I work as a teacher and have been given a license to use on solidworks, but the website only had the 2022 version in the download section, so that's the version I'm using. The problem is that the school computers have the 2018 version, making it a hassle for me to guide my students since we're running different versions of the software.
Furthermore, and this is the main point, the interface changed a lot, he told me, he would prefer to get an even older version like SolidWorks 2010, as it would be a hustle for him to catch up with changes from the last 17 year.
SolidWorks (stylized as SOLIDWORKS) is a brand within Dassault Systèmes that develops and markets solid modeling computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, 3D CAD design and collaboration, analysis, and product data management software.[2]
Initially based in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, Hirschtick recruited a team of engineers with the goal of building 3D CAD software that was easy to use, affordable, and available on the Windows desktop. Operating later from Waltham, Massachusetts, SolidWorks released its first product SolidWorks 95, in November 1995.[10]
On July 25, 1997, Dassault Systèmes, best known for its CATIA CAD software, acquired SolidWorks for $310 million in stock. SolidWorks became a brand within Dassault Systèmes.[11] The founder Jon Hirschtick stayed as a board member for the next 14 years, guiding its growth under a series of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), he went on to found Onshape, another successful 3D CAD company.
The SolidWorks' user base ranges from individuals to large corporations and covers a wide cross-section of manufacturing market segments. Its core industries include industrial equipment, high-tech, life sciences, home and lifestyle, architecture, engineering, and construction. Commercial sales go through an indirect channel that consists of 500+ partner resellers throughout the world. SolidWorks also partners with third-party developers to add functionality in niche market applications such as circuit layout and tolerance checking.[24]
The user conference provides an opportunity for the close-knit community of engineers and designers that use SolidWorks products to connect and share ideas with each other. The community shares a passion for solving problems, helping people and organizations, and making the world a better place.[28]
Parameters refer to constraints whose values determine the shape or geometry of the model or assembly. Parameters can be either numeric parameters, such as line lengths or circle diameters, or geometric parameters, such as tangent, parallel, concentric, horizontal or vertical, etc. Numeric parameters can be associated with each other through the use of relations, which allows them to capture design intent.[30]
Features refer to the building blocks of the part. They are the shapes and operations that construct the part. Shape-based features typically begin with a 2D or 3D sketch of shapes such as bosses, holes, slots, etc. This shape is then extruded to add or cut to remove material from the part. Operation-based features are not sketch-based, and include features such as fillets, chamfers, shells, applying draft to the faces of a part, etc.[30]
Building a model in SolidWorks usually starts with a 2D sketch (although 3D sketches are available for power users). The sketch consists of geometry such as points, lines, arcs, conics (except the hyperbola), and splines. Dimensions are added to the sketch to define the size and location of the geometry. Relations are used to define attributes such as tangency, parallelism, perpendicularity, and concentricity. The parametric nature of SolidWorks means that the dimensions and relations drive the geometry, not the other way around. The dimensions in the sketch can be controlled independently, or by relationships to other parameters inside or outside the sketch.[30]
In an assembly, the analog to sketch relations are mates. Just as sketch relations define conditions such as tangency, parallelism, and concentricity with respect to sketch geometry, assembly mates define equivalent relations with respect to the individual parts or components, allowing the easy construction of assemblies. SolidWorks also includes additional advanced mating features such as gear and cam follower mates, which allow modeled gear assemblies to accurately reproduce the rotational movement of an actual gear train.[30]
SolidWorks' goal is to "build new development models that address the major challenges currently facing the world".[31] Challenges for CAD/CAM engineers and designers include software compatibility, hardware reliability, and affordability of these tools.[32] The SolidWorks mission began with the release of SolidWorks 95 in 1995 and continues today.
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The general approach to modelling the natural hip using FEBio (version 1.5.0; Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; mrl.sci.utah.edu/software/febio) was described previously.14 For this specimen-specific model, the cartilage surfaces were reconstructed from tens of thousands of triangles into several patches to form a solid model which was then imported into ABAQUS (version 6.11-1; Dassault Systèmes) for meshing. The FE model of the cartilage was composed of 9906 eight-noded hexahedral elements. The prosthesis heads used in the experiment were represented by two spheres with diameters of 37 and 40 mm (Figure 3). The spherical head was meshed with 7800 eight-noded hexahedral elements that were rigidly constrained to a reference point. The bone was assumed to be rigid and therefore was not included in the FE model. Mesh sensitivity studies were performed to ensure that a doubling of the element number changed the outputs of interest by less than 5%.
The meshed model was then imported into PreView (version 1.7; mrl.sci.utah.edu/software.php) for pre-processing. The acetabular cartilage was oriented and positioned according to the experimental set-up. The surface of the cartilage that was connected to the subchondral bone was rigidly constrained to a reference point, which was fixed in all the degrees of freedom in order to represent the rigid bone. The spherical head was assumed to be impermeable. The contact was assumed to be frictionless, and the fluid flow on the articulating surface of the cartilage was considered as contact dependent so that fluid could only flow out from the area of the articulating surface that was not in contact with the impermeable head. To replicate the constraints of the head relative to the acetabular cartilage, the five loads were applied over a 3-s period to the rigid head, which was fixed along rotational degrees of freedom. The shorter loading period of the FE models than the experiment was to enhance the computational efficiency but did not affect the model prediction, because there was almost no time-dependent response of the hip for a period of less than 10 s.14
The cartilage was treated as a biphasic solid. Both an isotropic solid phase and a T-C solid phase were studied to evaluate the effect of different constitutive relationships on the model predictions of contact area. The solid phase of the isotropic models was represented by the neo-Hookean constitutive relationship with the properties adopted from a previous study (Table 1).10 Additionally, the isotropic model was run with twice the previously defined aggregate modulus10 to investigate the sensitivity to this value. For the T-C model, the compressive aggregate modulus was the same as the isotropic model and the tensile modulus was set to 10 times higher.17,19 The higher tensile modulus was implemented by incorporating a fibre material into the isotropic material. The fibre material had three orthogonal fibre directions with a linear constitutive relationship and continuous spatial distribution. The fibres only sustain tension, so that the material as a whole is isotropically and homogeneously fibre-reinforced.
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