WHY USE SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE STANDARD?

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is widely known for its advanced photorealistic rendering. It is a brilliant software that renders ease in creating fascinating visual content of designs, thereby making it apt for engineers, designers as well as content creators.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard brings just about any design, from the field of engineering, to life even before a single part is manufactured. As a camera for your CAD data, it enables you to leverage your design work and create photographically true visualizations directly from your CAD model.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard utilizes industrialized powerful ray tracing engines, making it incredibly easy to paint your product model with accurate material. By using SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard and its photo accurate results, you can swiftly minimize guess works, and in most cases eliminate the same, thereby giving your customers a deeper emotional connection with your designs. Also, you can smoothly explore different aspects of your products persona using SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard.

Use its capabilities to the fullest and narrate a deeper story which wonderfully resonates with your end users as well as key stakeholders. Best part is, you can use the visual content it generates for your presentations, product videos, advertisements and more, and offer a realistic idea to your superiors, customers, or key stakeholders. This way, you can easily drive the said parties’ interests in your products.

The power to bring your designs to life, therefore, rests in your hands along with the ability to use the software. About the latter, you can easily enhance your software skills by taking up SOLIDWORKS FEA Training.

How to lock Concentric Mate in an Assembly (New in SolidWorks 2014)

Lock Rotation Option with Concentric Mate (New in SolidWorks 2014)

You can prevent the rotation of components that are mated with concentric mates by selecting the Lock rotation option. Also the “-” symbol will no longer appear before the part in the design tree, thus indicating that the part has been fully constrained. We will understand this in detail using the below model.

 

To lock a concentric mate in an assembly:

1. Open the Mate PropertyManager for Concentric mate.

2. In the PropertyManager, select Lock rotation and click OK.

 

Locked concentric mates are indicated by different icon in the FeatureManager design tree as shown below. Green box shows a concentric mate without lock and Red box show with lock. (The inner circle in the concentric symbol is shaded when the lock rotation option is active)

 

 

To lock the rotation for an existing mate, in the FeatureManager design tree, select the concentric mate and click Edit Feature or Select the part to lock from the menu that appears on the screen and choose “View mates,“ a selection window will open with the concentric mate. Simply right click on the constraint and select the “Lock rotation” option.

 

Tip: To lock or unlock rotation on all concentric mates in an assembly, in the FeatureManager design tree, right-click the Mates folder and click Lock Concentric Rotation or Unlock Concentric Rotation.

Note: You cannot lock concentric mates when a referenced component is over-defined.