SolidWorks Premium

A no-compromise solution for the engineer who wants it all. SolidWorks 3D CAD Premium combines the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional with powerful simulation and design validation tool sets, as well as advanced wire and pipe routing functionality. You will get designs right the first time with the SolidWorks flagship offering. Learn more...

SolidWorks Professional

For maximum design productivity, SolidWorks Professional builds on the capabilities of SolidWorks 3D CAD Standard. It introduces data management, photo realistic rendering, and a sophisticated components and parts library. Efficiency and innovation increase with the solution that is used by millions of designers. Learn more...

SolidWorks Standard

A powerful 3D design solution for rapid creation of parts, assemblies and 2D drawings with minimal training. Application-specific tools for sheet metal, weldments, surfacing, mold tool and die make it easy to deliver best-in-class designs. Unlock the benefits of SolidWorks 3D CAD with SolidWorks Standard. Learn more...

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SolidWorks 2013 – New Features

SolidWorks 2013 includes over 200 new features and enhancements covering the entire range of SolidWorks solutions for 3D design, simulation, technical communication, product data management, and sustainable design to maximize your productivity.

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Advantages

SolidWorks 3D CAD solutions enable you and your team to quickly transform new ideas into great products. Its intuitive interface and powerful design capabilities drive smarter, faster product development that powers your company’s success. Easy-to-use yet powerful toolsets, clear communication of design information, virtual prototyping, and quick generation of manufacturing-ready drawings and data give you the distinct advantage in a competitive market. Discover all the advantages of SolidWorks 3D CAD.

Education Products

SolidWorks Education Edition integrates SolidWorks Premium software, providing capabilities for 3D design, simulation, sustainability, documentation, and analysis, with a real world, standards-based curriculum and industry-recognized assessment. The Education Edition provides the tools students need to transform their ideas using 21st century technologies to create models, drawings, photorealistic renderings, and animations. SolidWorks tools are simple for educators and students to learn and use, from elementary school through high school to the college and university level. Students can focus on learning the principles of engineering to design, communicate, and visualize their creations take shape, and feel the excitement as they prepare for future employment. Outside the classroom, they can further hone their design skills through the SolidWorks Student Access Initiative.

SolidWorks Student Edition Software

With SolidWorks software skills, you’ll have a clear advantage in the engineering or industrial design job markets. The easy-to-use SolidWorks Student Edition lets you sharpen your skills outside the classroom as you learn to design better products.

SolidWorks Education Edition Software

The complete 3D design teaching tool provides software plus a full curriculum and interactive courseware. SolidWorks Education Edition is your all-inclusive resource for teaching 3D mechanical CAD, design validation, and data management.

University Researchers

With the SolidWorks University Research License, researchers can access the latest in engineering technology, while communicating with other researchers and industrial users around the world.

SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION PREMIUM

SolidWorks Simulation Premium bolsters the depth and ease of use of SolidWorks Simulation Professional with additional capabilities, including a powerful set of tools for simulating nonlinear and dynamic response as well as composite materials.

• Simulate products made with nonlinear materials
• Capture the effects of large displacements on your designs
• Perform dynamic analyses of parts and assemblies
• Simulate composite materials with SolidWorks Simulation

 

SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION PROFESSIONAL

Fully integrated with SolidWorks CAD software, SolidWorks Simulation Professional provides powerful tools that expand the capabilities of SolidWorks Simulation, so you can investigate more tests and operating environments on both parts and assemblies.

• Study and optimize assemblies of all sizes
• Understand the effects of temperature changes on parts and assemblies
• Simulate vibration or buckling in your designs
• Optimize critical dimensions and conceptual design features
• Simulate drop tests using your parts or assemblies
• Study the effects of cyclic loading and fatigue
• Predict Buckling or Collapse with SolidWorks Simulation
• Create motion simulations based on events and actions

SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION

SolidWorks Premium includes built-in simulation tools allowing you to easily subject your designs to the same conditions that they’ll experience in the real world.  SolidWorks Premium will allow you to simulate static or dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress, strain, and displacement.  Other simulation capabilities included in SolidWorks Premium include:

• Assembly Simulation
• Mechanism Simulation
• Tolerance stack-up Simulation

FLOW SIMULATION

SolidWorks Flow Simulation is a powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool that enables you to quickly and easily simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces when these interactions are critical to the success of your design.

