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innovate3D learning sessions are unique tele-learning opportunities designed for Engineers and or Manufacturing users of various experience levels. CATI’s team of engineering and manufacturing experts have put together a series of thirty to ninety minute presentations in the form of convenient webcasts. The innovate3D webcasts are conducted via Webex and consist of live hands-on training, presentations and product demonstrations to help our clients expand their knowledge base.
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- Cullen Williams
- March 31, 2020 • 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT
The Facts and Fiction of 3D Scanning for Reverse Engineering
Join us for a half hour exploration of different reverse engineering workflows and techniques to allow for precise design of the most challenging parts. See how we can use 3D scanning technology’s unique ability to capture real world surfaces and translate them (with a bit of elbow grease of course) to a CAD file format. We’ll look at our most powerful software functions at our disposal and when it makes the most sense to use them vs shelving the big guns in favor of saving time via “quick and dirty” methods. Not only reserved for the most difficult parts though, see how these tools can greatly speed up your process on parts of all levels of design complexity. If you’re currently doing or considering any sort of reverse engineering in house, you’ll want to catch this presentation.
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- Brandon Nelms
- April 1, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Coping with Non-SOLIDWORKS Users’ Data
Do you rely on CAD data from other users who refuse to acknowledge the awesomeness that is SOLIDWORKS?!? If you deal with “other” CAD data, this session will walk you through strategies that help you rocket forward with your design without being slowed down by their CAD choice.
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- Tim Crennen
- April 2, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Additive Manufacturing – Trust but Verify
Bad design or bad print job? Why your AM part isn’t working right. We will demonstrate how to incorporate 3D scanning into your AM workflow to measure anything from point distances to advanced data alignment. Come learn about the power of the marriage of 3D scanning & direct digital manufacturing.
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- Bryan Pawlak
- April 2, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Understand What SOLIDWORKS is Saying
The “Understand What SOLIDWORKS is Saying” webcast will engage with audience members to help them understand both common and uncommon messages that may appear. We will explore the causes and more importantly, the solutions, to a variety of everyday occurances.
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- Heather J. Dawe-Rose
- April 7, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Take Control of your SolidNetwork License Manager with an Options File
If we streamline the processes by which we use SOLIDWORKS, We can optimize the time we have to create and design. This session will dive into the different ways to control your SOLIDWORKS licenses using an Options File.
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- Nathan C. Fears
- April 8, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Scanning the Horizon for New Innovations in Flight
Exploring the case study of Bell Flight, creator of the first aircraft to break the sound barrier and now a leader in the vertical flight industry, and the advantages that Creaform 3D scanners give them compared to previous technologies. This is followed by a walkthrough of the Creaform scanning product line and other possible use cases in a multitude of production fields.
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- Judy M. Marlo
- April 8, 2020 • 11 am - 12 pm CDT
Mastering File Translations into SOLIDWORKS
Educating users how to translate non-native CAD files into SOLIDWORKS easily and correctly.
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- Kurt A. Kurtin
- April 9, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
SOLIDWORKS Validation Tools – I Didn’t Know We Could Do That!
Are you using the SOLIDWORKS simulation tools in the most efficient way? Catch up with the new functionality in Simulation, Flow and Plastics that was introduced in the last several years to make sure you are using all the power of these products to maximize your analysis efficiency.
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- Laura Nickerson
- April 9, 2020 • 11 am - 12 pm CDT
Start to Part, A Design to Manufacturing Experience
Using SOLIDWORKS products, the AEs conceptualized, designed, simulated and fabricated a wireless cellphone charging stand with headset support. This session presents their complete design experience, all the successes, all the mistakes, in a light-hearted, informative presentation.
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- Danny J. Levy
- April 14, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Texture and Displacement Mapping for 3D Printing
Do you have a 3D printer with color capabilities, but don’t know how to create colorful designs? In this Webinar, attendees will enhance their aptitude in the application of translating color and physical texture onto a 3D model.
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- Brandon Nelms
- April 14, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Evaluate: It’s the Whole Reason we Assemble!
Evaluation is the power of the SOLIDWORKS engine. Anytime we need to assemble components we need to ask WHY?! Why are we doing what we’re doing? The answer is likely to gain some insight into our design and the evaluation tools provide vast resources get a deep understanding of our assemblies.
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- Simonas Indrele
- April 15, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Taking Full Advantage of Photo-Realistic Color with 3D Printing
An overview of how 3D texture mapping and displacement mapping workflows are used to generate life-like color 3D prints on the Stratasys J series of printers.
