On-Demand Webcasts

Whether you’re developing cars, aircraft, bicycles, or trains, you need to right tools to help you design, detail, validate and visualize your ideas, and SOLIDWORKS has them all. With industry leading 3D CAD, Simulation and Rendering tools, SOLIDWORKS has everything you need to get your project off the ground, down the tracks, or through the chicane!
In this webcast, we will demonstrate how the power of SOLIDWORKS can streamline your design processes and improve communication, followed by a live Q and A with one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers. Join us for this complimentary introductory seminar and discover how SOLIDWORKS helps those working in the automotive and transport industry get the right design first time.

With deadlines to produce parts been ever shorter and the need to be able to machine complex geometries been ever greater. Is now the right time to be using your SOLIDWORKS model for manufacturing? In this seminar we will look at how we can start with a SOLIDWORKS model and from that digitally replicate machining that part. From stock material and fixture creation to applying machining toolpaths, simulating them to ensure they will work on your machine and then generate code to run.
Our getting started with SolidCAM will show how 3D geometry can be made into a machined component.

Join us as we explore how design integrated structural Simulation can be used to predict product performance, facilitate innovation, and enable validation of your products through a broad range of powerful analysis capabilities. With Simulation available directly inside SOLIDWORKS CAD, designs can be virtually tested, iterations can be evaluated quickly and a project can be optimised prior to a single prototype being manufactured.

In this webinar, we will discuss the main reasons why many businesses have invested in Simulation tools as a key part of their R & D process. We will hear directly from our customers on the benefits they have gained with this technology. We will also discuss what issues prevent businesses from adopting these tools and what can be done to overcome those barriers.

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Lithium Ion (Li-ion) batteries power modern society, providing the electricity for everything from cardiac pacemakers to electric cars. However, there are still significant design challenges to address, such as improving battery safety and extending its lifetime. The complex interplay of physics, chemistry, and engineering required to successfully integrate a battery in a working system requires an understanding of how they operate at various time and length scales. This webinar will showcase the thermal and fluid analysis capabilities found across the Dassault Systèmes portfolio to design better and safer Li-ion batteries, and will explore: • Introduction to the Battery Development Landscape • The 3DEXPERIENCE Battery Design and Development Solution Overview • Conducting Thermal and Fluid Analysis of Battery Packs and Modules • Industry Case Study

Producing precision engineered parts requires a high level of accuracy at every stage of the design and development process. From the initial design, through manufacturing and inspection, SOLIDWORKS has solutions for every part of the process. Whether you’re designing machines, fixtures, or other structures, during this introduction, we will guide you through the tools within SOLIDWORKS that allow you to model and document all of the required information for precision engineered products. Once we’ve demonstrated the speed and ease of SOLIDWORKS, we will then open up the floor for a Q and A with one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers. Join us for this complimentary introductory seminar and discover how SOLIDWORKS helps those in the precision engineering industry.

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Smap3D Plant design is a complete end to end solution for the design of process plant systems. Starting with a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID), to connecting that to a general assembly in SOLIDWORKS to finally creating ISOGEN standard piping isometrics. In this webcast we will demonstrate the process of adding some equipment to an existing system. We start with the P&ID, then feed that information into SOLIDWORKS and finally produce a Piping Isometric at the end. Join us for this complimentary introductory seminar and discover how SOLIDWORKS and Smap3D Plant Design helps those working in the process and plant industry get the right design first time.

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Are you looking to explore how you can leverage digital twins and robotic modeling to streamline your production processes, realize efficiency, and minimize delays? Join us for this hands-on demonstration of the 3DEXPERIENCE Twin for Robotics Modeling from Dassault Systèmes. Our expert team of robotics modelers will walk you through examples, construction methods, and time-saving features of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. During this demonstration, we will cover the Tooling Validation; Robot Placement; Payload Analysis; Cycle-Time Determination; Interference Zones and Swept Volumes. In addition, we will also explore the creation of consistent, high-quality offline robot programs for use on the factory floor. Our team has worked on thousands of robot programs over the past several years. We would love to share our experience and assist your team in starting, developing, training, or supporting your robotic simulation effort.

