18-04-2012, 12:18 PM
Highlights of SolidWorks 2011
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User Interface
This chapter includes the following topics:
• SolidWorks Search
• Save As and File Properties Buttons on Standard Toolbar
• PropertyManager Icons
• Error Reporting
SolidWorks Search
New search modes have been added to SolidWorks® Search. In addition to searching for
files and models, you can search SolidWorks Help, the Knowledge Base, or the community
forums.
On the Menu Bar, in the SolidWorks Search box , select the location to search and
type the text to search for.
Error Reporting
The SolidWorks Error Report dialog box now allows SolidWorks® to gather more information
about why the software stopped responding.
The dialog box lets you do the following:
• Send a failure report to SolidWorks.
• Include a short description of your actions when the application stopped responding.
• Indicate whether this is a new problem or is similar to a previous problem. This
information helps SolidWorks Engineering identify stability trends.
• Preview the contents of the report to send to SolidWorks.
• View the SolidWorks data privacy policy. The reports are confidential, subject to this
policy.
Application Programming Interface
Major enhancements are new interfaces, methods, properties, and delegates.
You can now:
• Display .NET controls in the SolidWorks user interface
• Access Pack and Go
• Get data objects containing curve, spline, and surface parameter properties
• Manage line styles in drawings
• Get the contents of folders in the FeatureManager design tree
• Create flyout groups in the CommandManager
• Convert draft quality drawing views to high quality
• Access a ray-trace rendering engine, such as PhotoView 360, and its options
• Determine whether the current sketch is a boundary box
• Get the direction of a bend line
• Get the boundary-box sketch display data of a flat-pattern drawing view
• Add and delete material from specific display states in the active configuration of a
model
New Response Spectrum Analysis Study (Premium)
The new Response Spectrum Analysis study estimates the peak values of your model's
response based on a design spectrum specified as a base excitation.
In a response spectrum analysis, the results of a modal analysis are used in terms of a
known spectrum to calculate displacements and stresses in the model. For each mode,
a response is read from a design spectrum based on the modal frequency and a given
damping ratio. All modal responses are then combined to provide an estimate of the
maximum response of the structure.