• UPGRADING FROM 2D TO 3D WILL HELP YOU AND YOUR COMPANY SUCCEED ......................... P2 Moving from 2D to 3D design has allowed many successful manufacturers to expand, grow, and innovate.

• HOW SOLIDWORKS® SOFTWARE SPEEDS CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN ............................ P5 SOLIDWORKS® solutions bridge the gap between industrial design and engineering.

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Moving from 2D to 3D design has allowed many successful manufacturers to expand, grow, and innovate. 3D design generates time, cost, and material savings; improves workflows, processes, and product quality; and fosters creativity, inspiration, and innovation. No matter what you design, moving to 3D will help you do a better job—and help your company succeed—by accelerating time to market, improving design for manufacturability, eliminating unnecessary costs, producing consistently high-quality products, and encouraging greater innovation. With the easiest, smoothest transition path from 2D to 3D, SOLIDWORKS® design software can help you achieve the productivity and efficiency gains that will enable you and your company to grow and gain a competitive edge in an increasingly competitive global market.

OVERVIEW

MOVING TO 3D IS EASIER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN YOU THINKOver the past two decades, many of the world’s top manufacturers have made the transition from 2D to 3D design, such as Bausch & Lomb, Garmin, SMC, and Trek. Manufacturers that have upgraded to 3D product development have realized significant return on their investments (ROI) in 3D technology—not only in product design but also throughout their product development and manufacturing enterprises. Just as the change from drafting tables to 2D CAD software ushered in dramatic gains in productivity, moving from 2D to 3D CAD tools can reinvigorate your product development operation by saving substantial amounts of time and money, while simultaneously improving efficiencies, maintaining quality, and increasing innovation.

Designing products in 3D is ultimately faster and more accurate than 2D. 3D CAD lets you visualize, communicate, interrogate, optimize, and manufacture products in a fraction of the time and

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cost that it takes in 2D. Empowered by design “associativity,” 3D CAD also allows you to make critical design changes very late in the product development cycle without having to redraw or recreate downstream deliverables, such as manufacturing drawings, technical documentation, inspection documentation, and even NC manufacturing programs. With associativity, if a change is made to the 3D CAD model, anything that references the model (including drawings, assemblies, NC programs, etc.) will update or adapt to the change automatically—there’s no need to go back and manually edit and redraw views. This leads to substantially shorter design cycles that help you accelerate time to market, increase throughput, and create better products.

Along with increased speed and greater accuracy, 3D will help your company reduce costs by eliminating redundant, wasteful steps; improving design quality; and streamlining workflows. There’s simply less duplication of effort with 3D. For example, as stated above, there’s no need to make manual drawing updates every time the design changes. Because it’s easier to visualize and shake out designs in 3D, you won’t need as many prototypes and will encounter fewer surprises after a design is released for production, reducing the volume of scrap produced and rework required. By using your 3D model to simulate design behavior and performance, you can significantly reduce—and in some cases totally eliminate—the need for building and testing physical prototypes.

You’ll also be able to more easily reuse product, assembly, and component design data—for new or updated products, or to support

a host of downstream processes. Visualizing and communicating designs in 3D will

extend the reuse of product design data—and the ROI of your 3D investment—to every facet of your product development and manufacturing organization. And,

making the move to 3D is easier and more productive than you might imagine.

Featured VideoPaul Reed Smith Guitars builds innovative custom guitar designs using SOLIDWORKS®

Guitars date back over 4,000 years. Despite their rich history, innovators such as Paul Reed Smith continue to strive to find the right mix of technique and tools that will enable him to create that perfect design, one that strikes the perfect balance between instrument and player.

THE MULTIFACETED ADVANTAGES OF 3DTo truly appreciate the professional, organizational, and business advantages of moving from 2D to 3D design, let’s address the myths and misconceptions surrounding 3D, identify the things that you need to do to help you and your company succeed (but can’t do in 2D), and take a look at the business and organizational impacts of leveraging 3D design as your platform for product development.

Getting Past the Myths of 3D• 3D Is Too Difficult – Change is always challenging, but with access to

the appropriate training, tutorials, and learning tools, and by gaining experience, you’ll discover that 3D software is easier to use and a more natural and intuitive approach to designing products in a 3D world.

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• The Transition Requires Significant Downtime – Many smaller companies believe they can’t afford the downtime required to move to 3D. You can move to 3D without adversely affecting productivity by using either a phased transition—moving projects to 3D in phases—or deploying 3D on a pilot project—identifying and addressing any issues prior to a company-wide implementation.

• Simple Product Designs Don’t Need 3D – Although modeling simple products in 2D may be just as fast, even the most rudimentary products can benefit from 3D because of the ease and speed of design changes, and the additional capabilities that you can apply to 3D data, such as optimizing designs using simulation or taking designs straight to manufacturing.

• We Won’t Be Able to Use Legacy Data – You can continue to leverage 2D design data using import and utility tools to create 3D models directly from imported 2D data. Or, if you simply want to print or view a drawing, some 3D software vendors provide free or low-cost 2D applications for this purpose, such as free DraftSight® software from Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS® Corporation.

• We Will Lose Our 2D Tools – Some 3D applications either include capabilities for easily outputting 2D formats—such as drawings, schematics, or machine layouts—from 3D design data or provide 2D utilities and tools, such as the aforementioned DraftSight® software. With 3D, you can still use 2D when and if you need it.