In this Masterclass series, the Customer Development team will be delivering their top tips and best practices, enabling you to streamline your workflow and get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. From UI and sketching, to fabrication and Visualization, whatever your SOLIDWORKS experience level, there is sure to be something for everyone. Join us for this complimentary LIVE event and learn how to maximise the benefits of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

In this Masterclass series, the Customer Development team will be delivering their top tips and best practices, enabling you to streamline your workflow and get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. From UI and sketching, to fabrication and Visualization, whatever your SOLIDWORKS experience level, there is sure to be something for everyone. Join us for this complimentary LIVE event and learn how to maximise the benefits of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

Process and Plant incorporates a wide variety of disciplines, from fabrication and machine design, to piping, heating, and ventilation. But whether you’re designing gantries or guards, or simply looking to layout existing equipment, SOLIDWORKS has got you covered with a range of easy-to-use, professional tools. In this webcast, we will demonstrate how the power of SOLIDWORKS can streamline your design processes and improve communication, followed by a live Q and A with one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers. Join us for this complimentary introductory seminar and discover how SOLIDWORKS helps those working in the process and plant industry get the right design first time.

In this Masterclass series, the Customer Development team will be delivering their top tips and best practices, enabling you to streamline your workflow and get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. From UI and sketching, to fabrication and Visualization, whatever your SOLIDWORKS experience level, there is sure to be something for everyone. Join us for this complimentary LIVE event and learn how to maximise the benefits of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

Product Lifecycle Management is a step beyond your typical CAD data management and introduces intelligent links between different departments within a business outside the CAD office. In this 30-minute webinar, we will share our knowledge of PLM solutions and in particular, look at ENOVIA inside the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. See how CAD data, reports and processes can be intelligently linked between mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing and simulation teams.

In this Masterclass series, the Customer Development team will be delivering their top tips and best practices, enabling you to streamline your workflow and get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. From UI and sketching, to fabrication and Visualization, whatever your SOLIDWORKS experience level, there is sure to be something for everyone.

Improve battery performance with cutting edge 3D chemistry modelling and simulation. Virtual Twin technology allows designers and engineers to visualize real-life battery behaviours through a digital replica of a physical battery system. During this webinar, you’ll hear about case studies that will reveal insights on the design, optimization and innovation of battery cell materials and components as well as design-for-manufacturing.

In this Masterclass series, the Customer Development team will be delivering their top tips and best practices, enabling you to streamline your workflow and get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. From UI and sketching, to fabrication and Visualization, whatever your SOLIDWORKS experience level, there is sure to be something for everyone.

Are you interested in learning how to save time and produce high-quality professional illustrations? If so, this webcast is for you. During this 30-minute introduction, we will guide you through how SOLIDWORKS Composer can take your existing CAD data and create engaging technical illustrations, animations, and interactive guides. Learn how we can take the traditional paper manual, and bring it up-to-date with interactive documentation that you can host online. Once we’ve demonstrated the speed and ease of Composer, we will then open up the floor for a Q and A with one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers. Join us for this complimentary introductory seminar and discover the benefits & capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Composer.

In this Masterclass series, the Customer Development team will be delivering their top tips and best practices, enabling you to streamline your workflow and get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. From UI and sketching, to fabrication and Visualization, whatever your SOLIDWORKS experience level, there is sure to be something for everyone. Join us as we guide you through a 45-minute masterclass.

Are you looking to reduce cost, weight, material usage, and time to market? In industries where every millisecond and/or gram counts, there is a persistent need to minimize part weight and maximize stiffness and performance, all while reducing cost and material wastage. Designers must push past conventional ways of working to think outside the box. Meeting customer demands is imperative which means innovating one concept at a time is no longer a sustainable method. This webinar will show you how can be more competitive by using Lightweight Engineering technologies to find the right balance in reducing weight, cost and material usage and maintaining or increasing strength, stability and safety.

