Welcome to Boxer’s Blog

Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog has got a new home. You are requested to please visit the new site henceforth and bookmark it for reference and SolidWorks related information. Please feel free to inform your friends, colleagues and people whom you consider can be benefited with the information on the Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog

Your suggestions on the layout and the content of the new site are welcome. Keep reading, contributing and sharing your thoughts.

You can find link to all the posts here or for latest posts, please visit the new site. Please leave a comment as this will help me to improve the blog and bring up more interesting articles/tutorials.

You are free to share, distribute or transmit any work on this blog under the Licensing conditions.  For any clarification or details, please contact me.

Thanks for your visit.

My.SolidWorks The place to Get the Answers You Need!!

My.SolidWorks – a new community experience that helps you connect, discover and share everything SolidWorks.

My.SolidWorks announced at SolidWorks World 2013, is a new online experience that makes engaging with the SolidWorks community easier than ever. With discussion forums, blog posts, online help and more, a visit to the SolidWorks community site will usually result in an answer. And in cases where it doesn’t, it’s easy to pose a question – one of your fellow users can likely offer advice. My.SolidWorks gives you a single place to find insight and expertise from all over the SolidWorks Community. It lets you connect, discover and share anything and everything SolidWorks.

Some of the key capabilities of My.SolidWorks are:

• Login:  Anyone can use My.SolidWorks (http://my.solidworks.com/), but you will get the most out of it, including the most content and the most functionality (some of them are listed below), when you log in.
• Browse:  When you open My.SolidWorks, you will see recent items pulled from all over the community.  Featured content – articles we think are important to highlight – appear at top.  Then on the left side, you see recent items from the SolidWorks blogs, YouTube channel and other sources that are updated less often, while on the right you’ll see posts from sources that are updated more often, like Twitter and the SolidWorks Forums.
• Search:  If you’re in need of a quick answer to a question, My.SolidWorks gives you a single search that will return results from all across the SolidWorks Community – YouTube videos, Forum discussions, Online Help, Blogs, Twitter feeds, and more.
• Personalize:  If you have particular areas of interest, or content types you want to focus on, you can use filters in My.SolidWorks to tailor the view to meet your needs.  These can be saved from session to session, allowing My.SolidWorks to keep your preferences in place, every time you come back.
• Bookmark:  If you find something you want to save or get back to easily later, you can simply bookmark the article using the bookmark icon when you hover over the article, then easily browse all of your bookmarked items, using the same bookmark icon in the main view.
• Share:  If you find something really great, why not share it?  My.SolidWorks lets you share via email or popular social networking sites, allowing you to serve as a resource to colleagues and others who might benefit from that article.

Apart from these, more content and services will be be included over the time in My.SolidWorks, so be ready for more useful information and resources. And not only this but there might mobile capabilities–as well as an add-in to SolidWorks which means you can remain connected to all the SolidWorks geeks around the world with My.SolidWorks.

My.SolidWorks is available now – sign in or sign up today!

 

SolidWorks 2013 SP 3.0 is available for download

SolidWorks 2013 SP 3.0 is available for download

This service pack is now available to Subscription Service customers. To download, click here or log into the SolidWorks Customer Portal at https://customerportal.solidworks.com and click Download Software and Updates to access the update.

For a listing of SPR’s fixed in this Service Pack, click here.

P.S: Login required for access. Full access requires an active Subscription Service contract.

Live Webinar: SolidWorks Design Validation in 22 minutes

SolidWorks Design Validation tools help you design better and deliver impeccable solutions. Design Validation helps you accurately analyze your designs and correct the design flaws if any, at an early stage of designing process, which helps you save on money and time. You can test the various aspects of the product’s functionality like Geometry, Material, Loads etc during designing process, and save on high prototype costs.

Join this exclusive Webinar by “Kapil Gaitonde” and understand Design Validation in 22 minutes.

Webinar Speaker: Kapil Gaitonde

Kapil is the Technical Manager for SolidWorks Simulation products. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Design Analysis and specializes in FEA, CFD, plastic injection molding, and kinematic analysis. He has a broad-range of experience working on different kinds of analysis and has helped many customers with their simulation problems.

Date: Friday 19th April                                        

Time: India – 11:00 AM IST

The webinar will be recorded, and you will be able to view the archived video on demand.

New Capability for Transforming CATIA with PMI from Anark

Anark Announces New Capability for Transforming CATIA with PMI into free to view, 3D PDF and HTML Engineering Release Documents

Boulder, CO – April 10, 2013: Anark Corporation, a leading provider of automated 3D CAD transformation and product visualization solutions, announces the addition of native support for CATIA V5 & V6 with 3D Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI) data to the Anark Core Platform.

This powerful new capability will be demonstrated for the first time at the COE 2013 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair (booth # 106) held at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando Florida on April 21st – 24th.

This new release of Anark Core has the ability to transform native CATIA V5 and V6 parts and assemblies with 3D GD&T, and other 3D annotations into high-fidelity 3D PDF and 3D HTML MBE documents.

“There is a growing desire from Dassault’s CATIA customers to migrate away from expensive and redundant 2D Drawings (which adds up to 30% to the cost of an engineering organization), and instead embrace an operationally superior and easier to understand 3D Model Based Enterprise (MBE) document paradigm,” said Stephen Collins, President and CEO at Anark Corporation.

