You can tell we're getting close to SolidWorks World 2012 now because our partners are sending in their profile responses fast and furious. Today, we hear from Stratasys. If you're at the event later this month, stop by and say hi.
1. Tell us a little bit about Stratasys
Stratasys manufacturers five lines of 3D printers used for prototyping and production, and it operates a digital manufacturing service, called RedEye on Demand. Three of the 3D printer lines carry Stratasys name brands: Fortus, Dimension, and uPrint. We are an OEM manufacturer for HP’s DesignJet3D line of 3D printers, and we manufacture the Solidscape 3D printer line. Stratasys is one of the original additive manufacturing system makers, and has been in business since 1991.
2. How can your printers help make a SolidWorks user’s life easier?
Having a 3D printer at your desk or around the corner lets you bring your CAD ideas to life and examine them for form, fit, and functional performance. Customers say that just having easy access to a 3D printer has helped them design better, design faster, and improve their products. Users have even reported that they’ve come up with product ideas that would have been impossible to conceive of before their exposure to 3D printing.
3. Why should attendees visit your booth?
Besides some of our larger machines, we will be showing our most recent introduction, the uPrint SE series which is available with or without a complete printer package called the uPrint SE 3D Print Pack. This is a complete start-up kit, requiring nothing else to get up and running. There are no extra costs and no surprises. Notable is that these are the first 3D printers available on the market through a lease. Prices are as low as $290 per month – less expensive than a single outsourced job.
4. How can customers connect with you before, during and after the show?
A great new feature has been added to SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2012 that allows for searching inside of Windows Explorer. Not only does this eliminate the need for a separate Search window to be opened on the desktop, it also adds searching to any Windows Open dialog. SolidWorks users can search in the Open dialog when inserting a file into an assembly or any other operation that presents you with the Open dialog. This improves your efficiency by searching instead of browsing around in the vault or going to a separate dialog.
TIP: Using Enterprise PDM’s ability to easily create customized search cards, you can create a slimmed down card to use in Windows Explorer and Open dialogs. Here’s an example of one that will search on file names, configuration names, and variables using only one input string. The input string uses the History Text variable name field. Setting the default value for Search folder to look in the entire vault, eliminates the need for the user to specify a folder path. Note: search times could be increased using these settings since the system is looking at the entire vault and at several data fields at the same time.
If you want to learn more about all the new features for 2012, watch the video below, then visit the SolidWorks 2012 website to learn more about what's new in Enterprise PDM.
One of the things we've heard from SolidWorks World attendees over the past few years is that you'd like to learn more in advance about the SolidWorks partners who set up booths in the Partner Pavilion. So now through SolidWorks World 2012, we'll be posting a series of blog entries about some of the partners you might think about checking out, and the people who will be representing them. Today we hear from Sigmetrix.
1) Tell us a little bit about Sigmetrix.
Sigmetrix, LLC is a SolidWorks solutions partner focused on providing easy-to-use assembly tolerance analysis and optimization software utilized by systems, mechanical and manufacturing engineers. Powered by CETOL 6 Sigma Technologies™, Sigmetrix’ products accelerate tolerance optimization, providing precise calculations and increased understanding of the impact tolerance specifications have on manufacturing variations and ultimately on product quality.
2) Why should SolidWorks World attendees visit your booth?
If product success is important to SolidWorks World attendees, then a visit to the Sigmetrix booth would be time well spent! Visitors will learn more about our tolerance analysis solutions and will have the opportunity to view our 3D Variation Behavior Modeling first hand. Everyone that registers at our booth receives a special show giveaway as well as a chance to win one of several show gifts when they turn in their CETOL 6 Sigma poker chip!
3) How can your products help make a SolidWorks user’s life easier?
Our mission is to educate SolidWorks users on the advantages of incorporating tolerance analysis into their projects and to help them produce more efficient, robust designs that result in reduced costs and warranty issues while improving product performance and quality.
4) How can customers connect with you at the show? How about before and after?
SolidWorks World attendees can find us at booth #437 in the Partner Pavilion. You can also find us at:
One of the things we've heard from SolidWorks World attendees over the past few years is that you'd like to learn more in advance about the SolidWorks partners who set up booths in the Partner Pavilion. So now through SolidWorks World 2012, we'll be posting a series of blog entries about some of the partners you might think about checking out, and the people who will be representing them. Today we hear from Geometric Technologies.
1. Tell us a little bit about Geometric Technologies.
Geometric Technologies develops cutting‐edge productivity solutions for CAD/CAM industry. Our products DFMPro and CAMWorks are seamlessly integrated within the SolidWorks® platform, enabling intelligence and automation in design as well as manufacturing processes.
