FROM IMAGINATION TO REALITY

Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023, an annual event dedicated to the 3DEXPERIENCE Works and SOLIDWORKS community, brought together thousands of key stakeholders, engineers, and designers in the musical city of Nashville, Tennessee, on February 12-15. Woven around the theme of the power of imagination, the show translated into four verbs: learn, imagine, celebrate, and collaborate. An insight into key takeaways, presentations, and success stories that were showcased…

SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works help global innovators cooperate and boost job creation, innovation, and sustainable economies. 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 featured thought leaders, over 320 technical training sessions, 30 meet-up sessions, certification opportunities, and a partner ‘playground’ displaying sustainable innovations over four days. This event on sustainable future technology allowed attendees to learn from experts, build skills, and network with peers and technology partners.

To begin with, Gian Paolo Bassi, Executive Vice President, 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes, announced that every seat of SOLIDWORKS will include Cloud Solutions from July 2023. All users will have the ability to share and mark up a model for 3D view, in any browser, with everyone safely—no license or installation needed. He shared that this would get a broader SOLIDWORKS community onto the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform by making it easier to adopt and serve as a leading platform for innovation and future proof companies.

Virtual world ignites imagination

Bassi reminded the audience how the last three years made us realize the importance of being able to work from anywhere, stay connected, and always be up to date. In this context, he shed light on how the virtual world created by the organization’s platform gave everyone the freedom to imagine and create new solutions to respond to the pandemic quickly.

Speaking on this year’s theme, he said that imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited to what we know, but imagination has no constraints. He stated, “We are here to be inspired, to push the limits of our own imagination.” Bassi elaborated that the 3DEXPERIENCE Works innovation portfolio now includes machine learning, generative design capabilities, advanced simulation applications, and digital manufacturing, and is a true imagination engine. It will cater to all manufacturing requirements, including CNC machining, 3D printing, factory automation, robot programming, virtual factory layout, and plant design.

Bernard Charles, Chairman of the Board, Dassault Systèmes, gave an update on the Living Heart program, and how it has evolved from 2014 into the real-world use by doctors today. He explained how anything that was ever engineered, whether a part or a whole system, should be actionable, but the reality is that it ends up being millions of files that are inconsistent, misclassified, misnamed, etc. Hence, transforming these files into something that can be organized and classified is vital.

In this backdrop, he said that in the age of 3DEXPERIENCE, transforming the chaos of being able to quickly locate parts into order is now achievable on the cloud, thanks to Artificial Intelligence.

Facilitating the startup ecosystem

Sharing the importance of being able to work together Manish Kumar, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, stated, “Startups are using SOLIDWORKS Cloud tools (3D Creator and 3D Sculptor) to design, collaborate, and bring that ‘work from anywhere’ promise to fruition. He assured that 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS offers all the capabilities of desktop SOLIDWORKS but adds collaboration and removes data management needs.

In sync, Suchit Jain, Vice President, Strategy & Community, Dassault Systèmes, spoke about the growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs that now numbers over 7 million and their importance to the future of innovation. These startups are at the forefront of driving progress, developing electric vehicles, spacecraft, furniture, medical devices, and many more. And all these startups are using SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to drive innovation.

Sharing his experience of working on the design of its exoskeleton that will be used to aid workers in avoiding injuries from heavy lifting, Ilya Mirman, Head, Marketing and Sales Operations, Verve Motion, a startup entity, said that the design was machined and 3D printed directly from the SOLIDWORKS models on a Nexa 3D printer.


(L-R): Gian Paolo Bassi, Executive Vice President, 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes; Bernard Charles, Chairman of the Board, Dassault Systèmes; and Salvador Garcia, Chief Revenue Officer, Ocean-based Climate Solutions Inc.	(L-R): Guido Gioioso, Co-Founder, WEART; Fabio Pizzato, Chief of Entrepreneurs, e-Novia & Managing Director, WEART; and Gian Paolo Bassi, Executive Vice President, 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes	(L-R): Gian Paolo Bassi, Executive Vice President, 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes, along with Murali Sundaram

Validations matter

Dr David Hoganson, Assistant, Department of Cardiac Surgery, and Director, Computational 3D Visualization Program, Boston Children’s Hospital,

discussed how they are using SOLIDWORKS CAD and SOLIDWORKS Simulation solutions to create a revolutionary way to do preoperational planning for pediatric heart surgeries.

Fabio Pissato, Chief of Entrepreneurs, e-novia, shared his perspective about working on amazing innovations designed in SOLIDWORKS to support sustainability.

Keynote speaker Jamie Siminoff, Founder, Ring, focused on innovation and how we all have the power to use our minds to build a future only we can imagine.

Design tools help achieve goals

There were enriching sessions on Design, Simulation, and Manufacturing in this edition of the event. The Design domain sessions featured Boston Scientific, House of Design, and Sealed Air as success stories in using SOLIDWORKS design tools.

Florian Fischer, CEO, X Custom Engineering, a prototype engineering company, shared that he aimed to streamline the overall process from engineering and prototype development to production in one complete system by combining PDM, CAM, CAD, and Simulation to reduce costs and improve innovation. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform has helped increase the team’s efficiency by maintaining coherence across the design team, and real-time feedback improves collaboration.

In conclusion

The in-person 2023 edition could easily be dubbed as the biggest event for mechanical engineers (3D MCAD). It is
estimated that around 4,000 attendees physically attended the show, and another 10,000 participated online

The 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 was all about success stories, advance technologies solving today’s challenges, and bringing excellence in the future. The next edition will be hosted in Dallas from February 11-14, 2024.

Source: Magic Wand Media

MURALI SUNDARAM

Senior Correspondent

Magic Wand Media Inc

murali.sundaram@magicwandmedia.in