• Learning 3D Isn’t Necessary – Your company may ask you to learn

3D so it can leverage its productivity gains to become nimbler, more agile, and competitive. More importantly, adding 3D to your toolbox will keep your skills sharp and up to date, so you can win future jobs or capitalize on advancement opportunities. All recent engineering university graduates have received 3D training, so you may need to learn 3D to maintain your own competitive advantage.

• 3D Is Expensive – While buying 3D software certainly costs more than purchasing 2D packages, 3D is actually less expensive over time because of the many benefits that it provides, including increased productivity, improved communication, better product quality, and faster time to market. ROI on 3D software also extends beyond product design to the downstream processes that can share and leverage valuable 3D design data.

“More importantly, adding 3D to your toolbox will keep your skills sharp and up to date, so you can win future jobs or capitalize on advancement opportunities.”

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HOW SOLIDWORKS® SOFTWARE SPEEDS CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN

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SOLIDWORKS® solutions bridge the gap between industrial design and engineering by providing powerful conceptual sketching tools, robust and easy-to-use surfacing capabilities, the ability to easily transition design from concept to detail, and the industry’s top mechanical engineering environment— all rolled into one software vendor solution. In this paper, you will learn how SOLIDWORKS® software provides a complete modeling and social environment for taking designs from concept to manufacturing.

OVERVIEW

The consumer product industry faces a unique set of challenges because it must quickly bring new products to market with cutting-edge aesthetics, coupled with market-leading functionality, while delivering competitive manufacturing costs. One of the most critical demands is managing the transition from design to engineering. Today, consumer product designers use many generic or specialized tools to define the look and feel of a product either by creating sketches or flowing surfaces that often distinguish state-of-the-art industrial design. Mechanical engineers, however, typically use different tools to turn the industrial designers’ creations into mathematically precise, functional, and manufacturable designs. Unfortunately, these individual tools traditionally have separate interfaces and model data sets that require a time-consuming and error-prone translation process or involve starting over and recreating your design when moving from one world to the other.

As an industrial designer, you may use sketchpads, modeling clay, foam, and specialized software tools that are fine for conceptualizing designs based on complex organic surfaces. But when the conceptual design process is completed, these tools provide only a fraction of the information needed to fully define the design. For example, most industrial design software doesn’t generate the parametric history that can

INTRODUCTION

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be crucial to efficiently managing the engineering change process. Because most software defines only a surface model, you may find it difficult to move to a physical prototype. The solid volume beneath the surface often affects its appearance, such as when the surface is glass. When you create a physical prototype with a surface model, you end up with additional work, because the surface model doesn’t define wall thickness, hole depths, inlays, or connections between components.

Life would be much simpler if industrial designers could use solid modeling tools similar to those used by mechanical engineers. With these tools, you can create a feature-based, parametric model that captures all the information needed to mathematically define the design and to manage the change and documentation process. But traditional solid modeling software doesn’t have the intuitive sketching and surfacing tools that you need to quickly generate the large number of design concepts required to create and evaluate an advanced design. Instead, you are locked into confined areas that limit you, for example, to defining a surface patch with either two or four sides, but not three, five, or more sides.

Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS® Corporation has overcome this problem by offering a new social-enabled, solid modeling toolset with the powerful sketching and surfacing capabilities needed to turn out a stylish consumer product with smoothly flowing lines and distinctive features. Built on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, SOLIDWORKS® Industrial Designer complements the current SOLIDWORKS® offerings, enabling industrial designers to create the stylistic and geometrical definition, before moving to SOLIDWORKS® for detail geometrical design, testing, documentation, manufacturing, and sales and marketing—which your company’s engineers and suppliers are

probably already using—to turn concepts into reality. As a result, industrial designers and mechanical engineers can seamlessly share information and work simultaneously on the same model. This, in turn, makes it possible to move to market much more quickly, and to evaluate the form and emotional response of a product as well as the functionality and manufacturability of your concept designs before investing time and money.

To create the best product, it is important to be able to rapidly develop multiple concept designs and gain feedback from your design stakeholders in a short span of time. Industrial designers need a tool that enables them to capture their design ideas quickly, without having to think about CAD.

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• ELECTRICAL DESIGN (boost productivity and improve quality by integrating electrical and mechanical design in 3D)

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SOLIDWORKS® Industrial Designer adds new and unique conceptual design capabilities to the SOLIDWORKS® portfolio. The ability to sketch concept ideas directly into the CAD environment in 2D or directly onto 3D surfaces, and the ease of creating complex freeform surfaces and solid shapes with innovative subdivisional (subD) modeling, helps industrial designers realize their ideas in a faster and more streamlined way than ever before.

SOLIDWORKS® Industrial Designer helps industrial designers in three unique ways:

Using SOLIDWORKS® Industrial Designer, you can sketch directly into the CAD system to capture innovative design ideas and then use the sketch as the inspiration for fast subdivisional, push-pull surface modeling.