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- Derek M. Lawson
- April 15, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Exploring SOLIDWORKS Design Automation
This webcast will explore 'out-of-the-box' functionality in SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to help users automate portions of their design process without using API. Topics covered will be Pack and Go, Copy Tree, Treehouse, Equations, DriveWorks Xpress, and more.
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- Bob McGaughey
- April 16, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Achieving Extreme SOLIDWORKS Performance: System and Hardware
This webcast is a continuation of the extensive performance testing that CATI has performed for the last several years. This presentation will look at some of the newest workstation hardware as well as some of the latest software improvements to help you select the best workstation for your needs.
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- Lindsay A. Early
- April 21, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Use Dispatch to Create More Versatile Serial Numbers
We will use SOLIDWORKS PDM Dispatch to create counters that can be used in place of SOLIDWORKS PDM serial numbers. This will give us more flexibility than a standard serial number and allow us to make new ones on the fly without administrator privileges.
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- Collin Manchester
- April 22, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
In-Field Reverse Engineering and Inspection
When time is of the essence you can use Creaform 3D Scanners to quickly and accurately Reverse Engineer critical Parts and Inspect their accuracy before implementation.
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- Cami L. Florence
- April 22, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Weldments - A Beginner's Guide to Weldments (and more)
An overall view of 2D/3D Sketching, Weldment Profiles (Standard, Custom and Configs), Understanding Cut Lists; Designing Assemblies at a Part Level, Using Traditional Weldments (Structural Steel) and Non-Traditional Weldments (Wood) to Design
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- Mike King
- April 23, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
We Have a Dashboard for That! Visualizing Your Data in SOLIDWORKS Manage
SOLIDWORKS Manage can free us from Monday morning reports and information silos. See how SOLIDWORKS Manage changes the game with customizable dashboards. IF WE free our data from the confines of spreadsheets and disconnected paperwork, we can lead our teams to new success!
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- Chaz T. Stipkovic
- April 28, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
SolidWorks 2D to 3D conversion
In this webcast, we will be looking at using various SolidWorks tools to convert legacy drawings for use in parts, assemblies and drawings.
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- Ryan P. Dally
- April 29, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Data Management Best Practices - Workflows and Processes
This webcast will examine how companies can leverage SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS Manage to monitor and gain control over complex business processes. We will compare both tools and step through adding project and process management to a PDM environment.
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- Justin Maxwell
- April 29, 2020 • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT
Straight From Support: Exports, Work from Home, Mirroring Parts
In this webcast were going to review some of our top questions pulled straight from the support que. This month’s topics include: How can I adjust my export settings in SOLIDWORKS? How can I use SOLIDWORKS at home? How can I get an opposite hand version part?
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- Dan Sok
- April 30, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Taking SOLIDWORKS CAM Probing to the Next Level
We will explain probing and cover the basic macros. By showing how probing works and understanding the data it stores in the machine tool, we can begin incorporating statements into our code. We will cover examples of routines and macros that, when used with probing, enables lights-out machining.
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- Nathan C. Fears
- April 30, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Overview of Stratasys
Come see what products Stratasys has to offer and what's new in the 3D printing industry.
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- Cullen Williams
- May 5, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
CREAFORM - No Shortcuts for Doing Things the Right Way
Scott Sports and Creaform - Achieving the next level in skiing safety with 3D Scanning
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- Don E. Glaske
- May 5, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Smart Manufacturing Ecosystem for Industry 4.0
Attendees will witness many benefits of the seamless SOLIDWORKS integration for “Smart Manufacturing” by combining SOLIDWORKS MBD, SOLIDWORKS CAM, SOLIDWORKS Inspection Pro and ShopFloor in order to be ready for the Industry 4.0 revolution while in the SOLIDWORKS Ecosystem.
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- Lucas Gierach
- May 6, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Best Practices for building PDM Templates
Highlight best practices with SOLIDWORKS PDM templates to improve efficiency and productivity in the workplace. Join us for an in-depth look at setting up a new template including: how to properly set up template variables, link variables to folders, SOLIDWORKS files, and Microsoft Office documents.
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- Kelsey Gabel
- May 7, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Advances in 3D Printing Opening New Opportunities in Training and in the Field
More than an effective prototyping tool, Stratasys printers make cost-effective in-field maintenance a reality and usher in unprecedented realism to training
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- Tyler Harmon
- May 7, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
5 Things You Should Be Doing To Prepare For Your PDM Upgrade (And 3 You Should Avoid)
IF WE provide everyone with the tools to be successful with SOLIDWORKS PDM upgrades, we can help to reduce downtime and data loss and keep companies working productively.
