CHAPTER TWO INTEGRATING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING WITH SOLIDWORKS: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER 1: RECAP INTEGRATING In the first of our series of eBooks on Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS®, we discussed the advantages offered by adopting an integrated WITH 3D CAD design and manufacturing solution, which can help companies make the transition from design to manufacturing a seamless one, with fewer errors due to translation problems and with less miscommunication between teams due to use of tools that SOFTWARE don’t speak a common language—all of which will translate to boosted productivity, reduced costs, and higher-quality products. In this eBook you’ll learn how SOLIDWORKS CAD can help you bridge the gaps created in the non-integrated approach to design and manufacturing. Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS® CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE 2 SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD capabilities include: For all your modeling needs whether large or • 3D Solid Modeling turn ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models quickly and easily small, simple or complex. • Conceptual Design begin 3D designs quickly using imported images, simple sketches, or scanned 3D data, and then add more details as the design evolves Effective product design involves a wide range of tasks that demand flexibility in • Assembly Structure Planning: SOLIDWORKS Treehouse quickly lay out your your software. 3D solid modeling offers several advantages over traditional 2D design assembly structure and then export to SOLIDWORKS to automatically design, but you want 3D CAD tools that you can use every day while being powerful create your CAD files enough to handle all the aspects of your design process. • Direct Model Editing manipulate and modify 3D geometry working directly on With SOLIDWORKS, you get an intuitive 3D CAD system that combines ease-of-use the 3D CAD model with powerful modeling capabilities that can handle your most complex design • Configurations automatically create variations of parts or assemblies with projects. SOLIDWORKS accelerates your design, saving time and development costs, spreadsheet-like part and assembly configuration tools and making you more productive. • Large Assembly Design performance tools to handle even your biggest and most complex products and systems • Advanced Surface Design generate complex organic shapes, including curve continuous (C2) surfaces • Sheet Metal Design create sheet metal parts that can be easily manufactured No re-assembly required. Even the most complex design made simple. • Weldments quickly develop structural supports, frames, brackets, and bases • Plastic Part Design create plastic parts that can be easily molded • CAD Productivity Tools special capabilities that help you work faster • Reverse Engineering work from 3D scan data generated from existing designs to speed new product creations • Mold Design generate molds and tooling to produce plastic, cast, and forged parts • Piping and Tubing Design complete your design by adding hydraulic, pneumatic, and other systems • Electrical Cable Harness and Conduit Design include necessary control, power, and other electrical systems in your design VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS® CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE 3 SOLIDWORKS 2D DRAWING FUNCTIONALITY SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD capabilities include: For fast and easy creation of production-ready • Automatic Drawing View Creation and Update–drag and drop the 3D model manufacturing drawings. onto a drawing for automatic generation of drawing views with automatic update of changes to the 3D model Quickly create production-ready 2D drawings that are always current, and • CAD Dimensioning, Tolerancing and Annotations–SOLIDWORKS includes clearly communicate how your design should be manufactured and assembled. standard ANSI, ISO, GD&T, and other dimensioning methods SOLIDWORKS associativity links a 2D drawing directly with a 3D solid model, • Bill of Materials (BOM)–automatically generate parts lists and cut lists to so updates to the 3D model can be automatically reflected in the 2D drawing. track material needs SOLIDWORKS accelerates your design process, saving time and development costs • CAD Standards Checking (Design Checker)–compare your drawings to while increasing productivity. company standards to ensure consistency using the SOLIDWORKS Design With traditional 2D CAD, drawings are often out-of-date and/or drawing views do Checker tool not accurately reflect the design, leading to expensive manufacturing errors that • Revision Control–control drawing revisions and graphically compare drawings slow down product delivery. Without an automated update system, all drawing to identify differences views must be updated manually whenever a design change occurs. This becomes an even bigger problem when a component or assembly exists in many different • Automated Creation of Radial/Cylindrical Exploded Views–significantly assemblies or at many different levels of the same assembly, because it requires that speed up the creation of exploded views for designs that have fasteners and all the drawing views containing the modified components be updated. components positioned radially/cylindrically around an axis • In-Process Drawings–use SOLIDWORKS configurations functionality to quickly create model and drawings of machining and assembly processes at various stages in the manufacturing process Discover innovative drawing generation methods in SOLIDWORKS VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS Drawings Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS® CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE 4 SOLIDWORKS MBD Take a look at the powerful capabilities of SOLIDWORKS MBD For the support of drawingless manufacturing VIDEO: SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model-Based Definition) per MIL-STD-31000A. SOLIDWORKS MBD is an integrated drawingless manufacturing solution for SOLIDWORKS. It helps companies define, organize, and publish 3D Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) including 3D model data in industry-standard file formats, such as 3D PDF and eDrawings. Unlike traditional 2D drawings, SOLIDWORKS MBD guides the manufacturing process directly in 3D, which helps streamline production, cut cycle time, reduce errors, and support industry standards such as Military-Standard-31000A, ASME Y14.41, ISO 16792, and DIN ISO 16792. Create dimensions, tolerances, and other PMI directly in 3D SOLIDWORKS MBD defines PMI directly in 3D, saving significant time, reducing redundancy and clarifying design intent versus having to create a separate 2D drawing. Since the fully defined 3D model is available for measurement if needed, many companies only dimension features of their designs that fall outside the general tolerance settings, drastically reducing the amount of time spent detailing. In addition, dimensioning and tolerancing improves design clarity since 3D models are easier to understand and appropriate faces and edges on the model highlight when their associated dimensions, tolerances and annotations are selected. 3D PMI also helps speed up communication, cut quoting time, and reduce errors, thanks to its 3D data interrogation, interactivity, and rich meta properties. SOLIDWORKS MBD helped shape the development of the RipTide – the world’s fastest tank – produced by Howe and Howe Technologies, Inc. SOLIDWORKS MBD INTERACTIVE 3D PDF ® Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE 5 00015538-001 13478.78 COUPLING ASSEMBLY A.7 IPN1 Part Number Weight (g) Description Revision PDF Issued By Notes: ALL DIMENSIONS IN MM EXCEPT AS NOTED. DIMENSIONS NOT SHOWN SHALL BE TAKEN FROM THE 3D SOLID MODEL. UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING PER ISO 16792 TOLERANCES 0.00 TO 3.00 ±0.08 3.00 TO 6.00 ±0.10 6.00 TO 18.00 ±0.13 18.00 TO 30.00 ±0.15 FEATURES WITH NO GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE SHALL HAVE A PROFILE TOLERANCE OF ±0.15mm APPLIED. Supplier Comments: Clean and structured 3D presentation Beyond 3D PMI Definition, SOLIDWORKS MBD helps organize rich data into clean and structured 3D presentations with different views and display settings. It can even intelligently show and hide 3D annotations while you rotate the model to give you extra clarity while respecting all the critical-to-function annotations. Messy display? Tedious navigation? Missing annotations? Problems solved. Customize 3D output templates Serve multiple deliverables and departments by customizing the 3D Output Templates. You can build the layout, insert company or group logo, position the 3D View Port and thumbnails, edit the text descriptions, embed meta property links, and add tables. SOLIDWORKS MBD covers them all. Once they are set up, these templates will serve as internal and external process guidelines for all departments, such as Manufacturing, Operations, QA, and Procurement on multiple deliverables, such as engineering drawings, Request for Quote (RFQ), inspection reports, and work instructions. In addition, SOLIDWORKS MBD delivers a comprehensive set of predefined templates to use out of the box. Integrating Design and Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS® CHAPTER 2: INTEGRATING WITH 3D CAD SOFTWARE 8 Easy 3D output and distribution SOLIDWORKS MBD publishes widely accepted file formats, such as eDrawings and 3D PDF, according to the predefined or customized templates. eDrawings files can be opened in a free eDrawings Viewer and 3D PDF can be viewed in a free Adobe Reader, which is installed on 93% of Internet-connected machines.