What`s New Features in SolidWorks 2014

SolidWorks 2014 delivers new and improved design tools to enhance collaboration, speed model creation, and simplify the product development process. With the 22nd release , checkout what's in store in SolidWorks 2014.

ADVANCED SHAPE CONTROL - 

• Fast and easy creation of complex geometry with new Style Spline functionality.
• Better simple control over spline geometry
• New Conic Fillet controls create smoother transitions for fillet.

BENEFITS: Create complex surfaces and organic shapes faster, easier, and with more precise control.

SKETCH ENHANCEMENTS -

• Replace sketch entity
• Set Sketch and Sketch picture scale when adding first dimension
• Fixed length Dimension for 2D Splines
• Path length dimension for multiple sketch entities - belts, chains, perimeters, cable etc.

BENEFITS: Conceptualize and design faster and easier with more robust and powerful Sketch capabilities.

ENHANCED ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE AND VISUALIZATION -

• Create assemblies faster with new in-context Quick Mate toolbar
• Section View - Include/Exclude slected components
• Significantly improved Section View performance
• Create part Slot features with Hole Wizard and speed up assembly creation with new Slot Mate
• Add rotation in Explode Steps so parts will automatically rotate

BENEFITS: Create and view assemblies faster and easier

DESIGN COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION -

• Experience your 3D designs in real world in Augmented Reality with edrawings and edrawings Prodfessional iOS mobile apps.
• edrawing mobile support for Android devices (4.0 and later)
• Create an eDrawings file of your SolidWorks Electrical schematics with a single click

BENEFITS: Experience and communicate your design ideas in a more lifelike way - anytime , anywhere

NEW SHEETMETAL FEATURES-

• New Sheet Metal  Gusset feature for creation of stiffening ribs
• Improved control over sheet metal corner treatments
• Sheet Metal Lofted- Bend includes information needed for press brake manufacturing

BENEFITS:  Create sheet metal geometry faster, with improved data output for manufacturing

STREAMLINED SIMULATION SETUP -

• Toolbox fasteners definition, with position, bolt materials, and preloads, for Bolt Connectors in SolidWorks Simulation
• Thermal properties and PCB definition from electrical components in SolidWorks Flow Simulation
• In-mold residual stress and temperature data from SolidWorks Plastics in SolidWorks Simulation

BENEFITS: Streamline simulation and eliminate duplication of effort to enable concurrent engineering.

FASTER DRAWING DETAILING

• Create angular running dimensions
• Set automatic limits for rows in tables
• Turn part drawing into an assembly drawing without losing references
• Slot callout notes

BENEFITS: Perform faster and more automated drawing  detailing.

SOLIDWORKS ELETRICAL IMPROVED INTEGRATION AND PERFORMANCE

• Single-button publishing of schematic and assembly files for review in eDrawings
• One click check-in/check-out of electrical project files to SolidWorks Enterprise PDM
• Enhanced wire/cable/harness development capabilities with optimized routing

BENEFITS: Optimize, share and track electrical designs more easily for improved project collaboration.

SOLIDWORKS ENTERPRISE PDM STREAMLINED WORKFLOW

• Customize the user interface with custom data columns for company-specific data
• Automated cache management to cache and clear specified folders at user log-in and log-off
• Enable vault operations directly in Microsoft Office user interface for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

BENEFITS: Make faster, more accurate documents actions and get the latest file versions automatically .

STREAMLINE COST ESTIMATING AND REPORTING

• New options enable section and control of cost estimation methods
• New estimate type based on average cost of material removal simplifies  Costing setup
• Microsoft Excel integration and output of more Costing Custom Properties improve cost data sharing

BENEFITS: Cost parts faster and with less setup, then share cost data more effectively with downstream applications.

EXPLORE SOLIDWORKS 2014

How to download Weldment Profiles in SolidWorks?

When you are working with Weldments and have the out of box installation for SolidWorks you may notice that there are very few Standards and Profiles in Weldments when you select a Structural Member.

SolidWorks does not install all the Standards and Profiles because of the size of installation and for that reason they provide you with a free download link in case you require other standards or profiles. To access the download link go to SolidWorks Task Pane and select the Design Library tab. From there expand the SolidWorks Content and select Weldments folder as shown below and it lists all the Standards that are available for download.

To download a particular standard click on it holding the Ctrl (Control) key on your keyboard. You can download the file and save it at any location and then unzip the file.

 

 

 

 

Once the file is unzipped go to SolidWorks Tools > Options and select the File Location from the system options tab. In the File location select the Weldment profiles option from the pull down menu. It also shows the default location of the Weldment profiles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Now we will go to the location shown for Weldment profiles from the system options menu and copy-paste the unzipped file as shown below.

 

Once you are done with the above step you will see the profiles for that standard in the location like in this case we copied the ANSI Inch and now there are so many different types of profiles as shown below. After this all the profiles will automatically appear in the Structural member menu in the Weldments toolbar.