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- Bill A. Reuss
- May 12, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Topology Studies - Solving Big Problems One Step at a Time
Topology Studies allow us to explore designs focusing on functional requirements. Topology Study is a great method to generate the best possible shape of a product without letting traditional design constraints get in the way of unique, fully functional product.
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- Jeremy Marvin
- May 13, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Digital Anatomy Printing: The Future of Medical Applications
Introducing Stratasys’s new Digital Anatomy Printer. In this presentation, we’ll talk about the advancement of additive manufacturing in the medical sector and look at how some of our larger customers are utilizing DAP
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- Dan Wagner
- May 13, 2020 • 11:00 am -12:30 pm CDT
Creating Technical Documentation With SOLIDWORKS Composer
This will be an in-depth overview of creating technical documentation using SOLIDWORKS Composer. If we can start technical documentation earlier in the product life cycle, we can get our products to market faster.
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- Greg Buter
- May 14, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Getting Started with SOLIDWORKS Mold Tools
Join CATI for a quick introduction into the mold tool design features found in all versions of SOLIDWORKS. Focusing on plastic injection molded product tooling. It's critical that your plastic parts can be manufactured. Injection molding is one of the most common methods. This manufacturing process often requires complex mold tooling to be designed and machined. Your part design will need to meet critical geometry requirements in order to be moldable. Holes in your part will require shut-off surfaces. Undercut geometry will require side cores and lifters. Core pins can help preserve tooling. Tooling interlock can maintain alignment and ensure part consistency.
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- Bryan Pawlak
- May 14, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Achieving Extreme SOLIDWORKS Performance: Modeling
We will cover a case study of modeling part and assembly techniques went wrong. Using SOLIDWORKS tools available, we will help you see where issues are and how to correct them. With production files, we will show what went wrong and how it was resolved to allowing for performance increases.
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- Cullen Williams
- May 19, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Accelerating Automotive Quality Control with Creaform
Utilizing Creaform equipment with both high accuracy and portability gives big automotive players like Koenigsegg the ability to perform critical inspections of both parts and equipment, all while operating in the real-world conditions of a live shop environment.
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- Jeff Sweeney
- May 19, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
Getting data out of PDM with searches and reports.
If we spend time entering meta in data into PDM, we would like to know some of the many opportunities that are available to leverage this data. This session will cover tips and tricks for using the search tool, show the basics of PDM’s Report Generator, and show why you should index your vault.
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- Simonas Indrele
- May 20, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Driving Automotive Innovation with Stratasys
Using 3D Printing in all phases of the production cycle focused on the Automotive Industry
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- Joshua Altergott
- May 26, 2020 • 11 am -12 pm CDT
How To Build And Maintain Effective SOLIDWORKS Design Tables
An updated version of our presentation from previous SOLIDWORKS Worlds that will cover all aspects of Design Tables from the optimal setup of parts and assemblies in SOLIDWORKS to how to utilize the tools in SOLIDWORKS and Excel to help automate the design process of creating configurations.
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- Tim Crennen
- May 27, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
MetraScan vs Handyscan: Realistic Setup and use
How hard is it to use the Creaform Scanners? We will go over the full setup, calibration and running of the MetraScan and HandyScan. Learn all the details about how to get setup and running and why one scanner might be better than the other.
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- Laura Nickerson
- May 27, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Master Modeling Techniques for Plastic Part Design
When designing form-driven products, we may want to initially design a single, Master part. From the Master Model, we separate out the individual components. The beauty of this technique is any changes made to the Master will propagate to the child components, speeding up our design process.
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- Dan Wagner
- May 28, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CDT
Technical Support Cases That Everyone Should Know About
A 90-minute look from a renowned SOLIDWORKS Reseller into some of the most interesting technical support cases in 2019. If we share more of this critical technical information, the entire SOLIDWORKS community can evolve more quickly.
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- Justin Maxwell
- May 28, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Concept to Manufacturing: From Multibody to Assembly
Walk through a common engineering design workflow. Starting with shapes and objects created from basic SOLIDWORKS commands, transition into a Multi-body design, and eventually creating a full working assembly; without losing any work along the way.
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- Mark Talbott
- June 2, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Capitalizing on your Investment: Implementing SOLIDWORKS Electrical
IF the path and tools to automate electrical project documentation is made clear, WE can guide a community toward improved standardization and schematic utility while saving time and effort.
