INTEGRATING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING WITH SOLIDWORKS:

DESIGNING FOR MANUFACTURABILITY: PART II

CHAPTER FOUR

DESIGNING FOR MANUFACTURABILITY:

PART II

CHAPTER FOUR THE STORY SO FAR...

In the first of our series of eBooks on Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS®, we discussed the advantages offered by adopting an integrated design and manufacturing solution. In the second eBook, we discussed the advantages offered by SOLIDWORKS CAD. In the third eBook, we discussed how SOLIDWORKS solutions can enable you to determine the manufacturability of your products while you’re still in the design phase, which can save you significant time to market, and cut unnecessary costs and work out of your product development process.

This eBook will cover the following SOLIDWORKS solutions:

• SOLIDWORKS Inspection

• SOLIDWORKS Composer

• SOLIDWORKS Electrical

• Cable Routing and Tubing

• 3D printing

In this eBook, we’ll wrap up our discussion on designing for manufacturability by explaining how the following SOLIDWORKS solutions can help you design with confidence, knowing that what you are designing will be able to be manufactured correctly and cost-effectively.

For Chapters 1–3 and to learn more , click here or visit www.solidworks.com/idm-ebook

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INTEGRATING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING WITH SOLIDWORKS:

CONNECT YOUR ENTIRE TEAM AND STREAMLINE YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES

CHAPTER ONE

INTEGRATING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING WITH SOLIDWORKS:

INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE

CHAPTER TWO

INTEGRATING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING WITH SOLIDWORKS:

DESIGNING FOR MANUFACTURABILITY: PART I

CHAPTER THREE

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SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION Automated inspection documentation creation from PDF files or SOLIDWORKS drawings. SOLIDWORKS Inspection provides Automated Creation of Balloon Drawings and Reports for Quality Inspection as well as PDF files directly from SOLIDWORKS drawings.

Many industries must adhere to a bevy of strict safety regulations that require industry-standard reports, including inspection documents such as AS91003 or PPAP forms. To comply with these regulations and requirements, product designers or engineers must inspect their parts. To do so, they must create First Article Inspections (FAI), inspection reports, and ballooned drawings.

This process has traditionally been manual, time-consuming and error-prone. SOLIDWORKS Inspection removes the tedious manual efforts, reducing the chance of errors by automating the creation of inspection reports.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is FAI and in-process inspection software that automates the process of creating ballooned inspection drawings and inspection reports.

Used as a standalone application or SOLIDWORKS add-in, this easy-to-use software reduces the time needed to create inspection documentation by 90 percent, and virtually eliminates errors due to manual input of data. The software works with SOLIDWORKS drawing files, PDFs, or TIFFs. Resulting reports can be exported to Excel spreadsheets using standard templates or customized templates using the Template Editor to comply with company or industry standards.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a simple and intuitive application that can reduce the time needed to create inspection documentation by up to 90 percent, and helps to virtually eliminate input errors, thus improving quality and reducing time-to-market.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional extends capabilities by giving users multiple ways to enter measured values directly into the project to help simplify part inspection. Each characteristic value can be entered manually, by using a digital caliper, or by importing coordinate measuring machine (CMM) results.

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First Look: SOLIDWORKS Inspection

DON’T HAVE SOLIDWORKS CAD? NO PROBLEM! You can create your inspection documents regardless of your existing CAD system, using either the standalone SOLIDWORKS Inspection application or the integrated SOLIDWORKS Inspection add-in. This process has traditionally been manual, time-consuming, and error-prone.

INSPECTION DOCUMENTS MADE EASYIntuitive and easy-to-use, SOLIDWORKS Inspection enables you to create inspection reports and ballooned drawings in just minutes, for time savings of up to 90 percent.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection removes the tedious manual efforts, reducing the chance of errors as well by automating the creation of inspection reports.

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SOLIDWORKS COMPOSER For shop floor assembly instructions and user manuals. SOLIDWORKS Composer™ Technical Communication software helps deliver clear compelling graphics to end users by simplifying the creation of 2D graphical content for technical illustrations in product communication. Even non-technical users can repurpose CAD content to produce high-quality images and eliminate the need for engineering to generate screen shots, exploded views, and other technical illustrations.

Following the simple instructions in intuitive SOLIDWORKS Composer workshops, you can produce exploded views, vector and raster graphics, shaded illustrations or silhouette, wireframe, and flat renderings directly using the CAD model. The high-quality 2D outputs can then be embedded easily using any graphic layout software to create product illustrations.

Support for most 3D CAD formats

SOLIDWORKS Composer supports a wide range of 3D CAD formats, including SOLIDWORKS, CATIA®, ProENGINEER® (now Creo/Parametric), and Autodesk® Inventor®, as well as neutral file formats such as STEP and IGES. You can simply open the 3D model to create rich graphical content.

VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS Composer

High-quality graphic creation

Select the 2D output from a wide range of options including SVG, EPS, CGM, BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIF. Produce high-quality vector graphics (SVG, EPS, SVGZ, CGM), line drawings, and stunning raster graphics (JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG) directly from existing CAD files.

Optimized workflows

Visualize and present how your products look and function, instead of just talking in front of your prospects. Customize and configure

your product visualization instantly according to your prospect’s requirements. Shorten their decision-making process and quickly convince

prospects of your product’s value. Work directly from existing CAD data. Create visual assets in multiple departments through your organization, such

as Technical Publications and Marketing. Free up Engineering from having to continually generate screen shots, exploded views, and graphics. Update graphical content automatically, keeping graphics accurate and current as the design changes.

