Make no mistake: product development is changing. Schedules are shortening. Budgets are tightening. The number of stakeholders is rising. This is the new dynamic for those designing products; be ready for change.
Today’s engineers are not static. They are changing, shifting, and evolving. Today, they need tools to do things faster and easier. As a result, no CAD provider can sit on its laurels. There is an obligation for their tools to become faster, more accurate, and easier to use. Engineers still have unmet needs. That won’t change going forward.
All that is driving SOLIDWORKS to get dramatically better. And in the 2020 release, it has. With the latest release of SOLIDWORKS, engineers can open and modify massive drawings quickly and easily.
For a more extensive list of SOLIDWORKS 2020 enhancements, click here.
The design cycle requires a lot iteration, experimentation, and exploration to narrow in on the best designs. However, when you hit the design release deadline, you'd better have drawings. Engineering documentation is the hard deliverable that fuels many development processes, including procurement’s quote requests, manufacturing’s tooling design, machinist’s generation of toolpaths, and inspection’s quality checks. All of development grinds to a halt without drawings.
Drawings are the core deliverable that powers many development processes. Engineers simply can’t afford to wait anymore. SOLIDWORKS’ improved performance with gigantic drawings can help engineers get their time back while meeting today’s tightening deadlines.
BUILDING COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND ORGANIC SHAPES EASILY
The burgeoning use of topology optimization generates wildly non-prismatic geometry. Reverse engineering three-dimensional scans produces unruly forms. None come with handy features controlled with parametric modeling. None can be tamed with direct modeling.
The price of dealing with more geometric complexity is steep. Remodeling these shapes is a tedious, time-intensive task. It undermines productivity and steals the opportunity to design. Recreating something that already exists is a non-value added task in the development process. Any change kicks off the whole cycle again, forcing engineers into repetitive, difficult remodeling.
Product development is changing rapidly. Engineer’s needs are changing, shifting, and evolving. There is an obligation for CAD applications to become faster, more accurate, and easier to use. SOLIDWORKS 2020 delivers a range of new tools to empower engineers.