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- Tim Crennen
- June 3, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
100% Customization for Each Patient’s Needs
With the power of fast, non-invasive 3D Scanning you can now collect highly accurate patient data for the creation of uniquely customized Orthotics, Prosthetics, Mobile Assistance, and much more.
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- Heather J. Dawe-Rose
- June 3, 2020 • 11 am - 12 pm CDT
So Easy a 4th Grader Can Do It! Using X-Design for Elementary-aged Students
IF WE can inspire the engineers of tomorrow THEY can design the future. This session will discuss a week-long curriculum using the SOLIDWORKS xDesign App designed for 4th and 5th-grade students.
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- Justin Webster
- June 4, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CDT
Setup SQL Replication in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional
Best practices and setup review for SQL database replication in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. We will review the process for setting up prerequisites, setting up the replication, calculating return on investment. We will include lessons learned from an actual deployment of SQL Replication.
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- Rachael M. Buhl
- June 9, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Streamline Your Custom Properties Input with the Custom Properties Tab
Discover a faster way to input custom properties right in the Task Pane. Customize your Custom Properties Tab to include pulldowns, radio buttons, checkmarks, and lots of other user friendly methods to populate your custom properties.
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- Simonas Indrele
- June 10, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Stratasys Prototypes that Promote
Creating Marketing samples that convey realism and functionality.
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- Ronnie Flaugh
- June 10, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Make the SOLIDWORKS CAM Technology Database Work 4 You
Learn how to change and customize settings inside the TechDB based on your current processes and standards. Machine Setup, Tool Crib Setup, Copying and Creating Tools, Default Features Strategies, Default Operation Parameters, Map Mill Features, Creating and Saving Operations and Saving Defaults.
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- Don E. Glaske
- June 11, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Essentials of DraftSight - DraftSight for the AutoCAD User
Attendees will witness many benefits and the low learning curve when transitioning from AutoCAD to DraftSight. Will be shown the overwhelming amount of similarities between AutoCAD and DraftSight. Understand which version of DraftSight would best suit their needs and where to access DraftSight 2019.
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- Craig S. Maurer
- June 11, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
SOLIDWORKS Drawing automation and setup utilizing parametric best practices
Join CATI for an encore presentation from SOLIDWORKS World. Making drawings can be a tedious process, so why not make it faster by linking data you’ve already created. Attendees will learn how to leverage properties in their Part files, see why templates are important, and how to link custom properties from one file to another, specifically Assemblies and Drawings. For additional automation, utilization of the Property Tab builder will also be explored.
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- Mark Talbott
- June 16, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
PCB Design and the Mechanical Conundrum
If we create a bridge of communication between board layout and mechanical assembly, we can inspire a new generation of optimized products.
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- Peer Larson
- June 17, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Dynamic Card-Based Notifications for ECO Processes
IF WE leverage an undocumented tool, WE can have our cake and eat it too. For years we thought we could not have smart notifications in ECO processes without complex workflows/expensive add-ins. Our archaeologists worked tirelessly to unearth a capability that has lain dormant for years, until now.
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- Robert Warren
- June 18, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Understanding and Utilizing The Best Mesh For Your Simulation Study
SOLIDS, SHELLS, and BEAMS. The three core mesh types in SOLIDWORKS Simulation. If you want to learn what these three mesh types are. Understand how to best use them for different types of geometry. Attend this break out session and we will explore what makes an Accurate, Efficient mesh.
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- Cullen Williams
- June 19, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Enabling Applications within Aerospace Manufacturing with Stratasys 3D Printing
The fields of aerospace, aeronautics and aviation have had a longstanding reputation of holding stringent requirements for manufacturability. In these types of engineering environments, the need for constant incremental improvements of systems and components have a close relationship with the processes used for fabricating them. Throughout the past decade, additive manufacturing technologies, have proved their worthiness within aerospace engineering – favoring low volume high mix scenarios with little added cost in relation to complex geometries. Join us to review the trends within the aerospace industry as well as hardware, software, and material solutions which are enabling time and cost saving applications.
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- Brandon Nelms
- June 23, 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Turn SOLIDWORKS into Your Kinematic Whiteboard!
Moving linkages are a staple of Mechanical Design and often seem to start on a whiteboard(or napkin). But whiteboards don’t move! IF we learn to leverage SOLIDWORKS Kinematic 2D sketching WE can accelerate our design concepts, gain useful insight, and turn our whiteboard into a 3D design in no time!
