SuperCAD, i looked into the Solidworks Task Scheduler for this and you can make a macro and have it run in the Task Scheduler so that it can open his files at night, tweak the Shaded display and resave them. I have a few other things to do tonight but if i get a chance ill work up a simple macro.
i also want to note that you can do this with the Task Scheduler. I looked into a bit and you need to do a few custom things to handle it. The code will need a "path" and also some things like opening a document. Right now my code assumes you have a file open and it works with that. You will need a bit of code to work in a directory, open each file, change it, save and close it. There is a sample of this if you go to the SW help file _Creating_a_SOLIDWORKS_Macro_Template.htm
the sample code works in a directory, opens certain file types(drawings in their case) and saves them as dxf files. notice the $$$TASK_WORKING_DIR$$$. when you place the Token names $$$xxxx$$$ in the code it pops up in the task scheduler and lets you manually pick a directory for instance, or file. You could, with some clever programming i think, make it always go into his files at night and doing this.
In this article, I am going to compare Solidworks by Dassault System versus Inventor by Autodesk. These two apps are incredibly similar, and it is no secret that they are the key competitors in the 3D CAD/CAM product design arena. Most of the things in your house were probably designed by someone using CAD software.
Solidworks was initially a product of Solidworks Corporation, developed in 1995. Dassault System acquired Solidworks in 1997 for $310 million in stocks. Autodesk started to realize how popular Solidworks was becoming, so they developed the Inventor as a direct competitor. The rest, as they say, is history.
After you get a conceptual idea, you need to refine it until you have a good idea of how all your parts would fit together. Then, when you have measurements and conceptual drawings, you can model the individual pieces in Solidworks or Inventor. Having done that, you put them together in an assembly.
If I had the time and resources, I would host a head-to-head competition between several experienced Solidworks users and several Inventor users. We could pit them against one another to see if either software is clearly faster and easier to use than the other.
Inventor can export a DWG file, so you can model parts and then open them in AutoCAD. Also, Inventor can import DWGs, but only 2D drawings. So overall, there is more compatibility between the different Autodesk platforms. Solidworks, I find, tend to be more stand-alone.
These days, 3D has gotten a liiiiitle more sophisticated. So now, instead of just making it look like a porcelain teapot, I can actually make it think like a porcelain teapot. That sounds weird, but let me explain. Solidworks and Inventor can be used to apply the physical properties of a material to a 3D shape.
There are some great tools in Solidworks and Inventor that can be used to trim away unnecessary segments of a part. Lowering weight and material costs is critical to manufacturers. So if the CAD program can figure these things out without needing to run real-world trials in a testing lab, then the development costs are drastically decreased.
I need to import solidworks files into inventor. With the help of task scheduler i can import solidworks files into inventor. But not able to import solidworks properties into inventor files.Is there any macro available to import all the solidworks properties into inventor files??
Currently we don't have API exposed for specify which properties to import from Solidworks to Inventor, but as default the Solidworks file properties that mapped in the PropertyMap_SW.xml(you can find it in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\Design Data\Import Properties\) will be imported, so I think you can manually edit the XML or just edit it using below steps:
I am trying to open one solidworks model in inventor. Actual model is made using surfaces. When i am trying to open it inventor it appears as transparent surfaces. Please Refer the Images attached. I want the model in inventor same as solidworks. Please provide a solution.
The macros I shared to the customer are not used to import the properties but just do batch importing and change the color(translucent of surfaces). Currently we don't have Inventor API to specify which properties to import for Solidworks files, there is a .XML file(C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\Design Data\Import Properties\PropertyMap_SW.xml) used to map the Solidworks and Inventor properties that I think you can try to edit it to import some Solidworks properties or use below dialog to map the properties, but it only works for standard properties, so if you want to import the Configuration specific properties to Inventor files you can log a wishlist to IdeaStation. Hope this explains.
As tech companies have laid off tens of thousands of employees this year, venture capitalists and executives have leaned on the term "fake work" to describe the output of employees like Graham. The layoffs are necessary and even prudent, the argument goes, because thousands of workers at Big Tech firms such as Google and Meta are sitting around trying to look busy while doing very little productive work.
