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.
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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Altium Designer Overview & Demonstration of ECAD/MCAD Integration
CADD Edge now represents Altium and the Altium Designer ECAD software. Find out why Altium Designer is a logical fit for Solidworks users. Getting your electronics to fit into the mechanical enclosure has traditionally been a laborious, painful, iterative process. ECAD/MCAD design data transfer has traditionally been done via unintelligent 2D formats. Altium Designer provides a robust, bi-directional link to the MCAD world using the universal STEP format, enabling real-time, multi-dimensional fit checking within the ECAD space. See how early verification of the PCB fit into the real enclosure can result in a significant reduction in the number of design iterations. These and other bottlenecks can be reduced with Altium's Unified Design approach, including Version Control and rigorous Design Data Management strategies.
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SolidWorks EPDM: Version and Revision Control Made Easy
See how SolidWorks Enterprise PDM makes version and revision control easy for SolidWorks files as well as other Windows documents. The distinction between versions and revisions is critical when a company needs to control who has the ability to decide when a file is “ready for prime time” and also for controlling who shouldn’t have access to files that are not “ready for prime time”! True and full document control is a simple thing to accomplish when you have the right tool.
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SolidWorks Assembly Management Tips and Tricks
Is your SolidWorks suffering from slow rebuild times, poor graphical performance like zooming and rotating, or drawings that take forever to update? Are you considering ordering one of those computer scanning programs advertised on late night TV? Maybe you just have large assemblies? We’ll discuss how to identify bottlenecks and improve your assembly performance. Using the newest Assembly tools like, “Large Design Review” and SpeedPak will also be discussed.
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Objet, Inc: Tips & Tricks for 3D Printing with SolidWorks
Learn best practices for rapid prototyping your designs in SolidWorks to validate and advance your end product, accelerate your design process, and get to market faster with a better more innovative design.
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Thermal Stress Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation
Do you have thermal issues in your components? Are you not sure about stresses that are being developed in your components due to thermal issues? Are you interested in calculating thermal stress, displacements and strains? Then Simulation Professional is the right program for you, where you can address both thermal and thermal stress issues. Topics covered in the webinar include running thermal Simulation using Simulation Professional, setting up thermal and thermal stress studies, and post processing of the thermal and thermal stresses.
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EPDM Tutorial: Generate a PDF File Every Time Anybody Releases a Drawing in Your Company
See how SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) and the Tasks feature can help your Company to “dot the i’s and cross the t’s” for your internal processes. While automatic PDF generation is the most common need for our customers, the Tasks can do far more than just that, including running Design Checker and Printing. And it doesn’t just create PDF files either; any file type that SolidWorks can save can be automated. The Tasks can be menu driven as well as automatically triggered by your release process – no more being bugged by other departments to “get me that file in this format.” Start using your valuable engineer’s time doing engineering and use EPDM Tasks to do the mundane things that are needed to get the job done right!
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3DVIA Paperless Assembly Procedures
Use animations to show step by assembly procedures allowing users to pause, go forward or back to any step. No need to produce assembly documentation. Aids in eliminating communication barriers in a multicultural work place. This webinar will cover: converting your process to a paperless environment; using live 3D documents; animating your procedures; the create, pause, rewind, and forward buttons; adding labels to your parts; and publishing your procedure to an interactive universal format such as HTML or Power Point.
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SolidWorks Costing
SolidWorks Costing is the newest addition to the SolidWorks Professional lineup of Add-Ins. If your vendors don’t make your parts for free and your company is not concerned with the cost of the product it designs then SolidWorks Costing is probably of no interest to you. For the rest of you, Costing is a tool that can be used by machine shops for quoting, and designers for understanding the cost of producing their parts. It also can allow you to understand how changes to your designs will affect the cost. In this session we’ll teach you how to use Costing and to customize it for your processes and methods.
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HSMWorks 3D Machining: Power, Performance, and Precision
Power: You know the power of SolidWorks, just think of the power you’ll have when you add the next generation of CAM with it. Performance: True 64-bit, multiple processors, AND multiple cores! No wonder HSMWorks is being called the next generation in CAM. Precision: All that power and performance is what allows HSMWorks to be truly innovative, intuitive in their approach toolpaths and their calculations. HSMWorks includes all of the conventional machining strategies like parallel, contour, pocket, pencil etc. familiar to most CAM users. HSMWorks takes these strategies one step further by generating smooth linking moves, resulting in reduced machining time and increased machine tool life.
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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM: Electronic Engineering Change with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM
See how SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) can help you automate your Engineering Change process. Workflow and automatic email notifications that come standard with EPDM make electronic approvals easy and provide clear visibility on “where things stand”. Save some trees and lots of time by having EPDM get your Engineering Change process off your desk and onto your computer!
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E³.WireWorks: Bridging the Gap from Cable and Harness Designs into SolidWorks with E³.WireWorks
Learn about the benefits of an integrated solution with SolidWorks. See how to layout associative electrical schematics in E³.WireWorks. Learn how you can quickly create cable diagrams and bring them into SolidWorks. We will demonstrate how to use the same data to generate wires in SolidWorks using the Routing tools. E³.WireWorks is a Windows-based, modular, scalable and easy-to-learn system for engineering design of wiring, harnesses, cable assemblies, control panels, hydraulics and pneumatics. Together with SolidWorks Premium Routing tools, E³.WireWorks is a complete solution for the design engineer from design concept through physical realization and manufacturing output.
