Solidworks社交協作插件簡介：3dswym

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Hereat Karl W. Schmidt & Associates, we have been using SOLIDWORKS ConceptualDesigner (SWCD) for almost two years now. One thing that we like aboutSOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE products is that in addition to a great CADfunctionality, we also get advantages of the cloud – especially social aspectsand collaboration through communities. Over time we have seen our use of thecommunities evolve to everything from technical support with our vendors,through new sales layouts with our customers. Below are a couple examples ofhow we are currently using the communities and collaboration to streamline ourcommunication and product development process.

使用solidworks概念設計的意外收獲，不僅是其CAD功能，更是，得到了云計算的優勢，我們的供應商的在線社區技術支持發展，與我們的客戶通過新的銷售布局。下面是我們如何利用當前的社區和協作，以簡化我們的溝通和產品開發過程中的幾個例子。

SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design sales layouts.For those of you that do not know us – Karl W. Schmidt is a global leader inengineering and manufacturing custom recycling systems. Our products are large– both in physical size and by number of components in final assembly. For ourlarge system layouts, we use our “standard” geometry from EPDM and add it to a3D space for a specific customer.  Fromthat point we use SWCD and the communities to convey our thoughts to andinteract with the customers.  We willinvite a specific customer user or groups of people to a community that onlythey can see.  This will then allow themto get automatic updates as we make changes, as well as notify us when thecustomer offers feedback.

我們使用在線社區傳達我們的想法，并與客戶進行互動。我們將邀請人們到特定的客戶或用戶組，一個社區，只有他們才能看到。這將允許他們獲得自動更新為我們做出的改變，以及當客戶提供反饋通知我們。

The second way we use the communities tocollaborate is for internal processes. We use the communities to communicate between our team in the office andthe people in the field addressing issues or doing presales work.  For example, we may be onsite with a customerworking through a current project and need to send photos or measurements tothe team in real time.  Traditionally wewould take pictures, load them to email or drop box.  Once that was completed we would then call todiscuss what was just sent.   Today wecan use the communities to upload the files and notes in real time to ourengineering team.  This process, coupledwith automatic notifications inside SOLIDWORKS, allows our team to continueworking on the design without searching through several applications.

我們使用的社區合作的第二種方式是內部流程。我們用我們的社區在辦公室團隊和人在現場處理做前期銷售工作的問題之間進行通信。例如，我們可能會與現場通過當前項目客戶的工作，需要發送照片或測量到團隊的實時性。傳統上，我們將采取圖片，加載它們以電子郵件或下拉框。一旦完成，我們會再打電話來討論什么是剛送來。今天，我們可以使用社區實時的文件和筆記上傳到我們的工程團隊。這個過程，加上在SolidWorks自動通知，讓我們的團隊繼續工作的設計，而無需通過多個應用程序搜索。

Another way we use communities is throughthe SOLIDWORKS Connector add-in. The Connector allows us to connect our desktopSOLIDWORKS products with the cloud environment. That way we can use atraditional SOLIDWORKS files in conjunction with the communities, and otherfiles, to seamlessly add content for our customers to see. With this add-in, wecan work directly from within our SOLIDWORKS software, use SOLIDWORKS files,and upload them to the 3D space, and capture information about a design on thefly. We can also upload the files in a format the customer can view withoutever leaving the SOLIDWORKS environment. Coupled with the automaticnotifications, this allows us to always be on top of the customer requests andrespond more quickly. We can also be alerted of changes, without spending toomuch time developing a design that the customer doesn't want. We also use thisto discuss FEA results from SOLIDWORKS Simulation as we work through newstructure designs. The ability to seamlessly collect all the engineering dataand put it in one location saves a lot of time we used to spend searching forthe “one” file. The one that was always saved in a “special” place so wewouldn’t lose it. Being able to capture screenshots from SOLIDWORKS also makesis easy to communicate our ideas as the questions arise. This opencommunication allows our customers to feel they are part of the process vs.just getting a final drawing. It also allows us to customize a design on thefly saving the customers time and money.

我們使用的community方式是通過SOLIDWORKS 3dswym插件。該插件可以讓云環境連接我們的桌面SolidWorks軟件。這樣，我們就可以在社區，和其他文件一起使用傳統的SolidWorks文件，無縫地添加內容，為廣大客戶觀看。有了這個插件，我們可以直接從我們的SolidWorks軟件內工作，使用SolidWorks文件，并將其上傳到3D空間，并捕獲有關的思維設計的信息。我們也可以上傳的格式，客戶可以查看，而無需離開SolidWorks環境中的文件。再加上自動通知，這讓我們永遠是對客戶需求的頂部，并更迅速地作出反應。我們也可以提醒變化，不用花費太多時間來開發，客戶不想要的設計。我們還用它來從SolidWorksSimulation的討論有限元分析結果，比如我們通過新的結構設計工作。無縫地收集所有的工程數據，并把它放在一個位置的能力，節省了大量的時間。能夠從SolidWorks捕捉截圖是很容易的問題出現，以傳達我們的想法。這種開放式的交流使得我們的客戶覺得自己是這個過程主動參與者，它也使我們能夠為客戶訂制設計，節省了客戶的時間和金錢。