SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Importing Assembly Envelopes Option and PMI DATA in SOLIDWORKS Composer – #SW2019

October 18, 2018 by Greg Tutor

New to SOLIDWORKS Composer 2019 is the ability to finally choose whether or not to import assembly envelopes. In prior releases, SOLIDWORKS Composer automatically imported the assembly envelopes forcing you to hide them manually. When you open an assembly in Composer, the option to import SOLIDWORKS assembly envelopes is automatically checked. If you want to turn this off, refer to the image below. Below are examples of what the import looks like with and without the “Import SOLIDWORKS assembly envelopes” […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New –Sheet Metal Tab and Slot Enhancements – #SW2019

October 18, 2018 by Craig Maurer

Tab and Slot SOLIDWORKS 2018 welcomed a great new feature called Tab and Slots designed for Sheetmetal and Weldments users. SOLIDWORKS 2019 enhanced the feature with group linking, the use of nonlinear edges, slot corner shapes, and through all cuts. Linking Groups Like Weldments, the tab and slot feature can link user chosen groups to apply uniform parameters. If you edit the parameters, the whole group will change together. Make sure you check the box “Link Groups Together”. Nonlinear Edges […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – ISO Tolerance – Modifying Symbols – #SW2019

October 17, 2018 by Dennis Barnes

Welcome back to our SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New Blog series. Today I will be introducing an enhancement that will help significantly with the documentation of your designs by improving the communication of your drawing tolerances. When you need to manufacture high precision parts, detailed tolerances are critical to ensure that the highest degree of accuracy is achieved. Therefore, SOLIDWORKS 2019 has added the ability to place ISO Tolerance modifying symbols and other text directly onto dimensions and tolerances. Let’s look […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Configuring Routing Components – #SW2019

October 17, 2018 by Roger Ruffin

If you haven’t used Configure Component, I would have to say now is the time. Configure Component is a user-defined PropertyManager for parts and assemblies that have more than one configuration. It enables you to select the configuration of a component when you place it in an assembly. You define Configure Component PropertyManagers in the Configuration Publisher dialog box. So, you ask. What is Configuration Publisher? It is a tool that can help define and navigate you thru picking specific configurations at the assembly level or when downloading a model from 3D […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Distributed Coupling for Remote Load and Mass – #SW2019

October 16, 2018 by Ketul Patel

SOLIDWORKS regularly strives to create a more accurate representations of real world features. This year the Remote Load feature got an update that will give you more control over how the translations and rotations are applied to the geometry. The resultant forces and moments are now distributed over all the nodes on the selected face/edges/vertices equally as they are applied at the referenced location. The user interface has also gotten a face lift. Now it’s easier to see and apply […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – eDrawings Enhanced Views – #SW2019

October 16, 2018 by Greg Buter

SOLIDWORKS eDrawings is a great multi-tool for viewing and interacting with 3D models. The program was first released in 1999 and has been enhanced every year since. eDrawings is much more than just a viewer. Its functionality includes configurations, playing animations, exploded views, section views, and we can even take measurements from the model. Despite being much more than a viewer, eDrawings received some cool viewing enhancements in this 2019 release. You can now view your model more realistically with […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Undefined Color Properties in Animation Library – #SW2019

October 15, 2018 by Brandon Brooks

In previous versions of SOLIDWORKS Composer for Flash or Setcolor animations you were forced to select a predefined color for that animation. In SOLIDWORKS Composer 2019 you can now specify the color parameter of the predefined Flash and SetColor motions properties to Undefined. This parameter lets you avoid changing the color of the selected actor during this step of the animation. Note: The ability to set a predefined color is still available in this version of the Software. I hope this part of the What’s […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Patterns-Assembly – #SW2019

October 15, 2018 by Madeline Speer

Circular Component Patterns: Now, in the circular component pattern command, you can include a second direction. It is possible to use the spacing from direction one with the symmetric button, or to choose your own spacing with spacing and instances. Custom Properties in a Mirrored Assembly: You asked, SOLIDWORKS responded. Now in SOLIDWORKS 2019 you can create an opposite hand version of your part with the mirror command and bring in the custom properties from the original. The custom properties […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Performance Evaluation – #SW2019

October 13, 2018 by Nicole Kelley

SOLIDWORKS 2019 improves the use of Performance Evaluation in assemblies. Performance Evaluation is used in assembly files to analyze and suggest improvements to the performance. You can find Performance Evaluation in Tools > Evaluate > Performance Evaluation. The Performance Evaluation Report in SOLIDWORKS 2019 now allows you to click the “Open” icon to open a file in a new window from the “Details of the Open Document File” and “Graphics Triangles” sections. This offers you the ability to quickly access […]

SOLIDWORKS 2019 What’s New – Modifying Decal Mapping – #SW2019

October 13, 2018 by Will Kefauver

Now in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019, you can add decals with spherical, cylindrical, and label mapping just like you can with SOLIDWORKS decals! Label mapping maps decals onto model faces, including multiple contiguous non-planar surfaces, in a way that is analogous to placing an adhesive label on a real part, with no stretching or shrinking. Spherical mapping maps all points on a sphere. Cylindrical mapping maps all the points to a cylinder. To adjust the mapping, simply click and drag your […]