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Current Offerings SOLIDWORkS STANDARD

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SolidWorks Pre Essentials ............................................................ 10 SolidWorks Essentials .................................................................. 11 SolidWorks Drawings ................................................................... 12 SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling ........................................... 13 SolidWorks Assembly Modeling ................................................... 14 SolidWorks Sheet Metal ............................................................... 15 SolidWorks Weldments ................................................................ 16 SolidWorks Mold Design ............................................................... 17 SolidWorks Animator ................................................................... 18 SolidWorks Surface Modeling ...................................................... 19 SolidWorks Administrator – SNL .................................................. 20 SolidWorks Administrator – Setup ............................................... 21 SolidWorks What’s New .............................................................. 22

SOLIDWORkS PROFESSIONAL

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SolidWorks Professional add-ons ................................................ 24 SolidWorks Photoview 360 .......................................................... 25 SolidWorks Workgroup PDM ....................................................... 26

SOLIDWORkS PREMIUM

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SolidWorks Simulation Essentials ................................................ 28 SolidWorks Motion ..................................................................... 29 SolidWorks Routing Electrical ..................................................... 30 SolidWorks Routing, Piping & Tubing .......................................... 31

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SOLIDWORkS SIMULATION

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SolidWorks Simulation Professional ............................................. 33 SolidWorks Flow Simulation ........................................................ 34 SolidWorks Simulation Premium: Nonlinear ............................... 36 SolidWorks Simulation Premium: Dynamics ................................ 37 SolidWorks Plastics ...................................................................... 38

SOLIDWORkS ENTERPRISE PDM

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Using SolidWorks Enterprise PDM .............................................. 40 SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Administrator ................................. 41

SOLIDWORkS COMPOSER

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SolidWorks Composer .................................................................. 43

DRAFTSIGHT

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DraftSight Essentials .................................................................... 45

SOLIDWORkS ADD INS

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DriveWorks/Tacton ..................................................................... 47 Power Surfacing ........................................................................... 47 SolidWorks Sustainability ............................................................ 47

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PLM Group Training offering Make the best out of your software by adding depth to your professional skills There is no doubt that good training pays dividends. At the SolidWorks Certified Training Centre, we believe that the best way to maximize productivity and get the best return on your investment is to ensure your staff is trained properly.

Our unique training programs are designed to maximize your success.

Whether you are investing in a new CAD system, upgrading your existing system, or are simply increasing the number of CAD engineers in your team, the learning process takes additional time and if this is not structured properly, it can lead to lower productivity. Often more time is wasted trying to fix broken models that were done incorrectly than would have initially been spent on proper training. Training is vital for success!

PLM Group provides you with fully certified and accredited SolidWorks instructors who are experienced engineers. The focus of each PLM Group training course is on the fundamental skills and concepts central to the successful use of the software. We also tailor our courses to meet your company’s specific needs and can provide the necessary workstations for the attendees to use at the training sessions.

Every person who attends a training course with PLM Group is asked to provide feedback, which we use to help maintain our highest standards. In the past three years 99% of our students have been satisfied with the training they received.

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Our Promise allows you to attend the same training course again, completely free of charge, within a year of the original course date it if you do not feel confident in your ability to use the software properly.

Get up to speed in a fraction of the time!

Training benefits: Get Certified in SolidWorks Design Better Products Increase Efficiency Learn Advance Techniques Enhance Design Skills Save Time & Money Reduce Frustration Improve Job Performance

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Classroom trainings Learning by doing

Improve your productivity and knowledge of SolidWorks and SolidWorks Partner products with Certified Instructor led classroom trainings. PLM Group spends considerable resources to ensure that our instructors are the best in class and our offerings are the most comprehensive. Our trainings are delivered at either one of our training facilities or on-site at your company premises. Trainings are available in English, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Estonian and Russian.

Industry specific trainings Learn the skills required in your Industry

Specific courses designed to get the most out of your SolidWorks products and obtain the skills required for the specific industry you are working in. Industry training courses are broken down into three phases - Core Training, Advanced Training and Expert Training.

