At 3DEXPERIENCE World this yr, I introduced that in July, all new SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD licenses will embody “Cloud companies” as a part of the subscription. Present SOLIDWORKS customers may also have a path so as to add these safe cloud capabilities. 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 entire lot to get enthusiastic about should you’re a SOLIDWORKS consumer. These capabilities will allow you to take action rather more than earlier than. Most significantly, it is going to free you to do what you’re keen on most: create superb, modern new merchandise in a protected and collaborative setting open to anybody.
We all know you’re obsessed with design. If we are able to take away the mundane features of product improvement out of your every day workflow, we are able to unencumber extra time so that you can observe your ardour to innovate, create, & construct. This excites me and I hope it does you as properly.
So, let’s reply a very powerful query of all:
What’s on this announcement for SOLIDWORKS customers?
Before everything, by including these capabilities in July, you’ll be able to share 3D designs with ANYONE – straight from SOLIDWORKS. There’s no must ship a bodily file or obtain particular viewers. 3D design sharing and markup shall be as simple as sharing a safe hyperlink from SOLIDWORKS. You’ll be capable to take away the friction related to conventional design sharing and collaboration instruments and speed up your product improvement with instant suggestions from these you belief.
Sharing shouldn’t be the one functionality enhance you’ll have entry to in July. You’ll have the flexibility to avoid wasting your information to the cloud proper from SOLIDWORKS – offering you with a safe hub to retailer and entry your work. You’ll all the time know the place to search out your information and which is the hottest model. Contemplate this your single supply of information fact you could entry with a login from any system.
What if you’ll want to do extra together with your information? In spite of everything, at present’s design instruments produce an astounding quantity of information with complicated relationships that a technique or one other, should be managed. For a lot of of you, this has meant manually managing your file references, adherence to inventive file naming schemes that mirror revision and design standing, and a whole lot of fear that your exhausting work shall be overwritten (or worst but, misplaced utterly) resulting from miscommunication! All stress that, as a SOLIDWORKS consumer, you shouldn’t have to fret about.
The excellent news for SOLIDWORKS customers is these additions resolve many on a regular basis points and lower down on time-wasting duties that supply little profit. These instruments ship safe information storage and sharing, versioning and revision administration, simple design evaluations with different CAD customers and nontechnical group members, and a single hub to maintain everybody on the identical web page.
What’s included?
- Design Sharing and Markup
- Safe Storage & Revisioning
- Design Administration and Management
Let’s break these down.
Design Sharing and Markup
SOLIDWORKS customers can take their exterior collaboration to the subsequent stage by inviting ANYONE to view and mark up a 3D design on the cloud, all out of your present SOLIDWORKS workflow! It bears repeating, you’ll be able to share your 3D designs to anybody straight from SOLIDWORKS. It’s identical to the eDrawings you’ve relied on for years, however no set up vital, no must ship a bodily file, and all of it works from any browser.
Safe Storage and Revisioning
On-line storage that’s purpose-built with CAD relationships and collaboration in thoughts. Save your information to the cloud proper from SOLIDWORKS. Have to work with different designers? No downside, merely check-out the design to make sure nobody else overwrites your work. Uninterested in managing the references of these loopy file names while you revise a design? A revision bump is only a proper click on away. And while you’re completed with the design, replace its standing to “Launched” as an alternative of transferring it to a brand new community folder!
That’s simply the beginning. When it comes time to provide suggestions on a design, markup it up with strong redline, measurements, annotations. Add it to a activity and assign it for follow-up. It’s all there and accessible from wherever and on any system. Contemplate this your safe on-line hub for storage and collaboration.
Design Administration and Management
Whenever you’re prepared, you’ve gotten full entry to a set of instruments that can assist you formally handle design adjustments that come up. Seize the required change, get the approvals wanted, and management the workflow via formal change actions. When it comes time to launch the design change, you’ll have an entire historical past of the approvals.
As you’ll be able to see, there may be loads to get enthusiastic about with this new announcement, and we’re excited to assist our customers to take this necessary first step onto the product improvement platform of the long run that scales with you, irrespective of your wants. These cloud enhancements join SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the place your potentialities lengthen past formal information administration and into different areas of product improvement, equivalent to superior simulation, manufacturing, and advertising and marketing.
Have questions on this? Tell us or go to this web page to preview the subscription enhancements coming in July.
Gian Paolo Bassi is government vice chairman of 3DEXPERIENCE Works.
