CADD Edge offers free webinars covering a wide variety of design, engineering, and manufacturing topics. The sessions cover all aspects of 3D cad software and 3D design programs from flow simulation and stress analysis to cam for cad and design automation solutions. We also feature presentations covering related topics such as 3D printing and rapid prototyping as well as product data management and product lifecycle management.
These online seminars are typically hosted by one of CADD Edge’s senior applications engineers and are often co-hosted by subject matter experts with unique engineering specializations – from electrical design to solid modeling to sustainable product design. We encourage you to sign up for one of our upcoming webinars. Meanwhile, if you have missed one you had hoped to attend or want to review one you attended, please use the links below.
Managing Engineering Data – Solved!
See how SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) makes engineering data management easy for SolidWorks files as well as for other Windows documents. True and full document control is a simple thing to accomplish when you have the right tool. Explore the benefits of automating the file management process, i.e. revision control, collaboration, sharing and finding files, and more with EPDM.
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Simulation Premium
See how to analyze your models in the nonlinear world. We’ll show you how to easily see what happens with deformations caused by overloads, changing contacts, or flexible materials. You’ll see how you can analyze a model to find out what happens after yield and evaluate what a deformed shape of a model will be. We’ll cover dynamic analysis of parts and assemblies to look at how to test for time history, harmonics, response spectrum and random vibration excitations. This webinar will also cover composite materials to understand multilayer composite material analysis.
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Make your website stand out with MBEWorks
See how you can save money get more customers by having an interactive website. Eliminate the need to have your customers call to get information or place orders. Whether it's a product line or a specific replacement part, see how to give a customer the ability to easily find what they want easily.
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Creating 2D electrical schematics with ease while automating the time-consuming documentation process
SolidWorks Electrical accelerates electrical system and automation controls design with efficient schematic design capabilities that simplify your process. Multiple users can work together to generate complex single-line or multi-line schematics and automate wiring of PLCs and terminal strips. You can easily reuse portions of existing circuits in new designs to speed development and maintain consistency. Features of SolidWorks Electrical include:
- Comprehensive integrated library of nearly 500,000 electrical parts makes part selection easy and speeds schematic creation
- Easily generate drawings, wire lists, “From-To” lists, and other documentation for manufacturing
- Fully automated generation of PLC schematic, terminal strip drawings, and support documents
- Dynamic context-sensitive user interface provides only the commands that make sense based on where you are in the design process so you can focus on design
- Copy and paste circuits to reuse designs across projects
- Direct import of existing DWG™ and DXF™ symbols with existing attributes and connections
- 4,000+ symbols for use in electrical schematics and system layouts
- Integration with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM to manage documents, generate reports, and create PDF and DWG exports (SolidWorks Enterprise PDM sold separately)
- Complete library managers for symbols, footprints, title blocks, macros, cables, and part references, including customizable ERP connectivity for standard parts
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Motion Analysis
Analyze assembly motion for any moving devices. Using Motion, you can analyze the movement and forces of any assembly motion, from simple to complex machines. You can also analyze for event-based motion, to trigger actions with motions, sensors, time, or completion of tasks, and calculate necessary results like actuator forces and joint loads. You can even analyze mechatronic operations for challenging machine movements and optimize components, paths, and forces.
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Simulation Professional
Take your testing further with Simulation Professional. Analyze for all aspects of your design with tools for calculating natural frequencies, seeing heat transfer through solids and determining thermal stresses, running drop tests on your models, and even calculating the effects of cyclic loading on your product life with fatigue analysis. We’ll also demonstrate how you can drive your designs to pass your analysis goals using powerful optimization tools.
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Work Instructions That Work
Learn how to use your existing CAD files to create animations and detailed images to aid in outlining procedures. Eliminate errors and increase production with clear precise instructions.
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Static Analysis Using Simulation
See how to test your designs for failure much earlier in the design stage. With Simulation you can analyze your designs for all types of scenarios, including pressures, forces, torques and bearing loads. You can also evaluate forces and stresses between components. We’ll also look at report generation for communicating your analysis results to others. This will show how you can minimize lab testing and prototyping on your designs just by using powerful but easy to understand analysis tools.
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Create 3D PDF-Based Shop-Floor Manufacturing Instructions with Anark Core MBEWorks
The PDF platform is widely used to deliver 2D technical documentation and shop-floor assembly and manufacturing instructions. Learn how to create 100% native, animated 3D PDF work instructions with SolidWorks and Anark Core MBEWorks.
