Did you miss the episode of SOLIDWORKS Stay Design on April 14th? Nicely in that case, now we have excellent news for you! Now you can watch this episode on-demand to listen to our cohosts, Brad Williamson and Sean O’Neill, as they clarify extra concerning the thrilling adjustments coming in July.
Let’s take a step again and refresh everybody concerning the announcement we made again at 3DEXPERIENCE World in February. In July, all new SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD licenses will embrace “Cloud Providers” as a part of the subscription. Present SOLIDWORKS customers may even have a path so as to add these safe cloud capabilities.
Quoting Gian Paolo Bassi, government vice chairman of 3DEXPERIENCE Works. “I’m positive there are a few of you questioning what the large deal is with this announcement. I’m right here to inform you there’s a complete lot to get enthusiastic about in case you’re a SOLIDWORKS person. These capabilities will allow you to take action rather more than earlier than. Most significantly, it should free you to do what you’re keen on most: create superb, modern new merchandise in a secure and collaborative surroundings open to anybody.” You may learn GP’s whole weblog on this announcement right here.
Throughout one of many newest episodes of SOLIDWORKS Stay Design, Sean spends the whole episode in SOLIDWORKS explaining and exhibiting how these new cloud capabilities will assist enhance workflows for SOLIDWORKS customers. These demonstrations included:
- Saving recordsdata to the complementary exterior storage (holding designs secure and not taking on house in your arduous drive!)
- Simpler methods to find and entry your recordsdata (e.g. type/search recordsdata through properties, customized attributes, and extra)
- New Overwrite safety, so you possibly can not save over recordsdata unintentionally
- Plug-and-play revision management (not on the finish of your file names!)
- Extra highly effective, actually-working search utilities that allow you to look primarily based on nearly something!
You may watch the whole SOLIDWORKS Stay Design on-demand by clicking on this hyperlink: https://reside.solidworks.com/demand/coming-soon-solidworks
Sean goes into element on how every of those new capabilities delivers actual worth by strolling by a typical SOLIDWORKS workflow and mentioning how the cloud capabilities (included within the July announcement) can enhance the way in which designers work – with out leaving SOLIDWORKS.
Watch this episode as we speak on YouTube to learn the way these new capabilities will ship higher workflows for day by day duties reminiscent of:
- Saving/storing your recordsdata
o Entry to further space for storing, from inside SOLIDWORKS
o No want to fret about reformatting/mapping drives
o Management file entry your self
- Opening/discovering your recordsdata
o ‘Bookmark’ your recordsdata, similar to in your browser
o Filter/search through your SOLIDWORKS Customized Properties
o Prompt thought of who ‘owns’ the file at the moment
- Defending your work from unintentional overwrites
o Individuals can’t save over your stuff
o You may’t save over theirs both
o You don’t must ask individuals as many questions
- Computerized dealing with of file variations/revisions
o No extra 1) Save As, 2) Append “_rev2” to file title
o Really keep in mind WHY you made a brand new model/revision
o Much less individuals ask you questions
- Looking for CAD recordsdata – utilizing a search instrument that really works and indexes properly!
o ‘Search’ is a robust thought that ought to work – and may!
o Looking for extra than simply file names
o Now you can search primarily based on nearly something
A major focus of this episode of SOLIDWORKS LIVE Design was to indicate, in among the plainest methods doable, how any designer – even when they’re working with zero different individuals! – can get straightforward, sensible new options that assist with vital on a regular basis duties within SOLIDWORKS.
The one query left to reply is: what is going to you do with extra time to design? 🙂
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