1. Capture more concepts in less timeUsing a sketching tablet or mouse, designers can sketch directly in the CAD system, capturing ideas in a natural and intuitive manner. Sketches form the basis of the 3D models so that no time or effort is lost when transitioning to 3D. Conceptual 3D models are created using innovative subdivisional modeling and industry-standard parametric surface and solid modeling tools. Subdivisional modeling ensures curvature continuity throughout the modeling process, making it much easier to create ergonomic, stylized design concepts. Creating more concepts means more options and possibilities to design the best products possible.

2. Collaborate and share designs with important stakeholdersSOLIDWORKS® Industrial Designer is more than just CAD software. It uses online tools (“the cloud”) and services to accelerate the design process. These online tools deliver transparent data management, online collaborative spaces, and project communities.

Collaboration with SOLIDWORKS® 3DEXPERIENCE solutions comes in two choices: codesign collaboration and community co-review. Codesign is enabled through online collaborative spaces where the project design data are stored. These data are accessible to the whole design team, not just SOLIDWORKS® Industrial Designer users, via secure invitation. Community co-review occurs through project communities enabling designers and users to share design data and collaborate on a design project. By setting up online communities, design team leaders and users can invite colleagues, suppliers, and customers to question and comment upon the designs in order to guide the project anytime and from anywhere.

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THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN ENGINEERINGInfographic

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ENGINEERING

1795

1844

1765

1842

1903

1908

DID YOU KNOW? The first engineer known by name

and achievement was Imhotep, builder of the Step Pyramid at

Saqqārah, Egypt, around 2550 BC. 

James Watt developed a steam engine that rotated a shaft, producing a practical power plant

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

The first recorded patent for the sewing machine

Samuel Morse sent his first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland

Orville and WilburWright made the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machineDID YOU KNOW?

There were more than 60,000 cars powered by steam from

1897 to 1927 in the U.S. These cars used the first e�ective and practical steam engine based on James Watt’s improvements

and developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. 

The Model T, an automobile built by theFord Motor Company, was conceivedby Henry Ford as practical, a�ordabletransportation for the common man

SOURCEShttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-salute-to-the-wheel-31805121/?no-ist

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/564472/steam-engine http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

http://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/07/news/story-sewing-machine-its-invention-improvements-social-industrial-commercial.html http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html http://www.history.com/topics/model-t

http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/library/archive/institution-and-engineering-history/engineering-history-timeline/engineering-history-list http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/187549/engineering/64713/History-of-engineering http://idsa.sjsu.edu/Archive%20documents/MA115-2P_AU07_Instructor_handout-1.pdf

http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2014/10/engineering-4-0.html http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2684616http://www.space.com/21487-nasa-sls-biggest-rocket.html

http://press.ihs.com/press-release/automotive/self-driving-cars-moving-industrys-drivers-seat http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/computers-cleverer-than-humans-15-years

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all

1997

2012

1997

1997

The Toyota Prius was the first mass-produced hybrid automobile

Ericsson was the first brand to coin the phrase “smartphone,” with the release of its GS88

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner brokethe sound barrier without the use of a vehicle, diving 24.23 miles and reaching a speed of 843.598 mph

NASA landed its first probe on Mars

1970

1980

1984

1973

1981

1990

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Circles, lines and arcs were placed virtually on computer screens

• Speed increased

• No more electric erasers

• Problems solved using geometry, thereby reducing mathematical calculations

A Boeing 747 jet arrived at Heathrow Airportin London after completing its maiden flight from New York

Apple Computer launched the first commerciallysuccessful computerto use a mouse andgraphical user interface

Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web

The Hungarian architect Erno Rubik's cube wenton sale, becoming the best-selling toy of all time

Dr. Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone

The first space shuttle flight, Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched

ENGINEERING 4.0 - (THE AUTOMATION AGE)

NASA's largest rocket yet, the Space Launch System (SLS), will launch its first test flight, boosting143 tons to orbit

Computers will be cleverer than humans, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering

30,000 drones will patrol U.S. airspace

11.8 million self-driving cars will be on the road

The Internet of Things will include 26 billion internet-connected devices

DID YOU KNOW? SOLIDWORKS’ mission to enable SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD on every

Engineer’s desktop was started in 1995 and has since reached out toinclude more than 2 million users in education and commercial endeavors.

DID YOU KNOW? The word engineer has its roots in the Latin word ingeniare, which means:

“To devise in the sense of construct or craftsmanship.”

2017

2029

2020

2025

2035

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Simulate, test or validate designs before manufacturing

• Parts tested for strength under di�erent loading conditions

• Electrical circuits tested

• Fluid flow analyzed

• Plastic injection molding processes designed and tested before melting pellets

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES: Inventions were designed and communicated to manufacturing using paper, vellum or mylar drawings or blueprints. Extensive use of physical prototypes

and trial and error engineering.

WHEN DID ENGINEERING BEGIN? WHERE IS ENGINEERING HEADING?

We could say that engineering has been in existence as long as the world’s earliest inventions, including the wheel around 3500 B.C. To better

understand where the future of engineering is headed, let’s take a look back at where it’s been, starting with the Industrial Revolution.