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- Kelsey Gabel
- June 24, 2020 • 1 pm - 2 pm CDT
Set your 3D Printer up for Success with GrabCAD Print!
Learn the ins and outs of GrabCAD Print. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, this presentation will cover the basics and some of the newly released features. Come see what differentiates Stratasys from the competition.
Are you looking for a past Design Innovation Month webcast? You can find previous recordings over on our YouTube channel.
| Date & Time | Presenter | Description |
| Tuesday, March 31, 2020 1pm – 1:30pm CST | Cullen Williams | The Facts and Fiction of 3D Scanning for Reverse Engineering Join us for a half hour exploration of different reverse engineering workflows and techniques to allow for precise design of the most challenging parts. See how we can use 3D scanning technology’s unique ability to capture real world surfaces and translate them (with a bit of elbow grease of course) to a CAD file format. We’ll look at our most powerful software functions at our disposal and when it makes the most sense to use them vs shelving the big guns in favor of saving time via “quick and dirty” methods. Not only reserved for the most difficult parts though, see how these tools can greatly speed up your process on parts of all levels of design complexity. If you’re currently doing or considering any sort of reverse engineering in house, you’ll want to catch this presentation. |
| Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Brandon Nelms | Coping with Non-SOLIDWORKS Users’ Data Do you rely on CAD data from other users who refuse to acknowledge the awesomeness that is SOLIDWORKS?!? If you deal with “other” CAD data, this session will walk you through strategies that help you rocket forward with your design without being slowed down by their CAD choice. |
| Thursday, April 2, 2020 1pm – 1:30pm CST | Tim Crennen | Additive Manufacturing – Trust but Verify Bad design or bad print job? Why your AM part isn’t working right. We will demonstrate how to incorporate 3D scanning into your AM workflow to measure anything from point distances to advanced data alignment. Come learn about the power of the marriage of 3D scanning & direct digital manufacturing. |
| Thursday, April 2, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Bryan Pawlak & Derek Lawson | Understand What SOLIDWORKS is Saying The “Understand What SOLIDWORKS is Saying” webcast will engage with audience members to help them understand both common and uncommon messages that may appear. We will explore the causes and more importantly, the solutions, to a variety of everyday occurances. |
| Tuesday, April 7, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Mark Abshire | Design for 3D printing – Tips, Tricks & Techniques Beginners and intermediate users – come learn tips, tricks and techniques that will allow you to get the best use out of your 3D printer. Focusing on the Do’s & Don’ts, design considerations and advanced builds Mark Abshire shares his 30+ years’ experience in 3D Printing. |
| Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Heather Dawe-Rose | So Easy a 4th Grader Can Do It! Using X-Design for Elementary-aged Students IF WE can inspire the engineers of tomorrow THEY can design the future. This session will discuss a week-long curriculum using the SOLIDWORKS xDesign App designed for 4th and 5th-grade students. |
| Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Nathan Fears | Scanning the Horizon for New Innovations in Flight Exploring the case study of Bell Flight, creator of the first aircraft to break the sound barrier and now a leader in the vertical flight industry, and the advantages that Creaform 3D scanners give them compared to previous technologies. This is followed by a walkthrough of the Creaform scanning product line and other possible use cases in a multitude of production fields. |
| Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Judy Marlo | Mastering File Translations into SOLIDWORKS Educating users how to translate non-native CAD files into SOLIDWORKS easily and correctly. |
| Thursday, April 9, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Laura Nickerson & Drew Buchanan | Start to Part, A Design to Manufacturing Experience Using SOLIDWORKS products, the AEs conceptualized, designed, simulated and fabricated a wireless cellphone charging stand with headset support. This session presents their complete design experience, all the successes, all the mistakes, in a light-hearted, informative presentation. |
| Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Danny Levy | Texture and Displacement Mapping for 3D Printing Do you have a 3D printer with color capabilities, but don’t know how to create colorful designs? In this Webinar, attendees will enhance their aptitude in the application of translating color and physical texture onto a 3D model |
| Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Brandon Nelms & Will Kefauver | Evaluate: It’s the Whole Reason we Assemble! Evaluation is the power of the SOLIDWORKS engine. Anytime we need to assemble components we need to ask WHY?! Why are we doing what we’re doing? The answer is likely to gain some insight into our design and the evaluation tools provide vast resources get a deep understanding of our assemblies. |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Simon Indrele | Taking Full Advantage of Photo-Realistic Color with 3D Printing An overview of how 3D texture mapping and displacement mapping workflows are used to generate life-like color 3D prints on the Stratasys J series of printers. |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Derek Lawson | Exploring SOLIDWORKS Design Automation This webcast will explore “out-of-the-box” functionality in SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to help users automate portions of their design process without using API. Topics covered will be Pack and Go, Copy Tree, Treehouse, Equations, DriveWorks Xpress, and more. |
