Design Better Products Faster with SolidWorks

Streamlined User Interface

With the heads-up user interface, you get a complete, customizable set of visual display and mouse-driven control capabilities. This reduces design steps, minimizes dialog boxes, and decreases visual clutter.



 

SWIFT Instant3D

SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology). SWIFT let you spend time creating products that work well, instead of trying to make your software work for you. It automates time-consuming detail work and techniques, diagnosing and resolving problems related to feature order, mates, sketch relationships, and the application of dimensions.
 

Working with DWG

SolidWorks includes data translation tools for AutoCAD® users, along with help documentation, so you can smoothly convert DWG files into 3D models. Alternatively, you can use DWGeditor®–included with SolidWorks software–to edit, manipulate, and maintain existing AutoCAD DWG files in their native format.

 

Part Modeling

With Instant3D, you have the fastest, easiest way to create and modify 3D part geometry. By simply clicking and dragging, you can precisely create and resize features–even section entities. As you ready your design for production, use DimXpert to create accurate 2D drawings (or “drawingless” data) to ensure your parts will fit when manufactured.
 

Reuse existing designs to save time

Advanced Surfacing and Complex Shapes

Improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of your product designs. Using the Freeform feature, creating new geometry, or importing and manipulating new surfaces, is easy and intuitive.

Weldment Design

Sketch a layout for your frame and select a weldment profile. SolidWorks will automatically generate a weldment design in 3D. Modify, validate, and reinforce your design, and then enhance it with standard parts that you can drag and drop from the Design Library or 3D ContentCentral®. Then, generate precise manufacturing drawings with cut lengths for all segments.

Improve your designs

TolAnalyst

TolAnalyst is a tolerance analysis tool that determines the effect that tolerances have on parts and assemblies. TolAnalyst allows users to perform worst case tolerance stack up analysis on parts and assemblies by informing the user which tolerances contribute the most to potential design failure. Tolerances that do not impact the design goal can be loosened to lower the manufacturing cost. TolAnalyst helps ensure that designs meet proper fit and function requirements while lowering costs.

DFMXpress

DFMXpress is an up front validation tool used to identify geometry that is difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture by conventional machining operations. DFMXpress can help reduce the time it takes to consult with manufacturing specialists by identifying to the designer geometry that may contribute significantly to manufacturing problems.

Simulation Design Insight

Design Insight allows the user to easily identify the areas of a design that contribute most to structural integrity. Once these critical areas are identified, the designer can make informed decisions with respect to removing unnecessary material or exploring other design alternatives. Design Insight is an intuitive way to identify over-engineering and reduce material costs in product designs.

SolidWorks MotionManager

The new MotionManager consolidates Dynamic Assembly Motion, Physical Simulation, Animation, and COSMOSMotion into a single, easy-to-use interface. The new MotionManager has a key frame-based timeline and controls motors, gravity, and springs based on time. With a single setup, users can now see how an assembly moves and how components interact, create presentations, and obtain component velocities and accelerations for validation purposes.