As an industrial designer, you need the tools to create and communicate your designs along every step of the design and manufacturing process. From concept through to finished product, SOLIDWORKS has the tools to make the design process fast and pain free. Whether you are developing a simple machined part, or crafting an organic injection moulded housing, SOLIDWORKS will help you to document, analysis, validate and visualize your ideas in real time. In this webcast we will show you the rich toolset in SOLIDWORKS before opening up the floor for a Q and A with one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers.

When examining how electric and autonomous vehicle technologies work and how modeling tool's function, one of the most recent concerns for manufacturers is aerodynamics. When it comes to producing electric vehicles, aerodynamics is of top priority because it has a direct impact on the practicality and economy of the vehicle, particularly when we consider the issue of range anxiety. Because of this, electric cars require a different aerodynamic process to traditional combustion cars as well as more research and development to increase capacity and improve charging times.

Large Assembly design tools simplify the assembly process allowing for the straightforward creation, management and visualisation of designs. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is capable of dealing with assemblies of 100,000+ parts, and intuitive assembly features make it easy to manage, assemble, view and document large designs, accelerating the design process and saving both time and development costs.

Design and certification of an aircraft are today heavily supported by simulation of the aircraft aerodynamic performance. Predicting the En-route flight performance and guiding the design is routinely done by standard simulation tools. However, current standard simulation tools fail to deliver reliable performance predictions outside of the aircraft’s design range and in icing conditions. This webinar will explore the key benefits of using advanced simulation tools within the SIMULIA fluids portfolio of solutions.

For most products, packaging is the consumers first physical interaction with a brand. And that’s why it’s so important that the design and quality of that packaging, matches that of the product inside. Packaging comes in a variety of styles, sizes and materials, but whatever the type of packaging you’re designing, SOLIDWORKS has a range of excellent tools to help you get there fast. In this webcast we will show you the rich toolset in SOLIDWORKS before opening up the floor for a Q and A with one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers. Join us for this complimentary seminar and discover the benefits & capabilities that SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD brings to companies designing packaging.

Product photography is a time consuming and costly part of launching a product and waiting on physical prototypes to capture these photographs, increases time to market. Save money and reduce time to market with SOLIDWORKS Visualize. Visualize runs concurrently with your original CAD data meaning you can start creating your image assets before the CAD is even finalised. Any changes in the CAD are then automatically updated and reflected in your final outputs. Static, animated, and interactive content can all be easily created.

Learn how to Improve battery performance and streamline R&D by unifying multi-scale and multi-physics modelling and simulation Lithium Ion (Li-ion) batteries power modern society, providing the electricity for everything from cardiac pacemakers to electric cars. However, there are still significant design challenges to address, such as improving battery safety and extending its lifetime. The complex interplay of physics, chemistry, and engineering required to successfully integrate a battery in a working system requires an understanding of how they operate at various time and length scales. This webinar will showcase the modeling and simulation capabilities found across the Dassault Systèmes portfolio to design better and safer Li-ion batteries.

Learn from the experts on what you can do to optimise your performance of your Workstation and SOLIDWORKS. Join us for a complimentary webinar where we will have panellists from Solid Solutions, Dell & NVIDIA on hand with their advice for optimising performance.

Hear what’s new for SOLIDWORKS 2023 performance, Workstation performance and how implementing best practice techniques can also boost performance.
Experts from Solid Solutions, Dell and NVIDIA will be on hand to share the latest updates and answer any questions.
Join us as we discuss what has changed, the benefits of, and why upgrading to latest Software, Dell Workstation with NVIDIA Graphics benefit you, your company, and your workload.

Whether you need to design equipment for processing, packaging, handling, moving or lifting, the powerful tools in SOLIDWORKS make designing your next project fast and pain free. From machined parts, to sheet metal components, to welded frames and structures, SOLIDWORKS enables those in the special purpose machinery sector get the right design, first time. In this webcast we will show you the rich toolset in SOLIDWORKS and the benefits & capabilities that SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD brings to companies designing special purpose machinery.

