3D CAD: SolidWorks Features
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
TRANSFORM IDEAS INTO INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS WITH INTUITIVE AND POWERFUL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING SOLUTION.
Dramatically improve the way you develop and manufacture products with comprehensive tools for design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and collaboration, helping you reduce costs and improve quality.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, the foundation of the entire SOLIDWORKS portfolio of solutions, provides engineers, designers, and manufacturers with easy-to-learn, extremely powerful functionality to design and deliver products. All SOLIDWORKS solutions support a single-window complete integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. As a result, all SOLIDWORKS products work together seamlessly, using the same design data, so each design change is updated automatically across all applications.
SOLIDWORKS FEATURES & CAPABILITIES
3D Design and 2D Drawings
Create designs faster and more accurately, including 3D models and 2D drawings of complex parts and large assemblies.
Specific Tools for Specific Design Tasks
Work more efficiently with application-specific tools for holes, fasteners, sheet metal, injection molds, plastic and cast parts, weldments, surfacing, mesh models, reverse engineering, piping, and electrical routing.
Piping, Tubing, and Electrical Routing
Complete your design, including all your piping, tubing, and electrical routes, using tools specifically designed to speed these tasks.
Design Changes That Propagate Downstream
Make design changes at any time. Changes flow quickly and easily to all downstream departments.
Design Automation and Configurability
Automate design and drawing creation with built-in configurability tools
Premade Library of Components
Leverage the extensive components and parts library so you don’t have to waste time modeling common parts such as bolts, nuts, washers, and other common hardware items.
Elimination of Design Errors and Manufacturing Rework
Eliminate errors and rework before designs get to manufacturing by using automatic interference checking and virtual testing of designs, with integrated motion and stress analysis tools.
Automatic Interference Checking
Automatically check for interferences and misalignments before going to manufacturing
Integrated Design and Manufacturing
Enable design and manufacturing teams to work concurrently in one seamlessly integrated system.
Accurate Bills of Materials
Output accurate bills of materials (BOMs) needed by manufacturing with the click of a mouse.
Cost and Production Optimization
Design for cost and design for manufacturing by using automatic manufacturing-cost estimation tools and manufacturability checks
Advanced Surface Flattening
Save time and material using advanced surface-flattening tools in order to determine the initial blank size of textile and metal components that have complex, nondevelopable shapes.
Direct Collaboration With Others Who Use SOLIDWORKS
Share data directly with your suppliers and customers who also use SOLIDWORKS and eliminate data translation, which wastes time and can introduce design errors.
CAD Interoperability
Open and work with most types of 3D CAD data with the option to link to and work with the model in its original CAD format or convert it automatically to a SOLIDWORKS file
Reduced Costs for Maintaining Several CAD Systems
Significantly reduce costs associated with supporting multiple design and manufacturing tools by implementing one seamlessly integrated design-to-manufacturing solution
Simulation Tools
Reduce costs and get to market faster with simulation tools for motion and structural analysis that allow you to understand how your designs will perform in the real world without the need to manufacture expensive and time-consuming prototypes.
CAM Programming
Automate CAM programming with embedded, easily customizable, rules-based machining using SOLIDWORKS CAM powered by CAMWorks
Data Management
Manage interactions between team members and control revisions using data management tools
Photorealistic Images and Videos
Communicate ideas more effectively using tools to create, publish, and view lifelike, photo-realistic images and videos of designs.
Support for AR and VR
Dramatically simplify the path from SOLIDWORKS CAD to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) with an export option (extended reality).
Environmental Impact
Check the environmental impact of your design with built-in analysis tools.
Fast and Easy Learning
Get up to speed quickly with online help and tutorials, live technical support, and training.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Packages
Solidworks Standard
Get up to speed quickly and benefit from this powerful 3D design and manufacturing solution. Along with part, assembly, and 2D drawing functionality, specialized tools are included for sheet metal, weldments, surfacing, molds, product configuration, design analysis, DFM, and CAM included with an active subscription
- 3D Solid Modeling
- Large Assembly Design
- 3D Animations and Basic Rendering
- First Pass Design Analysis
- Interference Check
- 2D Drawings
- Sheet Metal Design
- Weldments
- Mold Design
- CAD Import and Export
Solidworks Professional
SolidWorks Professional provides all the power of SolidWorks Standard with additional capabilities with ECAD /MCAD collaboration, automated cost estimation, collaboration capabilities, design and drawing checking, a sophisticated components and parts library, and advanced photorealistic rendering
- All Solidworks Standard Features
- File Management
- Manufacturing Cost Estimation & Quoting
- ECAD/MCAD Data Sharing
- Standards Checking
- Design Collaboration
- Task Scheduling
- CAD Library
- Tolerance Analysis
- Advanced Photorealistic Rendering
- Reverse Engineering
- Design for Manufacturability
solidworks PREMIUM
SolidWorks Premium builds on SolidWorks Professional by adding powerful structural and motion analysis, reverse engineering, advanced surface flattening, and electrical cable and pipe routing functionality
- All Solidworks Professional Features
- Time Based Motion Analysis
- Linear Stress Analysis
- Advanced Surface Flattening
- Piping and Tubing Design
- Electrical Cable Harness and Conduit Design
- Routing of Rectangular and Other Sections