Alignex Summer Technology Showcase
Complete your 3D vision with these Aftereffect Technologies
Throughout the summer, Alignex has been showcasing a wide array of product development technologies. Due to popular demand, we are offering the opportunity to learn about these powerful technologies in a single day, 6-hour showcase. In an Open House format, you can attend as many of our Technical Sessions as you like. Experts in these areas will present ways in which these technologies can help your organization manufacture products better, faster and cheaper. This event is FREE and refreshments will be served throughout the day. Click on any of the subject headings below to learn more about that Technical Session.
SolidWorks 2008:
SolidWorks Corporation provides intuitive and straightforward 3D CAD tools to help design teams develop better products. All SolidWorks software products supply single-window, fully associative integration with SolidWorks 3D CAD software. As a result, all SolidWorks products work together using the same design data, so each change is updated automatically across all applications.
SolidWorks 2008 Office Premium:
A complete 3D product design solution, providing your product design team with all the mechanical design, verification, data management, and communication tools that they need in one package.
SolidWorks® Office Premium is the complete 3D CAD solution, providing your product design team with all the mechanical CAD, data management, and design validation tools that you need in one affordable package.
SolidWorks mechanical CAD software
SolidWorks mechanical CAD software allows your design team to work smarter and faster so that you can develop products that separate you from your competitors.
Design validation software
SolidWorks Office Premium includes COSMOSWorks® Designer, powerful design validation software created for nonspecialists. It allows you to improve produce quality by identifying areas prone to weakness and failure.
Motion simulation software
SolidWorks Office Premium includes COSMOSMotion™, software that lets you study the physics of moving assemblies. It helps you refine mechanical designs to enhance reliability and reduce the need for physical prototypes.
Workgroup data management software
Minimize errors and duplicated efforts by capturing file revision histories automatically. Access desired files, determine who has worked on them, and see exactly when changes were made.
Additional CAD Productivity Tools
SolidWorks Office Premium provides a variety of integrated tools for communicating design concepts and working more efficiently.
For a complete list, see the product matrix.
COSMOSWorks - Virtual Design Validation
Use SolidWorks® design validation tools to simulate real-world conditions and test multiple "what if" scenarios, allowing you to improve design quality and reduce costs. Many of these features are built right in to SolidWorks Office Premium
COSMOSWorks®
COSMOSWorks is a powerful, easy-to-use design validation and optimization software fully embedded within SolidWorks mechanical CAD software. There are several COSMOSWorks products to choose from. COSMOSWorks Designer is included with SolidWorks Office Premium.
COSMOSMotion™
COSMOSMotion is a complete motion simulation and kinematics package fully embedded within SolidWorks software. COSMOSMotion is included with SolidWorks Office Premium.
TolAnalyst
TolAnalyst is a tool for automating analysis of tolerance stack-up — the cumulative acceptable variance between the dimensions of multiple machined components of an assembly design. TolAnalyst is included with SolidWorks Office Premium.
COSMOSFloWorks™
COSMOSFloWorks redefines fluid flow analysis with robust capabilities normally found in high-end computational fluid dynamics programs.
COSMOSDesignSTAR™
COSMOSDesignSTAR enables designers to analyze CAD models created using Autodesk Inventor®, Solid Edge®, and SolidWorks without re-importing the data each time the design is modified.
SolidCAM - Design Integrated CAM
SolidCAM is the complete, ‘best-in-class’ Manufacturing Suite for efficient and profitable CNC-Programming inside SolidWorks.
SolidCAM provides seamless single-window integration and full associativity with the SolidWorks design model.
You never have to leave SolidWorks' window!
With the single-window integration of SolidCAM in SolidWorks, all machining operations can be defined, calculated and verified without leaving the parametric SolidWorks assembly environment. All 2D and 3D geometries used for machining are fully associative to the SolidWorks design model. If you do any changes to your SolidWorks model, all your CAM operations will be automatically updated. In a single CAM-part, several SolidWorks configurations can be used. Each configuration can represent an independent state or production step of a workpiece.Full associativity with the SolidWorks design reduces errors when the model changes and facilitates the process when updates are received for models already machined.
3DVia Composer - 3D Documentation Tools
Developing new products is only part of the job. Products require documentation for user manuals, marketing materials and service documentation. The products below can help you display 3D modeling data in a format that can be used in many publication applications. The best part is, these displays are associative back to the 3D models, so any changes made can be automatically recognized in the documentation.
The 3DVIA Composer revolutionizes the way product documentation is created. 3DVIA Composer simplifies and enhances your organization's ability to create 2D and 3D images and animation for a full range of product documentation, including:
SolidWorks PDM Enterprise - Product Data Management
PDMWorks® Enterprise is a solution that can be deployed in a fraction of the time required by other enterprise PDM systems. PDMWorks Enterprise is uniquely suited to the needs of small, medium and large distributed design teams and helps your organization manage and share product data more effectively to create better products in less time.
Access, store, change and approve design data more efficiently with PDMWorks Enterprise product data management software (PDM software).
Uniquely adapted to the requirements of geographically dispersed workgroups, PDMWorks Enterprise is a product data management software solution based on proven technology that can be deployed in a fraction of the time required by other enterprise PDM systems. PDMWorks Enterprise helps organizations manage and share product data more effectively and automate workflow to allow better collaboration from engineering to the shop floor, resulting in better products, lower costs, and faster time to market.
Easy to implement and use, PDMWorks Enterprise is the only product data management solution (PDM solution) entirely integrated within Windows Explorer. Users perform all functions either through Windows Explorer or one of its CAD integrations. Through this PDM software functionality, users across the enterprise can readily manage files and collaborate more effectively throughout the product lifecycle.
PDMWorks Enterprise Summary:
- Easy to implement and use
- Provides scalable, secure access for large design teams
- Enables companies to manage data at multiple locations with automatic file replication at each site
- Automates simple workflow including ECN/ECO processes
- Enables connectivity to MRP/ERP systems
- Full audit trails enable regulatory compliance
DriveWorks - Design Automation
DriveWorks is Rules Based Design Automation which allow for manufacturers to Engineer to Order. 65% of SolidWorks users can benefit from DriveWorks.
- DriveWorks lets you capture and re-use knowledge and rules to
specify, design and engineer-to-order.
- DriveWorks lets you automate repetitive tasks and generate design and manufacturing output quickly and accurately.
- Create custom products in minutes... not days.
- DriveWorks Express is already included in every seat of SolidWorks Office Premium
Learn about these powerful technologies in a single day, 6-hour showcase. In an Open House format, you can attend as many of our Technical Sessions as you like. Experts in these areas will present ways in which these technologies can help your organization manufacture products better, faster and cheaper. Come and see our revolutionary products, all of which Alignex represents directly. Connect with the enthusiastic SolidWorks Community and discover for yourself how Alignex is helping solve manufacturing problems throughout the Upper Midwest.
To register for this event, please use the link to the right or click on the subject matter that interests you for more information. Directions and final confirmation will follow about one week before the event. Space is limited, so we urge you to reserve a seat at this FREE event which includes lunch. We look forward to seeing you!