Buy SolidWorks Online - A Guide for Canadian Customers

 Purchasing SOLIDWORKS Online: A Guide for Canadian Customers

Why Buy SolidWorks Online?

In today’s fast-paced design and manufacturing landscape, having access to the right tools at the right time is essential. SolidWorks, a leader in 3D CAD design and simulation software, empowers designers, engineers, and manufacturers to bring their ideas to life. But did you know that purchasing SolidWorks online offers unparalleled convenience and flexibility? Let’s explore why buying SolidWorks online is the smart choice for modern professionals.

Convenience at Your Fingertips

Gone are the days of lengthy procurement processes. By purchasing SolidWorks online, you can browse a wide range of options, compare products, and select the perfect solution for your needs—all from the comfort of your home or office. With just a few clicks, you can gain access to powerful tools like SOLIDWORKS Standard, SOLIDWORKS Professional, SOLIDWORKS Premium, or even cloud-enabled 3DEXPERIENCE SolidWorks.

Flexibility with SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses

Not ready for a long-term commitment? SolidWorks term licenses provide a cost-effective and flexible solution. Available online, these licenses allow you to access the latest SolidWorks features without upfront investment. Ideal for short-term projects, startups, or businesses testing the software, term licenses are designed to adapt to your needs.

3DEXPERIENCE SolidWorks: The Cloud Advantage

One of the standout offerings available online is 3DEXPERIENCE SolidWorks. This solution seamlessly integrates powerful CAD tools with a cloud-based platform, enabling real-time collaboration, secure data management, and access from anywhere. Purchasing 3DEXPERIENCE SolidWorks online ensures you stay connected and productive, no matter where your team is located.

Expert Training and Support from FEA Training Consultants

As an authorized SOLIDWORKS distributor, FEA Training Consultants offers more than just SolidWorks term licenses. We provide comprehensive training and expert support to help you maximize the software’s potential. Our specialized FEA training ensures you can effectively simulate and optimize your designs, saving time and resources.

With personalized guidance from our team, you’ll receive hands-on support tailored to your engineering needs. Whether it's troubleshooting or advanced consulting, we’re here to help you succeed with SolidWorks.

Why Choose Our SOLIDWORKS Online Store?

When you purchase SolidWorks products from our online store, you benefit from:

• Authenticity: 100% genuine SolidWorks licenses directly from authorized distributors.
• Competitive Pricing: Affordable options for individuals and businesses of all sizes.
• Instant Delivery: Quick and secure access to your software via digital download.
• Expert Support: A team of professionals ready to assist with installation, training, and troubleshooting.

Get Started Today

Don’t let outdated tools slow you down. Upgrade to SolidWorks today and revolutionize the way you design and innovate. Access our SOLIDWORKS online store to explore our SolidWorks term license products and find the perfect solution for your project needs. The future of design is just a click away!

Boost Your Design Potential with SOLIDWORKS CAD – Exclusive Offer on New Seat Purchases!

 SOLIDWORKS PROMOTION

If you're looking to equip your team with cutting-edge design tools, there has never been a better time to invest in SOLIDWORKS CAD. For a limited time only, when you purchase a new SOLIDWORKS CAD Perpetual license with Cloud Services, you’ll receive an instant upgrade to the next level product—unlocking even more powerful tools to enhance your design process.

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This exclusive promotion is perfect for companies expanding their team or getting started with SOLIDWORKS. With new seats, you’ll gain immediate access to advanced features that will accelerate your projects and help you stay ahead in today’s competitive design landscape.

Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium for New Seats?

SOLIDWORKS Professional takes the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Standard and builds upon them to supercharge your design productivity. With SOLIDWORKS Professional, you’ll gain access to powerful tools like:

• File management tools to keep designs organized and easy to manage
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• A sophisticated components and parts library for faster design creation

SOLIDWORKS Premium takes things even further. As a comprehensive 3D design solution, SOLIDWORKS Premium adds powerful simulation and design validation to the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Professional, making it the go-to choice for teams needing more advanced tools. With SOLIDWORKS Premium, you’ll gain access to:

• Advanced simulation and design validation tools to ensure your designs meet real-world performance standards
• Advanced wire and pipe routing functionality to handle complex routing in electrical and piping systems
• Advanced surface flattening capabilities for more precise and detailed flat pattern creation
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• Reverse engineering capabilities to work with scanned data and convert it into CAD models
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Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Buy SOLIDWORKS?