1966French engineer Pierre Bezier invented 3D CADto ease the design ofparts and tools for theautomotive industry

1995Conceived by Roger Easton, Global Positioning System (GPS) measures time and location in all weathers using a network of satellites

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Sharing data via an automated delivery and update mechanism

• Each stakeholder having access to the information needed, in the specific format needed

• 24/7 accessibility through any device

• Social and Collaborative Design

• Secure centralized vaulting system

• Less time spent recreating and re-interpreting data

THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN

FORMATS: - Automated price quoting for purchasing and sales

- Costing and environmental optimization

- Renderings and animations for sales and marketing

- Animations and exploded views for documentation, field service & repair

- Automated inspection drawings and reports for the QA department

- Electronic viewing of 3D models with PMI Product Manufacturing Information using MBD (Model Based Definition) engineering methods

ENGINEERING 3.0 – 1996-2015 (THE INFORMATION AGE)

ENGINEERING 2.0 – 1966-1995 (THE DIGITAL AGE)

ENGINEERING 1.0 – 1760 TO 1965 (THE INDUSTRIAL AGE)

ENGINEERING

1795

1844

1765

1842

1903

1908

DID YOU KNOW? The first engineer known by name

and achievement was Imhotep, builder of the Step Pyramid at

Saqqārah, Egypt, around 2550 BC. 

James Watt developed a steam engine that rotated a shaft, producing a practical power plant

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

The first recorded patent for the sewing machine

Samuel Morse sent his first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland

Orville and WilburWright made the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machineDID YOU KNOW?

There were more than 60,000 cars powered by steam from

1897 to 1927 in the U.S. These cars used the first e�ective and practical steam engine based on James Watt’s improvements

and developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. 

The Model T, an automobile built by theFord Motor Company, was conceivedby Henry Ford as practical, a�ordabletransportation for the common man

SOURCEShttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-salute-to-the-wheel-31805121/?no-ist

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/564472/steam-engine http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

http://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/07/news/story-sewing-machine-its-invention-improvements-social-industrial-commercial.html http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html http://www.history.com/topics/model-t

http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/library/archive/institution-and-engineering-history/engineering-history-timeline/engineering-history-list http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/187549/engineering/64713/History-of-engineering http://idsa.sjsu.edu/Archive%20documents/MA115-2P_AU07_Instructor_handout-1.pdf

http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2014/10/engineering-4-0.html http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2684616http://www.space.com/21487-nasa-sls-biggest-rocket.html

http://press.ihs.com/press-release/automotive/self-driving-cars-moving-industrys-drivers-seat http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/computers-cleverer-than-humans-15-years

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all

1997

2012

1997

1997

The Toyota Prius was the first mass-produced hybrid automobile

Ericsson was the first brand to coin the phrase “smartphone,” with the release of its GS88

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner brokethe sound barrier without the use of a vehicle, diving 24.23 miles and reaching a speed of 843.598 mph

NASA landed its first probe on Mars

1970

1980

1984

1973

1981

1990

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Circles, lines and arcs were placed virtually on computer screens

• Speed increased

• No more electric erasers

• Problems solved using geometry, thereby reducing mathematical calculations

A Boeing 747 jet arrived at Heathrow Airportin London after completing its maiden flight from New York

Apple Computer launched the first commerciallysuccessful computerto use a mouse andgraphical user interface

Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web

The Hungarian architect Erno Rubik's cube wenton sale, becoming the best-selling toy of all time

Dr. Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone

The first space shuttle flight, Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched

ENGINEERING 4.0 - (THE AUTOMATION AGE)

NASA's largest rocket yet, the Space Launch System (SLS), will launch its first test flight, boosting143 tons to orbit

Computers will be cleverer than humans, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering

30,000 drones will patrol U.S. airspace

11.8 million self-driving cars will be on the road

The Internet of Things will include 26 billion internet-connected devices

DID YOU KNOW? SOLIDWORKS’ mission to enable SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD on every

Engineer’s desktop was started in 1995 and has since reached out toinclude more than 2 million users in education and commercial endeavors.

DID YOU KNOW? The word engineer has its roots in the Latin word ingeniare, which means:

“To devise in the sense of construct or craftsmanship.”

2017

2029

2020

2025

2035

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Simulate, test or validate designs before manufacturing

• Parts tested for strength under di�erent loading conditions

• Electrical circuits tested

• Fluid flow analyzed

• Plastic injection molding processes designed and tested before melting pellets

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES: Inventions were designed and communicated to manufacturing using paper, vellum or mylar drawings or blueprints. Extensive use of physical prototypes

and trial and error engineering.

WHEN DID ENGINEERING BEGIN? WHERE IS ENGINEERING HEADING?

We could say that engineering has been in existence as long as the world’s earliest inventions, including the wheel around 3500 B.C. To better

understand where the future of engineering is headed, let’s take a look back at where it’s been, starting with the Industrial Revolution.

1966French engineer Pierre Bezier invented 3D CADto ease the design ofparts and tools for theautomotive industry

1995Conceived by Roger Easton, Global Positioning System (GPS) measures time and location in all weathers using a network of satellites

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Sharing data via an automated delivery and update mechanism

• Each stakeholder having access to the information needed, in the specific format needed

• 24/7 accessibility through any device

• Social and Collaborative Design

• Secure centralized vaulting system

• Less time spent recreating and re-interpreting data

THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN

FORMATS: - Automated price quoting for purchasing and sales

- Costing and environmental optimization

- Renderings and animations for sales and marketing

- Animations and exploded views for documentation, field service & repair

- Automated inspection drawings and reports for the QA department

- Electronic viewing of 3D models with PMI Product Manufacturing Information using MBD (Model Based Definition) engineering methods

ENGINEERING 3.0 – 1996-2015 (THE INFORMATION AGE)

ENGINEERING 2.0 – 1966-1995 (THE DIGITAL AGE)

ENGINEERING 1.0 – 1760 TO 1965 (THE INDUSTRIAL AGE)

ENGINEERING

1795

1844

1765

1842

1903

1908

DID YOU KNOW? The first engineer known by name

and achievement was Imhotep, builder of the Step Pyramid at

Saqqārah, Egypt, around 2550 BC. 

