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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is a powerful 3D design solution to quickly transform new ideas into great products and speed your design process.

SOLIDWORKS PREMIUM is a comprehensive 3D design solution that adds powerful simulation and design validation to the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional, as well as ECAD/MCAD collaboration, reverse engineering, and advanced wire and pipe routing functionality.

SOLIDWORKS PROFESSIONAL builds on the capabilities of SolidWorks Standard to increase design productivity, with file management tools, advanced photorealistic rendering, automated cost estimation, eDrawings® Professional collaboration capabilities, automated design and drawing checking, and a sophisticated components and parts library.

SOLIDWORKS STANDARD Get up to speed quickly with SolidWorks Standard and unlock the benefits of this powerful 3D design software for rapid creation of parts, assemblies, and 2D drawings. Application-specific tools for sheet metal, weldments, surfacing, and mold tool and die make it easy to deliver best-in-class designs.

SOLIDWORKS PREMIUM software integrates a broad range of mechanical CAD, design validation, product data management, design communication, and CAD productivity tools in a single, affordable easy to use package.

Go from concept to virtual prototype faster than you ever thought possible with the desired quality using a single easy to use application. SolidWorks Premium is so complete, you can progress from a product concept to a highly accurate virtual prototype without employing any other software

FEATURED SOLIDWORKS PREMIUM CAPABILITIES

GETTING STARTED. Get up to speed fast. SolidWorks Command Manager logically groups similar functions for easy access, and integrated tutorials provide workflow demonstrations along with visual cues. 

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

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.

WORKING WITH DWG FILES. SolidWorks includes data translation tools for AutoCAD® users, along with help documentation, so you can smoothly convert DWG files into 3D models.

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 drawing less data) to ensure your parts will fit when manufactured.

REALVIEW® GRAPHICS. Visualize and communicate your designs more clearly than ever. You can quickly create nearly lifelike, fully dynamic representations of your parts, assemblies, and completed products without rendering.

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.

SHEET METAL DESIGN TOOLS. Create sheet metal parts from scratch using folds, bends, flanges, rips, tabs, and mitres, as well as lofted bends, sketched bends, hems, and more. Alternatively, you can create a solid shape as a starting point. Advanced capabilities, such as the  convert solid to sheetmetal functionality, let you develop a manufacturable sheet metal part.

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.

MOLD DESIGN TOOLS. WITH SOLIDWORKS, you can import part geometry in IGES, STEP, Parasolid , ACIS , and other formats to begin your mold designs. Create, validate, and execute your mold design “and reduce manufacturing errors with a complete range of tools and checks, speeding the design of cores and cavities, assembly features, and lip and groove features.  

ASSEMBLY MODELING. SolidWorks gives you the tools to get it right on-screen when you create assemblies, saving you the time and cost of physical prototyping and remanufacturing. You can mate components by picking individual surfaces, edges, curves, and vertices; create mechanical relationships between components; conduct interference, collision, and hole alignment checks; and link the motion of pulleys and sprockets. You can also automatically assemble fasteners and accompanying hardware; automate the assembly of commonly used components, appropriate hardware, and required features; and use MateXpert to fix conflicts such as over-constraining a component.

SIMULATE ASSEMBLY MOTION. Simply by clicking and dragging components, you can check an assembly for proper motion and collisions. In addition, you can simulate physical motion involving assembly mates, contact, springs, and gravity. SolidWorks Motion also provides accurate measurements of velocity, accelerations, and forces on components due to motion – so you have a realistic understanding of design decisions before producing the prototype product.

LARGE ASSEMBLY MANAGEMENT TOOLS. Use Lightweight mode to reduce the time spent opening and working on large assemblies. SpeedPak technology enables you to create simplified versions of assemblies that speed assembly operations and drawing creation. Use Quick View to select and open just the component you need to work on, and use the Assembly Xpert to analyze and improve your assembly performance.

DATA TRANSLATION. Easily import and use existing data, as well as data from external sources. SolidWorks includes translators that support DWG, DXF™, Pro/ENGINEER®, IPT (Autodesk Inventor®), Mechanical Desktop®, Unigraphics®, PAR (Solid Edge®), CADKEY®, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, SAT (ACIS), VDA-FS, VRML, STL, TIFF, JPG, Adobe® Illustrator®, Rhinocerous®, IDF, and HSF (Hoops) formats.

 STANDARD HARDWARE LIBRARIES. With SolidWorks Toolbox, SolidWorks Design ClipArt, and 3D ContentCentral, you have instant access to virtual encyclopedias comprising thousands of standard components.

With SolidWorks Simulation, you can easily subject your designs to the same conditions that they'll experience in the real world. Raise the quality of your products while you reduce your costs for live prototypes and testing.

Solidworks Simulation provides the ideal virtual testing environment to evaluate designs and help make the right decisions for overall quality improvement.

• SolidWorks Simulation Professional

• SolidWorks Simulation Premium

• SolidWorks Flow Simulation

SolidWorks Simulation lets you test products for defects before they're built, helping prevent errors early in the design process. It's powerful enough for trained FEA analysts, yet easy enough for product designers. SolidWorks Simulation can even help you optimize your designs for maximum performance and savings.

SolidWorks Simulation opens in the SolidWorks user interface, so there's no need to launch multiple applications. You can subject your designs to the same conditions they'll face in the real world, including stresses, impact, heat, airflow, and more. There's no need to wait until a product has been manufactured to start testing, or go through multiple physical prototypes.