Would you like to know a little more about setting up and running a Simulation in SOLIDWORKS®? Simulations are really useful to design better products, although many SOLIDWORKS users are not aware of the benefits, only requiring simple skills. We would like to invite you to accelerate your personal development and introduce you to SOLIDWORKS Simulation.

Drop Testing is a critical part of product development across numerous industries. While its often said that nothing can replace a physical test, the same can also be said about simulation when it comes to virtual drop testing. This webinar will justify the substantial benefits that virtual drop testing brings to the product development process, how it compares to physical testing, and how SIMULIA Abaqus Technology provides the accessibility, power, and capability needed to make it all possible.

Discover the powerful enhancements available to you in SOLIDWORKS 2023. The vast majority of these improvements have originated from user feedback and it's great to see that users are shaping SOLIDWORKS as it moves forwards.

SOLIDWORKS 2023 delivers a range of improvements across the software, from enhancements to your favourite features to significant behind-the-scenes improvements there is something for everyone in this release. Check out this highlights webinar to learn more about the changes in this year's release that will help you to work faster, collaborate more easily and gain even more control over your designs.

Displaying your products in the best possible way is vital in today's competitive market. Although a product might be the best, it doesn’t mean consumers will select it if it doesn’t draw them in.

Point of Sale is essential for any retailer, and with the assistance of SOLIDWORKS you can elevate your designs. Innovate new ways to create displays to entice consumers to buy a product and simulate real-life loads to ensure the integrity of your designs. We can also work out ergonomics, create flat patterns and full cut-lists, and even use automated costing tools too. No more finger in the air guessing.

Join us for a first look at SOLIDWORKS Inspection. See how you can automate the creation of First Article Inspection Reports using your native 2D and 3D CAD files. Capture characteristics that are important for the inspection process and publish customised reports and ballooned drawings. Input measured values, from CMMs or other digital measuring devices, back into the inspection report to see process trends.

Save hours of tedious, error prone, annotation creation and explore how SOLIDWORKS Inspection can streamline to documentation process.

With the FIFA World Cup final looming, our passion for football has spilled out beyond the pitch and into the realm of SOLIDWORKS!

In this webcast our team will share their world class tips and tricks as they demonstrate some of the techniques they used to create the iconic world cup trophy along with a custom trophy case to store it in.

There will be plenty of great SOLIDWORKS advice to learn from in this session, so we can recommend it to anyone wanting to learn, regardless of whether you're football's biggest fan or you have no idea what the offside rule actually is.

Join us for a complimentary webinar to learn more about the Sheet Metal & Fabrication features - an essential component within many industries to house or enclose various designs.

SOLIDWORKS’ flexible design approach allow the user to:
• Convert SOLIDWORKS or imported CAD models, create original parts, or design around a group of parts
• Generate Base, Edge, Miter, and Swept Flanges
• Generate bends, including Lofted Bends, Sketched Bends, and more
• Use Bend Tables for bend allowance/bend deduction
• Use Forming Tools to create features like ribs, louvers, lances, embosses, and extruded flanges
• Add weld details to sheet metal parts on models or drawings
• Automatically flatten parts to generate flat patterns for manufacturing with bend compensation
• Automatically estimate sheet metal part manufacturing cost as you design

Join us for a complimentary webinar on Model Based Definition.

Traditional 2D drawings can be time consuming to create and manage, and technical drawings can be open to misinterpretation by the end user resulting in costly errors.

SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model Based Definition) is an integrated, drawingless manufacturing solution for SOLIDWORKS that helps you define, organise, and publish 3D Product Manufacturing Information into industry standard file formats such as 3D PDF and eDrawings.

With SOLIDWORKS MBD we have one file to create and manage, 3D is easy for the end user to understand, and the Product Manufacturing Information can be easily accessed downstream in a variety of formats.