James Watt developed a steam engine that rotated a shaft, producing a practical power plant

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

The first recorded patent for the sewing machine

Samuel Morse sent his first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland

Orville and WilburWright made the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machineDID YOU KNOW?

There were more than 60,000 cars powered by steam from

1897 to 1927 in the U.S. These cars used the first e�ective and practical steam engine based on James Watt’s improvements

and developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. 

The Model T, an automobile built by theFord Motor Company, was conceivedby Henry Ford as practical, a�ordabletransportation for the common man

SOURCEShttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-salute-to-the-wheel-31805121/?no-ist

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/564472/steam-engine http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

http://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/07/news/story-sewing-machine-its-invention-improvements-social-industrial-commercial.html http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html http://www.history.com/topics/model-t

http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/library/archive/institution-and-engineering-history/engineering-history-timeline/engineering-history-list http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/187549/engineering/64713/History-of-engineering http://idsa.sjsu.edu/Archive%20documents/MA115-2P_AU07_Instructor_handout-1.pdf

http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2014/10/engineering-4-0.html http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2684616http://www.space.com/21487-nasa-sls-biggest-rocket.html

http://press.ihs.com/press-release/automotive/self-driving-cars-moving-industrys-drivers-seat http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/computers-cleverer-than-humans-15-years

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all

1997

2012

1997

1997

The Toyota Prius was the first mass-produced hybrid automobile

Ericsson was the first brand to coin the phrase “smartphone,” with the release of its GS88

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner brokethe sound barrier without the use of a vehicle, diving 24.23 miles and reaching a speed of 843.598 mph

NASA landed its first probe on Mars

1970

1980

1984

1973

1981

1990

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Circles, lines and arcs were placed virtually on computer screens

• Speed increased

• No more electric erasers

• Problems solved using geometry, thereby reducing mathematical calculations

A Boeing 747 jet arrived at Heathrow Airportin London after completing its maiden flight from New York

Apple Computer launched the first commerciallysuccessful computerto use a mouse andgraphical user interface

Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web

The Hungarian architect Erno Rubik's cube wenton sale, becoming the best-selling toy of all time

Dr. Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone

The first space shuttle flight, Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched

ENGINEERING 4.0 - (THE AUTOMATION AGE)

NASA's largest rocket yet, the Space Launch System (SLS), will launch its first test flight, boosting143 tons to orbit

Computers will be cleverer than humans, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering

30,000 drones will patrol U.S. airspace

11.8 million self-driving cars will be on the road

The Internet of Things will include 26 billion internet-connected devices

DID YOU KNOW? SOLIDWORKS’ mission to enable SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD on every

Engineer’s desktop was started in 1995 and has since reached out toinclude more than 2 million users in education and commercial endeavors.

DID YOU KNOW? The word engineer has its roots in the Latin word ingeniare, which means:

“To devise in the sense of construct or craftsmanship.”

2017

2029

2020

2025

2035

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Simulate, test or validate designs before manufacturing

• Parts tested for strength under di�erent loading conditions

• Electrical circuits tested

• Fluid flow analyzed

• Plastic injection molding processes designed and tested before melting pellets

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES: Inventions were designed and communicated to manufacturing using paper, vellum or mylar drawings or blueprints. Extensive use of physical prototypes

and trial and error engineering.

WHEN DID ENGINEERING BEGIN? WHERE IS ENGINEERING HEADING?

We could say that engineering has been in existence as long as the world’s earliest inventions, including the wheel around 3500 B.C. To better

understand where the future of engineering is headed, let’s take a look back at where it’s been, starting with the Industrial Revolution.

1966French engineer Pierre Bezier invented 3D CADto ease the design ofparts and tools for theautomotive industry

1995Conceived by Roger Easton, Global Positioning System (GPS) measures time and location in all weathers using a network of satellites

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Sharing data via an automated delivery and update mechanism

• Each stakeholder having access to the information needed, in the specific format needed

• 24/7 accessibility through any device

• Social and Collaborative Design

• Secure centralized vaulting system

• Less time spent recreating and re-interpreting data

THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN

FORMATS: - Automated price quoting for purchasing and sales

- Costing and environmental optimization

- Renderings and animations for sales and marketing

- Animations and exploded views for documentation, field service & repair

- Automated inspection drawings and reports for the QA department

- Electronic viewing of 3D models with PMI Product Manufacturing Information using MBD (Model Based Definition) engineering methods

ENGINEERING 3.0 – 1996-2015 (THE INFORMATION AGE)

ENGINEERING 2.0 – 1966-1995 (THE DIGITAL AGE)

ENGINEERING 1.0 – 1760 TO 1965 (THE INDUSTRIAL AGE)

ENGINEERING

1795

1844

1765

1842

1903

1908

DID YOU KNOW? The first engineer known by name

and achievement was Imhotep, builder of the Step Pyramid at

Saqqārah, Egypt, around 2550 BC. 

