Gain Speed and Flexibility in Managing Large Assemblies

Design and change components easily from within the assembly to ensure optimal fit. Gain unparalleled performance for designing large assemblies with tens of thousands of parts. Drag and drop parts and features into place. Speed assembly design with incomparable ease and performance.

Be Productive in Hours, Proficient in Days

Become productive rapidly using familiar Windows® functions like point-and-click and cut-and-paste. If you know Windows, you’re well on your way to designing with SolidWorks 3D modeling software.

Enhance your Designs with Advanced Shapes and Complex Surfaces

Improve the aesthetics and ergonomics of your product designs by generating advanced shapes, complex surfaces, and patterns. Save time when creating new geometry or using imported surfaces with a variety of built-in tools such as drag handles that make surface manipulation easy and intuitive.

Perform Every Aspect of Design More Effectively

Design assembly components and change specifications easily from within the assembly to ensure optimal fit and avoid errors. Reference other parts directly and maintain relationships when creating new parts. Simplify design work with best-in-
class sheet metal capabilities.

Time-saving Innovations

Visualize Better with Heads-up Interface

Improve visualization with Heads-up User Interface, a complete set of visual display and mouse-driven control capabilities that
reduce design steps, minimize the need for dialog boxes, and lessen visual clutter.  All design properties and parameters are within easy reach with the PropertyManager, an intuitive design editor.

Automate Repetitive Tasks

The productivity enhancing drag-and-drop and snap-to-fit functions of SolidWorks software simplify the entire design process. Save time with Smart Part Technology, an innovation that automates assembly tasks such as selecting and inserting standard bolts into holes and adding washers and nuts in the correct sequence.

Create Multiple Design Variation with Configuration Management

Reuse previous design work and reduce repetitive design tasks with Configuration Management, a unique capability that lets
you create multiple variations of a product in a single document. Develop and manage families of parts and models with different dimensions, components, properties, or other parameters. 

Create Better Designs by Simulating Assemblies in Motion

Avoid potential design flaws with unique, built-in physical simulation capabilities that allow you to study part and assembly
movement in detail.

Production-ready Engineering Drawings

Create Complete Drawings Automatically

Construct production-ready detailed drawings without drawing a single line or arc. SolidWorks software does it for you, eliminating time-consuming drawing view creation, manipulation, and maintenance.  Show your design from multiple angles and enlarge details of specific components easily with a few mouse clicks.

Revise Drawings Easily

Each modification that you make to a 2D drawing or 3D model created with SolidWorks software is reflected accurately throughout all associated views, sheets, and drawings. All drawing views, dimensions, and annotations update automatically. You never have to redraw a complicated section, detail, or isometric view by hand.

Reuse 2D Design Work

Preserve the value of your 2D drawing investment within a SolidWorks design environment by importing DWG blocks
and 2D component references (Xrefs).  You can retain drawings in 2D formats or convert them into associative 3D designs that you can change easily at any time.

Increase Flexibility and Eliminate Guesswork with Truly Associative Dimensions

Adding, referencing, or changing a dimension value in a drawing or part model is easy with SolidWorks software.   You have the flexibility to add or change dimensions at any point during the design process. The geometry updates automatically to accommodate each change, eliminating inconsistencies, so you can always be confident in the accuracy of SolidWorks drawings.

Generate Bills of Materials Automatically

Speed the development of drawings for designs that contain hundreds or thousands of parts by automatically populating
bills of materials (BOMs) with a description and quantity for each component.   SolidWorks software minimizes the time required to create production-ready drawings, complete with up-to-date BOMs and balloons.

Unparalleled Compatibility

Leverage Existing 2D Data

Preserve the value of legacy data with the best available transition tools, including help documentation for AutoCAD® users, the ability to drag 2D drawings into SolidWorks drawings, support for reusable 2D geometry, and view folding, a tool
that lets you build 3D models more easily from DWG data.

Edit Legacy DWG files with the DWGeditor™

The DWGeditor is for SolidWorks customers who use AutoCAD® to edit or maintain existing DWG files. The DWGeditor provides a low risk, low cost alternative for editing DWG files in their native format, using a familiar user interface.

Maintain Compatibility with Built-in Translators

Exchange CAD data using a wide variety of file formats including: CGR (CATIA® graphics), HCG (CATIA highly compressed graphics), Pro/ENGINEER®, IPT (Autodesk Inventor®), Mechanical Desktop®, Unigraphics®, PAR (Solid Edge™), CADKEY®, IGES, STEP, Parasolid®, SAT (ACIS®), VDA-FS, VRML, STL, DWG, DXF™, TIFF, JPG, Viewpoint, Adobe® Illustrator®, IDF, and HSF (Hoops).

Integrated Design Analysis Tools

Built-in Analysis Wizard

Gain basic insight into how parts will function under real-world conditions with COSMOSXpress™, a point-and-click stress analysis Wizard built into SolidWorks 3D modeling software. COSMOSXpress guides you step-by-step through the design analysis process to help improve the integrity of your designs.

Built-in Plastic Part Fill Analysis

Understand if your plastic part design can be manufactured in an injection molding process with MoldflowXpress, a plastic fill
analysis Wizard built into SolidWorks 3D modeling software. MoldflowXpress guides you step-by-step through the fill
analysis process to help minimize material and optimize cycle time.

Design Collaboration Tools

Share Product Designs with Innovative eDrawings Files
Supply accurate representations of 2D and 3D models that everyone can understand through the unique capabilities of eDrawings. Animate 2D drawings with exciting 3D effects. Share designs more effectively with your entire product design team, including product managers, marketing managers, manufacturing
specialists, customers, and suppliers.

Download Components from Leading Suppliers Directly into Your Designs

Save design time with 3D ContentCentralSM, an online directory that lets you download 3D models and 2D drawings of components from major suppliers directly into your designs. Benefit from the underlying capabilities of 3D PartStream.NET®, an online catalog solution that allows you to visualize components from all angles and configure them to meet your requirements, as well as enabling convenient downloading of CAD files in a variety of file formats.

Show How Products Look and Perform
Demonstrate how products look and perform with SolidWorks Animator, easy-to-use animation software. Combine with PhotoWorks photo realistic rendering capabilities to communicate design concepts more effectively.

Create and Publish Web Pages Instantly
Share your 3D product designs easily using 3D Instant Website, an innovative tool that lets you create and publish web pages instantly. Allow others to view, rotate, zoom, and pan your 3D models. Use ready-made templates and a SolidWorks-hosted site for even greater convenience.

Design Productivity Tools

Add Intelligence to Static 3D Data
Automatically add intelligence to static translated 3D data using FeatureWorks feature recognition software, a productivity module included with SolidWorks Office Professional and SolidWorks Office.

A Time-Saving Library of Standard Parts

With SolidWorks Toolbox you have instant access to an entire encyclopedia of standard components. Now you can select and place the right part in the right hole in seconds. Just indicate your hole or thread size and click.

CAD productivity software for design comparison

Find difference between two versions of the same part quickly and easily. Identify and highlight problematic imported geometry in a part and avoid errors downstream. Find, modify, and suppress features within a model. So easy to learn and use, you'll be up and running in minutes.

A timesaving tool for ensuring compliance with your organization's design standards

Streamline your organization's design release process with SolidWorks Design Checker, a new productivity tool that automatically identifies elements that may be inconsistent with your organization's design standards.

PDM Solution for Workgroups

Achieve Greater Efficiency Through Data Management
Securely manage and share engineering design data, eliminate lost files, prevent unauthorized changes and enable concurrent design. PDMWorks lets you easily vault, search for, and retrieve design data while maintaining complex file relationships and design history.