CAD MicroSolutions had the pleasure of hosting Canada’s first Plastics Knowledge Day alongside our 3D metrology partner, GOM, on November 27th at our Toronto head office. Although ours was the only event in Canada, Plastics Knowledge Day was a global series with events hosted in more than 30 countries around the world throughout 2019! The events brought together experts in optical 3D metrology and plastics to share information on the tools and technology making an impact on the plastics process chain in Industry 4.0.

Every year, SOLIDWORKS releases a new and improved version of the software that directly addresses many of the requests and feedback from the SOLIDWORKS user community around the world. As our long-time clients have come to realize, CAD MicroSolutions prides ourselves on our technical prowess – and our ability to throw a pretty great get together for our network.

Lately many of us are experiencing disruptions to our typical working environment, and some of us will be required to work from home in the coming weeks which can pose a challenge particularly to those whose job requires them to be onsite working with hardware and equipment. For those that work with 3D printers, however, the right setup, workflow and...

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION   ENHANCEMENTS TO PART MODELLING FUNCTIONALITIES Create an Offset Surface without failed faces Repair fillet and chamfer features that show a missing references error Support for Mirror and Pattern features of a Structure System feature New options for creating Primary Members based on Points in a Structure System Added ability to split primary and secondary members using...

Today electrical engineers struggle to create and maintain harness documentation. Without the tools to keep their schematics, reports and “nail board” layouts intelligently linked together, they waste substantial time and effort repeatedly inputting data and checking their documentation for accuracy. Join SOLIDWORKS ECAD expert Thomas Smith on Tuesday April 14th at 1:00 PM EDT to learn how to create accurate...

"Wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics" - Eisenhower Additive Manufacturing (AM) is enabling distributed manufacturing, and one of the leaders in adoption is the US military. Armed with in-field use cases, Markforged's Ali Ghahremani and Ross Adams will explore: How forward-deployed additive manufacturing is minimizing supply chain risks today Examples from the US Marines and how...

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION   ENHANCEMENTS TO PART MODELLING FUNCTIONALITIES Create an Offset Surface without failed faces Repair fillet and chamfer features that show a missing references error Support for Mirror and Pattern features of a Structure System feature New options for creating Primary Members based on Points in a Structure System Added ability to split primary and secondary members using...