You can use SolidWorks Simulation to answer questions such as

• will moving parts clash or interfere with one another?

• how much weight can a product carry?

• how much will a part deform under specific stresses?

• will heat and air circulate through the design properly?

• will it survive a fall?

If you haven't been using Simulation tools because you think they require a Ph.D. in physics, it's time to take another look. SolidWorks Simulation is easy enough for any designer to use, but still powerful enough to provide real, meaningful results.

Core Simulation capabilities are included with every license of SolidWorks Premium, and additional capabilities can be added as you need them. Three upgrades are available: Simulation Premium, and Flow Simulation.

SOLIDWORKS SUSTAINABILITY Conduct life cycle assessment (LCA) on parts or assemblies directly within the SolidWorks 3D design window. Search for comparable materials, see in real time how they affect environmental impact, and easily document your findings.

SolidWorks Sustainability provides a screening-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of the environmental impacts of your full design, with seamless integration to your design process. It includes the diverse tools of SustainabilityXpress (parts assessment, alternative materials search, and environmental impact dashboard) with additional capability to assess both parts and assemblies, using parameters such as transportation mode and distance, assembly energy, and use-phase energy consumption.

Flexible inputs, such as recycled content level and end-of-life scenarios, enable more detailed assessments. You can even perform time-dependent environmental comparisons using the varying lifetimes of different design solutions.

Assessment results are saved for each design configuration, helping you easily compare versions. The Assembly Visualization tool ranks the impact of the parts in your assembly to pinpoint and reassess the sustainability of your design. Seamless integration and automatic report generation allow you to quickly communicate your sustainable design solution.

SolidWorks Sustainability uses the gold-standard GaBi LCA environmental impact database from PE International. You can download updates as they become available, and even request new LCA datasets for your custom materials and processes as a premium service in partnership with PE International.

SOLIDWORKS COMPOSER

Have your products ever been delayed because the documentation wasn't ready? Or, have you ever lost out on a bid because your presentation materials weren't compelling enough? You're not alone. Instead of waiting until a project is done to get started, 3DVIA Composer lets you start creating documents almost as soon as the design process begins.

SolidWorks Composer software gives you the tools to start product communication early in the design process, keep it updated, and deliver it on time.

3DVIA Composer

Do you want to reduce the amount of time it takes to create documentation? 3DVIA Composer helps you create everything from product manuals to interactive 3D animations and videos. It allows you to present your ideas better and differentiate yourself from the competition, so you'll win more business and create superior-quality documents at dramatically lower costs.

Create interactive product documentation, animation, technical illustrations and more

By reusing digital product definition data including 3D design programs and bills-of-material information, 3DVIA Composer revolutionizes the product documentation process for enterprises of all sizes.

With its easy-to-use, desktop content-creation system, 3DVIA Composer effectively automates processes that are crucial for success in the marketplace.

Before 3DVIA Composer, the deliverable production process was a costly, error-prone process which had to be repeated, usually from the start, for any product change.

Now, by using 3DVIA Composer, enterprises can quickly and easily automate their deliverable production processes while reducing costs and improving quality. 3DVIA Composer allows production of product documentation to be concurrent with the design of the product. 

SolidWorks Electrical packages provide a range of electrical system design functionality to meet the needs of design professionals. All project design data is synchronized in real time, bidirectionally between schematics and the 3D model within a collaborative environment.

SolidWorks Electrical Professional Combine the electrical schematic functionality of SolidWorks Electrical Schematic with the 3D modeling capabilities of SolidWorks Electrical 3D and do it all in one powerful, easy-to-use package. SolidWorks Electrical Professional is ideally suited for the user that supports both the electrical and mechanical design integration

SolidWorks Electrical 3D Integrate electrical schematic design data with the SolidWorks 3D model of a machine or other product—bidirectionally and in real time. SolidWorks Electrical 3D enables you to place electrical components and use advanced SolidWorks routing technology to automatically interconnect electrical design elements within the 3D model. Determine optimal lengths for wires, cables, and harnesses, all while maintaining design and bill of materials (BOM) synchronization between electrical and mechanical designs.

SolidWorks Electrical Schematic A powerful easy-to-use suite of collaborative schematic design tools drive rapid development of embedded electrical systems for equipment and other products. Built-in libraries of symbols, manufacturer part information, and 3D component models provide common reusable materials optimizing design reuse. Streamline and simplify an array of tedious design tasks, from PLC and terminal block to contact cross reference assignments with our automated design and management tools. 

SOLIDWORKS PLASTIC

SolidWorks Plastics brings easy-to-use injection molding simulation directly to the designers of plastic parts and injection molds. It simulates how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects on parts and molds. You can quickly evaluate manufacturability while you design, to eliminate costly mold rework, improve part quality, and accelerate time to market. A Results Adviser provides troubleshooting steps and practical design advice to help diagnose and solve potential problems.

SolidWorks Plastics Professional

For plastics part designers, SolidWorks Plastics Professional enables you to optimize parts for manufacturability in the early stages of design. Easy to learn and use, SolidWorks Plastics Professional is fully embedded within the SolidWorks CAD environment so you can analyze and modify designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function.

SolidWorks Plastics Premium

SolidWorks Plastics Premium gives anyone who designs or builds injection molds an accurate, easy-to-use way to optimize them. You can quickly create and analyze single-cavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates. You can even balance runner systems and estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size, enabling you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework.