I spend a major portion of my SolidWorks working time in Assembles! Which means I spend a good portion of that time Mating components! As much by habit (as much as anything else) I’ve always started the Mate by selecting (left button mouse) the required face (or edge) from one part, then holding Ctrl & select (left button mouse) the required Face (edge etc) from the other part, then Right button mouse to display a context toolbar, then select the “Mate” feature, which would then open the Mate Property Manager (in the Feature Tree)! …. The first discovery was now you have a number of options when you “Save As” including “Save As Copy & Open” No longer do you have to tick a “As copy” box & then open that saved file! Let’s be honest! anyone who has ever used the “Save As”> “As copy” command has been caught working on the wrong file! We have all done it! This should at least help reduce that chance of working on the wrong file!Īssemblies are where you’ll find, what I believe to be, are some of the best enhancements! I know that’s a early big call, but for reducing mouse movement & mouse clicks these two are hard to beat! The first is Standard Mates from a Context Tool Bar! Have a look at any of the major manufacture websites (Dell, HP etc) and apart from a few entry level “Home” systems everything else is now 64bit! SolidWorks 2015 will not install on a 32 bit operating system” No great loss there! (said he who ironically is currently running SolidWorks 2014 Beta on 32bit machine) I would be surprised that within the next twelve months you will even be able to buy a new system with a 32bit Operating System. The first thing you’ll f ind when you start SolidWorks 2014 will be the Message “SolidWorks 2014 is the last release that supports 32 bit operating system. It is these enhancement which I find to give the best improvements in daily productivity! These are some observations and discoveries I’ve made after a few hours of use! Apart from the “Top Enhancements” there are always many more small “day to day” and user interface improvement.
After a quick run through of the “What’s New” and with no great plan of attack I went looking to see what I could find.
Over the past few weeks I’ve had some (limited) opportunities to start having a look through the release (with Beta). Over on the website Dassault Systemes SolidWorks have a series of videos which highlight some of the “Top Enhancements” in the SolidWorks 2014 release. Today we have seen the launch of SolidWork 2014 and with it the official website. Over the past couple of weeks we have started seeing some “sneak previews” of the SolidWorks 2014 released over at the my.solidworks website.
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