E-learnings

Instructor led training delivered live over the internet E-Learnings take place live over the Internet, which gives you the opportunity to communicate directly with both the instructor and other participants. You get the same high quality exercises and training content as if you participated in one of our classroom trainings, but without leaving your office. Our E-Learning system allows you to submit your questions to the instructor in order to provide you with the same help as in our classroom trainings.

Training agreements Get free access to all scheduled trainings

A Training Agreement is the perfect ongoing training opportunity for both new and existing customers. It is partnership that the company has with PLM Group

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that shows a company takes seriously the desire to use the software provided to the best effect possible. We love strengthening relationships! With a Training Agreement, the company gets inclusive access to all our scheduled trainings.

You can access the latest knowledge and get the right conditions to stay ahead of your competitors. This way your educational costs are fixed and under control.

Customized Training

Company specific customized training path A customized training option provides the opportunity for your company to receive detailed attention to the learning and development needs specific to your company. PLM Group will work with you to assess the learning needs of your employees and collaborate to prepare development and delivery strategy that meets your needs. Our goal in customization is to build customized content with objectives that are tied to your organization's strategic plan to enhance skills, increase productivity and drive revenue growth.

A customized training can help you save time and become more and more methodical in the way of working by using PLM Group solutions. You choose whether you want to place the program, in one of our classrooms or at your workplace.

Competence Mapping Identify the knowledge level of your team

With our competence mapping service, we will identify the current knowledge of each team member create a customized training scheme for individuals or groups within your company. After the trainings are completed, we validate the team members newly gained knowledge with an examination.

What you will get: Current status of knowledge within your staff of team members.

A tailor made training plan for your users and/or groups of users.

SolidWorks Certified Professional status of your team members.

An internal presentation of the overall result.

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We are delivering our training services with

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Making engineering and problem solving easy and fun Changing people mindset and their way of seeing things Making your training investment worthwhile by providing quick ROI

"It was a great SolidWorks course and the money was well spent. Without the course I would have had to use working hours to train myself and I would not have learned about the various functions of SolidWorks as deeply, quickly and thoroughly."

Jacob Løkke, production technologist, B & E Steel A/S

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SOLIDWORkS STANDARD

Duration

SolidWorks Pre Essentials

1

day

Are you in a process to go from 2D to 3D modeling and have limited experience of CAD and SolidWorks? Then the SolidWorks Pre Essentials is the course for you. Pre Essentials teaches you how to start using the SolidWorks software and the focus is on the fundamentals of 3D modeling. The teacher will walk you through part and drawing modes and guide you in practical excersises. After attending this training you will be well prepared for an upcoming SolidWorks Essentials course. The course is also well suited for you with limited use of SolidWorks in mind, maybe only for opening and reviewing parts and drawings.

Content Introduction to SolidWorks User interface Sketch mode Part mode Drawing mode Analysis tools Tutorials

Prerequisites Basic experience with Windows operating system

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Essentials

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Duration

4

days

SolidWorks Essentials

SolidWorks Essentials teaches you how to use the SolidWorks mechanical design automation software to build parametric models of parts and assemblies, and how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies. The focus of this course is on the fundamental skills and concepts central to the successful use of SolidWorks. The course will give you a good foundation for continuing with advanced courses within the SolidWorks area and a good start for an efficient design process at your company.

Content SolidWorks basics and user interface Sketching in SolidWorks Basic part modeling Features and patterning Design changes and repairing Bottom-up assembly modeling Using drawings

Prerequisites Mechanical design experience Experience with Windows operating system Completed the online tutorials that are integrated in SolidWorks

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Drawings SolidWorks Assembly SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling SolidWorks Sheet Metal SolidWorks Mold Design SolidWorks Plastics

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Duration

1

day

SolidWorks Drawings

SolidWorks Drawings teaches you how to succesfully make engineering drawings of parts and assemblies. The focus of this course is on the fundamental skills and you will for instance learn how to handle views, dimensions and tolerance features in SolidWorks.

The software is a robust and feature rich application that will help you to streamline your process of making drawings.