2. What products do you sell that might appeal to SolidWorks users?
CAMWorks® for SolidWorks is the first Gold Partner CAM solution designed exclusively to operate in SolidWorks. CAMWorks is an intuitive feature based CAM solution that helps manufacturers increase productivity and profitability through best-in-class technologies and adaptable automation tools that maximize machining efficiencies.
DFMPro for SolidWorks facilitates upstream manufacturability validation by helping in identification of areas of a design that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture. It automates the iterative design review process for manufacturability. Both the products are sold via a wide network of resellers in over 40 countries.
3. How can your tools help make a SolidWorks user’s life easier?
CAMWorks is seamlessly integrated within the SolidWorks environment, which facilitates automatic accommodating changes to the part model, thereby eliminating time consuming CAM system rework due to design updates and thus enabling true associative machining. It eliminates hours of complex programming through Automatic Feature Recognition (AFR) that automatically defines prismatic machinable features, while a Knowledge Database (Technology Database) defines machining operations to automatically generate accurate toolpaths at the click of a button. DFMPro covers design for manufacturability checks within SolidWorks environment. This saves lot of time and effort for design engineers as carrying out such checks is not only tedious but also requires re-design effort. The ‘Rules Based’ interface of DFMPro cover checks for manufacturing process like
Sheet Metal (checks for slots, hems, bends, holes, etc.)
Machining (checks for machining processes like Drills, Mills and Turned models, etc.)
DFMPro also facilitates collaborative design review process by generating comprehensive 3D reports in eDrawings format. This capability is very useful for suppliers to quickly generate eDrawings reports and share it with the OEM for their review, comments and acceptance.
4. Why should SolidWorks World attendees visit your booth? What will be special or exciting?
This year we are showcasing CAMWorksXpress, an easy to learn and easy to use SolidWorks integrated 2.5D machining CAM package for programmers and machinists. And CAMWorks Nesting, a new add-on nesting package integrated within SolidWorks to create optimized nested layouts of Parts or Assemblies. Using CAMWorks Nesting users can select single/multiple sheets, specify the part-to-part distance and sheet margin/collar. The package also allows associativity to the original SolidWorks part or assembly.
We also invite attendees to a presentation by Marc Bissell, Sr. Applications Engineer at Geometric on “Integrated Design and Manufacturing - From Orders to Parts” in the Certified Partner Theater on Tuesday, 14th February, at 1:00 p.m.
We shall be displaying the new casting process capability of DFMPro, this will cover checks for wall thickness, undercut detection, fillet radii, etc.
5. How can customers learn more about your products?
SolidWorks World attendees can find us at booth #524 in the Partner Pavilion. You can also find us at:
Are you all set to head to SolidWorks World 2012? Ready for a chance to win a high end computer workstation while you're there? Well SolidWorks Solution partner BOXX has stepped up to the plate.
The first thing you'll need to know about having a chance to win this powerful workstation is you have to be a Certified SolidWorks Expert (CSWE),or a Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP), and you have to be attending SolidWorks World 2012 and be present at the CSWE/CSWP party on Monday night February 13th.
And the best part? The winner of this powerhouse computer will walk away with the actual computer from the event! No waiting for this bad boy to be built and then shipped, you'll be plugging it in as soon as you get back to the office.
So how do you get in on the action to possibly win? Well as stated before you must be a CSWE or CSWP, you must be attending SolidWorks World 2012 in San Diego, and you must be present at the CSWE/CSWP party on Monday night February 13th to win.
What if you don't meet those qualifications? Well there is still time to register for SolidWorks World 2012, and you can even take and pass your CSWE or CSWP exam before you arrive!
We'd like to thank BOXX for stepping up to offer this great prize, and we hope to see you all in San Diego! Find out more about their SolidWorks Certified solutions.
BOXX is the host of this contest, and is responsible for all rules and regulations. You can find those rules here: Contest Rules
As many of you know, Valentine's Day falls over the four days of SolidWorks World 2012, and thousands of you will be with us in San Diego, away from significant others and children. And while phone calls, text messages, Skype and Facetime can help bridge the gap, we know that lots of you will be missed at home.
We're also guessing that some of you may have had to make special arrangements or deals with your significant others in order to join us. If you fall into that category, we're interested in knowing what you had to agree to in order to get out of the SolidWorks World dog house.
If you have a funny or amusing story, let us know in the comment section below. If it's good, CEO Bertrand Sicot may event mention it during general session on the first day.
And by the way, we'll have a special booth set up in the Partner Pavilion on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday that you can use to send a video e-card to anyone you like. Be sure to stop by.
Don't forget, if you pay for two registrations, we'll throw in a third for free. And as always, CSWPs save $100. You can see all of our registration deals at the SolidWorks World website.
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