With the recent expansion of AngelSix we are now in the realms of hardware development! With the latest product now in prototype stages this little unit controls the lifting deck hydraulic motors by driving the solenoids and interacting with the lifting deck button control unit. Soon to be deployed in all of the latest Argos, Comet, B&Q and Ceva trailers with aims at the global market next, watch this space.

The latest little fun tool is one that will create a 3D model of X,Y,Z vectors from a plain text 3D matrix data using any SolidWorks model as a vector object, with ability to add different sizes and spacings to each co-ordinate. Find it in the Products section!

With how the economy is at the moment and with all the hype of saving fuel, I decided to create a quick and simple program to calculate what your MPG/MPL actually is, the cost of fuel per mile, the miles per week/year you do, and the overall cost. From that you can then change the MPG/MPL values for say a more effecient car and instantly see your overall savings based on your mileage. Find the Fuel Economy Calculator in the Products section.

The latest tool for SolidWorks is a handly little tray icon tool called SWTools, that pops up and provides the user with as many taskbar buttons to run SolidWorks macros as they like.

Having toolbar buttons outside of SolidWorks frees up the working space and allows for much easier network sharing of SW macros without the need to add each macro the individual users toolbars, which is very time consuming. Find the tool in the Products section.

Contacts: Luke Malpass
AngelSix.com
contact@angelsix.com
+447817900513

BatchProcess brings everyday automation capabilities to SolidWorks 2008 software

Software allows designers and engineers
to automate all of the most common tasks such as printing, saving as DXF, PDF, IGES, Step and many more formats, setting custom properties on the fly and much more!

Sep. 18th 2008 — AngelSix today announced that its BatchProcess supports SolidWorks® 2008 3D CAD software with new capabilities for automating the entire process of releasing a product from engineering in one click by printing all required drawings to desired printers/plotters, setting all custom properties for every component, saving flat pattern plasma/laser profiles to the required location, and then packaging the product ready for archiving or shipment.

SolidWorks 2008 delivers a host of unique features to help companies design better products more quickly. The software includes more than 250 customer-requested enhancements and significant innovations that break new ground in engineering efficiency. SolidWorks 2008 provides a new intuitive, time-saving user interface (UI) as well as impressive 3D graphics, builds on the company’s breakthrough SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology (SWIFT), accelerates better product design, and includes more advanced design analysis capabilities than any other CAD software.

Designers and engineers will use BatchProcess and SolidWorks software to remove any monotonous tasks expending the engineers time such as printing out a full products drawings, updating drawing templates, even instantly previewing components and drawings with a single click without the need to open up the file in the first place.

A SolidWorks Solutions Partner Product, BatchProcess allows users to more efficiently work within SolidWorks; BatchProcess becomes the right arm of SolidWorks for the engineers aiding in every day-to-day tasks every engineer faces. SolidWorks 2008 expands on the software’s legacy of ease of use, design power, and affordability by allowing design teams to spend more time on innovation and less on CAD software operations, ultimately making their companies more successful. BatchProcess removes the problem of possible user error when repeating the same task over and over for many parts such as setting the Customer and Job Number for an entire job; with automation software reliability in repetition are guaranteed, along with the benefit of saving the user potentials hours a day.

“BatchProcess has built a strong reputation for delivering exactly the right tools that the engineers need,” said SolidWorks Director of Marketing and Alliances Efrat Ravid. “Together, BatchProcess and SolidWorks 2008 give engineers the innovative tools, design power, and ease of use to streamline product development and design better products.”

BatchProcess: THE automation tool for all your engineering needs.

* SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

BatchProcess is now a Certified Solutions Partner with SolidWorks. This is a big step for the future of BP; what this means is the software is now supported by SolidWorks, is posted on the SolidWorks website which receives traffic from their customers, prospects and resellers worldwide. Also, BatchProcess will be doing promotional press releases shortly.

The next step is to become a Certified Gold Partner with SolidWorks.

Thanks for all the support guys!

Another new tool for SolidWorks; PropertyExtractor will extract all custom and configuration specific properties from a set of SolidWorks files without having to open them, and has been benchmarked on 10,000 files and 100,000 custom properties in 26 seconds!

The results are displayed in an explorer-like treeview style with the option to save out all results to a separate file for archiving/searching/printing.

Visit the Products section to download the latest version.

For all those questions nobody ever asked

The new program (LaserMRP) is now released to the public in Beta stages (Find it in Products section). Basically it is a tool for SolidWorks that works on sheet metal parts and gets their overall dimensions, works out cutting speeds and costs, including material and labour, saves them as custom properties, creates a DXF drawing, a SolidWorks drawing and a tif image of a 1:1 flat pattern of the sheet metal with a note displaying thickness, costs, name, quantity etc…