| Thursday, April 16, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Bob McGaughey & Bryan Pawlak | Achieving Extreme SOLIDWORKS Performance: System and Hardware This webcast is a continuation of the extensive performance testing that CATI has performed for the last several years. This presentation will look at some of the newest workstation hardware as well as some of the latest software improvements to help you select the best workstation for your needs. |
| Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Lindsay Early | Use Dispatch to Create More Versatile Serial Numbers We will use SOLIDWORKS PDM Dispatch to create counters that can be used in place of SOLIDWORKS PDM serial numbers. This will give us more flexibility than a standard serial number and allow us to make new ones on the fly without administrator privileges. |
| Wednesday, April 22, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Collin Manchester | In-Field Reverse Engineering and Inspection When time is of the essence you can use Creaform 3D Scanners to quickly and accurately Reverse Engineer critical Parts and Inspect their accuracy before implementation. |
| Wednesday, April 22, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Cami Florence | Weldments – A Beginner’s Guide to Weldments (and more) An overall view of 2D/3D Sketching, Weldment Profiles (Standard, Custom and Configs), Understanding Cut Lists; Designing Assemblies at a Part Level, Using Traditional Weldments (Structural Steel) and Non-Traditional Weldments (Wood) to Design |
| Thursday, April 23, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Mike King | We Have a Dashboard for That! Visualizing Your Data in SOLIDWORKS Manage SOLIDWORKS Manage can free us from Monday morning reports and information silos. See how SOLIDWORKS Manage changes the game with customizable dashboards. IF WE free our data from the confines of spreadsheets and disconnected paperwork, we can lead our teams to new success! |
| Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11am – 11:30am CST | Chaz Stipkovic | SolidWorks 2D to 3D conversion In this webcast, we will be looking at using various SolidWorks tools to convert legacy drawings for use in parts, assemblies and drawings. |
| Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Ryan Dally | Data Management Best Practices – Workflows and Processes This webcast will examine how companies can leverage SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS Manage to monitor and gain control over complex business processes. We will compare both tools and step through adding project and process management to a PDM environment. |
| Thursday, April 30, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Nathan Fears | Overview of Stratasys Come see what products Stratasys has to offer and whats new. |
| Thursday, April 30, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Dan Sok | Taking SOLIDWORKS CAM Probing to the Next Level We will explain probing and cover the basic macros. By showing how probing works and understanding the data it stores in the machine tool, we can begin incorporating statements into our code. We will cover examples of routines and macros that, when used with probing, enables lights-out machining. |
| Tuesday, May 5, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Cullen Williams | CREAFORM – No Shortcuts for Doing Things the Right Way Scott Sports and Creaform – Achieving the next level in skiing safety with 3D Scanning |
| Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Don Glaske | Smart Manufacturing Ecosystem for Industry 4.0 Attendees will witness many benefits of the seamless SOLIDWORKS integration for “Smart Manufacturing” by combining SOLIDWORKS MBD, SOLIDWORKS CAM, SOLIDWORKS Inspection Pro and ShopFloor in order to be ready for the Industry 4.0 revolution while in the SOLIDWORKS Ecosystem. |
| Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Lucas Gierach | Best Practices for building PDM Templates Highlight best practices with SOLIDWORKS PDM templates to improve efficiency and productivity in the workplace. Join us for an in-depth look at setting up a new template including: how to properly set up template variables, link variables to folders, SOLIDWORKS files, and Microsoft Office documents. |
| Thursday, May 7, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Kelsey Gabel | Advances in 3D Printing Opening New Opportunities in Training and in the Field More than an effective prototyping tool, Stratasys printers make cost-effective in-field maintenance a reality and usher in unprecedented realism to training |
| Thursday, May 7, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Justin Webster & Hannah Harmon | 5 Things You Should Be Doing To Prepare For Your PDM Upgrade (And 3 You Should Avoid) IF WE provide everyone with the tools to be successful with SOLIDWORKS PDM upgrades, we can help to reduce downtime and data loss and keep companies working productively. |
| Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Bill Reuss | Topology Studies – Solving Big Problems One Step at a Time Topology Studies allow us to explore designs focusing on functional requirements. Topology Study is a great method to generate the best possible shape of a product without letting traditional design constraints get in the way of unique, fully functional product. |
| Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Danny Levy | Enabling Applications within Aerospace Manufacturing with Stratasys 3D Printing The fields of aerospace, aeronautics and aviation have had a longstanding reputation of holding stringent requirements for manufacturability. In these types of engineering environments, the need for constant incremental improvements of systems and components have a close relationship with the processes used for fabricating them. Throughout the past decade, additive manufacturing technologies, have proved their worthiness within aerospace engineering – favoring low volume high mix scenarios with little added cost in relation to complex geometries. Join us to review the trends within the aerospace industry as well as hardware, software, and material solutions which are enabling time and cost saving applications |
| Wednesday, May 13, 2020 11am – 12:30pm CST | Dan Wagner | Creating Technical Documentation With SOLIDWORKS Composer This will be an in-depth overview of creating technical documentation using SOLIDWORKS Composer. If we can start technical documentation earlier in the product life cycle, we can get our products to market faster. |
| Thursday, May 14, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Bryan Pawlak | Achieving Extreme SOLIDWORKS Performance: Modeling We will cover a case study of modeling part and assembly techniques went wrong. Using SOLIDWORKS tools available, we will help you see where issues are and how to correct them. With production files, we will show what went wrong and how it was resolved to allowing for performance increases. |
| Thursday, May 14, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Greg Buter | Getting Started with SOLIDWORKS Mold Design Join CATI for a quick introduction into the mold tool design features found in all versions of SOLIDWORKS. Focusing on plastic injection molded product tooling. It’s critical that your plastic parts can be manufactured. Injection molding is one of the most common methods. This manufacturing process often requires complex mold tooling to be designed and machined. Your part design will need to meet critical geometry requirements in order to be moldable. Holes in your part will require shut-off surfaces. Undercut geometry will require side cores and lifters. Core pins can help preserve tooling. Tooling interlock can maintain alignment and ensure part consistency. |
| Tuesday, May 19, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Robb Lauer | Accelerating Automotive Quality Control with Creaform Utilizing Creaform equipment with both high accuracy and portability gives big automotive players like Koenigsegg the ability to perform critical inspections of both parts and equipment, all while operating in the real-world conditions of a live shop environment |
| Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Jeff Sweeney | Getting data out of PDM with searches and reports. If we spend time entering meta in data into PDM, we would like to know some of the many opportunities that are available to leverage this data. This session will cover tips and tricks for using the search tool, show the basics of PDM’s Report Generator, and show why you should index your vault. |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Simon Indrele | Driving Automotive Innovation with Stratasys Using 3D Printing in all phases of the production cycle focused on the Automotive Industry |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Josh Altergott | How To Build And Maintain Effective SOLIDWORKS Design Tables An updated version of our presentation from previous SOLIDWORKS Worlds that will cover all aspects of Design Tables from the optimal setup of parts and assemblies in SOLIDWORKS to how to utilize the tools in SOLIDWORKS and Excel to help automate the design process of creating configurations. |
| Thursday, May 21, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Justin Maxwell | Concept to Manufacturing: From Multibody to Assembly Walk through a common engineering design workflow. Starting with shapes and objects created from basic SOLIDWORKS commands, transition into a Multi-body design, and eventually creating a full working assembly; without losing any work along the way. |
| Tuesday, May 26, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Kurt Kurtin | SOLIDWORKS Validation Tools – I Didn’t Know We Could Do That! Are you using the SOLIDWORKS simulation tools in the most efficient way? Catch up with the new functionality in Simulation, Flow and Plastics that was introduced in the last several years to make sure you are using all the power of these products to maximize your analysis efficiency. |
| Wednesday, May 27, 2020 1pm CST | Tim Crennen | TBD |
| Wednesday, May 27, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Laura Nickerson | Master Modeling Techniques for Plastic Part Design When designing form-driven products, we may want to initially design a single, Master part. From the Master Model, we separate out the individual components. The beauty of this technique is any changes made to the Master will propagate to the child components, speeding up our design process. |
| Thursday, May 28, 2020 11am – 12:30pm CST | Dan Wagner | Technical Support Cases That Everyone Should Know About A 90-minute look from a renowned SOLIDWORKS Reseller into some of the most interesting technical support cases in 2019. If we share more of this critical technical information, the entire SOLIDWORKS community can evolve more quickly |
