 | Using SketchUp for mechanical design? Have you seen SpaceClaim? Everybody loves SketchUp’s ease-of-use and incredibly fast modeling tools. In fact, we loved them so much, we built a product specifically for mechanical design that we often hear called, “SketchUp on steroids.”
SpaceClaim works a lot like SketchUp: you push and pull on geometry and make new designs ridiculously fast. But SpaceClaim also handles precise geometry suitable for manufacturing and integrates into corporate CAD infrastructure. If you’ve ever wished that mechanical CAD could be more like SketchUp, you will probably like this webinar. We'll show: -
How the SpaceClaim UI makes it possible to have SketchUp-like tools with real, precise, CAD geometry -
Reuse data from any CAD system, including SketchUp and the Google 3D Warehouse -
Improve the fidelity of SketchUp data for manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and simulation -
Create precise mechanical drawings -
Integrate SpaceClaim designs into existing mechanical CAD and PLM environments View the webinar |
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What's New in SpaceClaim 2012 SpaceClaim Engineer 2012, our ninth release, is almost here! Join us to
learn how SpaceClaim is becoming more powerful and easy to use for
engineers, manufacturers and designers worldwide. View the webinar |
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Still Doing Design Reviews in Paint or PowerPoint? How about 3D? Design reviews, kaizen events, customer presentations. You want to
quickly review the status of a project, identify challenges, and suggest
improvements. But how do you perform design reviews in CAD? With
traditional history-based modelers, one wrong click and the meeting is
over. It’s impossible to make changes in real time. Lightweight
viewers are great at assembly mockup, but they don’t let you edit the
actual geometry. Wouldn’t it be great if you could make edits to the
actual design, quickly, with changes automatically tracked for
follow-up? SpaceClaim’s 3D direct modeling provides a fast and
easy way. SpaceClaim eliminates the nasty constraints, eternal
dependencies, and rebuild errors that can wreck a meeting. It’s simple
and fast user interface lets your ideas flow freely. The entire team
can see the changes on real geometry, removing confusion and preventing
rework.
Our webinar we will show how to: -
Open and edit designs from major CAD systems -
Quickly draw new ideas in 3D without getting bogged down in details -
Reuse existing designs to generate new concepts -
Track changes and delegate edits to be made in CAD -
Work in the context of existing CAD, PLM, and mock-up infrastructure View the webinar |
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Don't Let CAD Crash Your CNC! CAD geometry, even from the latest CAD systems, can have dangerous problems that can damage your hardware. Invisible errors and gaps between surfaces can turn into nasty surprises in G-Code. Validation tools and tool path verification can help, but it’s hard to model and catch everything. And what about 2D data with gaps, scan data, and mesh files from imprecise systems like SketchUp? This webinar will show how SpaceClam can turn almost any CAD data into precise geometry worthy of machining. In particular, we will show: -
How to detect and remove potentially dangerous geometry -
How to turn scan data into precise solids -
How to create annotated 2D drawings out of parts with 3D PMI -
How to turn sloppy 2D drawings into 3D solid parts -
How to turn lightweight 3D data, such as that from SketchUp, into precise solids View the webinar |
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SpaceClaim and CATIA®: Direct Modeling and Interoperability SpaceClaim thrives in engineering organizations that have standardized on CATIA® as their primary CAD tool. In this webinar, we will show how our customers use SpaceClaim to add value to their investment in CATIA® while broadening the use of 3D in manufacturing and engineering.