Content Drawing sheets and templates Part drawing views Dimensions Annotations Assembly drawing views Bill of materials Performance and display issues Drawing references, comparisons and checks

Prerequisites Mechanical design and engineering drawing experience Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Assembly SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling SolidWorks Administrator - SNL SolidWorks Administrator - Setup

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SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling

2

days

Are you working with consumer products or complex mechanical shapes and need good tools for advanced shaping? SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling offers many tools to support the design process. The course teaches you how to build complex shape models and you will learn how to use multibody solids, sweeping and boundary features and more advanced shaping capabilites of SolidWorks. The lessons center around working with solids and will cover many of the commands and options in great detail. Most of the case studies and excersises are from industrial type applications.

Content Multibody solids Spline and curve functionality Sweep Boundary feature and Lofting Advanced Tools

Prerequisites Mechanical design experience Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Surface Modeling SolidWorks Mold Design SolidWorks Animator SolidWorks Photoview 360

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Duration

2

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SolidWorks Assembly Modeling In an early stage in the design process it is crucial to analyze parts, that are assembled togheter, to check for interferences or unwanted gaps to avoid producing incorrect parts. SolidWorks Assembly Modeling teaches you how to maximize your use of the assembly modeling capabilities. You will start learning how to create assemblies by inserting and mating components and then how to analyse the assembly. Handling large assemblies and useful techniques of creating new parts in context of an assembly will also be covered. After attending this training you will be well prepared for many of the advanced and specialized courses within the SolidWorks area.

Content Understanding assemblies Mate techniques Top-Down assembly modeling Using configurations with assemblies Display states and appearances Assembly editing Layout-based assembly design Large assemblies

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Prerequisites Mechanical design experience Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling SolidWorks Sheet Metal SolidWorks Weldments SolidWorks Drawings SolidWorks Routing, Electrical SolidWorks Routing, Piping & Tubing SolidWorks Animator SolidWorks Productivity Tools SolidWorks Photoview 360 Our service Large Assembly Methods

Duration

SolidWorks Sheet Metal

1

days

Are you designing bent sheet metal parts with uniform thickness? SolidWorks Sheet Metal module can streamline your process in making manufacturing documentation.

SolidWorks Sheet Metal course teaches you how to build sheet metal parts or convert conventional parts to sheet metal parts and use simple commands to unfold the parts to flat patterns. By utilizing case studies you learn the necessary commands, options and menus in the context of completing design tasks.

Content Sheet Metal flange method Sheet Metal convert method Multibody Sheet Metal parts Sheet Metal forming tools Additional Sheet Metal features and techniques Sheet Metal parts in drawings

Prerequisites Mechanical design experience Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Assembly SolidWorks Drawings SolidWorks Weldments

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Duration

SolidWorks Weldments

1

day

Are you working with welded structures of beams, pipes and tubing or in a business where you use parts with uniform profiles, cut in specific lengths? The weldment module in SolidWorks provides effective tools for this, is easy to use and time saving.

SolidWorks Weldments course teaches you how to create structures with standard structural members. You learn how to use weldment multi-body functionality and create manufacturing drawings with well defined cut lists. By utilizing case studies you learn the necessary commands, options and menus in the context of completing design tasks.

Content Weldment features Structural members and profiles Drawings and Cut Lists Weldments and properties Working with pipes and tubing 3D Sketching Weldments and sheet metal in assemblies

Prerequisites Mechanical design experience Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Assembly

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Drawings SolidWorks Sheet Metal

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SolidWorks Mold Design

2

days

Whether you are designing the part which will be molded or are designing the mold itself you can be helped by using the SolidWorks Mold Tools. The tools allows you to analyze the model and speed up the design process by automating parts of the mold design. In this course you will learn how to use the mold tools for simple tooling splits with just one core and cavity to more complexed shapes with multiple part directions. The course also covers problems with imported geometry, surface modelling and manual techniques for the mold design.

