3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

Methods for Opening and Inserting Models in SOLIDWORKS from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

open in bookmark editor

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides significant flexibility when working with data. The powerful search functionality with filters and tags makes it quick to find the model. Bookmark Editor helps organize projects making it easy to browse for components. More information can be found in our Managing…

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3DEXPERIENCE Offline Mode

offline mode save

If you’ve been using 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, R2022x FD03, you may or may not know that you now have the ability to work offline. This is great as we enter fall and the holiday season, when you may want to get some work done on a…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 13: Project Wrap Up

SOLIDWORKS xShape Data

We’ve come to the end of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series. With this Carving Knife project, we’ve used tools available with 3DEXPERIENCE Works to process a design change of a carving knife from a corded version to a cordless version. Here is a summary video…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 12: Shop Floor Programmer for CAM

3DEXPERIENCE Shop Floor Programmer for CAM

In the previous part of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series we reviewed mold design. In this tutorial we are reviewing the features in Shop Floor Programmer that make it very easy to create the program for our carving knife handle as we program half of…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 11: Mold Design

SOLIDWORKS Mold Design

In the previous part of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series we reviewed the plastic injection analysis process. In this tutorial we are going to show how the mold design tools can be easily utilized for functionality on this updated geometry. Developing a tooling split can…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 10: Plastic Injection Engineer

3DEXPERIENCE Plastic Injection Analysis

In the previous part of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series we learned about drop test simulation. In this tutorial, we will start with a simple part fill analysis to check gate location and determine if the part will fill in a mold. It will show…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 9: Drop Test Simulation

SIMULIA Drop Test Simulation

In the previous part of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series we reviewed 3D printing of our prototype. In this installment, we will walk through the application of drop test simulation with SIMULIA Structural Mechanics Engineer. Watch the tutorial video below to learn about drop test…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 8: 3D Printing from 3DEXPERIENCE

3DEXPERIENCE GrabCAD Print

In the previous part of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series the design was passed between xShape and 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS to quickly make changes and arrive at a product ready for prototyping. In this tutorial we will be demonstrating how to easily 3D print from the…

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 7: Working with xShape changes in SOLIDWORKS

xShape Design Changes

In the previous videos of our 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Tutorial series we updated the handle design using the SOLIDWORKS 3D Sculptor Role (xShape App). The geometry is fairly complex and it’s not a native SOLIDWORKS file. Now we need to make this a usable form from…

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