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SOLIDWORKS – Empowering Design Innovation

SOLIDWORKS provides a wide range of tools for solving the most complex tasks, as well as extensive capabilities for completing work on critical details. New features will help you improve your product development process so you can get innovative products to market faster.

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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

SOLIDWORKS' intuitive 3D design and product development solutions enable you to conceptualize, create, validate, communicate, manage, and transform your innovative ideas into great product designs.

Significantly improve the way you develop and manufacture products. As the foundation for the entire SOLIDWORKS product development suite, SOLIDWORKS CAD packages cover design, modeling, cost estimation, manufacturability verification, CAM, sustainable design, and data management.

By providing best-in-class, tightly integrated tools for every area of product development and management, SOLIDWORKS enables businesses to accelerate every stage of the development cycle, allowing all disciplines to work simultaneously, from concept to production.

Benefits

  • Powerful design functionality and ease of use
  • Process-based solutions focus on the big picture
  • Easy-to-deploy data management facilitates collaboration
  • Virtual prototyping drives innovation and improves quality
  • Integration from design to manufacturing enables faster product creation

STANDARD

Quickly master and benefit from this powerful solution for 3D design and manufacturing. Along with features for parts, assemblies, and 2D drawings, specialized tools for sheet metal, welded parts, surfacing, molds, product configuration, design analysis, DFM, and CAM are included. CAM is included in the active subscription.

PROFESSIONAL

SOLIDWORKS Professional is based on the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Standard with ECAD/MCAD collaboration, automated cost estimation, collaboration features, design and drawing checking, a complex library of components and parts, and advanced photorealistic rendering.

PREMIUM

SOLIDWORKS Premium is based on SOLIDWORKS Professional, adding structural analysis and motion analysis capabilities, advanced surface alignment features, reverse engineering, as well as electrical cable and piping routing functions.

COMPARISON OF FUNCTIONS
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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

Create complex part and assembly designs quickly and efficiently with SOLIDWORKS 3D design software. Powerful, easy-to-use design capabilities combined with a suite of tools for drafting, project analysis, cost estimation, visualization, animation, and file management create an intuitive system for developing innovative products that enhance productivity, reduce costs, and accelerate your time to market.

MODELING OF PARTS AND ASSEMBLIES

Manage all aspects of part and assembly modeling with the SOLIDWORKS 3D design system to transform ideas and concepts into virtual three-dimensional models. For conceptual design, quickly create 3D projects using imported images, simple sketches, or scanned 3D data, and then add additional details as the project evolves. Assembly structure planning allows you to quickly plan the assembly structure of the project and then export it to SOLIDWORKS for automatic creation of CAD files. Direct model editing enables you to manipulate and modify 3D geometry while working directly with CAD 3D models.

2D DRAWINGS

Create production-ready 2D drawings that are always up-to-date and clearly show how your design should be manufactured and assembled. The associativity of SOLIDWORKS directly links the 2D drawing to the solid 3D model, so updates to the 3D model can automatically reflect in the 2D drawing. SOLIDWORKS accelerates the design process, saving time and development costs while simultaneously increasing productivity.

REUSE OF DESIGN AND AUTOMATION

Use existing engineering data to create new designs and accelerate the development of new products. The SOLIDWORKS toolkit allows for the reuse of existing 3D CAD models and 2D drawings, speeding up the design process, saving time and development costs, and enhancing productivity. SOLIDWORKS tools for searching, automating, and customizing simplify the reuse of existing design data to create new projects.

COLLABORATIVE WORK AND CAD DATA EXCHANGE

The collaboration tools for SOLIDWORKS products help members of your project team work closely with other project participants, external suppliers, and customers. You can also protect proprietary design data before sharing it outside your organization, as well as manage project data and control project versions. The collaboration tools for SOLIDWORKS products include a variety of innovative, time-saving features such as 3D Interconnect, eDrawings®, and 3D Mark Up for parts and assemblies.

INTERFERENCE CHECK

Before launching into production, ensure that your parts and assemblies fit, assemble, and function correctly using SOLIDWORKS Interference Check. Fully integrated with CAD, you can use interference checking in 2D and 3D during design to accelerate the product development process and analyze tolerances for manufacturability assessment.

FIRST PASS ANALYSIS TOOLS

SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress is a first-pass analysis tool that allows for basic stress analysis on individual parts. You can quickly determine the effects of force and pressure and create reports to document the results.

PROGRAMMING OF AUTOMATED CONTROL SYSTEMS (SOLIDWORKS CAM)

SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard based on CAMWorks® is an integrated solution for programming 2.5-axis milling and 2-axis turning operations. By utilizing the latest Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Knowledge-Based Machining (KBM) technologies, SOLIDWORKS CAM can quickly transform your process from design to manufacturing by improving communication, reducing errors, shortening cycle times, and enhancing the quality of your products.
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard is included in the active subscription of SOLIDWORKS Standard, Professional, or Premium.

DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING (DFM)

To ensure that your product can be manufactured, SOLIDWORKS provides 3D tools to check your design in the early stages of the development process. It is much easier and cheaper to fix issues identified during the design phase than to correct them during production planning or after your design has gone into production.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TOOLS

SOLIDWORKS offers a variety of tools designed to enhance your productivity, including capabilities for design analysis, comparison, validation, and reporting.

ADVANCED CAD FILE IMPORT/EXPORT AND 3D CONNECTION

SOLIDWORKS provides over 30 translators for converting incoming CAD data into the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format or for exporting SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD products. 3D Interconnect opens most major CAD formats directly in SOLIDWORKS without the need to convert or save the data as a SOLIDWORKS file.

CAD LIBRARIES (SOLIDWORKS TOOLBOX)

The SOLIDWORKS CAD libraries provide you with easy access to search, download, save, and share ready-made CAD 3D models and frequently reused CAD data.

COST DESIGN (SOLIDWORKS COSTING)

The SOLIDWORKS cost estimation tools are fully integrated with 3D CAD, allowing you to continuously check your designs against target costs. Easily track manufacturing costs as you design, helping to avoid costly rework and production delays. Manufacturers can also use SOLIDWORKS cost estimation tools to automate the quoting process.

ECAD/MCAD COOPERATION (CIRCUITWORKS)

Exchange data between electrical CAD (ECAD) and mechanical CAD (MCAD) developers using CircuitWorks™. CircuitWorks allows users to exchange, compare, update, and track electrical system design data so that they can quickly resolve electromechanical integration and collaboration issues.

CAD STANDARDS CHECK (DESIGN CHECKER)

Set design standards and check drawings (or models) using SOLIDWORKS to create unified designs and documentation. Use SOLIDWORKS to establish design standards, and then compare drawings (or models) against them during the design process to ensure consistent and complete drawing outputs.

Collaboration with eDrawings Professional

Use eDrawings® software to enhance collaboration, accelerate the design process, and increase productivity by viewing SOLIDWORKS 3D models and 2D drawings in an email-ready format. eDrawings Professional allows users to quickly and accurately view, measure, and annotate designs, improving interaction between designers, manufacturers, and clients.

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF TOLERANCE SETS (TOLANALYST)

The tolerance analysis tool TolAnalyst automatically checks the impact of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fitting of components and to verify tolerance schemes before launching the product into production. Tolerance analysis can be rerun if changes are made to dimensions or tolerances, allowing for a transition to an optimized tolerance scheme.

ADVANCED PHOTOREALISTIC VISUALIZATION (SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE)

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard allows you to easily and flexibly create attractive visual content for your 3D projects. By using photographic-quality content in the early stages of the design process, you can obtain valuable early feedback so you can make more informed design decisions.

SOLIDWORKS FILE MANAGEMENT

SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard provides CAD file management, allowing individual users and small workgroups to manage project data, control project versions, and manage access to files.

REVERSE ENGINEERING (SCANTO3D)

Thanks to reverse engineering, you can recreate projects based on existing ones, speeding up product development, reducing risks, saving time, and increasing productivity. Use the capabilities of ScanTo3D for importing, editing, evaluating, and creating solid geometry from scanned point clouds and mesh data.

TIME-BASED MOTION ANALYSIS

Evaluate how your product will operate and move throughout its entire lifecycle using motion analysis with SOLIDWORKS Simulation. Visualize the movement of your product as it would occur in the real world, measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to accurately size motors and create the best mechanism to ensure performance, quality, and safety of the product.

LINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS OF PARTS AND ASSEMBLIES

Analysis of linear stresses using SOLIDWORKS Simulation can become a regular part of the design process, reducing the need for expensive prototypes, eliminating rework and delays, and saving time and development costs. Linear stress analysis calculates the stresses and deformations of the geometry. SOLIDWORKS Simulation employs finite element analysis (FEA) methods to break down the components of the design into solid, shell, or beam elements, and also uses linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.

ROUTING OF PIPES AND TUBES

Use a wide range of SOLIDWORKS Premium tools to simplify the design and documentation of pipelines and piping for a variety of systems and applications, including equipment, skid systems, and process plant piping.

LAYING OF ELECTRICAL CABLES AND WIRE HARNESSES

SOLIDWORKS Premium includes design tools that create paths for pipes, tubes, or electrical cables for assemblies. Routing creates a special type of assembly node that establishes a path for pipes, tubes, or electrical cables between components.

Improved surface smoothing

Many products are made by shaping flat materials, such as sheet metal, into complex forms. The advanced SOLIDWORKS surface alignment features provide control and flexibility when aligning such complex surfaces.

ROUTING OF RECTANGULAR AND OTHER SECTIONS

SOLIDWORKS Routing can be used for routing rectangular and circular sections, including ducts, cable trays, conveyors, chutes for material handling, and other systems.