James Watt developed a steam engine that rotated a shaft, producing a practical power plant

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

The first recorded patent for the sewing machine

Samuel Morse sent his first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland

Orville and WilburWright made the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machineDID YOU KNOW?

There were more than 60,000 cars powered by steam from

1897 to 1927 in the U.S. These cars used the first e�ective and practical steam engine based on James Watt’s improvements

and developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. 

The Model T, an automobile built by theFord Motor Company, was conceivedby Henry Ford as practical, a�ordabletransportation for the common man

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/564472/steam-engine http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

http://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/07/news/story-sewing-machine-its-invention-improvements-social-industrial-commercial.html http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html http://www.history.com/topics/model-t

http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/library/archive/institution-and-engineering-history/engineering-history-timeline/engineering-history-list http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/187549/engineering/64713/History-of-engineering http://idsa.sjsu.edu/Archive%20documents/MA115-2P_AU07_Instructor_handout-1.pdf

http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2014/10/engineering-4-0.html http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2684616http://www.space.com/21487-nasa-sls-biggest-rocket.html

http://press.ihs.com/press-release/automotive/self-driving-cars-moving-industrys-drivers-seat http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/computers-cleverer-than-humans-15-years

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all

1997

2012

1997

1997

The Toyota Prius was the first mass-produced hybrid automobile

Ericsson was the first brand to coin the phrase “smartphone,” with the release of its GS88

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner brokethe sound barrier without the use of a vehicle, diving 24.23 miles and reaching a speed of 843.598 mph

NASA landed its first probe on Mars

1970

1980

1984

1973

1981

1990

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Circles, lines and arcs were placed virtually on computer screens

• Speed increased

• No more electric erasers

• Problems solved using geometry, thereby reducing mathematical calculations

A Boeing 747 jet arrived at Heathrow Airportin London after completing its maiden flight from New York

Apple Computer launched the first commerciallysuccessful computerto use a mouse andgraphical user interface

Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web

The Hungarian architect Erno Rubik's cube wenton sale, becoming the best-selling toy of all time

Dr. Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone

The first space shuttle flight, Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched

ENGINEERING 4.0 - (THE AUTOMATION AGE)

NASA's largest rocket yet, the Space Launch System (SLS), will launch its first test flight, boosting143 tons to orbit

Computers will be cleverer than humans, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering

30,000 drones will patrol U.S. airspace

11.8 million self-driving cars will be on the road

The Internet of Things will include 26 billion internet-connected devices

DID YOU KNOW? SOLIDWORKS’ mission to enable SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD on every

Engineer’s desktop was started in 1995 and has since reached out toinclude more than 2 million users in education and commercial endeavors.

DID YOU KNOW? The word engineer has its roots in the Latin word ingeniare, which means:

“To devise in the sense of construct or craftsmanship.”

2017

2029

2020

2025

2035

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Simulate, test or validate designs before manufacturing

• Parts tested for strength under di�erent loading conditions

• Electrical circuits tested

• Fluid flow analyzed

• Plastic injection molding processes designed and tested before melting pellets

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES: Inventions were designed and communicated to manufacturing using paper, vellum or mylar drawings or blueprints. Extensive use of physical prototypes

and trial and error engineering.

WHEN DID ENGINEERING BEGIN? WHERE IS ENGINEERING HEADING?

We could say that engineering has been in existence as long as the world’s earliest inventions, including the wheel around 3500 B.C. To better

understand where the future of engineering is headed, let’s take a look back at where it’s been, starting with the Industrial Revolution.

1966French engineer Pierre Bezier invented 3D CADto ease the design ofparts and tools for theautomotive industry

1995Conceived by Roger Easton, Global Positioning System (GPS) measures time and location in all weathers using a network of satellites

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:

• Sharing data via an automated delivery and update mechanism

• Each stakeholder having access to the information needed, in the specific format needed

• 24/7 accessibility through any device

• Social and Collaborative Design

• Secure centralized vaulting system

• Less time spent recreating and re-interpreting data

THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN

FORMATS: - Automated price quoting for purchasing and sales

- Costing and environmental optimization

- Renderings and animations for sales and marketing

- Animations and exploded views for documentation, field service & repair

- Automated inspection drawings and reports for the QA department

- Electronic viewing of 3D models with PMI Product Manufacturing Information using MBD (Model Based Definition) engineering methods

ENGINEERING 3.0 – 1996-2015 (THE INFORMATION AGE)

ENGINEERING 2.0 – 1966-1995 (THE DIGITAL AGE)

ENGINEERING 1.0 – 1760 TO 1965 (THE INDUSTRIAL AGE)

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JEREMY SINGLEY INDUSTRIAL DESIGNCase Study

Innovating a New Approach to Motocross Goggles with SOLIDWORKS®

Using SOLIDWORKS® Professional design software, Jeremy Singley Industrial Design tackles challenging design projects, such as refining the innovative concept for motocross goggles that sit on the helmet instead of the forehead, for ZOWA Optics.

Efficiently create innovative design concepts that have complex surfacing and manufacturing challenges.

