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Collaborate in real time using configurable dashboards, social communities, Kanban-style task
management, activity streams, persistent chat, and video calls. Easily search, visualize, explore,
and mark up SOLIDWORKS and other files directly in your browser, from any device.

Invite anyone, inside or outside your organization, to view, share, and mark up your 3D designs in the cloud,
directly within SOLIDWORKS. Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a
link from within SOLIDWORKS, with no download required.

Shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting
your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.

Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new,
visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.

Utilize secure cloud storage that’s purpose-built with CAD relationships and collaboration in mind.
Save your data to the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS. Lock designs to ensure no one overwrites
your work, easily manage revisions, and create detailed markups with redline, measurements,
and annotations.

Manage the life cycle of any type of content, such as CAD files, simulation models, and documentation,
across disciplines and CAD solutions. Assign tasks, track issues, communicate and coordinate design
changes, manage reviews and approvals, and capture decisions.

Monitor license usage, manage members, and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative
dashboard, lowering administrative overhead. Easily stay up-to-date and benefit from the latest
enhancements.

Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse,
reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.

Reduce development time with the ability to create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures
in a single context, reducing design iterations by making the review of designs and proposed changes
universally accessible to stakeholders.

Create, review, and evaluate 3D models through an intuitive parametric modeling solution that interacts
seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.

Define, organize, and communicate key manufacturing information such as dimensions, tolerances,
and notes all from a web browser with a combined 2D drawing and model-based solution.

Create organic shapes quickly and easily with an intuitive modeling solution that interacts seamlessly
with the 3D CAD solution.

Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities

Provide specialized, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mold cores, cavities, and inserts.

Create structure members; add plates, gussets, and end caps; and generate a manufacturing cut list with
associative, feature based frame design capabilities

Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform ideas and concepts into virtual
3D models

Speed up the design of sheet metal, plastic and cast parts, weldments, molds, tools, and dies.

Create production-ready 2D drawings or go drawingless and use intelligent, automated 3D
dimensioning and tolerancing capabilities.

Easily analyze, compare, check and report on your designs

Access over 50 million components from manufacturers worldwide through our online catalog.

Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit,
assemble and operate correctly

Simplify the reuse of existing design data with search, automation and configuration tools
that help you speed up the creation of new designs

Review your designs for Draft, Undercut, Thickness and Hole Alignments early in the
development process to ensure manufacturability.

Convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS
data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators

Use models saved in other CAD formats directly inside SOLIDWORKS assemblies, parts,
and drawings while maintaining associativity with the original CAD model.

Export CAD data for AR, VR, and web viewing experiences while retaining geometry, appearance,
motion studies, display states, and more

Share, compare, update, and track electrical design data so users can quickly resolve
electrical-mechanical integration and collaboration issues.

Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard
fasteners that configure on the fly and assemble automatically in your design.

Establish design standards and check drawings (or models) against them to create
uniform designs and documentation.

Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure
consistent fit of components and verify tolerancing schemes before manufacturing
your designs

Continuously check your designs against cost targets with automatic cost estimation
tools fully integrated within the 3D CAD solution

Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry
from scanned point-cloud and mesh data

Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces typically encountered in products made
from textiles, like clothing, or sheet metal, like metal stampings

Simplify the design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of
systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant
piping.

Quickly add cables, wires, and harnesses to your design. Create flattened drawing
representations of your 3D cables and harnesses with wire lists, connection information,
and bills of materials

Route rectangular and round sections that include ducting, cable trays, conveyors,
material handling chutes, and other systems.

Create stunning digital content including interactive product presentations and technical
illustrations to showcase product values, enable partners, guide use, and win customers.

Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging
virtual twins.

Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design
and deliver stunning content for customer engagements.

Move assemblies by dragging components or using motors, create CAD videos, and
generate basic CAD renderings and 3D walk-throughs.

Utilize the full power of your hardware with GPU rendering capabilities.

Leverage artificial intelligence to eliminate noise from your renders with
a single checkbox, dramatically boosting your render speed.

Tell a more compelling story with your CAD data by using the full Animation
suite. Easily animate exploded views, appearance properties, cameras, and
much more to create photo-quality videos to showcase even the most complex
projects.

Create immersive virtual reality experiences with 360-degree cameras and
interactive output.

Simulate the lighting at a specific location and time, and create sun study
animations.

Create more realistic and immersive content with rigid-body and
vehicle-driving physics simulations.

Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry by using Finite Element
Analysis (FEA) methods and running linear stress analysis to determine the
response of parts and assemblies.

Realistically visualize your product moving throughout its operational cycle,
measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to correctly
size motors and ensure product performance, quality, and safety.

Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies
by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress analysis.

Understand the impact of assembly motion on your design with motion simulation
in the cloud. Study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your designs by
checking the range of motion, component interference, and performance.

Get up to speed fast using online training content, a vibrant community,
and support from IMETECH

Improve your skills with a library of over 200 learning modules comprising
thousands of on-demand lessons.