With this limited-time offer, when you purchase new seats of SOLIDWORKS CAD Perpetual with Cloud Services, you’ll receive an instant upgrade to SOLIDWORKS Professional or SOLIDWORKS Premium, depending on your needs. This offer is designed to help you:

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Whether you’re starting fresh with SOLIDWORKS or expanding your team’s capabilities, this special promotion makes it easier than ever to take advantage of powerful new features that drive innovation.

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Don’t miss out on this exclusive promotion—this offer is only available for a limited time. To take advantage of the upgrade, simply contact our FEA-TC team or visit our website to secure your new SOLIDWORKS CAD Perpetual license with Cloud Services and instantly unlock the benefits of SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium.

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SOLIDWORKS Premium. Better Designs Mean Better Products.

SOLIDWORKS Premium is more than CAD—it's an integrated suite of specialized tools which work seamlessly together to let you model, visualize, simulate, validate, communicate, cost, document, and better prepare your designs for production. SOLIDWORKS design tools let you efficiently transform concepts into practical, executable designs, and leverage advanced automation capabilities to handle repetitive manual tasks.

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SOLIDWORKS PROMOTION:Buy SOLIDWORKS Premium for the price of SOLIDWORKS Standard!!!

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Difference between SOLIDWORKS Premium, Professional and Standard

Difference between SOLIDWORKS Premium, Professional andStandard

Congratulations on your decision to look into SOLIDWORKS 3DCAD design software package!

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD design software solutions include SOLIDWORKS PREMIUM, SOLIDWORKS PROFESSIONAL, and SOLIDWORKS STANDARD providing engineers, designers and manufacturers with the design, simulation/verification, manufacturing, file management and collaboration tools they need to develop and manufacture innovative products and equipment—all in one package

The entire suite of SOLIDWORKS (SOLIDWORKS Premium, SOLIDWORKS Professional, and SOLIDWORKS Standard) covers design, simulation/verification, cost estimation, manufacturability checks, CAM, sustainable design, technical communication and data management.

The main difference between SOLIDWORKS Premium vs SOLIDWORKS Professional vs SOLIDWORKS Standard depends on their respective functionalities.

SOLIDWORKS Premium:

SOLIDWORKS Premium is the flagship product in the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD family. You can find all the capabilities included in SOLIDWORKS Professional along with powerful simulation and design validation as well as advanced wire and pipe routing functionality, advanced surface flattening capabilities and environmental impact analysis.

SOLIDWORKS Professional:

SOLIDWORKS Professional includes all the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Standard to increase design productivity. The additional functionalities include file management tools, advanced photorealistic rendering (SOLIDWORKS Visualize), automated manufacturing cost estimation, eDrawings Professional collaboration capabilities, reverse engineering tools, automated design and drawing checking , automated task scheduling and batch processing, Tolerance analysis, ECAD/MCAD collaboration tools, sophisticated components and parts library.

SOLIDWORKS Standard:

Get up to speed and unlock the benefits of this powerful design and manufacturing solution. With SOLIDWORKSStandard, you can share data with your suppliers and customers who also use SOLIDWORKS. Create designs faster and more accurately, including 3D models of complex parts and large assemblies, 2D drawings, and assembly bills of materials (BOMs) needed by manufacturing. Eliminate design errors and rework before designs get to manufacturing by using automatic interference checking. Work directly with non-SOLIDWORKS CAD data and eliminate the need to translate files using SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect. Communicate design ideas more effectively using tools to create, publish, and view photorealistic images and videos of your designs. Create CNC tool paths using industry-leading CAM tools (SOLIDWORKS CAM) that include an intelligent database of machining rules and even the ability to automatically create CNC programs for your design.