Additionally, Anark Core generated documents are free to deploy and free to view because they are created in the native Adobe 3D PDF format which can be viewed with the free Adobe Reader, and HTML which can be viewed with free Internet browsers (like Internet Explorer).

“Our new CATIA Advanced MBD CAD Adaptor will unlock critical engineering design data such as parts and assemblies with 3D PMI created with the CATIA FTA tools, CATIA capture sets and views, and other engineering information required to represent the complete product definition in extremely high-fidelity 3D PDF and 3D HTML documents—that can be trusted as engineering-quality release documents”, said Scott Collins, EVP of Product Development at Anark Corporation. 

The US Department of Defense (DoD) predicts that the move away from 2D Drawings and into open and free to view 3D MBE documents will reduce the cost of its internal engineering activities by up to 30% as well as reduce the scrap and rework it currently deals with from its supply channel by nearly 19%.

Additional recent new features and enhancements for Anark Core include:

• Anark Core SDK enhancements for easy PLM workflow integration
• Support for Adobe Acroforms and XFA PDF template technologies
• Enhanced performance for loading/managing large models and assemblies
• Floating & New License Management System
• Many more

Powerful new features to be unveiled at COE show in Orlando

About Anark
Anark Corporation provides powerful enterprise software and solutions to manufacturing organizations that need to cost-effectively utilize their 3D CAD data and manufacturing information for design collaboration, manufacturing work instructions, visualization, and technical documentation applications.

Anark has an unrivaled track record for delivering successful PLM and 3D visualization solutions for the industry’s most demanding and innovative customers. Anark helps market leaders such as Boeing, Cessna, Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Sikorsky, Ericsson, B & W, and the US Department of Defense unlock the potential of their 3D design assets and manufacturing information to save money, accelerate product development, and to collaborate and communicate more effectively and securely. For more information about Anark please visit http://www.anark.com.

Carry your PDF Creator in a Smartphone

Most of us use a smart phone these days. With the busy life one may need to make PDFs for some of his/her document while he/she is on the move or traveling some where. Making PDFs can be a hassle sometimes. But now you can carry a PDF creator in your smart phone and make PDFs anytime you want.

Sonic PDF Creator^mobile is a lightweight mobile and tablet app that provides highly quality PDF creation on the go. Make two simple taps to create a PDF from popular MS office formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text. App runs on iOS and Android.

Simple steps to make PDF using Sonic PDF Creator ^mobile:

 

• Locate the document (like a mail attachment or files stored on your device)  to be converted on your smart phone.
• Press (or long-press) on the file you want to convert to get the “Open In” menu 
• Choose PDF Creator.
• Once the file is imported into the app, the PDF creation will automatically start.
• Once the PDF creation process is done, your newly created PDF file will be
  located in the PDF Creator list.

Retrieving And Sharing Your Converted File

a) Tap on the PDF file to open it (Note: In case of Android, you must have a viewer installed that can open PDF files)

b) To share your file, tap on the Share icon to access a list of sharing services available

Sonic PDF Creator^mobile is available for Android and iOS (click on the pictures below to download the installer/application file)

 for iPhone and iPad                    for Android

Check the Quick Start Guide based on your version of smartphone:

 Quick Start Guide for iOS 

 Quick Start Guide for Android 

Brief Background
PDFCreator generates accurate and high quality PDF files on the go from any device running iOS or Android. Instantly create PDF files from Microsoft Office documents right from your iOS or Android phone.

Requirements
WiFi connection or Data Plan is required, because files are being sent to Investintech servers where they are being processed by the best-on-market converting software, and once conversion is over, result is downloaded on your device.

Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog has got a new Home !!

Dear Friends and Readers,

“Time flies like the wind“. This blog has been more than four-year old but I feel I’m connected to you all from many many years.  I would like to thank you all, who have supported me by reading, encouraging and sharing my work.

I would like to inform you all that Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog has got a new home and all my Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and News about SolidWorks and related  products will be available at the new address ( It still will be available at http://gupta9665.wordpress.com for sometime till I move everything to new site). I just want to let you know that nothing has changed and you’ll find everything in the same way you’ve finding on the old site. Beside I’ll be starting a API section/page on the new site where I’ll be sharing macros which I’ve created over the years. 

You are requested to please visit the new site from now on and bookmark it for reference and SolidWorks related information. Please feel free to inform your friends, colleagues and people whom you consider can be benefited with the information on the Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog

Your suggestions on the layout and the content of the new site are welcome. Keep reading, contributing and sharing your thoughts.

Thanks and Regards

Deepak Gupta

Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog

SolidWorks 2013 SP 3.0 EV (Early Visibility) is available for download!

SolidWorks 2013 SP 3.0 EV is available for download

This service pack is now available to Subscription Service customers. To download, click here or log into the SolidWorks Customer Portal at https://customerportal.solidworks.com and click Download Software and Updates to access the update.

For a listing of SPR’s fixed, click here.

Also make sure you’re registered for Early Visibility Program*

For registering for Early Visibility Program, log into your SolidWorks Portal account, go to my profile and select the option “Notify me for EV (Early Visibility) access” under My Preferences.

*P.S: Login required for access. Full access requires an active Subscription Service contract.

Notes:

- Performance reporting is turned on for EV releases.
– Report critical problems to SolidWorks Technical Support at evis@solidworks.com
– The full version is scheduled 3 weeks after the EV version and is subject to change without notice.