SolidWorks Labs is at it Again…Treehouse

SolidWorks Labs has again released a really cool and useful new product that is available for you to download. A while back there was a lot of buzz about another SolidWorks Labs project called Presentation Studio which allows you to easily create a 3D PDF of your design so that you can send it off to your customer for easy communication. Not to be outdone, they have released another great product that will benefit a lot of companies. This new product is called Treehouse which allows you to completely lay out your entire SolidWorks assembly without even having to fire up SolidWorks. Below I have attached a screen shot of the product web page that goes a little more in depth of what this tool allows you to do.

Here is what I envision this product being REALLY useful for, at least for the company that I work at. Your company has just gotten a big project and it has been handed to the Director of Engineering. Instead of him having to relay everything they are thinking of for this project to the designer, they can now completely lay it out, including file names and custom properties, before they even lets the designer know that this project exists. Not only will a lot of the “grunt” work be done already but it will be easy to convey ideas during a pre-design meeting.

Once you export the tree structure out to SolidWorks you will have all of your documents created already and all of your parts will be inserted into an assembly under defined (except for the first file which will be fixed inside of the assembly).

This is a really nice tool and you owe it to yourself to check it out and see what it can offer your design group.