Whether you choose between SOLIDWORKS Premium or SOLIDWORKS Professional or SOLIDWORKS Standard you can be assured that SOLIDWORKS is the most popular 3D CAD tool in the industry and the best 3D CAD tool for integrated partner products. You can do anything you need to do in designing, manufacturing (now including CAM) and managing products and never have to leave the SOLIDWORKS environment.

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How to use SheetMetal Flange in SOLIDWORKS?

SHEET METAL FLANGE

Sheet metal and weldments are two very popular tabs for the manufacturing industry specifically with metal.  Last blog we worked through an example of a simple sheet metal box, now let’s consider a circular flange:

The circular flange is conical in shape; therefore we want to take advantage of the sweep function when creating this part.  We start by first sketching the profile on the front plane.

Ensure that the sketch is fully defined which means it is all black in the graphical window.  Since this part involves a revolution, be sure to create a vertical construction line about the center of revolution.

Following the first sketch, create a second sketch on the top plane to act as the sweeping path.  Note that there is a one degree gap break in the line shown in the figure.  This allows the flange to be created from a single rolled piece of sheet metal. 

Next, we want to select the Swept Flange feature by going to Insert > Sheet Metal > Swept Flange

Once the Swept Flange function is selected, select the two sketches, Sketch1 and Sketch2, as the profile and path, as well as the construction line as the cylindrical axis.

Upon completion, apply the feature and we should have our completed sheet metal flange part. This is a sheet metal part and as such will also provide the designer with a flat pattern as well to cut and form. 

Sheet metal features in SolidWorks makes designing quick and easier for designers.  Sheet metal is available for all versions of SolidWorks; Standard, Professional and Premium.

Weldment Cut List in SOLIDWORKS

WELDMENT CUT LIST

Last blog we explored the creation of a simple weldment frame.  A natural extension to the weldment features is the cut list which lists all the parts and lengths required to make the weldment.  It is very similar in nature to a bill of material.  Consider our weldment frame:

We’ll start by creating a drawing for this weldment by first going to File> Make Drawing from Part.

A simple drawing is created with a plan, elevation, side and isometric view.  Now we would like to insert our cut list.

In order to insert a cut list go to Annotation> Tables > Weldment Cut List

In the Weldment Cut List Property box, the designer is able to change and modify various parameters such as the table name/ template, position, etc.

Once a table has been completed, the designer will find a list of sections including description, quantity, length and item number.  You might notice that there are special entries such as plate and Weld-On Ring.  The Weld-On Ring is a special unique part therefore has a separate entry, however the plate was the base plate we modeled.  The cut list conveniently lists the dimensions of the plate.  These dimensions are controlled by a bounding box.

If the designer needs to make changes or even edit the bounding box, it is done simply by going back to the model, expand the cut list and right click the part of your choice and select Edit Bounding Box.  This is a very useful feature to capture items such as base plates, stiffeners and gussets, all very common structural elements.

Weldment features in SolidWorks makes designing quick and easier for designers.  Weldment is available for all versions of SolidWorks; Standard, Professional and Premium.

How to use SheetMetal in SOLIDWORKS?

SHEETMETAL IN SOLIDWORKS

Sheet metal and weldments are two very popular tabs for the manufacturing industry specifically with metal.  Both tabs have their merits.The reason why designers turn to sheet metal function is for flat patterns. Flat patterns are 2D representations of the sheet metal object that can be cut and then bent back into shape. In order to explore this feature let’s get acquainted with a simple sheet metal object starting with the following box:

We will model this simple box by first starting a sketch on the Front Plane.

 

Using the sketch tools lets draw a rectangle centered about the origin. Please ensure to have the sheet metal tab active. If it is not active simply right click on any tab (Features, Sketch, etc) and select Sheet Metal

Once the sketch is complete, switch to the sheet metal tab and select Base Flange/ Tab. This feature will allow the designer to turn the sketch into a sheet of specified thickness. It will also automatically convert the part into a sheet metal part. 