In particular, we will cover: -
Migrating CATIA® v4, SolidWorks®, and JT data to CATIA® v5 and v6 using SpaceClaim’s native Dassault-supplied translators -
Viewing CATIA® v5 PMI data in SpaceClaim and editing using parameters defined in v5 -
Working with vendor, customer, and legacy CAD data in CATIA® v4, CGM, and other CAD formats to produce new concepts and specifications -
Preparing CATIA® models for simulation and manufacturing -
How to identify which engineers should try SpaceClaim and which are best served by CATIA® SpaceClaim is a registered trademark of SpaceClaim Corporation. CATIA and SolidWorks are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes. View the webinar |
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Cleaning Dirty Geometry in SpaceClaim Not only can problematic geometry cause painful interoperability issues, it can also create downstream errors. Whether you're editing CAD data, prepping models for CAM, de-featuring for CAE, or communicating between organizations, you need clean, valid, watertight models. SpaceClaim's easy repair tools clean geometry from anywhere with push-button simplicity. It's like a spell checker for your 3D data. In this webinar you'll see how SpaceClaim can: -
Create watertight models from dirty imported STEM and IGES files -
Make edits quickly and easily, without having to use a complicated CAD system -
Prepare the parts for downstream use -
Work with any customer CAD data View the webinar |
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Geomagic Plus SpaceClaim: Reverse Engineering and Direct Modeling When reverse-engineering, not only do you need to create precise, water-tight geometry, you also need to update the geometry to fit in the context of new design situations. In the past, the only option was to recreate tedious feature-based models and guess at underlying design intent: an error-prone and hazardous practice.
Now, Geomagic and SpaceClaim have partnered to integrate their industry-leading reverse engineering and direct modeling products to allow you to both reconstruct and edit precise geometry. Geomagic creates clean meshes and converts them to watertight geometry. SpaceClaim then quickly edits the designs, adjusting tolerances and accommodating design changes – all without resorting to complex feature-based CAD systems or being forced to re-invent design intent.
This webinar, presented by experts at Geomagic and SpaceClaim, will show: -
Turning scan data into clean meshes and solid geometry in Geomagic -
The connection between Geomagic and SpaceClaim -
Editing the model with SpaceClaim to accommodate design changes and match geometric conditions View the webinar |
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Customizing SpaceClaim Using its API Have you ever wanted a special button in SpaceClaim that automated a common task, talked to other programs, or modified your model? Do you have in-house code that’s difficult to maintain? Have you ever wanted to add your own objects to a SpaceClaim design? Do you have special file formats you want to read and write? It’s never been easier than with the SpaceClaim API.
SpaceClaim’s free API provides the best platform for solid modeling application development of any mechanical CAD application. Not only is the API versioned, thread-safe, and .NET, but anything you create can take advantage of SpaceClaim’s powerful direct modeling capabilities. Unlike feature-based CAD systems that force you to develop tools that fit with the history-based paradigm, SpaceClaim lets you work with your geometry however you want. In particular, this webinar will cover: -
An overview of what the API can do, with dozens of examples of both professional and entertaining applications -
An introduction to the basic concepts of 3D MCAD programming, such as transformations and part instancing -
How to get started with your own customizations and tools Unlike many of our webinars, which assume that the audiences has little experience with CAD, this webinar will assume that you have some experience with (or interest in) programming in 3D. View the webinar |
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Attacking Castings with SpaceClaim If
you’ve ever designed a casting in a 3D CAD tool, you probably had
moments where you considered changing careers. Traditional
feature-based CAD systems just weren’t designed with your geometry in
mind, and they can make basic edits unnecessarily painful. SpaceClaim
provides a new approach that can cure a lot of common casting problems.
We’ve had a bunch of customers show us how, and we thought we’d share
it with you. This webinar will show: -
Importing CAD parts from different CAD systems -
Cleaning up complicated CAD geometry -
Removing rounds from the toughest parts -
Adjusting round radii and draft angles -
Creating in-process models from as-cast to as-machined -
Documenting machining operations -
Documenting in 2D drawings and with 3D PMI If
you make castings, forgings, and complex molded geometry, but haven’t
seen SpaceClaim, you’re in for a treat. We hope you’ll attend. View the webinar |
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Modern Machine Shop/MoldMaking Technology Magazine Sponsored Webinar:
CAD Got You Down? Imagine a CAD tool that can read parts from any CAD system, fixes dirty geometry, and won’t cost you a penny for training.
Okay, you can stop laughing now.
Actually, it does exist, and it’s called SpaceClaim. It’s a new CAD
tool that’s becoming a lot of machine shops’ secret weapon. We’re doing
a webinar on it that will quickly show: -
How to repair problematic geometry and create tool path-ready models -
Creating fixtures in hours instead of days -
Adjust rounds, drafts and wall thicknesses on parts, regardless of origin -
Open, edit, and derive parts from any CAD data from any customer -
Quote faster and take more business View the webinar |