| 3D DESIGN AND MODELING |
Part and Assembly Modeling
Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling
and transform ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models. |  | | | |
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation
Create production-ready 2D drawings or go drawingless
and use intelligent, automated 3D dimensioning and
tolerancing capabilities. | | | | |
Productivity Tools
Easily analyze, compare, check, and report on your designs. | | | | |
Design Reuse and Automation
Simplify the reuse of existing design data with search,
automation, and configuration tools that help you speed up
the creation of new designs. | | | | |
Resolving Manufacturing Issues Before Going to Manufacturing
Verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit,
assemble, and move correctly. Review your designs
for draft, undercut, thickness, hole alignments, component
clearance, and more, ensuring manufacturability. | | | | |
Advanced CAD File Import/Export
Convert incoming CAD data and export SOLIDWORKS data
to other CAD applications using over 30 provided translators. | | | | |
Linked CAD Models
Use models saved in other CAD formats directly inside
SOLIDWORKS assemblies, parts, and drawings while
maintaining associativity with the original CAD model. | | | | |
Industry 3D Component Catalog
Access over 50 million components from manufacturers
worldwide through our online catalog. | | | | |
Specialized Design Tools
Speed up the design of sheet metal, plastic and cast parts,
weldments, molds, tools, and dies. | | | | |
Intelligent CAD Libraries
Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands
of prebuilt industry-standard fasteners that configure on
the fly and assemble automatically in your design. | | | | |
CAD Standards and Drawings Checking
Establish design standards and check drawings and models
against them to create uniform designs and documentation. | | | | |
Automated Tolerance Stackup Analysis
Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and
assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and verify
tolerancing schemes before manufacturing your designs. | | | | |
Reverse Engineering
Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate, and
create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data. | | | | |
Advanced Surface Flattening
Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces often
encountered in textiles and metal stampings. | | | | |
Pipe and Tube Routing
Speed up design and documentation of piping and
tubing systems. | | | | |
Electrical Cable and Wiring Harness Routing
Speed up 3D electrical routing design and the creation
of flattened harness drawings for manufacturing. | | | | |
Duct and Tray Routing
Route rectangular and round sections that include ducting,
cable trays, conveyors, material handling chutes, and
other systems. | | | | |
| CLOUD 3D DESIGN AND MODELING |
Parametric Modeling
Create, review, and evaluate 3D models using an intuitive
3D CAD solution. | | | | |
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation
Combine 3D model-based definition and 2D drawing-based
capabilities in one integrated solution. Easily dimension and
annotate 3D models and quickly produce 2D drawings from
them in a few clicks. | | | | |
Subdivision/Freeform Modeling
Create difficult-to-model organic shapes quickly and easily
with an intuitive modeling solution that works seamlessly
with our parametric 3D design tools. | | | | |
Specialized Design Tools
Speed up the design of sheet metal, weldments, and molds. | | | | |
| AI CAPABILITIES |
Al for Drawings
Reduce drawing effort with the ability to automatically
generate drawings complete with views, dimensional details,
and automatic selection of formats. | | | | |
Al for 3D Modeling
Model faster with intelligent selection capabilities and
automatic fastener recognition and assembly. Render
designs faster with denoising algorithms. | | | | |
Integrated Al Companion
Boost productivity and collaboration with the companion’s ability
to generate relevant answers; summarize community posts,
wikis, and help documentation; and quickly find information. | | | | |
| SIMULATION |
Linear Static Analysis for Parts and Assemblies
Find the stresses and deformations of geometry using
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods and run linear stress
analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies. | | | | |
Motion Analysis
Watch your design moving through its operational cycle,
measure the forces and loads, correctly size motors, and
ensure your design meets the desired performance goals. | | | | |
Cloud Computing for Structural Analysis
Enhance product performance and quality by evaluating the
impact of static, thermal, modal, and buckling loads on your
parts and assemblies by using the advanced and robust
Abaqus® technology and cloud computing. | | | | |
Cloud-Based Motion 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. | | | | |
| CLOUD COLLABORATION |
Cross-Discipline Collaboration
Collaborate in real time using configurable dashboards,
social communities, Kanban-style task management,
activity streams, persistent chat, and video calls. | | | | |
Share and Markup
Invite anyone, inside or outside your organization, to
view, share, and mark up your 3D designs in the cloud,
directly within SOLIDWORKS. | | | | |
ECAD/MCAD Collaboration
Share, compare, update, and track electrical design data,
locally or in the cloud, so you can quickly resolve electrical
and mechanical design issues. | | | | |
Project and Resource Management
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. | | | | |
Lean Teamwork
Put lean principles into action to address operational waste,
variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way
to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives. | | | | |
| CLOUD DATA MANAGEMENT |
Store and Revise
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. | | | | |
Data and Lifecycle Management
Manage the lifecycle of any type of content, reduce design
change conflicts with revision control, and streamline design
change and approval workflows. | | | | |
Administration
Easily upgrade software, manage users, and assign
and remove licenses all from a single dashboard. | | | | |
Release Management
Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared
product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the
complexity of product structure, and aligning with
corporate standards. | | | | |
Product Structure Management
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 design
and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders. | | | | |
| LOCAL DATA MANAGEMENT |
Local Data Management
Manage project data and control design revisions and
access to files. | | * | * | * |
| MANUFACTURING |
Additive Manufacturing
Prepare your models, understand the constraints of
additive manufacturing, and print directly to a 3D printer
from SOLIDWORKS. | | | | |
3-axis NC Machining and Machine Simulation
Empower CNC programmers with 3-axis and 3+2-axismachining, machine simulation, and EDM to optimize tool
paths before manufacturing the parts. | | | | |
Sheet Metal Nesting and NC Programming
Validate your designs by running what-if scenarios with
advanced nesting. Quickly go from design to manufacturing
with production nesting and NC programming capabilities. | | | | |
| MARKETING |
Animation and Visualization
Easily create basic CAD videos, renderings, animations, and
3D walk-throughs. | | | | |
AR/VR Exporter
Export CAD data for AR, VR, and web viewing experiences
while retaining geometry, appearance, motion studies,
display states, and more. | | | | |
Advanced Photorealistic Rendering with Artificial Intelligence
Bring your products to life with stunning photorealistic
renderings and leverage Artificial Intelligence to dramatically
reduce render times. | | | | |
Advanced Lighting Techniques for Sun and Sky
Simulate the lighting at a specific location and time,
and create sun study animations. | | | | |
Advanced Photorealistic Animations and Immersive Virtual Reality
Easily animate exploded views, cameras, and much more to
create photo-realistic videos. Create immersive virtual reality
experiences with 360-degree cameras and interactive output. | | ** | ** | ** |
User Guides, Training Manuals, and Assembly Documentation
Create outstanding digital content including interactive
product presentations and technical illustrations to showcase
product values, enable partners, guide use, and win customers. | | | | |
| TRAINING & SUPPORT |
Support
Access personalized, high-quality support from your certified
local value-added sales partner and interact with peers in a
vibrant community. | | | | |
Training
Get up to speed and improve your skills with a library of
over 440 learning modules comprising access to thousands
of on-demand videos. | | | | |