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SolidWorks Simulation: Radiation - Radiant Energy Design
Radiation is the most abundant source of heat transfer in the universe. Because radiation can occur with or without media, it is important to always take it into account with any design featuring heating elements. This demonstration will take a look at the basics of setting up and running radiation studies for a variety of common products that feature large sources of radiation in their designs.
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Why Do Altium Users Benefit Greatly from PLM?
A Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution with a direct integration to Altium helps improve design productivity by making critical data easy to find in a central database, improve communication across your product and management teams, and ensure corporate and design compliance. Some key benefits for Altium Users include:
- Easy Component Searching
- Simplified Parts Library Sourcing
- Better Bill of Materials (BOM) Development and Management
This webinar will highlight this direct integration to Altium so you can see the benefits firsthand.
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SolidWorks Plastics: Injecting Sense into Plastic Part Design
Why wait until there is a problem with your mold to talk about your plastic part design? Be more proactive with SolidWorks Plastics! In this webinar, we'll step through the design of a typical plastic part while using SolidWorks Plastics simulation to identify and repair common problems that arise along the way.
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Change/ECO Management
Managing change is central to creating a successful product and company, it is the challenge of keeping all players in sync on the current state of the product definition. The change management challenge does not stop when the design is in volume production. Suppliers change and have different process requirements, components become obsolete (End Of Life), software is updated, manuals are updated-the changes are continuous. Managing the change process within Omnify helps manufacturers develop a simplified engineering change process and eliminate these challenges.
Features:
- Full data redlining (BOMs, Documents, Suppliers, Status, Parameters, etc.)
- Automated parallel and serial workflow processing
- Parallel/Concurrent changes for affected items
- Customizable Change/ECO classification (ECR, ECO, ECN, MCO, Deviations, etc.) and rules
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How to Upgrade to SolidWorks 2013
Learn how to plan and install SolidWorks 2013 seamlessly. You'll learn how to create, configure and deploy SolidWorks automatically for multiple users. We will also cover how to silently install or upgrade multiple users with pre-defined settings, and even how to schedule or push an installation for your end users.
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SolidWorks 2013 Technical Tour
This demonstration is an introductory look at the full SolidWorks suite of products to show how easy it is to create parts, assemblies and drawings, simulate your design, control the entire design, and create technical documentation.
You will see how to:
-quickly generate new designed parts to then assemble and generate detailed drawings
-accurately track all your revisions and workflows
-run simulation tools to test the design before costly material is cut
-generate technical documents for assembly instructions concurrently with the design avoiding delays at the end.
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SolidWorks Plastics: A Short Walk Through Short Shots
One of the most valuable functions of SolidWorks Plastics is its ability to predict and help prevent situations in which plastic flow does not completely fill the mold cavity. In this presentation, we’ll dive into this powerful tool and root out potential problems in both plastic part and mold design, making critical changes early on instead of through costly rework.
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EPDM Tutorial: Generate a PDF Every Time Someone Releases a Drawing in Your Company
Many companies use PDF files to manage released drawings in a neutral viewable format. This process can add unnecessary time to the drawing release process. Every time a drawing is released we must publish a properly named PDF, replace the existing version of the PDF in a shared location, and then notify relevant team members of the change. EPDM can easily automate that process. In this session we’ll go through the steps of adding a PDF creation process to a custom workflow in SolidWorks EPDM.
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Reduce Product Development Costs: Eliminate 2D Drawings!
The DOD has a stated goal of eliminating 2D drawings in the supply chain and will reduce product development costs by 30%. 3D Model Based Definition and drawingless engineering is frequently promised but rarely delivered. This session will show you how to use SolidWorks DimXpert, Reference Dimensions, and simple best-practices to communicate design intent to anyone, anywhere in the world, with the Free Adobe Reader. Come see why 3D PDF documents created with Anark Core MBEWorks deliver on the drawingless promise.
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Solidworks Simulation 2D Simplification
See how Solidworks Simulation can take advantage of 2D cross sections and symmetry conditions to greatly increase accuracy and decrease solution time. This demonstration will include plane stress, plane strain, and axisymmetric studies, as well as one non-linear example.
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Automating Your BOM and Engineering Change Processes
Do you have a paper engineering change process? Would some automation make your life easier for change management as well as BOM management? Come see the benefits of using the right technology for your business. See where PDM, PLM and ERP fit in the overall picture of bringing products to market.
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Reduce Product Development Costs: Eliminate 2D Drawings!
3D Model Based Definition and drawingless engineering is frequently promised but rarely delivered. The DOD has a stated goal of eliminating 2D drawings in the supply chain. This session will show how to use SolidWorks and simple best-practices to communicate design intent with 3D PDFs and the Free Adobe Reader.
