SolidWorks

SolidWorks is a 3D modeling, parametric application software. It improves visualization, collaboration, and innovation, besides improving efficiencies in every downstream function of the product development process.

It has both parametric and direct modelling capabilities. SolidWorks is known for its user-friendly GUI with quick-to-understand features that come in handy for design development.

Content:

• 1. Drawing Detailing Mode Improvements
• Detailing mode allows you to perform typical detailing tasks, such as editing and adding dimensions and annotations. The model does not get loaded, so sharing drawing files is easy, but rest assured, the drawing views are intact, and there is no loss of detail.
• Improved performance of Detailing Mode to speed up drawing creation even more
• Improvements in ability to add hole callouts, edit existing dimensions and annotations, and add Detail, Break and Crop views
• Benefits: Work faster on large assembly drawings with more improvements to Detailing Mode.
• 2. Assembly Modeling
• New in SOLIDWORKS 2021 is a new option to synchronize the configurations of all component instances created by a pattern. This new option also helps from inadvertently changing the configuration of any of these components from the quick menu drop-down and by locking this option within the Component Properties dialog. This ensures that as you make any configuration changes to the seed components of the pattern, those changes will be properly propagated.
• SOLIDWORKS 2021 now offers the option to save the interference out in a spreadsheet. You even have the choice to capture a screenshot of each interference so that they can be shared and reviewed with others inside of your organization. This offers a new collaborative way to review interference in a design and determine if they are intentional due to fit conditions, or to collaborate with others what changes should be made to solve the interference.
• Option to automatically resolve lightweight components upon expanding Feature Tree node
• Chain pattern along path to use curve length, not chord length
• Interference-detection reports exported with images to Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet
• 3. Improved Assembly Simplification
• The Silhouette Defeature, introduced in SOLIDWORKS 2019 allows you to create a simplified representation of an assembly, or to protect proprietary information. Silhouette Defeature provides an intuitive step-by-step workflow to define a simplified version using a variety of geometry simplification tools.
• What’s new for Silhouette Defeature in SOLIDWORKS 2021 is the ability to save a simplified representation as a configuration within the same assembly from which it was created. This eliminates the need to manage a separate file that contains the simplified model. When using defeatured models within higher level assemblies, it’s now as simple as right-clicking on the component and choosing to use the Defeatured version.
• With the new enhancements:
• Defeatured models can be saved as a Configuration
• Ease of toggling between full and simplified versions
• Operation mimics any other configuration
• Benefits: Work better with simplified assemblies.
• 4. Performance Improvements
• Performance enhancements include faster drawing creations with improved Detailing Mode with even more editing abilities. Selection, panning, and fast-zoom make your everyday work faster. Improved occlusion culling and silhouette edges use more of your GPU for faster frames. Faster file operations, configuration switching, and automatic Lightweight mode resolving all help with the most complex assemblies.
• If you’re using SOLIDWORKS PDM, you know much of your speed comes from the efficiency of the database. 2021 offers performance improvements that make most of your daily file operations and workflows significantly faster. Faster operations like Check in, add files, Change State, Open, Save, Delete.
• A summary of performance improvements is:
• Improved performance for occlusion culling, silhouette edges and drawings; quick configuration switches
• Significant performance improvements in Open, Save and Close of assemblies
• Detection and reporting of circular references
• Adding files to SOLIDWORKS PDM vault is significantly faster
• Benefits: Work faster with large, complex designs.