Challenge:

Implement SOLIDWORKS® Professional Design, SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, and SOLIDWORKS® Gold Solution Partner Power Surfacing modeling software.

Solution:

• Shortened time to market by 50 percent• Decreased design time by 20 percent• Reduced design errors by 60 percent• Developed innovative design for motocross goggles

Results:

Jeremy Singley established his industrial design firm on the premise that the value of creative, innovative designs depends on whether they can be manufactured profitably. Jeremy Singley Industrial Design stands out from conventional industrial design consultants—some of which create only artistic representations of designs—because the firm evaluates the manufacturability of new product concepts and delivers production-ready parametric solid models as part of its services.

Choosing the right design package to support this business approach—delivering production-ready concepts efficiently and

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cost-effectively—was critical to the consultancy’s success. “The core of my business is creating uniquely aesthetic, ergonomic, and aerodynamic shapes in ways that can actually be manufactured,” Singley explains. “To do that, I need a 3D parametric CAD system that not only provides robust modeling, surfacing, visualization, analysis, rapid prototyping, and design communication tools, but also generates opportunities to work with partners in an extended design community.”

Although Singley had used Autodesk® Inventor® software in college, discussions with colleagues and mentors prompted him to evaluate SOLIDWORKS® 3D design software when he founded his design firm in 2004. “I discovered that SOLIDWORKS provides the tools that get the job done in a smarter, more efficient manner,” Singley recalls. “Because SOLIDWORKS has grown so dramatically, the number of prospective clients and companies with which I can partner is also

JEREMY SINGLEY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (continued)

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much larger. The decision to choose SOLIDWORKS has contributed to my company’s success.”

Jeremy Singley Industrial Design chose SOLIDWORKS® Professional Design software as its primary development platform. The company later added SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis software—to support development of a

more fuel-efficient tractor-trailer design and to assess heat management in various electronic device designs—and SOLIDWORKS® Gold Solution Partner Power Surfacing add-in package—to further enhance its surface modeling capabilities.

“SOLIDWORKS helps me design more quickly and accurately, which helps clients accelerate time to market,” Singley stresses. “Using SOLIDWORKS, I’ve cut design time by 20 percent, reduced design errors by 60 percent, and shortened time to market by 50 percent.”

FROM SCULPTED INVENTION TO MANUFACTURABLE DESIGNOne of the design firm’s challenging projects was fleshing out a completely new approach to motocross goggles for ZOWA Optics. The company approached Jeremy Singley Industrial Design with a hand-sculpted invention for motocross goggles that sit on the rider’s helmet rather than the forehead, yet still seal to the face. The innovative concept provides important benefits—reduced fogging, greater peripheral vision, and improved comfort—and also presents unique challenges.

“SOLIDWORKS made the entire development process more efficient. It would have been impossible to do this project without SOLIDWORKS.”

— Jeremy Singley, Owner

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JEREMY SINGLEY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (continued)

“The goggles have to precisely fit the helmet and the face, which was tricky,” Singley explains. “There isn’t a straight line in the design. Plus, the design incorporates a snap-in lens, requiring the use of lugs in the lens groove that require undercuts in the mold. While we stayed true to the original idea, the surface modeling was very complex, required many changes,

and a large number of prototypes. SOLIDWORKS made the entire development process more efficient. It would have been impossible to do this project without SOLIDWORKS.”

COMMUNICATING VIA E-DRAWINGSThroughout the extensive prototyping and refinement process for the ZOWA goggles, Jeremy Singley Industrial Design needed to collaborate closely and frequently with the original ZOWA inventor Charles Lysogorski and the manufacturer. Singley says the ability to share design changes with ZOWA using SOLIDWORKS® eDrawings® communication tools streamlined development.

“ZOWA is located an hour away, and the manufacturer is four hours over the mountains, so eDrawings files were quite handy,” Singley notes. “There was a lot of cut-and-try on this project—during both

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WHY IS SOLIDWORKS FLOW SIMULATION THE RIGHT CHOICE

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SUMMARYEngineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD) is a new breed of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) soft ware that enables mechanical engineers to simulate fluid flow and heat transfer applications with powerful, intuitive, and accessible 3D tools. Engineering fluid dynamics is driven by engineering criteria and goals so every product engineer can get the technical insights necessary to answer the questions faced in the product development process.

SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation is based on the same mathematical foundation as traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) soft ware, but key benefits set SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation apart, making it quicker and easier to use, while still delivering a robust and highly accurate solution.

the design and manufacturing phases—so it was important to have an efficient means of communication. The ZOWA inventor downloaded the free eDrawings reader, and we ended up doing a lot of eDrawings as we worked to get the design right.”

LEVERAGING THE SOLIDWORKS® COMMUNITYTo manufacture the goggles, Jeremy Singley Industrial Design turned to the SOLIDWORKS® community to find a partner with expertise in specialized moldmaking. Ambix Manufacturing Inc. brought additional expertise that helped resolve mold issues related to matching the lugs in the goggle frame with detents in the die-cut lens.

“The mold required undercuts, and the thermoplastic elastomer material was very soft during the part ejection cycle,” says Ambix President Jeff Nicoll. “We ran a series of SOLIDWORKS Plastics mold-filling simulations to strike a balance between the undercuts and the rubbery nature of the material, adjust the shrink size to meet the tolerances of the lugs, set gating locations, and work out the many interchangeable inserts that were required. Working these issues out in SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Plastics allowed us to finalize the process and achieve a successful run on the mold on the very first try.”