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Create 3D PDF-Based Shop-Floor Manufacturing Instructions with Anark Core MBEWorks
The PDF platform is widely used to deliver 2D technical documentation and shop-floor assembly and manufacturing instructions. Learn how to create 100% native, animated 3D PDF work instructions with SolidWorks and Anark Core MBEWorks.
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Create MIL-STD-31000 Compliant Technical Data Packages with Anark Core MBEWorks
Learn how to use SolidWorks 2012 or 2013 to create a "complete product definition" that can be published to MIL-STD-31000 compliant, 3D PDF documents. This webinar will cover use of Annotation Views, 3D annotations, and other SolidWorks features to completely define the product within a single SolidWorks file, without the use of drawings or other documents.
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SolidWorks: SolidWorks 2012 Technical Tour
This demonstration is an introductory look at the full SolidWorks suite of products to show how easy it is to create parts, assemblies and drawings, simulate your design, control the entire design, and create technical documentation. You will see how to quickly generate newly designed parts to assemble and generate detailed drawings; accurately track all your revisions and workflows; run simulation tools to test the design before costly material is cut; and generate technical documents for assembly instructions concurrently with the design while avoiding delays at the end.
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SolidWorks Simulation: Will it Buckle?
Do you design parts under a compressive load? If so, take a look and see why Simulation Professional may be a good solution for you. Check and see if the design will buckle long before the yield strength is reached, how to see the maximum load it will handle before bucking, and how to show the different mode shapes of your design.
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Altium Designer: Addressing the ECAD Design Challenges of Today
With old design paradigms, missed milestones or designs that fall short of the original specification are a way of life. You’re not alone, and it’s not your fault! Incremental technology improvements to individual elements of a tool chain are what you have been taught to expect! Unless you’re using Altium Designer, you’re using a tool chain and the integration of these individual tools has been left to you, or to an expensive services proposition. Altium has challenged this concept and done away with the low expectations and finally addressed the real bottlenecks and barriers to true innovation; the tool chain itself. Today's new design paradigm is not an “integrated” solution from multiple vendors, or multiple products from a single vendor. The challenges designer face today require a solution that is unified, not integrated.
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Improve Your Business with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM
There is a lot of data involved with running any successful business - CAD files, proposals, industry regulations/requirements, etc. See how SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) can make file and Product Data Management (PDM) easy for your company. Attend our webinar for an overview of how EPDM has helped other companies improve their business through the implementation of an Intelligent Vault.
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Dude! Where's My File?
If you have ever lost a critical piece of data, you understand the need for a secure data management system. The problem is, some data management systems are better and easier to use than others. Sign up for this webinar to see how easy data management can be with SolidWorks Enterprise Product Data Management (EPDM), and never lose a file again!
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Create Stunning Images for Owner’s Manuals with 3DVIA Composer
For anyone who ships documentation with their product, learn how 3DVia Composer can help get this started early on in the design cycle. Create as many ballooned and exploded views as you need without waiting on the design team to finish, and provide the images. This webinar will show how to read in CAD data, create various views of the product, and then transfer the views into the manuals. Finally it will show how to quickly adapt to last minute design changes.
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Showcasing your Product Design with PhotoView360 from SolidWorks
Do you have a need for creating high quality marketing or documentation images? Take a quick look at Photoview 360 and some of the fundamental techniques used to make images that will stand out and accentuate your product design.
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The Essentials of Product Data Management in 22 Minutes
Learn how companies just like yours are saving hours of design time every week using better data management tools. We will review common pitfalls of existing data management solutions, and the advantages of SolidWorks EPDM.
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Why Windows Makes a Poor PDM System in 22 Minutes
Everybody does PDM. Often it is managed poorly with Windows. We will review common pitfalls of using Windows as a product data management tool, and the advantages of SolidWorks EPDM.
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InspectionXpert: Fast, Accurate Inspection Plans in Minutes!
Join us to see how to quickly create inspection reports and ballooned drawings from SolidWorks or PDF/TIFF for AS9102, PPAP, first article, and in-process inspections.
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Increase Productivity with TactonWorks
See how TactonWorks Design Automation Software can generate engineered to order parts, assemblies and drawings faster than ever before. In this seminar we’ll show you how Tacton’s intuitive interface and powerful configuration engine harness engineering rules to automatically and accurately configure an entire product in seconds, reducing error, lead times, and CAD time.
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Drop Test Using SolidWorks Simulation
Do you want to do a drop test on parts and assemblies and find out the stresses and displacements? If so, join this webinar to see why Simulation Professional is the right package for you. This session will cover drop tests on laptops and cameras, stresses and displacements analysis, and time history plots.
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