SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

• Learn Fast: In-Context and Toolbar Menus, Command Search, Built-In Tutorials, Searchable Help Documentation
• Work Fast: Hot Keys, Customisable Commands, and Equations
• Get Help Fast: Local and Worldwide Support Services

Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform your ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models.

• 3D Solid Modeling
• Conceptual Design
• Direct Model Geometry Modification
• Large Assembly Design with over 100,000 components
• Advanced Surface Design
• Sheet Metal Design
• Welded Structure Design
• Plastic Part Design
• Mould Tool Design

Create production-ready 2D drawings that are always current and clearly communicate how to manufacture and assemble your designs, with tools including:

• Automatic Drawing View Creation
• Automatic Drawing View Updates
• Drafting Standards: ANSI, ISO, DIN, JIS, BSI, GOST, GB
• Manual and Automated Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Annotations and Symbols
• Automatic Bill of Materials (BOM), Exploded Views, Balloon Notes
• Hole Tables, Weld Tables, Pipe Bend Tables, Cut Lists
• Sheet Metal Bend Notes
• Automated Creation of Radial/Cylindrical Exploded Views

Simplify the reuse of existing design data with rapid searching, reusable features, and configuration tools that help you speed up the creation of new designs.

• Rapid Searching
• Part and Assembly Configurations
• Reuse 2D and 3D CAD Data
• 3D CAD Models from Industry Suppliers

Easily analyse, compare, check and report on your designs.

• Power Selection Tools
• Symmetry Check
• Copy Feature Info into Other Features (Feature Paint)
• Find and Replace in Drawing

Convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators.

• Interactive Feature Recognition and Conversion
• Automatic Feature Recognition and Conversion

Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data.

• Import, Edit, Evaluate, and Create Solid Geometry from Point Cloud and Mesh Data
• Import Adobe® Illustrator Files
• Import Image Files and Convert Raster to Vector Data

Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data.

• Libraries of Standard Fasteners and Components
• Beam, Bearing, and Cam Design Wizard
• Automatic Assembly of Fasteners and Components

*The SOLIDWORKS Toolbox is replaced by the 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace for 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and hosts thousands of verified manufacturer parts.

Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces typically encountered in products made from materials such as textiles or sheet metal.

• Automated, Interactive Surface and Curve Flattening and Data Export

Develop your designs for plants, hydraulic systems, building services and more with native pipe & tube routing:

• Create Detailed Piping Systems
• Create Flexible or Rigid Tubing Lines
• Customisable Library of Piping Components
• Automatic Assembly of Hangers and Supports
• Output Tube Bend Data for Manufacturing
• Cut Length Calculations Automated for BOM
• Automatic Routing Option for Pipes and Tubes
• Minimum Bend Radius Check for Tubes
• Output of PCF files for ISOGEN® piping software

Quickly add cables, wires and harnesses to your design. Create flattened drawing representations of your 3D cables and harnesses with wire lists, connection information and bills of materials.

• Create Detailed Electrical Cable and Wiring Harnesses
• Run Rigid or Flexible Electrical Conduit Segments
• Conduit
• Ribbon Cable
• Wire Lengths Automatically Calculated
• Automated Harness Flattening for Manufacturing
• BOM and Wire Cut Lists

Route rectangular and round sections that include ducting, cable trays, conveyors, material handling chutes and other systems.

• Automatic Routing Using Imported "From-To" Connection Data
• Mounting Hardware, Splices, Connectors, Insulation, Looms, Heat-Shrink Tubing, Cable Ties

Create, review and evaluate 3D models through the cloud-based 3D Creator parametric modeling solution with full integration for SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

• Design from anywhere with the xDesign app
• Works in any Browser
• Full Integration with other 3DEXPERIENCE Platform apps
• Full Integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
• Import/Export Multiple File Types

Create organic shapes quickly and easily with an intuitive Sub-D modelling solution to push and pull geometry.

• Easy-to-use, Intuitive "Clay Modelling" Sub-D Tools
• Design from anywhere with the xShape app
• Works in any Browser
• Full Integration with 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
• Full Integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

Define, organize, and communicate key manufacturing information such as dimensions, tolerances, and notes all from a web browser with a combined 2D drawing and model-based solution.

Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities.

Provide specialised, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mould cores, cavities, and inserts.

Create structural members, add plates, gussets, and end caps then generate a manufacturing cut list with associative, feature-based frame design capabilities.

Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress 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.

Connect SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services. Equip SOLIDWORKS with tools for CAD-intelligent cloud data storage, file sharing, markup and collaboration, revision management, and control over processes such as engineering change.

• CAD-Intelligent Data Storage
• File Sharing
• Markup & Collaboration
• Revision Management
• Process Control

*3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS expands on the functionality provided by the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services to SOLIDWORKS Subscription customers.

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.

Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.

Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.

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 designs and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders.

Securely store, share, access and manage the latest product design information within a secure vault on your local PC or network.