Once we've shown you the rich toolset in SOLIDWORKS, you then have the opportunity to fire questions at one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers allowing you to pose scenarios to your specific requirements.

Join us for a complimentary "First Look" seminar to discover the benefits & capabilities that SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD brings to those in the Architecture and Construction industries.

SOLIDWORKS is an excellent fit for the AEC (Architectural, Engineering and Construction) industry. Architects are constantly pushing the boundaries of building design and are continually creating more organic and complex shapes which test the boundaries of physics and design.

Designers and architects alike need an easy-to-use CAD package which enables the creation of complex designs with the parametric capabilities to facilitate design changes at any stage of the design process.

In this session we start from the basics, creating simple 3D geometry from scratch and then showing how it can be used to generate drawings and other vital data to be leveraged across planning, layout, fabrication, and construction.

SOLIDWORKS has developed vastly since it first came onto the market in 1995 to revolutionise the way design and manufacturing companies bring their ideas and products to life. Over the course of this 30 minute webinar, we are going to cover the top new features and functionality that have been implemented since 2018.

From Touch Mode, Assemblies, Visualize, Drawings and Data Management, there have been some brilliant new enhancements that have been brought in over the last 5 years.

Join us for a complimentary "First Look" seminar to discover the benefits & capabilities that SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD brings to companies designing industrial equipment.

In industrial design, designing complex equipment quickly, while verifying strength, durability, and performance is so important. You need to outpace competitors by creating better machines at a lower cost. Using SOLIDWORKS in the design process to production, everything can be streamlined. With designs being planned, tested, and inspected concurrently in the development phase, costs are reduced both from efficiencies and a reduction in weight, and a reduction in the number of physical prototypes required. The SOLIDWORKS 2022 portfolio is uniquely equipped to help you tackle these challenges, shortening your route to market.

In this session we start from the basics, creating simple 3D geometry from scratch and using it to automatically generate drawings for manufacture, client communication and regulatory sign-off. We then move onto the virtual workbench environment, building prototype assemblies, allowing us to check for interferences/misalignments, followed by some virtual testing to ensure the product is fit for purpose.

Once we've shown you the rich toolset in SOLIDWORKS, you then have the opportunity to fire questions at one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers allowing you to pose scenarios to your specific requirements.

Join us as we take an introductory look at 5-axis machining. With 5-axis machining you can reduce setup time and increase accuracy on each part. You are also expanding your machine shop capability for more work. Within the SolidCAM portfolio, 5-Axis machining is one of the most powerful modules and has the most advanced control over all aspects of tool path and collision checking. In this webcast, we will introduce you to the:

• 3D CAD Surfacing Tools
• The kind of 5-Axis strategies you can employ
• Tool types and tables
• Tool axis and collision control
• Roughing options
• Machine simulations
• 5-Axis Sub Operations

• Searching and Viewing Data
• CAD Integration and Workflow Management
• Issue Reporting and Change Management
• Project & Task Management

Integrate electrical schematic design data with SOLIDWORKS models bidirectionally and in real-time. Use routing to connect electrical components, and determine optimal wire, cable and harness lengths.

Join us as we look at SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D, the tool that allows you to place 3D versions of all electrical parts into a model, and run wires/cables/harnesses in 3D to connect all electrical equipment. Plan specific locations and paths, and accurately determine wires/cables/harness lengths before equipment is built to ensure consistent manufacturing and reduce scrap and costs.

Managing your SOLIDWORKS CAD data - Join us as we explore the key reasons why you would implement SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional or Standard. Understand how you may develop your data management to handle your requirements today and for the future.

Recommended for those who want more from their existing methods of managing CAD data or those who are existing users of SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard (included in every licence of SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium).

Join us for a complimentary "First Look" seminar to discover the benefits & capabilities that SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD brings to companies in the marine industry.

