It is a simple matter of either editing a Fillet/Chamfer and then selecting the other to change. The big enhancement, however, is the interchangeability between Chamfers & Fillets (and Fillets & Chamfers). Face-Face selection will allow the creation of symmetric,asymmetric, hold line, and chord width chamfers. This includes additional Chamfer features of Face-Face and Offset Face Chamfers. It has seen enhancements to align it closer with the fillet tool. There are a few interesting things happening with the Chamfer feature. With its ability to select faces, edges and curves from existing geometry that can be used as the sweep profile, the need to create a new sketch is eliminated. The Sweep feature has had a simple and timesaving function added. And not just a single surface but multiple surfaces at the same time. Its big trick, however, is the adding of Wrap to “Spline Surface” which adds the ability to wrap a sketch and create geometry onto any surface. These replace descriptions for the feature in the Property Manager. The Wrap tool has had major improvements as has the Property Manager, which has been brought in line with many of the other features that now use graphical representation icons. The big winner amongst these will be of interest to those users who need to create organic shapes. Parts modelling is one area that has received an extensive range of enhancements to many of its existing features. Section views in models allow you to maintain the “hidden” part as an outline or transparent geometry - also passed over into the rendering system Solidworks 2017 – parts and features This background feature creates a “dynamic buffer zone” when using the click-click sketch method and should see the reduction of the accidental creation of micro lines. This should now be much reduced with the introduction of Prevention of Accidental Micro Lines. It’s a reasonably common issue caused by click to click sketching. On closer inspection a random micro line is discovered that is causing the sketch to become open contours. Many users become perplexed when they believe they have created a closed contour sketch only to discover that it will not Extrude. Whereas the Segment tool, used to create equal length segments, was limited to line and arc (circle and rectangular) sketch entities, it will now work with splines, parabolas, ellipses, partial ellipses and conics. The Segment feature introduced in SolidWorks 2015 has seen quite a significant enhancement. SolidWorks 2017 sees the introduction of Offset on Surface and with it you now have the ability to use existing 3D edge and face entities to create new sketches as you would with the existing Offset tool. The ability to use existing edges and face entities to create a new sketch, a prescribe distance from those entities, is a great time saving feature. The Offset Sketch feature has always been a much used tool of mine. Images and screenshots along with text can now be attached and time stamps are added automatically.
The underutilised Comments tool of the Feature Manager has had some attention.Ĭomments, which were only shown at the top of the Feature Tree, are now shown next to the Feature they are referring to.
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The Reliability tab provides simple access to information such as how the session ended, which version of SolidWorks was being used as well as Windows Event Information. SolidWorks 2017 RX has not only had a facelift but has seen a new feature added. The sweeping arcs that overlapped the Features text have been replaced with geometric lines and filleted corners.
The Dynamic Reference Visualisation feature introduced with SolidWorks 2015 has undergone a revamp. SolidWorks continues to tinker with the User Interface. The following are just a few observations on a selection of those features and enhancements. Like all new versions of the product, it’s a mix of new features and enhancements to existing tools, across all of the components that make up the SolidWorks matrix. The release of SolidWorks 2017 is not that far away and I’ve been running SolidWorks 2017 Beta for a few months now.
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