The next product up was Justin Burton’s “SolidWorkOut”. You have the ability to choose which CircuitWorks properties to use and which ones to ignore. This can reduce the amount of data input when setting up thermal studies in Flow Simulation. Link to SolidWorks Flow Simulation – SolidWorks Flow Simulation can use the above mentioned thermal properties established in CircuitWorks to runs simulations. The properties can be imported from ECAD files or manually entered. Network Rendering Animations – You can now use Network Rendering (which was introduced in SolidWorks 2013 for still images) in rendering animations.ĬircuitWorks Thermal Properties – CircuitWorks now supports Thermal Properties such as Specific Heat & Thermal Conductivity. (Wow…I was surprised it goes to that much detail!) You can also you PhotoView 360 to animate the changes in sunlight position. It allows you to enter your location, date, and time of day to get the accurate sunlight settings. Sunlight and Sunlight Animations – Sunlight is a new lighting option in the Appearances tab. This wasn’t talked about specifically, so I had to do a little web research to make sense of it.
The result is a much better (and more accurate looking) rendering of the transparency. Order Independent Transparency – This appears to be a new method of applying transparency to models so that overlapping faces in the transparency blend properly. When you add components to an assembly, the setting is retained and the BOM will continue to split based on the number of rows you set. Split Table by Row Count – In SolidWorks 2014 you will be able to split a Bill of Materials in a Drawing by row count. (Similar functionality to Ordinate Dimensions.) High Quality Shaded Views – With this setting, a shaded view in the drawing will not show and “bleed through edges” on thin surfacesĪngular Running Dimensions – Ordinate Style dimensions that can be utilized around circular parts. (For example, from Hidden Lines Removed to Shaded with Edges) All of the dimensions and annotations are preserved.Įxisting View Icons – When you access the View Pallette in Drawings, SolidWorks will display an indicator (icon) as to whether or not the view is already placed in the drawing.ĭisplay Style Context Menu – Context menus for Drawing Views now contain a dropdown menu that will allow you to change the Display Style of that particular view. Once you bring up the feature inside a Drawing, select the view or select the checkbox for all views and browse to replace the model. Replace View Model – This new feature allows you to replace the reference for a given view or views inside a Drawing. While demonstrating that a computer can indeed double as a grill, Neil was able to show off a few new features coming in SolidWorks 2014. The first product up was the “SolidGrill 3000” with its designer Neil Cooke. As usual the skit was hilarious! Three “make believe” products were “featured” on the show. This year’s skit was “Jeremy’s Designer Gift Show” which was a parody of a home shopping channel show. So…here we go!Īs in past years the new features were presented in the form of a skit.
Its an event that many look forward to and is a great way to cap off the week. Every year at SolidWorks World during the Wednesday General Session, users get a preview of what is coming in the next version of SolidWorks.