Next, let’s create a plane to sketch the box profile.  A plane can be created by selecting Features & Reference geometry. Once reference geometry is active, select a line and vertex as shown to fully define the plane. 

Once the plane is defined, sketch the desired box profile.  Ensure that the sketch is fully defined. It may also be noted that this is an open profile sketch.

Next, let’s select the Mitter Flange function to create the walls of the box. Once the function is active, select all four edges to ensure the box is enclosed on all sides.  Parameters such as flange position, gap distance, offset, etc allow designers to manipulate and adjust the box walls until it is as desired.

The box is now complete!  Users may notice that at the end of the feature manager tree is a “Flat Pattern” icon under suppressed state. By simply un-suppressing the Flat Pattern, the designer has access to the completed flat pattern. This flat pattern may be used to cut the shape out of raw material before bending it back into our box.

Sheet metal features in SOLIDWORKS makes designing quick and easier for designers.  Sheet metal is available for all versions of SOLIDWORKS; Standard, Professional and Premium.

Whats New in SolidWorks 2016: Photoview 360

PhotoView 360

  PhotoView 360 has been used in SolidWorks to generate life-like renderings of SolidWorks models.  These renderings are excellent communication tools to showcase your product as it would appear in real-life.  SolidWorks 2016 has added new features to PhotoView 360 to streamline the rendering process.

Consider the following stapler:

The preview window is a feature we can access from the Render Tools tab and it allows the designer to preview the render before it is applied to the model.  This is a valuable tool because to fully render a model takes time and a preview window helps the designer decide whether they would like to proceed or not.

The preview window now has a resolution slider on the bottom that increases or decreases the quality of the preview render.  This gives the designer more control over the quality of render being previewed.  The designer can dynamically change this value depending on whether it is approaching the desired render effect. 

 

The edit scene feature is also available from the Render Tools Tab and it allows the designer to edit the lighting, reflectivity and environment variables that effect the final render.  This has usually been an iterative process requiring multiple trials before arriving at the desired image render.  A new tool to help with this process is the Scene Illumination Proof Sheet feature from the Render Tools Tab.

The Scene Illumination Proof Sheet feature uses the base render as baseline and shows multiple previews of multiple variations. This includes rendering brightness, background brightness and scene reflectivity.  

Each of these tiles displays a preview of the rendered image with modifications.  By selecting a tile, it replaces the baseline render and recalculates all of the previews based on the new baseline.  This functionality allows the designer to home-in on the desired rendering faster and more efficiently.  At any point in time, the designer may flip between the original and current baseline for comparison using the tabs provided.  By selecting OK, the settings will be applied to the PhotoView 360 scene allowing the designer to start rendering the final product.  

The improved functionality in PhotoView 360 allows designers to converge on the desired rendered look faster and more efficiently in SolidWorks 2016.  

Methods to create threads in SolidWorks

Creating Threads: Sweep Method

The SolidWorks toolbox has many useful premade configurable models for hardware items such as hex nuts, bolts and washers.  This helps quicken modeling time by avoiding the need to model smaller simpler items.  However creating specific features such as threads may be considered challenging to some.  The following will outline the sweep method in creating thread.

Consider a simple modeled hex bolt without threads. 

 To apply threads, we must first create the cut profile.  Please note the cut profile is very specific to each thread and bolt therefore it is suggested to consult reference information for accurate modeling.

Next we need to create a spiral using the Helix/ Spiral tool in SolidWorks.  This is where you can set the number of revolutions, pitch etc.

Next, apply the Sweep Cut feature by selecting the cut sketch profile followed by the spiral that was created.  By applying this feature the threads will appear on the hex bolt

This represents one method to create threads on bolts.  In practise many times it is not necessary to go into such high detail since bolts are purchased stock to specifications.  However on the occasion that a high fidelity model is required such as for marketing or rendered images, this would be considered one method to apply threads to a part.