In personally using 3D ContentCentral I have found it is very easy to use there is variety of models and you can find anything from a AA Battery to Scooby-Doo.īoth the customer and user library are highly detailed models and a lot have multiple configurations and can even download then in different CAD formats and versions so they can be used anywhere. The best part is all of the models are FREE to download once you create an account. There is also a huge library of quality user supplied content as well that users have added to the site. 3D ContentCentral literally has millions of models, there are hundreds of different vendors who have their entire catalog of files. Once he went to the 3D ContentCentral site he was amazed at all the items he couldn’t find in any of his other searches.
I asked him if he had heard of 3D ContentCentral and being that he was a newer SOLIDWORKS user, he had not. Our bracket is a SOLIDWORKS part.I had a customer the other day who was looking for some standard parts to add to his SOLIDWORKS assemblies and the only information he could find was 2D data when doing internet searches. SOLIDWORKS xDesign also has the ability to import many common CAD file types, such as SOLIDWORKS parts, CATIA parts, Inventor parts, Solid Edge parts, IGES files, STEP files, and Mesh files like STL or OBJ. This file can exist anywhere on your computer or if you are using the 3DExperience platform to store your data, you can select from your 3DDrive. For this example, we will import an existing bracket. With SOLIDWORKS xDesign, you can design a model from scratch right in your browser, or you can import existing files. To showcase this, we will need a 3D model that we’d like to print. We’ll then use the result as a reference to minimize the material used and export final model to an STL file for 3D printing.
This post is going to introduce one possible way that you could leverage SOLIDWORKS xDesign, a browser-based CAD solution, to optimize a 3D model’s geometry based on expected loads. Companies are beginning to search for cloud, or browser-based, solutions to manage their data and designs, especially while employees are still working from the comfort of their homes. Similarly, the world of design is also on the cusp of change. 3D printing allows for greater complexity and flexibility in the geometry that can be produced while also being a cost efficient and rapid process. It’s no secret that additive manufacturing has caused a shift in the manufacturing industry.
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