If you start with an Extrude but later on you realize that a Revolve or a Sweep may have given you better edit-ability, there is no need to panic. Design guidance.Īnother unique set of capabilities in 3D Creator is the way features are interchangeable. You can use the capability to inspire new designs or optimize existing ones. Its flexibility makes it ideal for start working on your design without worrying about planning the perfect assembly structure.ĭesign Guidance (image below) helps you suggest where to place material based on loads and fixtures rather than having to rely on experience or guesswork. If you change your mind, you can dissolve the components back to features or bodies. You can add an additional body in the same environment or convert it to a component, add another one in and mate them together.
This means you can start a sketch, extrude it and it becomes a body.
This is because the solution offers a single modeling environment. Get to work first, worry about assembly structure laterįirstly, there is no need to define parts, multi-body parts or assemblies, and yet you can create all of the above. So, when we say 3D Creator, this includes all capabilities of the xDesign app.ĭesigned by the SOLIDWORKS team with SOLIDWORKS users in mind, xDesign as the key app in the 3D Creator role features a few key capabilities that make it the logical evolution from and extension to the world’s favorite 3D CAD software, SOLIDWORKS. Going forward, we’ll talk more about roles than apps as they are the solutions you buy and access. While 3D Creator contains only the xDesign app today, we envision that it will include multiple apps that will provide new capabilities to help you design in the cloud with greater ease and speed. Roles are collections of apps specific to a function. It is, in fact, part of 3D Creator, a role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Rest assured that the xDesign app is very much alive and well. In addition, being on the cloud makes it easy to share your data with anyone you want to share with, and no one you don’t. There’s no need to worry about formats, versions, or copying from one location to another. Having a common backbone also means that sharing data from one solution to another, or from one user to another, is easier than ever before. These solutions share common elements, user interface and data model, among others, which means they work together seamlessly.
Much like the apps for your smartphone, there is a growing set of cloud-based solutions that run on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Wait, what is the platform again and why we’re talking about it here? Let’s start from the beginning.ģDEXPERIENCE is Dassault Systemes’ cloud-based platform for planning, designing and delivering products.
Have we abandoned xDesign, have we simply changed its name, or have we introduced yet another solution and if so, how are the two solutions different? And beyond this, what is going on with our design portfolio on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform? Naturally, you wanted to know what 3D Creator is and how it relates to xDesign. You may also recall that recently we announced the commercial availability of “3D Creator,” which enables parametric 3D modeling in the cloud. For those of you who follow our announcements and blogs, you have likely heard about xDesign, a 3D CAD tool that runs in a browser and is developed by the SOLIDWORKS® R&D team.