SolidWorks 2010 Takes Flight At Duxford Air Museum
Tuesday, January 05, 2010SolidWorks 2010 was previewed to our valued customers at our Annual event, again held at the impressive Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridge. The main drive of this new release is focused on improving ‘Performance, Reliability and Predictability’. The various presentations went on to demonstrate many aspects of these improvements including a new easier installation procedure and a very innovative mouse feature that enables common tools to be accessed at an instant. The ability to simulate a component's performance has also been enhanced to make it easier and faster. It was clear from the presentation that the developers of SolidWorks remain passionate, focused and very much in touch with their user base.
The engineers attending the event were from a diverse range of industries; from car component manufacturers to medical device developers and from inkjet printhead designers to automation experts. The response to the new version of SolidWorks was very positive, with engineers admitting that they do not particularly like change, but that the new improvements look very attractive and that it would be worth the investment of their time and energy to get up to speed with the new features.
"We are very proud of SolidWorks," said Mark Bradford. "This new version demonstrates once again how hard the developers of this software work and how much it contributes to the working lives of engineers and designers. Looking at the number of engineers that have come along to the event and how they responded to the presentations, it's clear to me that SolidWorks is valued very highly within the UK engineering community. It's been a very rewarding event." productive ....
In addition, measuring the environmental impact of a new design, proved to be a great success, with the audience appreciating the new tools in SolidWorks 2010. SolidWorks Sustainability can take individual part models and automatically show how "like" materials compare to the original material you selected in terms of environmental impact. This helps you to hone in on the perfect material.
The event concluded with an impressive demonstration of SolidWorks ability to create an animated model of an automated 'pick and place' machine, demonstrating how easy it can be to experiment with different timings and positions in order to achieve a perfect solution.