The latest version of fake work emerged as part of the tech industry's pandemic-driven boom and bust. Lockdowns and work from home meant Amazon, Google, Meta, Shopify, and many other giants saw an explosion of demand for their products. Assuming the consumer shift was a harbinger of a new normal of shopping, socializing, and working online all the time, companies aggressively hired thousands of recruits. But firms often gave little thought about where to place them or what their role would be, insiders say.
One former Google manager told us she was instructed to lower her standards for hiring earlier in the pandemic and watched as teams she worked with doubled in size. As new hires flooded in, it felt as if teams were reorganized on a weekly basis, making it harder for people to do solid work.
The sudden head-count increase was destabilizing, but the real trouble began when business started to slow down. Rather than a permanent reorientation, many of the behaviors people adopted turned out to be short-term modifications. And as the economy turned on the tech industry, companies scrambled to figure out what to do with all the employees they no longer needed. That's when the "fake work" talk, finger-pointing, and unceremonious layoffs took off.
Others, like Graham, were assigned to seemingly key parts of the company, only to find that there wasn't enough work to go around. The former Googler also noticed this type of fake work. "There were so many of us, people just started trying to look busy," she told us. "There were too many chefs in the kitchen," she added.
While the pandemic's boom and bust brought the issue into stark relief, the various types of fake work have been growing within tech companies for years. Many of these issues come down to one fundamental problem: managers trying to get ahead.
"The bigger your team you have, the more qualified people you have in your team, the more weight you have in the company," Graham, the former Amazon employee, said. "It's what we call empire building. You're not focused on building a product; you're focused on building an empire. That leads to fake work and unnecessary bloating."
At Meta, one current employee said it was common to see employees all the way up to vice presidents invent workshops or "sprints" to set "strategic visions" for projects, while only a small fraction made it onto a road map, an actual timeline for a product to launch to the public, the employee said.
"I've rarely seen a large-scale vision be referenced after it's presented, despite the fact that upwards of 20 people are called to participate, usually by making and remaking decks for leadership," they added. "You can always tell when performance reviews are about to happen because there's almost always one or two workshops on the calendar a month before."
"One reorg after another led to fake work," a former longtime Google employee said. "I got used to getting introduced to a multiyear product, for a project I would look at and say, 'This is a poster piece for some executive to implement while job hunting for another role so they can go be a CEO somewhere.' They were show products."
Greg Selker, a managing director at the executive-search and consulting firm Stanton Chase, said he thought the fake-work phenomenon was already reaching a natural conclusion. The "smartest companies" that overhired have already gone through significant bloodletting, while others will soon realize they have to do the same, he said
But not all insiders are convinced. Some said these companies would need to make more drastic changes to the culture if they wanted to undo years of "fake work." "The dirty secret of these layoffs is that they're not materially changing these businesses," a former longtime Google executive said.
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Solid-state batteries are a promising option toward high energy and power densities due to the use of lithium (Li) metal as an anode. Among all solid electrolyte materials ranging from sulfides to oxides and oxynitrides, cubic garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) ceramic electrolytes are superior candidates because of their high ionic conductivity (10-3 to 10-4 S/cm) and good stability against Li metal. However, garnet solid electrolytes generally have poor contact with Li metal, which causes high resistance and uneven current distribution at the interface. To address this challenge, we demonstrate a strategy to engineer the garnet solid electrolyte and the Li metal interface by forming an intermediary Li-metal alloy, which changes the wettability of the garnet surface (lithiophobic to lithiophilic) and reduces the interface resistance by more than an order of magnitude: 950 ohmcm2 for the pristine garnet/Li and 75 ohmcm2 for the surface-engineered garnet/Li. Li7La2.75Ca0.25Zr1.75Nb0.25O12 (LLCZN) was selected as the solid-state electrolyte (SSE) in this work because of its low sintering temperature, stabilized cubic garnet phase, and high ionic conductivity. This low area-specific resistance enables a solid-state garnet SSE/Li metal configuration and promotes the development of a hybrid electrolyte system. The hybrid system uses the improved solid-state garnet SSE Li metal anode and a thin liquid electrolyte cathode interfacial layer. This work provides new ways to address the garnet SSE wetting issue against Li and get more stable cell performances based on the hybrid electrolyte system for Li-ion, Li-sulfur, and Li-oxygen batteries toward the next generation of Li metal batteries.
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