| Tuesday, June 2, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Mark Talbott | Capitalizing on your Investment: Implementing SOLIDWORKS Electrical IF the path and tools to automate electrical project documentation is made clear, WE can guide a community toward improved standardization and schematic utility while saving time and effort. |
| Wednesday, June 3, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Robb Lauer | 100% Customization for Each Patient’s Needs With the power of fast, non-invasive 3D Scanning you can now collect highly accurate patient data for the creation of uniquely customized Orthotics, Prosthetics, Mobile Assistance, and much more |
| Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Heather Dawe-Rose | Take Control of your SolidNetwork License Manager with an Options File If we streamline the processes by which we use SOLIDWORKS, We can optimize the time we have to create and design. This session will dive into the different ways to control your SOLIDWORKS licenses using an Options File. |
| Thursday, June 4, 2020 11am – 12:30pm CST | Justin Webster & Luke Luff ( customer ) | Setup SQL Replication in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Best practices and setup review for SQL database replication in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. We will review the process for setting up prerequisites, setting up the replication, calculating return on investment. We will include lessons learned from an actual deployment of SQL Replication. |
| Tuesday, June 9, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Rachael Buhl | Streamline Your Custom Properties Input with the Custom Properties Tab Discover a faster way to input custom properties right in the Task Pane. Customize your Custom Properties Tab to include pulldowns, radio buttons, checkmarks, and lots of other user friendly methods to populate your custom properties. |
| Wednesday, June 10, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Simon Indrele | Stratasys Prototypes that Promote Creating Marketing samples that covey realism and functionality |
| Wednesday, June 10, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Ron Flaugh & Don Glaske | Make the SOLIDWORKS CAM Technology Database Work 4 You Learn how to change and customize settings inside the TechDB based on your current processes and standards. Machine Setup, Tool Crib Setup, Copying and Creating Tools, Default Features Strategies, Default Operation Parameters, Map Mill Features, Creating and Saving Operations and Saving Defaults. |
| Thursday, June 11, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Craig Mauer | SOLIDWORKS Drawing automation and setup utilizing parametric best practices Join CATI for an encore presentation from SOLIDWORKS World. Making drawings can be a tedious process, so why not make it faster by linking data you’ve already created. Attendees will learn how to leverage properties in their Part files, see why templates are important, and how to link custom properties from one file to another, specifically Assemblies and Drawings. For additional automation, utilization of the Property Tab builder will also be explored. |
| Thursday, June 11, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Don Glaske | Essentials of DraftSight – DraftSight for the AutoCAD User Attendees will witness many benefits and the low learning curve when transitioning from AutoCAD to DraftSight. Will be shown the overwhelming amount of similarities between AutoCAD and DraftSight. Understand which version of DraftSight would best suit their needs and where to access DraftSight 2019. |
| Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Mark Talbott | PCB Design and the Mechanical Conundrum If we create a bridge of communication between board layout and mechanical assembly, we can inspire a new generation of optimized products. |
| Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Peer Larson | Dynamic Card-Based Notifications for ECO Processes IF WE leverage an undocumented tool, WE can have our cake and eat it too. For years we thought we could not have smart notifications in ECO processes without complex workflows/expensive add-ins. Our archaeologists worked tirelessly to unearth a capability that has lain dormant for years, until now. |
| Thursday, June 18, 2020 1pm – 2pm CST | Robb Lauer | Digital Anatomy Printing: The Future of Medical Applications Introducing Stratasys’s new Digital Anatomy Printer. In this presentation, we’ll talk about the advancement of additive manufacturing in the medical sector and look at how some of our larger customers are utilizing DAP |
| Thursday, June 18, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Robert Warren | Understanding and Utilizing The Best Mesh For Your Simulation Study SOLIDS, SHELLS, and BEAMS. The three core mesh types in SOLIDWORKS Simulation. If you want to learn what these three mesh types are. Understand how to best use them for different types of geometry. Attend this break out session and we will explore what makes an Accurate, Efficient mesh. |
| Tuesday, June 23, 2020 11am – 12pm CST | Brandon Nelms & Ryan Field | Turn SOLIDWORKS into Your Kinematic Whiteboard! Moving linkages are a staple of Mechanical Design and often seem to start on a whiteboard(or napkin). But whiteboards don’t move! IF we learn to leverage SOLIDWORKS Kinematic 2D sketching WE can accelerate our design concepts, gain useful insight, and turn our whiteboard into a 3D design in no time! |
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