Content Core and Cavity Multiple Parting Directions Importing and Repairing Geometry Parting Lines and Shut-Off Surfaces Using Surfaces Reusable Data Alternate Methods for Mold Design Making a Complete Mold

Prerequisites Mechanical Design experience Experience designing molds Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Surface Modeling SolidWorks Assembly

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Duration

SolidWorks Animator

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days

When facing demands on fast and accurate developing processes, it is important to be able to visualise and present design ideas and functionality in a clear way. SolidWorks Animator provides you with the possibilty to create and save animations. You will learn how to create motions in assemblies from simple to more complex and check for problems like interferences. To create clear animations you will learn how to use camera functions, different view orientations and appearances to optimize the visual impression of the motion. Different output options to save and play the animation will also be covered.

Content Creating animations Timeline and keypoints View orientations Appearances Free component motion Motion drivers Cameras Walk-through animations Output and post-processing Tips and Tricks for better animations

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Prerequisites Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Assembly

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Photoview 360

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SolidWorks Surface Modeling

2

days

Are you designing products with complex shapes and realise that solid modeling is not sufficient for the task? SolidWorks Surface Modeling offers many new tools to support an advanced design task. The course teaches you how to build complex shapes using surface modeling techniques combined with solid modeling techniques. Most of the case studies and excersises in this course are taken from consumer product design applications and the lessons center around the combined use of solids and surfaces. The goal, although, is always to create a good solid.

Content Understanding surfaces Surface features Solid-Surface hybrid modeling Repairing and editing Advanced surface modeling Blends and patches Fillet features Master model techniques

Prerequisites Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling Work experience with SolidWorks software

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Animator SolidWorks Photoview 360

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Duration

SolidWorks Administrator SNL

1

day

If you are an administrator of SolidWorks and are using a network license, this course is of vital use for you. It is very important to know how to install, configure and maintain the system in the right way. This course will teach you how to install and maintain multiple installations with the SolidWorks Administrative image. The control of license usage with SolidNetWork License server will be covered as well as troubleshooting, diagnostic logs and uninstallation.

Content Install a SolidNetWork License (SNL) Server Option file at SNL server License access Download and create a SolidWorks image Install SolidWorks with SolidWorks image Update image Create log and analyze a failed installation Uninstall with clean options Uninstall several versions Install SolidWorks with a command line

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Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Administrator - Setup SolidWorks Enterprise PDM SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Administrator

Duration

SolidWorks Administrator Setup

1

day

If you recently bought SolidWorks software or if you are appointed as an administrator this course is for you. You will see how to set up and maintain SolidWorks and you will learn about SolidWorks file structure, file references and file associativity. The important tasks of create drawing templates, set up document card, administer Toolbox and manage a non PDM multi-user environment is also covered.

Content Install SolidWorks with Installation Manager Uninstall SolidWorks with cleanup options Save / restore settings General use of SolidWorks Customer Portal CAD Admin Dashboard Hardware and drivers SolidWorks file structure Automatic file back up File references, how to move and change file names correct Work in collaborative environment without a PDM system Setup and use ToolBox Create drawing and BOM templates Setup document card

Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Administrator - SNL SolidWorks Enterprise PDM SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Administrator

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SolidWorks What's New Whether you are a new user or a user with several years of experience with SolidWorks, What's new course gives you a quick and efficient review of thenew features in the latest version of SolidWorks. There is typically between 200 and 300 new features and functions in the yearly release of SolidWorks. This course covers the most important new features that will increase the productivity in your daily work with both exercises and examples.

Content News in SolidWorks latest release

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Prerequisites Experience with the SolidWorks software

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day

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SolidWorks Professional

Duration

SolidWorks Professional add-ons

1

day

Are you looking for increased productivity in SolidWorks? The training will cover many useful tools that you might not be aware of as parts of SolidWorks. Equations and design tables enhance and speed up the design process. Imported geometry can be handled in a more efficient and parametric way. SolidWorks Utilities verifies differences between revisions of parts and drawings. SolidWorks Costing estimates cost of parts with machining included. All of these tools will speed up and facilitate the design process.

Content FeatureWorks SolidWorks Utilities Using SolidWorks Toolbox SolidWorks Costing

Prerequisites Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Assembly

Recommended courses after this A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

Our service Large Assembly methods

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Duration

SolidWorks Photoview 360

2

days

If you are working in SolidWorks and need photorealistic product images you should attend this course. PhotoView 360 is a powerful tool for creating images of your design for different types of product presentations. You can create photorealistic renderings of parts and assemblies and produce both electronic and paper output. In the course Photoview 360 you will learn the fundamentals of PhotoView 360 from simple to more complex renderings. The course covers applying different types of appearances, decals, lightning and scenes as well as output options.