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SolidWorks: Animations within SolidWorks
Looking to show off your product in a new light? Wanting to show your clients or prospective customer exactly how your product works? Come learn how to use the Animation side of SolidWorks to create photo realistic videos. This key frame based system offers an easy and intuitive way to take a Part/Assembly file and create walk-through videos of exactly what your product can do.
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InspectionXpert: From SolidWorks Drawing to Inspection Sheet in Minutes...Not Hours
Still creating your inspection reports by hand? Tired of drawing balloons in red pen? Sick of starting over when you make a mistake? Creating inspection reports are still a manual paper-driven process for most companies. InspectionXpert can automate this process and save you hours of work throughout the day. From generating reports from PDF files, or automatically recognizing dimensions directly from CAD drawings, InspectionXpert can help provide standard, accurate inspection reports to your inspectors.
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TactonWorks: Kill Boredom! How to automate routine design customization with TactonWorks
An intro to design automation with TactonWorks. Do your engineers spend a lot of time on repetitive tasks like customizing and reusing models and drawings? Are you struggling to use design tables, Excel or other tools to expedite this design work? There is an effective solution for design automation in SolidWorks – TactonWorks.
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Objet: Competitive Advantage through On-Premise Rapid Prototyping
Attend this webinar and hear a real-life case study and learn how your company can cut prototyping costs, accelerate design cycles and improve your competitive advantage in the market through implementation of on-premise rapid prototyping. During this complimentary webinar you’ll hear from Mike Zeigle, Manager of the Prototype Development Group at Trek Bicycle and Guadalupe Ollarzabal, Trek Bicycle Engineering Technician and 3D printer operator, as they share challenges and lessons learned, as well as respond to live questions. You'll also be invited during the event to participate in polls with your peers and express your opinion in an exit survey.
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TactonWorks: Leapfrog from 2D to 3D with Customized Products
Companies with configurable products will sometimes resist going to 3D. Their products are so similar that updating a 2D template seems simpler than modeling each new order they receive. Design Automation can help. The tedious and repetitive tasks can be done for you. Copying files, producing drawings, part lists, cut lists, travelers, and quotes taken care of automatically with TactonWorks. With those tasks out of the way you are free to innovate and create better products.
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SolidProfessor: Equip Your Team for Growth
Now more than ever, it's important for every member of your SolidWorks team to be self-sufficient and operating at a consistent, high level of proficiency. SolidProfessor provides your team with the resources it needs to succeed in today's demanding environment.
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SolidProfessor: Every Day is Game Day
For engineering teams, Every Day is Game Day, and you need your team performing at their best to achieve success... whether it be the necessity to reduce design cycle times, accelerating time to market with new products, or being on the cutting edge; creating new, innovative products. If your team isn't training to achieve your engineering goals every day, your competition is leaving you behind.
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SolidProfessor: 5 Challenges that ALL Design Teams Face
Design teams today are faced with very similar challenges, regardless of what products they make. Find out if you have the same challenges as other design teams; discover what others are doing to overcome their challenges; and learn about tools and strategies for managers that help their team succeed.
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Objet: See How 3D Printing Helped in the Medical Cure for Club Feet in Children
Dr. Mike North, host of the TV program Prototype This, and Miracle Feet, a non-profit organization providing medical treatment for kids in developing countries, used a Connex 3D Printer from Objet Geometries to build prototypes for a new corrective brace to treat children with clubfoot. Rapid prototyping with the Connex 3D Printer played a big role in developing the optimal brace design. There are currently 1 million untreated cases of clubfoot in the world -- 175,000 new cases a year -- with limited affordable solutions. You will learn about challenges of designing a brace that is universally adaptable yet low cost, hear how prototyping helped Dr. North overcome these design challenges leveraging Objet’s Connex 3D Printer and how past prototype design projects helped Dr. North determine the correct solution for the brace, as well as other advancements in prototyping.
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InspectionXpert: Faster First Article Inspection Reports from Almost Any File Format
Still creating your inspection reports by hand? Tired of drawing balloons in red pen? Sick of starting over when you make a mistake? Creating inspection reports is still a manual paper-driven process for most companies. Let us show you how InspectionXpert can automate this process and save you hours of work throughout the day. From generating reports from PDF files, or even automatically recognizing dimensions directly from almost any CAD drawing, InspectionXpert can help provide standard, accurate inspection reports to your inspectors.
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SolidWorks: Tips & Tricks
Maximize productivity, optimize your designs, and dazzle your colleagues. You name it: sketching, part modeling, assemblies, drawings, surfacing, virtual testing of designs and materials, data management, prototyping, and more. We’ll cover it all.
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3DVia Composer: Publishing 3D Documents
Learn how to increase your communication corporate wide or globally with 3Dvia Composer by publishing your documents in PDF, Word, Publisher or HTML format. 3DVia Composer allows you to have live 3D interactivity of files. You can also reduce file inaccuracy and have password access for security reasons if desired. These are just a few tools and functions available in Composer.
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E³.WireWorks: Hydraulic and Pneumatic Schematics in E³.WireWorks
Join us to see how to layout associative hydraulic schematics in E³.WireWorks. Quickly create piping and instrumentation diagrams and bring them into SolidWorks. We will demonstrate how use the same data to generate pipe routes in SolidWorks using the Routing tools. E³.WireWorks is a Windows-based, modular, scalable and easy-to-learn system for engineering design of wiring, harnesses, cable assemblies, control panels, hydraulics and pneumatics. Together with SolidWorks Premium Routing tools, E³.WireWorks is a complete solution for the design engineer from design concept through physical realization and manufacturing output.
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