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SOLIDWORKS 2015 Installation Guide Part4 – Composer, Plastics, and Simulation Installation

SOLIDWORKS 2015 Installation Guide Part4 – Composer, Plastics, and Simulation Installation 

What do I need to know to install my Composer, Plastics, or Simulation package? First, all of these products are now installed thru the SOLIDWORKS installation manager. To download the installation manager you will need to click the SOLIDWORKS download link.

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Run the installation manager, and enter the serial number for your products.

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If you have all of your licenses set up to be renewed at the same time you may have only one SOLIDWORKS serial number for all of your assets. If this is the case, then you will only enter a serial number under the SOLIDWORKS serial number and not each individual product.

If you have separate individual seats of Composer, Plastics, or Simulation that are not tied to your SOLIDWORKS seat, then you will have a separate serial number for each product.

 

SOLIDWORKS Composer

Composer is a desktop content-creation system that enables the reuse of digital 3D data from CAD and other sources. Easy-to-use, Composer lets you create quickly assembly and disassembly procedures, technical illustrations, interactive 3D animations, training materials, marketing materials, sales tools, and more.

Composer Capabilities

Composer allows users in sales, marketing, customer service, training, support, and manufacturing to create associated 2D and 3D product deliverables directly from digital product data – without requiring CAD knowledge or CAD training.

Composer has the following capabilities:

  • Based on a lightweight, open, XML-based architecture.
  • Creates 3D interactive documents such as interactive assembly and service procedures.
  • Creates high-resolution raster images including BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIF files.
  • Produces 2D line art as SVG and CGM files with automatic hidden line and construction line removal.
  • Adds annotations, labels, dimensions, arrows, images, and cutting planes that can be used in any way and format the user wishes.
  • Controls visual consistency of content through the use of styles.
  • Imports data from many 3D CAD systems and can be maintained in the file system or in any PLM system.
  • Outputs industry-standard file formats, including PDF, HTML, AVI, and graphics formats like SVG and CGM.
  • Lets you document a product while it is incomplete by letting you update all deliverables quickly and the animation timeline. easily.
  • Uses occlusion detection to find internal, non-visible parts on a single view, all views, or
  • Uses decimation to reduce the tessellation of selected parts to reduce the size of the .smg file.

What is the Composer Player/Player Pro

Composer Player includes:

  • A standalone executable (.exe) file that does not require any installation or advanced operating system permissions.
  • An ActiveX control that must be registered during the installation (advanced operating system permissions are required for the installation only).

Note: The Composer Player ActiveX plug-in requires Internet Explorer.

With a Composer Player Pro license, you get all the capabilities of the free Composer Player and the following additional premium features:

  • The ability to save content that has been edited in the Player. (Saving content also requires the Save Right Manager right.)
  • An advanced ActiveX API that enables enhanced integration and interaction in custom applications.

Notes:

  • Composer Player and Composer Player Pro are the same executable file. A Composer Player Pro license is required to enable Pro features.

What is Composer Sync

Sync and Enterprise Sync batch convert 3D CAD files and other 3D formats into Composer formats. Sync and Enterprise Sync automatically incorporate design changes in geometry, metadata, and product structure directly into Composer content.

Both Sync and Enterprise Sync let you configure and perform conversions from the graphical user interface. Enterprise Sync also includes:

  • A command-line interface that lets you integrate with other software, such as product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. For details about the command-line interface, see the Composer Programming Guide.
  • The ability to run scheduled batch conversions.

 

Enter your composer and Composer Player Pro serial numbers.

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Choose yes to participate in the SOLIDWORKS Customer Experience Improvement Program. This will enable feedback functionality used by the CAD Admin Dashboard. (See our blog series for more information).

 

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

SOLIDWORKS Plastics is a powerful injection molding simulation tool that helps you optimize the design and manufacturability of your plastic parts and injection molds. It is fully integrated with the SOLIDWORKS application.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics simulates the injection molding manufacturing process where melted plastic material (in the form of small pellets) flows under high pressure through a heated barrel and into a mold cavity. Once the plastic material cools down, it solidifies into the shape of the mold contour and conforms to the geometry of the desired part.

Enter you SOLIDWORKS Plastics serial number. Plastics is not a standalone application, so you will need to install SOLIDWORKS as well. If your Plastics has the same serial number as SOLIDWORKS you do not need to fill in the SOLIDWORKS Plastics serial number.

 

Enter you SOLIDWORKS Plastics serial number.

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Choose yes to participate in the SOLIDWORKS Customer Experience Improvement Program. This will enable feedback functionality used by the CAD Admin Dashboard. (See our blog series for more information).

 

SOLIDWORKS Simulation

SOLIDWORKS® Simulation is a design analysis system fully integrated with SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS Simulation provides simulation solutions for linear and nonlinear static, frequency, buckling, thermal, fatigue, pressure vessel, drop test, linear and nonlinear dynamic, and optimization analyses.

Powered by fast and accurate solvers, SOLIDWORKS Simulation enables you to solve large problems intuitively while you design. SOLIDWORKS Simulation comes in two bundles: SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional and SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium to satisfy your analysis needs.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation shortens time to market by saving time and effort in searching for the optimum design.

 

Enter you SOLIDWORKS Simulation serial number. Simulation is not a standalone application, so you will need to install SOLIDWORKS as well. If your Simulation has the same serial number as SOLIDWORKS you do not need to fill in the SOLIDWORKS Simulation serial number.

 

Enter you SOLIDWORKS Simulation serial number.

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Choose yes to participate in the SOLIDWORKS Customer Experience Improvement Program. This will enable feedback functionality used by the CAD Admin Dashboard. (See our blog series for more information).

 

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

Flow Simulation is a software fully integrated in SOLIDWORKS for computing fluid (gas or liquid) flows inside and outside SOLIDWORKS models, as well as heat transfer to (from, between, in) these models due to convection, radiation, and conduction with a proved computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology. The outstanding feature of Flow Simulation is its intuitively clear and comfortable interface including preprocessor for specifying data for the calculation (with Engineering Database on substances properties), co-processor for monitoring and controlling the calculation, postprocessor for viewing the obtained results. So you have more time for studying the obtained results and varying the calculations.

Designed by engineers for engineers, Flow Simulation is widely used in many industries and for various applications, where design optimization and performance analysis are extremely important, such as valves and regulators, hydraulic and pneumatic components, heat exchangers, automotive parts, electronics and many others.

Enter you SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation serial number. Flow Simulation is not a standalone application, so you will need to install SOLIDWORKS as well. If your Flow Simulation has the same serial number as SOLIDWORKS you do not need to fill in the SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation serial number.

 

Enter your SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation serial number.

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Choose yes to participate in the SOLIDWORKS Customer Experience Improvement Program. This will enable feedback functionality used by the CAD Admin Dashboard. (See our blog series for more information).

 

We hope this series has given you an insight on how to successfully install SOLIDWORKS 2015.  Please check back to the CATI Blog as the Dedicated Support Team will continue posting new series of articles every month that go further into the details of many of the SOLIDWORKS tools. All of these articles will be stored in the category of Daily Dose…..of SOLIDWORKS Support and links to each article with their release date are listed below:

Bryan Pawlak

Sr. Support Product Specialist
Computer Aided Technology, Inc.

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