Content Visualization Methods Basic Visualization Workflow Applying Appearances Decals Viewpoint Output Options Scenes and Lighting Display States and Configurations Advanced Lighting

Prerequisites Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Assembly

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Animator

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Duration

SolidWorks Workgroup PDM If you are working in a design environment with more than one user and needs keeping track of changes in your documents this course can be useful to you. SolidWorks Workgroup PDM is a fully integrated easy to deploy and use PDM system that comes with SolidWorks Professional. The focus of this course is on the fundamental skills and concepts central to the successful use of SolidWorks Workgroup PDM. The intended audience for this course is vault administrators and SolidWorks users

Content PDM Concepts and File Management Document Check In Accessing Documents SolidWorks Workgroup PDM Environment Toolbox and Files that are Not Revision Managed SolidWorks Workgroup PDM Setup Maintaining the Vault Administration Tasks

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Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system Experience with SolidWorks Software

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SolidWorks Premium

Duration

3

days

SolidWorks Simulation Essentials

Are you in need of creating better designs by performing analysis you should attend this course. By learning how to use SolidWorks Simulation in the design process you can quickly and efficiently validate quality, performance and safety in your model all while still creating the design which will save you both time and money. Besides the basics of the Finite Element Analysis you will learn about the whole analysis process from meshing, loads and boundary conditions to evaluation of the results. The course also covers best practices and troubleshooting in Simulation. After the training you will have a better understanding of which types of analyzes that are most appropriate for your design.

Content The analysis process Meshing Boundary conditions Assembly analysis with contacts and connectors Symmetrical models Submodeling Shell models Mixed meshing solids, beams and shells Parametric studies Adaptive meshing

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Prerequisites Mechanical engineering experience (strengths, FEM etc) Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Simulation Professional Our service Simulation Model Preparation A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

Duration

2

days

SolidWorks Motion

Are you interested in analyzing the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your SolidWorks assembly models? Attend the SolidWorks Motion course and you will learn the basics of how to use the SolidWorks Motion Simulation software to predict motion effects in your designs. You will learn how to build motion models, set up contacts and forces and to post-process results. The course will cover reaction and friction forces as well as power consumption and torques in motors.

Content Introduction to Motion Simulation and forces Building a Motion model and postprocessing it Contacts, springs and dampers Advanced contacts Motion optimization Redundancies Event based Simulation Export of results to SolidWorks Simulation (stress analysis)

Prerequisites Mechanical engineering experience (strengths, FEM etc) Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Simulation Essentials Knowledge of the basics of MotionManager

Recommended courses after this A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

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Duration

SolidWorks Routing Electrical

1

day

Today many companies faces the challenges of assembling both mechanical parts and electrical routes togheter and get it all to fit. SolidWorks Routing Electrical facilitates the design process in the cooperation between mechanical and electrical routing engineering. SolidWorks Routing also enables the designer to create piping and tubing applications, but this course will only cover the electrical routes. The training explains how to create, edit and manage electrical routes, from the critical routing components and their design requirements to the sub-assemblies that contain the routes. By using SolidWorks Routing Electrical you will automatically get a lot of useful information to show in 2D drawings for a clear overview.

Content Routing with Clips Electrical Routing Components Standard Cables Electrical Data Import Electrical Drawings Electrical Conduits

Prerequisites Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Assembly Experience with 3D-sketch in SolidWorks

Recommended courses after this A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

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SolidWorks Routing, Piping & Tubing

1

day

An efficient tool when working within the process industry is SolidWorks Routing Piping & Tubing. SolidWorks Routing also enables the designer to create ribbon cables and electrical cables and wires, but this course will only cover the piping and tubing parts. The training will teach you how to create routed systems for piping and tubing applications.

All the topics from the critical routing components and their design requirements to the subassemblies that contain the routes will be covered. By using SolidWorks Routing Piping & Tubing you will automatically get a lot of useful information to show in 2D drawings for a clear overview.

