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Launched in October last year, Solidworks 2019
offers a number of new features to enhance
design performance and effi ciency, with the latest
technology behind the push for greater success
Dassault Systèmes’ Solidworks
2019 is the latest release of
its portfolio of 3D design and
engineering applications. Its
claim to fame is that, according to the
company, it can deliver enhancements
and new functionalities to help innovators
improve the product development process,
getting products into production faster and
creating new levels of experiences for new
categories of customers in what it refers
to as today’s ‘Industry Renaissance’.
Powered by Dassault Systèmes’
3DExperience platform, Solidworks 2019
supports the design-to-manufacturing
process with digital capabilities to
solve complex design challenges and
facilitate detail work in engineering. New
features enable product development
teams to manage large amounts of
data in a better way, it is said, and to
capture a more complete digital
representation of a design. Solidworks
2019 also offers new technologies
and workfl ows that, its users say, are
improving collaboration and enable
immersive, interactive experiences during
design and engineering. “We are using
Solidworks to support implementation
of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
10m-class telescope that will open new
possibilities for scientifi c discovery,”
states Greg Green, mechanical designer/
instrument maker, Canada France Hawaii
growing dataset. The fi nal production
version of the telescope will contain over
100,000 parts. We needed technology
that can tackle large design projects and
Solidworks delivers.”
Among its new features, Solidworks
2019 provides greater design fl exibility
to quickly interrogate or rapidly make
changes to a model, thanks to an
enhanced ‘Large Design Review’ capability.
It also greatly improves high-performance
view manipulation to scale with higher-end
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telescope facility. “Our design processes
generate a large and
graphics hardware. In addition, it allows
teams to communicate outside of the
design community by adding markups to
parts and assemblies directly, using a
touch device, storing them with the model
and exporting them as a PDF.
Another key feature of Solidworks 2019
is Solidworks Extended Reality (XR), a new
application for publishing CAD scene
data created in Solidworks
– including lights,
cameras, materials,
decals and motion
study animations – and
experiencing it in VR, AR
and web viewers.
As increasingly affordable immersive
devices contribute to the growing
ecosystem of technology and interactive
experiences, designers and engineers can
use Solidworks XR to improve collaborative
internal and external design reviews,
sell designs more effectively, and train
users how to assemble and interact with
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