ZCorp has just released two new 3D printers that are amazing…
- ZPrinter 150: Most affordable automated office 3D Printer.
- ZPrinter 250: Most affordable color 3D Printer.
- High Resolution: Output precise, 450 dpi 3D models and prototypes.
- Fast Print Speed: 5x-10x faster than competing printers at half the cost.
- Easy to Use: Automation simplifies printing and takes less time (40% less touch time)
- Office Friendly: Office-safe build materials, active dust-control, zero liquid waste.
- Ideal for education, architecture, and basic MCAD applications.
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I’m pleased to announce DS SolidWorks Corporation is performing a customer satisfaction survey again in 2010. The results of this survey are extremely important to us.
As always, Symmetry Solutions encourges your feedback and welcomes ways we can improve your customer experience. At any time feel free to contact us and please, before completing the survey, if there is anything you can not enter as a positive experience contact us so we may try to help you.
DS SolidWorks Corp has again commissioned NetReflector, an independent marketing firm to conduct the survey via email. For the second straight year I am able to provide a URL in case you missed the email (probably due to spam filters).
Survey URL: http://vp-nri.com/take?i=159476&h=MEf8rKEK5hUKG1a0gFkVhA
Thanks to all those who attended our Open House on May 13th. We really enjoyed seeing all of you and, of course, enjoyed showing you our new facility. We played some games and gave away some really sweet prizes to lucky and skilled winners (those that could hit a virtual baseball the farthest, correctly model the fastest in SolidWorks 2010, and toss a bean bag accurately!).
Our grand prize, an Apple iPad, was won by Ben Pagel, of Remmele Engineering, Inc. Congrats Ben!
Watch a slideshow video of photos from the event below. Thanks for coming everyone!
Rick Chin, Director of Product Innovation, is looking for customer input on his next project. Go here to complete his survey: http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2010/01/what-should-rick-chin-work-on-next.html
Dassault Systèmes (DS) SolidWorks Corp. will donate $1 for every download of its SolidWorks® SustainabilityXpress solution, up to $10,000, to Formula Hybrid™, an international competition of university engineering students to develop high-performance fuel-electric hybrid vehicles.
National Instruments and SolidWorks Collaborate on a Virtual Prototyping Solution
National Instruments has begun shipping the production release of NI SoftMotion for SolidWorks, a pioneer mechatronics tool that helps mechanical and control engineers work together to lower the cost and risk of motion system design. Seamlessly connecting NI LabVIEW graphical system design software and SolidWorks® 3D CAD software, the new virtual prototyping solution helps engineers and scientists design, optimize, validate and visualize the real-world performance of machines and motion systems before incurring the costs of physical prototypes.
NI SoftMotion for SolidWorks requires SolidWorks Motion Simulation, included with SolidWorks Premium, SolidWorks Simulation Professional and SolidWorks Simulation Premium. Additional LabView modules may also be required.
National Instruments has an extremely information website with webcasts, whitepapers, getting started guides, etc. Check it out: http://www.ni.com/digitalprototyping/
As mentioned in a previous blog posting, Rockwell Automation is collaborating with SolidWorks on a very similar solution that will integrate RA Motion Analyser software with SolidWorks Motion Simulation. This software should be available later this fall. More info can be found at http://www.ab.com/motion/software/analyzer.html and http://www.rockwellautomation.com/partners/dassault.html
SustainabilityXpress Available NOW from SolidWorks Labs
SustainabilityXpress is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool for SolidWorks 2009. When determining the environmental impact of a product, LCA looks at everything that happens in the production, use, and final disposal of the product. This even includes all the transportation that occurs between the stages. Decisions on the material used, how it is manufactured, … can result in vastly different effects on the environment. SustainabilityXpress shows you these impacts and helps you to improve your design.
SustainabilityXpress is the first fruit of a technology partnership between SolidWorks and PE International, a global expert in sustainability and materials science. The Xpress version if free and is limited to evaluating single parts. A full-fledged assembly analysis tool will be introduced along with SolidWorks 2010 later this month.
SustainabilityXpress prompts the user for information about materials used, manufacturing method, where it will be manufactured and where it will be used. Once the information has been gathered, SustainabilityXpress interrogates PE’s huge database and provides four to five pages of data on teh environmental impace of sourcing the material, processing it, shipping it, using it and then disposing it at the end of its life. Finally, the system will help you evaluate alternative materials that may have a lesser environmental impact.
SustainabilityXpress requires SolidWorks 2009. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. For more information and to download the software, please visit http://labs.solidworks.com/
Hi folks – I’m pleased to announce DS SolidWorks Corporation has sent a customer satisfaction survey again in 2009. The bonus is that this year I am able to provide a URL in case you missed the email (probably due to spam filters).
As always, Symmetry Solutions encourges your feedback and welcomes ways we can improve your customer experience. At any time feel free to contact us and please, before completing the survey, if there is anything you can not enter as a positive experience contact us so we may try to help you.
Here’s the survey URL:
http://vp-nri.com/take?i=150538&h=BW5p0Za5u8OmrsbDyaQ3kA
SolidWorks Over the Million Mark
DS SolidWorks Corporation recently sold its one millionth license of SolidWorks. Thanks to all our loyal customers over all these years (I’ve been working with SolidWorks Corp as a value-added reseller since 1995).
Read more and see a few videos of the one millionth customer and and discussion with Jon Hirshtick, a SoilidWorks founder, here 
. Moving on to two million…
While the “Everything Goes Green” bandwagon rolls, it is important to distinguish the environmental impact of specific industries. Going green is often overused these days, however what could be better for the manufacturing industry than a tool that predicts environmental impact PRIOR to production?
SolidWorks Project Sage refers to the development of a new add-on product for the SolidWorks software that will allow designers to quantify in real time the projected environmental impacts of the parts and assemblies that they create.
Here are links to various press releases, articles, etc:
http://www.tenlinks.com/NEWS/PR/solidworks/021209_sage.htm
http://www.pe-international.com/gabi/gabi-inside-tools/solidworks-sage/
http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog/?p=165
http://www.designnews.com/blog/CAD_CAM_Corner/11141-SolidWorks_Gets_Sage_About_Environmental_Impact.php
A preview of Sage will be made available through SolidWorks Labs this summer.