Being efficient has always been the aim in most industries, no more so than in marine and offshore designs. With the increasing prices and demand for fuels cutting into margins, the need for efficiency to gain a competitive edge is vital. Using SOLIDWORKS the design process to production can be streamlined. With designs being planned, tested, and inspected, quicker and more cost-effective with a reduction in weight and more efficient components. The SOLIDWORKS 2022 portfolio is uniquely equipped to help you tackle these challenges shortening your route to market.

In this session we start from the basics, creating simple 3D geometry from scratch and using it to automatically generate drawings for manufacture, client communication and regulatory sign-off. We then move onto the virtual workbench environment, building prototype assemblies, allowing us to check for interferences/misalignments, followed by some virtual testing to ensure the product is fit for purpose.

Once we've shown you the rich toolset in SOLIDWORKS, you then have the opportunity to fire questions at one of our Elite SOLIDWORKS Certified Engineers allowing you to pose scenarios to your specific requirements.

Take a look at SOLIDWORKS Composer with our technical communication specialist, Jamie Thain, guiding you through a 30-minute introduction. If your company has the need to do any of the following, this webcast could be ideal for you.

• Explain processes and procedures in technical communications
• Create manufacturing assembly instructions
• Product manuals
• Installation guides
• Service manuals
• Training guides
• Marketing illustrations in vector and raster formats

Are you interested in saving time and producing high-quality professional illustrations? As always, our support desk is fully open following the conclusion of the webinar for any queries that require further attention. Register below to watch this session.

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform provides your business with a catalogue of cloud based applications to help you design, simulate, inform and collaborate on your engineering projects.

In this half hour demonstration we'll take a high level overview of some of platform's capabilities including tools for:

• Searching and Viewing Data
• CAD Integration and Workflow Management
• Issue Reporting and Change Management
• Project & Task Management

Vastly improve lead times, customer experience and quotes with an automated system designed specifically for manufacturers and utilising your CAD data.

With DriveWorks you can quickly implement your own solution to provide 100% accurate quotes, and an online 3D configurator to deliver custom products faster. From DriveWorks Xpress, included in every license of SOLIDWORKS, to DriveWorks Pro – you can take design automation as far as you want.

DriveWorks is all about improving business processes to benefit your designers, sales team, distributors, and customer experience. Join us in this session as we review the best methods for integrating design automation and share our advice.

Join us and look at how SOLIDWORKS Visualize Pro can accelerate the launch of a product in today’s environment with photo-quality imagery, interactive animations, and 360-degree spins, all using your existing CAD data. Utilise camera animations and one-click 360-degree spins to show off design and engineering solutions, helping to describe complex features and ultimately sell more products and ideas.

In this Webinar, we will be introducing the woodworking add on to SOLIDWORKS called SWOOD. Looking for the next big step in CAD for the furniture industry then come see how SWOOD and SOLIDWORKS could work for you. Streamline your business with workflows that are more efficient, more accurate and integrated links between design and manufacture.

Here we will be looking at predicting just how melted plastic flows during the injection moulding process of your designs and how we can test virtually to predict and prevent manufacturing defects. Results can help to guide decisions at the earliest stages of the plastic part and injection mould design cycle whilst designing plastic parts and moulds of improved quality.

CFD or computational fluid dynamic allows you to virtually evaluate fluid flow, heat transfer and fluid forces. These factors can be particularly hard to test in real life and even harder to represent visually.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is integrated seamlessly into SOLIDWORKS CAD and enables you to run 'what if' studies in realistic test environments. Clear visual representations of results and the ability to compare studies helps you to helps you to make the best design decisions and get optimal performance out of your products.

In this webcast we will walk through a simple project from start to finish and cover the fundamental concepts and features behind SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation.

Simulation tools can be used to replicate a variety of physical tests and predict how parts will perform. These test can help you to make intelligent design decisions, reduce the material required and reduce the risk of failure. Although physical testing is still required for many applications, virtual tests can dramatically speed up development and reduce the number of prototype iterations, leading to cost savings and a faster time to market. In this webcast we'll be covering some of the most common tests that are run on parts - Strength and Fatigue.