SolidWorks Innovation Day 2008 Singapore was held in Swissotel Merchant Court on 12th October 2008. This event was organized by SeaCAD Technologies, sponsored by SolidWorks Corporation and Hewlett Packard. A total of 237 attendees from various industries gathered to witness the launch of SolidWorks 2009.

This year SeaCAD Technologies celebrates its 10th anniversary and opening the proceedings, Sean Seneviratne, Chief Technical Officer, shared how the company progressed through its first decade. He credited the success of SeaCAD to its people, products and especially customers, whom he thanked for their enthusiastic and loyal support throughout the years.

Benjamin Tan, Territorial Sales Manager from SolidWorks Corporation was up next as the keynote speaker to Inspire the Future. He shared four innovation traits contributing to the success of its customers and showcased many product designers who made use of SolidWorks to produce excellent consumer products in the market today.

The highlight of the day was the SolidWorks What’s New 2009. This year, What’s New 2009 had three main themes, Get Your Job Done Faster, Focus of Design Not CAD and Improve the Quality of your Design. Sean returned once again to the stage to demonstrate the performance improvements of SolidWorks 2009. SolidWorks 2008 and 2009 were put to the test live in front of all attendees and covering several common tasks, an incredible 50% increase in speed was seen, out of the box. SolidWorks 2009 also introduced new features like Speedpak to help users get their job done faster without having to change their current work flow. 3Dvia Composer was also brought in to show how users who do not know CAD could still work with SolidWorks CAD data to get their documentation work done.

Focus on Design Not CAD was the second theme for What’s New 2009. Deng Shumin, Technical Manger – Consulting, displayed SolidWorks 2009’s numerous enhancements to the user interface. The audience was clearly interested with the ability to support dual screens, giving them more work space onscreen. SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2009 had significant enhancements in the CAD editor tool within SolidWorks task pane as well as improvements in BOM having the ability to support weldment cultists, ability to add position numbers and having associative named BOMs with their assembly.
To round off the main presentation, Smita Panga, Technical Manager – Products, discussed how SolidWorks Simulation improves the quality of designs. Using new features like Simulation Advisor, users who were clueless about analysis before could now perform simulations like experts. Through a few simple questions, SolidWorks Simulation would be able to pick up boundary conditions to help run an analysis, giving feedback to help improve designs. In addition, designers would now be able to run a virtual simulation before physical tests are done savings lots of time and money.
New in SolidWorks 2009, Photoview 360 enables users to run rendering out of SolidWorks, saving lots of overheads. Its drag and drop interface is so easy to use that no amount of CAD knowledge is need for someone to start using it.
Apart from the presentations, there were also booths to showcase NUS FSAE team and HP workstations. Customers were given the opportunity to experience the power of SolidWorks first-hand with the latest HP workstations. A few lucky participants also walked away with fabulous prizes, including an iPod, Samsung laser printer, 19” LCD monitor and an HP IPAQ 612c.

Before the evening ended, the entire staff of SeaCAD Technologies gathered for a special anniversary celebration with our customers.

Deng Shumin
Technical Manager – Consulting
SeaCAD Technologies

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