Content Piping Routes Piping Fittings Piping and Tubing Changes Creating Routing Components Using P&ID Files

Prerequisites Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Assembly Experience with 3D-sketch in SolidWorks

Recommended courses after this A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

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Duration

SolidWorks Simulation Professional

1

day

If you are looking for deep knowledge within the simulation area you should attend this second course, which is a direct extension of SolidWorks Simulation Essentials. All SolidWorks Simulation users wishing to create better designs by performing analysis and evaluating the behavior of parts and assemblies under actual service conditions can attend this course. It will provide an in-depth coverage on the advanced topics in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) including heat transfer analysis, frequency analysis, fatigue and stability analyisis based on the linear buckling concepts.

Content Frequency analysis of parts and assemblies Buckling analysis Thermal analysis Fatigue analysis Drop Test Optimization 2D Simplification

Prerequisites Mechanical engineering experience (strengths, FEM etc) Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Simulation Essentials Work experience of SolidWorks Simulation

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Duration

SolidWorks Flow Simulation

2

days

SolidWorks Flow Simulation takes the complexity out of flow analysis and can be a regular part of your design process, reducing the need for costly prototypes, eliminating rework and delays, and saving time and development costs.The goal of this course is to teach you how to set up, run and view results of a fluid flow and/or heat transfer analysis using SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The course covers subjects like thermal analysis, porous media, fans and relative humidity.

Content Preparing the model for simulation Meshing Themal analysis Transient thermal analysis Pouros media Rotating models Parametric analysis Cavitation Relative Humidity Particle Trajectory Supersonic Flow

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Prerequisites Mechanical engineering experience (strengths, FEM etc) Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials

Recommended courses after this SolidWorks Assembly SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

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Duration

2

days

SolidWorks Simulation Premium: Nonlinear This course will raise your SolidWorks Simulation FEA skills to the next level! It offers hands-on experience in the use of SolidWorks Simulation Premium nonlinear module.

The course provides an overview of a wide range of nonlinear structural analysis topics.

You will learn how to deal with models that exhibit large displacements and/or yielding, discuss and practice the use of many nonlinear material models available in SolidWorks Simulation and, most importantly, how to drive a nonlinear analysis to successful completion.

Content Introduction to Nonlinear Structural Analysis Large displacement analysis Incremetal control techniques Nonlinear buckling analysis Plastic deformation Analysis of elastomers Nonlinear contact analysis Metal forming

Prerequisites Mechanical engineering experience (strengths, FEM etc) Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Simulation Essentials

Recommended courses after this A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

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Duration

2

days

SolidWorks Simulation Premium: Dynamics The goal of this course is to teach you how to use the SolidWorks Simulation software and to help you analyze linear and nonlinear dynamic structural behavior of your parts and assemblies such as vibration and shock analysis.

The training covers various types of dynamic loading including time dependent analysis (force loads as well as motion shock loading examples), harmonic analysis and random vibration analysis (MIL-STD-810F example is included), response spectrum analysis, and introduction to nonlinear dynamics simulation.

Content Vibration with impulse load Transient shock analysis according to MIL-STD-810G Harmonic analysis Response spectrum analysis Random vibration analysis according to MIL-STD-810G Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis

Prerequisites Mechanical engineering experience (strengths, FEM etc) Knowledge of basic principles in Vibrations Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Completed the course SolidWorks Simulation Essentials

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Duration

SolidWorks Plastics

2

days

As a plastics part designer, SolidWorks Plastics enables you to optimize parts for manufacturability in the early stages of design. Easy to learn and use, SolidWorks Plastics is fully embedded within the SolidWorks CAD environment so you can analyze and modify designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function.

SolidWorks Plastics also provides anyone who designs or builds injection molds an accurate, easy-to-use way to optimize them. You can quickly create and analyze singlecavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates.

You can even balance runner systems and estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size, enabling you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework.

The SolidWorks Plastics course covers all the features and functions of both the SolidWorks Plastics Professional and SolidWorks Plastics Premium packages.