5CHAPTER 4: DESIGNING FOR MANUFACTURABILITY: PART IIIntegrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS®

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Provides a range of electrical system design functionality to meet the needs of design and manufacturing professionals.

Electrical Schematics

A powerful easy-to-use suite of collaborative schematic design tools drive rapid development of embedded electrical systems for equipment and other products. Built-in libraries of symbols, manufacturer part information, and 3D component models provide common reusable materials optimizing design reuse. Streamline and simplify an array of tedious design tasks, from PLC and terminal block to contact cross-reference assignments with our automated design and management tools.

Electrical 3DIntegrate electrical schematic design data with the SOLIDWORKS 3D model of a machine or other product, bi-directionally and in real time. SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D enables you to place electrical components and use advanced SOLIDWORKS routing technology to automatically interconnect electrical design elements within the 3D model. Determine optimal lengths for wires, cables, and harnesses, all while maintaining design and bill of materials (BOM) synchronization between electrical and mechanical designs.

SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL AND CABLE ROUTING FUNCTIONALITY For electrical schematic and cable design as well as data outputs for manufacturing.

VIDEO: Create Electric Routes

All project design data is synchronized in real time, bi-directionally between schematics and the 3D model within a collaborative environment.

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Share Electrical data with Mechanical Engineers

Share data between electrical CAD (ECAD) and mechanical CAD (MCAD) designers using the CircuitWorks™ tool in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software. CircuitWorks enables users to share, compare, update, and track electrical design data so users can more quickly resolve electrical-mechanical integration problems.

Electrical harness design and manufacturingSpecific electrical cable harness and conduit design functionality includes the ability to:

• Position all equipment and run electrical routes throughout the overall design

• Route electrical cable, harness, and conduit systems through your product, including ribbon cable

• Determine required lengths of all wires, cables, harness segments as you design

• Flatten electrical cable harness for manufacturing documentation

• Import “From-To” electrical connection information from schematic design tools

• Automatically route segments through your products to speed creation

• Generate complete bill of material (BOM) and wire cut lists for harnesses for manufacturing

• Create cable harnesses as mechanical-only or with electrical data

• Run rigid or flexible electrical conduit segments

• Include additional components, such as mounting hardware, splices, connectors, insulation, looms, heat-shrink tubing, and cable ties

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SOLIDWORKS PIPING AND TUBING FUNCTIONALITY For design of pipe and tube routes as well as data output for manufacturing. Accelerate the development process and save time by designing piping and tubing in 3D during system design with SOLIDWORKS.

By integrating piping and tubing during the design process, designers can help ensure efficient assembly, operation, and serviceability, avoiding rework, delays, and extra cost.

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CHAPTER 4: DESIGNING FOR MANUFACTURABILITY: PART II

Piping and Tubing Design

Use the wide range of tools in SOLIDWORKS Premium to simplify design and documentation of piping and tubing for a variety of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping.

With SOLIDWORKS Premium, designers can:

• Create piping system designs with butt welded, socket welded, threaded, and other connections

• Create flexible or rigid tubing lines

• Automate placement of supports and hangers for all lines

• Generate bend tables for tube routes to support manufacturing

• Calculate cut lengths for all pipe and tube runs

• Auto-route pipe/tube paths through the design that can be easily edited according to assembly and service needs

• Ensure minimum bend radii in flexible tube systems

• Output PCF files for use with ISOGEN® piping software

• Export tubing/piping bend tables to CNC benders

• Automatically generate piping/tubing manufacturing drawings from your 3D models

• Import logical connection information design from SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner products

• Automatically create bill of material (BOM), cut lists, bend tables, and other manufacturing documentation

• Access a CAD library of piping and tubing components

• Use the Routing Library Manager (RLM) wizard to guide creation of custom piping/tubing components

VIDEO: Complex Piping and Tubing Systems

What was once a non-integrated, serial workflow with disconnected processes, can now become a more efficient, integrated, and concurrent workflow allowing more team members to get their jobs started earlier and completed faster, while ultimately delivering a higher quality product.

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VIDEO: Print 3D Models

PRINT 3D MODELS DIRECTLY TO 3D PRINTERS

Made possible with SOLIDWORKS Print to 3D.

Although SOLIDWORKS can also output .STL, a widely accepted format for 3D printing, the 3MF and AMF formats provide more information about the model being printed and, therefore, requires no post-processing to define data such as the position of your model relative to the selected 3D printer, orientation, color, materials, and so on.

3MF

If you have Microsoft® Windows® 8.1, you can print directly using the 3MF format included. Simply set the print options in the 3D Print Property Manager and print to the 3D printer. A preview of the print bed and the model’s location within the print bed lets you modify settings before committing to a 3D print job.

To access the 3D print dialog box and specify print options, click File > 3DPrint. The print dialog box that is available depends on your installed 3D print driver.

AMF

You can also export part and assembly files using the Additive Manufacturing File Format (AMF), an XML-based format designed to support additive manufacturing processes like 3D printing. In addition to the model geometry, an AMF file can contain information about the color and materials of objects for 3D printing.

With SOLIDWORKS you can print directly to 3D printers, similar to how you would print a document to your office printer.

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CHAPTER 5

SOLIDWORKS CERTIFIED GOLD CAM PARTNERS

The final eBook in our SOLIDWORKS series featuring solutions from our SOLIDWORKS-certified Gold CAM partners.

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