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Highlights of SolidWorks 2006 Office
Premium
SolidWorks 2006 Office Premium has over 200
customer driven enhancements that make transitioning to 3D
easier and faster than ever. The new performance enhancements
and innovations bring productivity to a new level for all
SolidWorks customers.
 Transitioning
to 3D
The SolidWorks DWGseries of products
help working with DWG data easier than ever.
The three products
that make up the DWGseries include:
DWGgateway,
DWGviewer, and
DWGeditor. DWGgateway is a free plug-in for AutoCAD® that
enables users to read and write any version of DWG files. This
product is available free for anyone to download at
www.dwggateway.com.
The DWGviewer is our eDrawings product. eDrawings is an amazing
product that can also view and print any version of DWG files.
eDrawings is a free product for anyone to download at
www.edrawingsviewer.com.
DWGeditor is a product for SolidWorks customers that enables
them to work with native DWG files using a familiar interface
without translation. DWGeditor uses the native DWG file format
making editing legacy DWG files seamless. (Click
here for a short video on DWGgateway.)
 Smart
Components make designing faster and intuitive.
SolidWorks users can now create and
re-use Smart Components in any design. Smart Components can be
dragged and dropped into any assembly from any 3D model content
library. These components will automatically size themselves
for the task, orient and locate themsleves into an assembly
correctly. Also, Smart Components automatically create any
mounting features such as hole patterns in any existing mating
parts as well as automatically supply the mounting hardware such
as bolts, washers, and nuts. Smart Components will provide
tremendous time savings as well as reduce the amount of errors.
(Click
here for a short video.)
The new SolidWorks Design Checker can make sure designs are
complete reducing the amount of change orders.
The Design Checker is a new product
included with SolidWorks Office Professional and SolidWorks
Office Premium that enables users to make sure SolidWorks
designs adhere to company standards. The SolidWorks Design
Checker can alert users to overlapping dimensions, title block
omissions, incomplete material specification, or even violations
of dimensioning standards.
 New
sketch blocks enable 2D mechanism design. SolidWorks
users can now quickly layout mechanisms in 2D. These layouts
can be manipulated dynamically to make sure of fit and function
before committing to creating 3D assemblies. Using blocks in
layout sketches allows users to design complex mechanisms in 2D
sketches and automatically convert these sketches to 3D
components without the need to start from scratch. (Click
here for a short video.)
Time-saving
Innovations
 SolidWorks
2006 makes working with large assemblies easier than ever
before.
SolidWorks 2006 has unparalleled
performance for designing large assemblies with tens of
thousands of parts. Many of the top user commands have been
optimized to run faster. Lightweight mode has been
rearchitected so that most assembly and drawing tasks can be
done while in lightweight mode. Drawings now can calculate
views in the background while you annotate developed views.
Design validation is now easier than
ever. This opens the door for every engineer and
designer to have insight into design performance before physical
prototypes are produced.
The results from Physical Simulation
(functionality to enable component motion) can now be used to
automatically set up the loads and boundary conditions for each
part in an assembly for a COSMOSXpress analysis.
 The
3D sketch has been enhanced for creation of rectangles, circles,
arcs and reference planes in a single 3D sketch.
Entities can be dimensions. With the enhancements to the 3D
sketcher for 2006, SolidWorks is providing the capability to
create more designs with less reliance on 2D sketch geometry,
thereby creating both planar and non-planar geometry in a single
sketch feature. This will significantly cut down on the amount
of sketch features necessary to create more complex shapes,
while increasing the reliability
 of
the associativity between sketch entities. One of the first
features where this new capability is apparent is the Loft
feature. If the Loft feature is defined using a 3D sketch, the
user can actually modify the sketch by dragging portions of it
while creating or redefining the Loft feature.
 SolidWorks
2006 has new innovations to make production level drawings fast
and easy. New innovative functionality includes a
new spell checker, a new table generator, and 3D interactive
drawings views. 3D Interactive drawing views enable any user to
rotate any 2D drawing view so that the whole model can be viewed
in its 3D state. This makes selecting edges and dimensioning
extremely easy for even the most complex components. The power
of 3D visualization is now readily available in the 2D detailing
environment.
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