SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD – Power, Precision & Innovation

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is the industry-standard solution for professional design and engineering, offering intuitive 3D modelling, seamless collaboration and secure cloud data management. Whether you’re creating complex assemblies, generating production-ready documentation or simulating real-world performance, SOLIDWORKS helps you design smarter and faster.

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Stay ahead with the latest enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, including performance boosts, AI-powered automation and advanced design capabilities-all designed to streamline your workflow and maximise productivity.

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Parts, Assemblies, Drawings and User Experience. Watch the video to learn how SOLDIWORKS 2026 enhancements help save time, reduce manual effort and boost accuracy with AI-drawing generation, smarter assembly rebuilds, faster sketcthing, enhanced sheet metal tools, easier Physical Product setup, improved offline mode and a streamlined interface.

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How You Benefit from SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

Professional 3D CAD

Choose the 3D CAD solution that the pros use. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD makes creating parts, assemblies, drawings, production-ready documentation, and robust 3D models fun, intuitive, and easy to use, bringing you from design to manufacturing faster than ever.

Intuitive UI Made for You

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is known for its intuitive, customisable interface built to maximise your everyday productivity. Take advantage of software that you can customise to meet your unique needs regardless of industry or company size.

Design Together

Cloud-based collaboration and file management is included with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. Connect your partners, customers, and remote teams, and get real-time feedback and revision management to keep all of your projects on time, on budget, and on point.

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD CAPABILITIES

From complex design modelling and assembly creation to simulation, rendering, and seamless updates, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is the industry-standard choice for professionals. Its fast, associative, and intuitive tools take you from ideation to manufacturing with greater speed and efficiency.

Effortless Transition from Design To Manufacturing

- With SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, seamlessly transition from concept to production with powerful tools for parts, assemblies, large design reviews, and advanced modelling. Handle even the most complex designs and large assemblies with ease while maximising performance.
- Create fast, associative, and production-ready drawings, whether in 2D, 3D annotations, or CAM integration. SOLIDWORKS ensures a smooth workflow from ideation to manufacturing.
- Stay ahead with continuous performance enhancements and the latest professional development tools, keeping your designs at the cutting edge.

Seamless Collaboration for Smarter Documentation

- Seamless file sharing with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD allows you to securely share designs for review via secure links, no need to send physical files, ensuring you retain full control of your data.
- Real-time 3D markup enables stakeholders to review and provide feedback directly on the model, all within a web browser. Multiple collaborators can annotate designs effortlessly, enhancing communication and decision-making.
- Streamline feedback and collaboration, both internal and external reviewers can access and review designs without downloading additional software or viewers, making the process faster and more efficient.

Boost Your Daily Productivity with SOLIDWORKS

- Unlock specialised tools for everything from weldments and routing to mould design, sheet metal, and more—tailored to streamline your workflow.
- With SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, effortlessly create holes and assemble hardware components like fasteners, washers, nuts, and bolts, saving you time and effort.
- Designed by engineers, for engineers, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD has evolved over 30+ years to anticipate future design needs, enhance usability, and deliver user-driven innovations that optimise the way you work.

Integrated Cloud Data Management

- CAD-Aware Storage – Unlike generic cloud storage solutions, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD provides intelligent cloud storage designed to maintain file relationships seamlessly.
- Stay in Control – Built-in version control ensures you’re always working on the latest revision, preventing accidental overwrites and data loss.
- Work Smarter, Not Harder – Automated tools and assistive features eliminate repetitive tasks, streamlining 3D CAD workflows to maximise efficiency and productivity.

Design without Boundaries with SOLIDWORKS

Product development is a team effort. SOLIDWORKS extends beyond the desktop by connecting your design workflows with the cloud, enabling teams to collaborate seamlessly from anywhere. This improves design efficiency, enhances communication, and helps streamline product development to better support your business goals.

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD integrates with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a secure, scalable cloud environment that grows with your organisation. From day one, cloud connectivity enables you to:

Connect internal and external stakeholders through a single source of truth
Share, review, and markup 3D designs easily with any stakeholder
Store, manage, and revise CAD data using secure, CAD-aware cloud storage

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KEY CAPABILITIES	SOLIDWORKS Design Professional	SOLIDWORKS Design Premium	SOLIDWORKS Design Ultimate
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.