• Local, On-Premise Storage Options
• User Group Access Rights
• File Vaulting
• Secure Check-in and Check-out
• Automated Revision Control

Easily preview, measure, markup, and share files with the native 3DPlay viewer in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

• Preview CAD files and associated data
• Quickly Measure & Inspect Designs
• Works in any Browser
• Markup & Share Designs with a Link
• Control View Access Permissions

Store, share, access and manage the latest product design information from a centralised, secure location on the Cloud.

• User Group Access Rights
• File Vaulting
• Secure Check-in and Check-out
• Automated Revision Control
• Route & Issue Management
• Cloud-Based Storage

Manage the lifecycle of any type of content, such as CAD files, simulation models and documentation, across disciplines and CAD solutions.

• Track & Manage Issues
• Intuitive & Reliable PLM System
• Complete Engineering Change Management
• Accessible Route Management
• Automated Revision Control

Collaborate in real time using configurable dashboards, social communities, Kanban-style task management, activity streams, persistent chat and video calls.

• Rapid Searching & 6W Tags
• Easily Visualise In-Work Files
• Task & Resource Management
• Integrated SOLIDWORKS Markup
• Browser-Based Communication
• Private Internal Communities
• Public Industry Knowledge Sharing
• Full Microsoft Office Integration

Monitor license usage, manage members, and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative dashboard, lowering administrative overhead. Easily stay up-to-date and benefit from the latest enhancements.

• Always on the Latest Version
• Flexible Named-User Licensing
• Integrated Resource Management
• Single Point of Administration

Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit, assemble and operate correctly.

• Collision Detection
• Interference Detection
• Hole Alignment
• Thread Checks
• Curvature Visualisation

Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit, assemble and operate correctly.

• Thickness Analysis
• Geometry Check for CAM
• Compare Parts and Drawings for Changes
• Draft and Undercut Analysis
• Sheet Metal Checks and Flat Pattern

Establish design standards and check drawings (or models) against them to create uniform designs and documentation.

• Verify Designs against Company Standards
• Automatically Correct Non-Conforming Issues
• Customise Design Check Rules

Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and verify tolerancing schemes before manufacturing your designs.

• Worst Case and RSS Maximum/Minimum
• Identify Highest Contributing Tolerances
• Automatic Update of Analysis when Design Changes

Continuously check your designs against cost targets with automatic cost estimation tools fully integrated within the 3D CAD solution.

• Compare Manufacturing Costs
• Automated Manufacturing Cost Estimation
• Customisable Manufacturing Settings
• Output Cost Report
• Manufacturing cost estimation and quoting overview for assemblies*

*Cost estimation of assemblies is available only in Premium packages of SOLIDWORKS or 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS.

Realistically visualize your product moving throughout its operational cycle world, measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to correctly size motors and ensure product performance, quality and safety.

• Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis
• Inputs: Forces, Springs, Dampers, Gravity, Contact, Bushings
• Outputs: Displacement, Velocities, Accelerations, Body Loads, Joint Forces
• View/Publish Animations, Graphs, Reports

Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods, and running linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.

• Inputs: Variable Forces/Pressures, Full Restraint Sets, Connectors, Gravity, Contact, Materials
• Outputs: Factor of Safety, Stress, Displacement, Strain
• View/Publish Animations, Graphs, Reports

Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods, and running linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.

• Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Environmental Impact: SOLIDWORKS Sustainability**

*The Sustainability module included within SOLIDWORKS Premium has been upgraded to the Eco-Design Engineer role with complete lifecycle analysis (LCA), and is available as an add-on role for 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS.

**Sustainability Xpress is included within Standard and Professional desktop SOLIDWORKS for LCA of part components.

Easily create photographic-quality images from your 3D models early in the design process to get feedback and make informed design decisions with tools including:

• Realistic Textures
• Fully Customisable Appearances
• Representative Lighting & Environments
• Full NVIDIA GPU Support
• Physically Accurate Ray-Trace Rendering
• Live Final Render Previews

Export CAD data for AR, VR and web viewing experiences while retaining geometry, appearance, motion studies, display states and more.

Access to eDrawings Professional via a separate installation:

• Create and Publish eDrawings Files
• Allow Measurement in eDrawings Files
• Enable Markup of eDrawings Files
• Exploded Views Support for eDrawings Files
• View Assembly Animations
• Password Protect Intellectual Property

Create stunning digital content including interactive product presentations and technical illustrations to showcase product values, enable partners, guide use, and win customers.

Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging virtual twins.

Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements.

Every version of SOLIDWORKS is entitled to expert Technical Support with a valid SOLIDWORKS Subscription.

*Licenses must be on subscription to access Technical Support.

Our SOLIDWORKS Essentials course covers the basics for every version of SOLIDWORKS.

**Training courses are available as an additional purchase and are not included with any license of SOLIDWORKS. Discover how you can make savings on SOLIDWORKS training courses with a SOLIDWORKS Passport or with an Enhanced Subscription.

Improve your skills with a library of over 200 learning modules comprising thousands of on-demand lessons.