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Super Power or Buckling?
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I am sure this has happened to everyone, you are working with a tool and suddenly the tool bends. You wonder if you have suddenly gained super-powers as they show in the movies. I wish it were true, but most... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2013 at CATI Tech Notes
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Time varying load: Can SolidWorks Simulation handle this
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There are many occassions when we are asked, "Can SolidWorks Simulation handle my engineering issues?" We ran into this last week, we were given deformation in the component and had to figure out load required to produce the deformation. What... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2013 at CATI Tech Notes
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Power on : SolidWorks Flow for Electronic Components
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To optimize the thermal performance of electronic components and ensure their operation, designers and engineers need to simulate both the environment and heat loads in and around components, PCBs, and complete products. SolidWorks Flow Simulation, augmented with the Electronic Cooling... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at CATI Tech Notes
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Semi-Truck: can there be innovation?
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I have been on the road a lot lately, and the weather gods have not been favoring my ventures. Bad weather coupled with monstor semi-trucks have been causing a ton of anxiety while overtaking or just keeping up in the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at CATI Tech Notes
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SolidWorks Plastics Professional : What can it do?
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Injection molding is a complex technology with possible production problems. They can be caused either by defects in the molds, or more often by the molding process itself. I want to go over some issues that SolidWorks Plastics Professional can... Continue reading
Posted Jun 12, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Ed Honda, 40 years in Plastics engineering and more
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Ed Honda is the owner of Honda Design LLC. Ed has been involved in plastic product development with various Chicago-area manufacturers for over 40 years. He has developed a comprehensive knowleadge base of plastics related design. This comes from development... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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SolidWorks Plastics
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SolidWorks today announced a new tool called SolidWorks Plastics. SolidWorks Plastics provides tools that help manufacturers validate and optimize the design of plastic parts and injection molds. What is the big deal? Optimal process settings are critical to influencing the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Flow Simulation Webcast : April 3rd
SolidWorks Flow Simulation is fully integrated within Solidworks 3D CAD software so that every designer can get the benefits of flow simulation at any stage of product development, to design with better insight. SolidWorks Flow Simulation can quickly and easily... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Simulate a hot environment
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SolidWorks Flow Simulation is a great tool, to help us understand effects of local heat in an environment. We had an interesting project at hand, we were asked to figure out, heat generated in a small furnace. Once the cad... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Tracer Study in Flow Simulation
With the tracer study in Flow Simulation you can quickly simulate a concentration source,surface condensation or evaporation of admixture fluid (e.g. water vapor or toxic gas) in the carrier fluid (e.g air).The assumption being this admixture has little or no... Continue reading
Posted Feb 7, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Depth of Field Focal Point
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An amazing feature to generate nice crisp images that focus on a specific feature.It lets you blur portions of the scene while keeping specific components in focus, regardless of where you move them on the screen. The depth of field... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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NAFEMS Benchmarks SolidWorks Simulation
When you install SolidWorks Simulation, NAFMES benchmarks are installed by defualt. I would highly recommend everyone to go through atleast a few of them. The goal here is to see how NAFEMS quantifies Solidworks Simulation results, and if possible to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Leverage Solidworks to win business
Have your products ever been delayed because the documentation wasn't ready? Or, have you ever lost out on a bid because your presentation materials weren't compelling enough? You're not alone. Instead of waiting until a project is done to get... Continue reading
Posted Jan 19, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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SolidWorks Sustainability 2012
Solidworks has built Life Cycle Assessment tools to measure environmental impact of your 3D model. Every license of SolidWorks comes equipped with SolidWorks Sustainability, try it. click on evaluate and then pick SolidWorks Sustability. Check out this short video showcasing... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2012 at CATI Tech Notes
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Canned Beer Vs Bottled Beer : Can SolidWorks Sustainability help?
With summer at its peak, grilling and beer help most guys keep in good mood. Everytime I walk into store, to pick up beer, I have wondered what would make more sense glass or can? Shananigans would say why bother,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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One Black coffee please!
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I was asked on a very sleepy morning how does the house coffee machine work and could I simulate the thermostat which works overtime in most hourseholds. So off I went to hunt for some facts. Assuming that initially, (before... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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Solidworks Sustainability and ISO 14000 certification
ISO 14000 addresses various aspects of environmental management. The standards, ISO 14001:2004 and ISO 14004:2004 deal with environmental management systems (EMS). ISO 14004:2004 provides guidelines on the elements of an environmental management system and its implementation, and discusses principal issues... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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Fatigue Analysis of a Landing Gear using SolidWorks Simulation
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It is observed that repeated loading and unloading weakens objects over time even when the induced stresses are considerably less than the allowable stress limits. This phenomenon is known as fatigue. Each cycle of stress fluctuation weakens the object to... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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SolidWorks Simulation and Beer
With Spring in the air, I have a lot of people in my neighborhood cleaning their grills and getting ready for outdoors. There is nothing more enjoyable than throwing a few burgers, hotdogs on the grill and gulping down a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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Simulation Advisor
Simulation Advisor is a set of tools that guide you though the analysis process. By answering a series of questions, these tools collect the necessary data to help you perform your analysis. Simulation Advisor includes: Study Advisor. Recommends study types... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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SolidWorks Simulation reporting to the roof for snow duty
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Its been a busy snow shoveling season this year. With Chicago land area receiving ~22" snow everyone around had their fair share of workout. My neighbors were concerned about their roof and a couple suited up and climbed on to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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Event Based Motion Simulation
Using SolidWorks Motion Analysis users can model motion of an assembly that incorporates event-based motion control. For example, in a manufacturing procress that includes components moving along a conveyor belt, motors turn on or change according to compoonent position along... Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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The World is Non Linear
"The World is Non Linear" is the topic of my presentation at this years Solidworks World User Conference " SolidWorks World 2011". The conference is held from Jan 23 - 26 in the Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center at San... Continue reading
Posted Jan 11, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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Evolution of Simulation
I found this article on desktop engineering. It charts the importance of simulation in todays development environment. A great article emphazing how computer aided engineering is revolutionizing the industry. What better way to kick start the new year than to... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2011 at CATI Tech Notes
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SimpoeWorks for plastic injection simulation
SimpoeWorks is a great plastic injection simulation solution fully embeded into Solidworks graphic user environment. SimpoeWorks enables SolidWorks users to simulate complete manufacturing process of their plastic parts, from filling to warpage. There are four modules in SimpoeWorks SimpoeWorks FILL,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2010 at CATI Tech Notes
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