to reuse and maintain 2D designs, as well as export to manufacturing

Maintain and Update Existing 2D Drawings edit and view DWG files in DraftSight®

2D to 3D CAD Conversion Tools use your existing 2D design data to help create new designs in SOLIDWORKS 3D

Sheet Metal Data Exchange convert imported CAD data directly to SOLIDWORKS sheet metal models and automatically input your own bend radius, thickness, and K-factor

Convert 3D Solid Parts to Sheet Metal export 2D DXF/DWG data directly from 3D solid and sheet metal parts

eDrawings File Viewing review 2D drawing and 3D model data together using compact, email-friendly file viewing that supports SOLIDWORKS, DWG,and numerous other CAD formats

Defeature: Protect Your Intellectual Property use SOLIDWORKS Defeature

technology to hide selected aspects of your design before sharing models

Electrical CAD and Mechanical CAD Data Exchange use CircuitWorks™ to provide two-way data exchange between Electrical CAD and Mechanical CAD designers

ScanTo3D facilitate reverse engineering with SOLIDWORKS ScanTo3D to convert scanned data into SOLIDWORKS 3D geometry

Large Design Review quickly open, navigate, walk through, measure, section, and create snapshot views with comments of massive assemblies to clearly communicate the design to your team

SOLIDWORKS File Management use Workgroup PDM to manage project data with secure file vaulting, automated revision control, and user/group access control. For more advanced PDM capabilities (like multiple sites, product release workflow control, and access by large numbers of users), see SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM

Print Directly to 3D printers: 3MF and AMF Formats print directly to 3D printers, similar to how you would print a document on your office printer

MCAD to AEC: Prep and Export to AEC Applications quickly prepare a SOLIDWORKS model for import into AEC applications

3D Models for CAD/CAM Integration with CAM Partners certified CAM partners provide seamlessly integrated CAM for SOLIDWORKS so you can eliminate data translation and maintain associativity between SOLIDWORKS and your favorite CAM system

VIDEO: Direct Editing

Take a closer look at the powerful direct editing capabilities available in SOLIDWORKS.

11CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWAREIntegrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS®

CHAPTER 3

DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURABILITY, PART I

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Download the next eBook to learn how SOLIDWORKS solutions can help you determine the manufacturability of your products — while you’re still designing them.

The next eBook will cover SOLIDWORKS Solutions for:• Costing• Plastic part design• Sheet metal• Weldments• Advanced sheet metal flattening

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