Content Basic Flow Analysis Detecting Air Traps Detecting Short Shots The Model Manager Gate Locations and Sink Marks Multiple Cavity Molds Runner-Balancing Gate Freeze Optimizing Cooling Time Using Inserts Mesh Repairs Basic SolidWorks Mold Tools

Prerequisites Mechanical design experience Completed the course SolidWorks Essentials Fundamental knowledge of: - plastic materials - plastic part design - injection mold design

Recommended courses after this A follow-up day with one of our experienced technicians, to focus on your methods.

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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM

Duration

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM

1

day

If you are managing files with SolidWorks Enterprise this is a course for you.

PDMSolidWorks Enterprise is a potent PDM System that ensures that you work efficient and safe with your design documents within your company. This training will teach you the fundamentals of working with PDM such as workflow, managing document information, revisions as well as covering the concept of Concurrent Engineering.

Content Review of concepts Log In / off Introduction, workflow Revisions / versions "Check-in / check-out" References and configurations Use of document cards, serial numbers and templates Searches and search favorites History and earlier versions "Pack and Go" and external references Concurrent Engineering

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Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system Experience with SolidWorks Software

Duration

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Administrator

2

days

If you are interested in setting up and/or administrating SolidWorks Enterprise you should attend this course. SolidWorks Enterprise is a potent PDM System that ensures that you work efficient and safe with your design documents within your company. In this course you as an administrator of the system will learn how to handle users and groups, design document and folder cards, set up workflows and troubleshoot the system.

Content SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Administration Tool Network, system architecture and system requirements Users and user groups Variable, lists and serial numbers Design of document and folder cards Create templates Categories and revisions Setup and Configuration of Workflows Extraction of PDM data from database Notifications and messages Import / Export and BOMs Troubleshooting

Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system Experience with SolidWorks Software Completed the course SolidWorks Enterprise PDM

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Duration

SolidWorks Composer

3

days

Are you working with technical illustrations or product information this is a course for you. With SolidWorks Composer you can reuse your CAD-data and rapidly crate and update high quality graphical assets that are fully associated with your 3D design. This helps you synchronizing the technical documentation process with the design process and accelerates your time-to-market.The assets can be used in product manuals, assembly- and installation instructions, maintenance guides, broschures, web pages etc. The course covers subjects from what is SolidWorks Composer to creating detail images, exploded views, animations and interactive content. To attend this course you don't need any prior knowledge of CAD.

Content SolidWorks Composer interface Cover and detail views Exploded views and Bills of Materials Marketing images Animation Creating interactive content Walkthrough animations Updating Composer files Output as 2D and 3D Publishing

Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system

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DraftSight Draft Sight

Duration

2

day

DraftSight Essentials

DraftSight is a software for documenting designs, create 2D CAD drawings and to manage your legacy 2D data. DraftSight is a drafting automation software tool and uses coordinate system, cartesian, to determine each point of a drawing entity unambigiously. The goal of this course is to teach you how to handle 2D drawings and share them and the focus is on the fundamental skills and concepts central to the successful use of DraftSight.

Content User interface View commands Coordinates Creating a simple drawing Modify commands Properties and Layers Toolbar Drawing files Advanced commands Text and dimensions Drawing output and layout

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Prerequisites Experience with Windows operating system Engineering drawing experience

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SolidWorks Add ins plmgroup.eu/training

DriveWorks/ Tacton The goal of this course is to teach you the tools to be competent in Design Automation. You will learn how to setup and run projects, generate outputs locally, connect to external data sources, produce custom documents, and provide administrator functionality. You will learn how to create automated CAD data, learn how to automate model generation on-demand.

Power Surfacing Freeform design combined with SolidWorks parametric design provides SolidWorks users with a ground breaking Industrial Design toolkit.

Lear how Power Surfacing makes it easy and fun to design complex free form, aesthetically pleasing "Class A" surfaces in SolidWorks.

SolidWorks Sustainability Learn how to be a forward-thinking, environmentally conscious designer. Build Life Cycle Assessment reports that will show exactly how you've improved your designs.

Learn how to use the diverse tools of Sustainability & SustainabilityXpress (parts assessment, alternative materials search, and environmental impact dashboard) to enable more detailed assessments and varying lifetimes of different design solutions.

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