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WOLVERINE WORLDWIDE INC.Case Study

Winning the Footwear Development Race with SOLIDWORKS® Premium

With SOLIDWORKS® Premium software, Wolverine Worldwide has grown its product line while saving time and cutting costs simultaneously.

Accelerate and expand product development while simultaneously increasing innovation and controlling costs.

Challenge:

Implement SOLIDWORKS® Premium design and analysis software to improve product development efficiency.

Solution:

• Shortened design cycles by 60 percent • Cut development costs by 50 percent• Reduced material usage by 50 percent • Expanded product line by 200 percent

Results:

Few companies can say that they have the world at their feet, but that’s exactly the case at Wolverine Worldwide Inc. Leveraging a diverse business model that spans 190 countries and various footwear categories, Wolverine has come a long way since G.A. Krause founded the company more than 125 years ago. Today, the Michigan manufacturer produces more than a dozen footwear brands—including well-known names such as Hush Puppies®, Merrell®, and Wolverine®—and has grown to become a global enterprise.

Product development is an integral part of Wolverine’s success. Not content to make just one type of shoe, the company relies on its designers to create products ranging from work boots and occupational safety footwear to casual shoes and outdoor hiking boots. Until 2001, Wolverine utilized a different 3D CAD system to develop its products. However, usability and

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cost issues, and management’s plans to grow the company’s product offering, prompted Wolverine to evaluate other 3D design platforms, according to CAD/CAM Manager Chris Petersen.

“With shoe grading, we often need to utilize a nonuniform scale,” Petersen explains. “We experienced some issues working with nonuniform scales in the previous CAD system, which, combined with the price of the software, prompted us to reevaluate our design environment. Wolverine needed a system that was easier to use, had a better price point, and was consistent with our product expansion and productivity goals.”

Wolverine chose SOLIDWORKS® Premium software because it provides greater value at a lower price and includes integrated surfacing, visualization, and simulation tools. “For us, everything we do involves

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surfacing: from the soles to the inserts to the metatarsal guards,” Petersen stresses. “SOLIDWORKS Premium gives us the surfacing capabilities on which we rely to produce complex patterns and textures, as well as the visualization tools that we need to make prototyping more efficient.”

Faster design changes, shorter development cyclesSince implementing SOLIDWORKS® Premium software, Wolverine has doubled the number of products that it manufactures while simultaneously compressing design cycles by 60 percent. Petersen attributes these productivity gains to having access to a complete set of integrated modeling tools and the ability to make frequent design changes with SOLIDWORKS® without experiencing setbacks or delays.

“Footwear design begins with the shoe last, an anatomical representation of a foot made from plastic,” Petersen explains. “We frequently have to work with changes to the last. Before we used SOLIDWORKS, last changes could take days and were almost like starting over. With SOLIDWORKS, we use the Deform command to quickly create the new shape of the last. Now, major changes can be made to our designs in a matter of minutes.”

Saving material, improving quality, reducing costsSOLIDWORKS® Premium enables Wolverine to scrutinize its designs more thoroughly, resulting in material savings, better performance, and lower development costs. In one case, Wolverine designers used SOLIDWORKS® Premium’s simulation capabilities to increase the strength of its steel-toed boots, providing increased protection against impacts. In another example, the footwear manufacturer took advantage of material properties in SOLIDWORKS® to save material on its Harley-Davidson brand of heavy-duty motorcycle boots. Wolverine was able to reduce rubber usage on the boots by 50 percent—roughly one pound per pair—maintaining performance while improving comfort.

“As a pioneer in shoemaking, Wolverine was an early adopter of rapid prototyping technologies,” Petersen points out. “We make a lot of models and prototypes of our shoes, and SOLIDWORKS has helped

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us to make greater use of virtual models. For instance, there was one occasion when simulating prototypes in SOLIDWORKS, instead of making physical prototypes, saved between $10,000 and $15,000. Overall, we have cut our development costs by 50 percent.”

Visualization and configurations advance footwear innovationIn addition to saving time and money, SOLIDWORKS® Premium software is helping Wolverine introduce innovations in footwear design. The Wolverine iCSTM (Individual Comfort System) allows individual wearers to dial in the fit and comfort level of their shoes using an adjustment wheel contained in the heel. Wearers can enhance inner support, boost outer support, increase firmness, or add cushion.

“With design configurations, we modeled each shoe position for our iCS footwear from the base design,” Petersen notes. “This saved time and let us show the concept completely. We also benefit from the design visualization tools in SOLIDWORKS, including RealView, PhotoView 360, and eDrawings. Every model we create becomes a PhotoView 360 rendering, and eDrawings serve as living blueprints, which we use heavily.”

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Product design does not occur in a vacuum and has a significant impact

on manufacturing. In fact, 3D design carries even greater potential for

streamlining production processes, especially when you take advantage of

Design for Manufacturability tools and applications. With these technologies,

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In the discrete manufacturing industries, between one-third and one-half

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puter-aided drafting1. Although some tasks will always be done more

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— Chris Petersen, CAD/CAM Manager

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