• Simulate complex flow problems with SolidWorks Simulation
• Simulate liquid and gas flow in real world conditions
• Quickly analyze the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on immersed or surrounding components
• Simulate electronic design with multi-physics for fluid flow as well as thermal analysis.
• Visualize complex flow results such as flow trajectories, section plots, and surface plot data.

SOLIDWORKS PLASTICS

For companies that design plastic parts or injection molds, SolidWorks Plastics simulation software helps users predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of part and mold design, eliminating costly mold rework, improving part quality, and decreasing time to market. Learn More

SOLIDWORKS ENTERPRISE PDM

SolidWorks Composer

SolidWorks Composer is easy-to-use software that anyone associated with product development can use to quickly create 2D and 3D images and animations, allowing you to create a full range of product documentation — whether for assembly instructions, marketing collateral, technical illustrations, interactive animations, or training materials.

  VIDEO: First Look: SolidWorks Composer - Technical Communications

With its easy-to-use product approach, SolidWorks Composer streamlines the creation of 2D and 3D graphical contents for product communication and technical illustrations. SolidWorks Composer allows non-technical users to create associative 2D and 3D product communication deliverables directly from your 3D CAD data. By leveraging existing product designs, SolidWorks Composer enables deliverables to be initiated earlier and then kept up to date automatically, helping to lower costs and speed time to market. 3D interactive animations, 2D line art images (SVG, EPS, CGM), as well as high-resolution raster images (BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIF files), can be created easily earlier in the design process. By leveraging the power of 3D, manufacturers can produce technical product communications that help customers and partners understand and retain information more effectively.

SolidWorks Composer Player

The SolidWorks Composer Player is a free utility to distribute the content you create to end-users. More than a simple viewer, SolidWorks Composer Player provides your customers and partners with an interactive 3D product experience. Anyone can see your animated files, just by using the free Player software. Show how your product works, what you can do with it, and how to do it with interactive 3D content.

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The Traditional Way

Traditionally, engineers spend valuable hours capturing digital pictures and screen shots of their designs for both internal departments and external agencies. This imperfect system often leads to workflow bottlenecks on the engineering side and costly delays in getting products to market.

The SolidWorks Composer Way

Now, a company’s design and documentation can be produced on parallel tracks, greatly reducing a products time to market. With SolidWorks Composer, companies realize substantial savings in time and rework costs by not having to recreate or redo product documentation when there are changes to the product. For engineers, SolidWorks Composer means less time focusing on ad hoc work, and more time focusing on innovation.

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Advantages

Add a new dimension to your product communications

SolidWorks Composer software brings the next generation of 3D product communication, helping product developers cut costs, save time, and grow their competitive advantage.

With SolidWorks Composer technology, manufacturing organizations can leverage existing 3D CAD data to streamline development of technical communications content and create more compelling documentation with higher impact. You can start your product communication deliverables sooner, update them faster, and complete them with the product design, giving you lower costs and improved time to market.

SolidWorks Composer Sync and SolidWorks Composer Enterprise Sync

Education Products

All students must be ready to present their ideas in a global environment. By illustrating products in 3D, students can create more accurate, understandable communications that make them more prepared for employment. SolidWorks Composer software complements the SolidWorks Education Edition, helping students develop a wide range of communication and interactive visualization skills. SolidWorks Composer tools help you quickly and cost-effectively create dynamic 3D technical communications using your existing design data. Students can utilize SolidWorks Composer software to communicate their senior capstone project or present their ideas in SAE, Robotic and other design competitions.

SolidWorks Student Edition Software

With SolidWorks software skills, you’ll have a clear advantage in the engineering or industrial design job markets. The easy-to-use SolidWorks Student Edition lets you sharpen your skills outside the classroom as you learn to design better products.

SolidWorks Education Edition Software

The complete 3D design teaching tool provides software plus a full curriculum and interactive courseware. SolidWorks Education Edition is your all-inclusive resource for teaching 3D mechanical CAD, design validation, and data management.

University Researchers

With the SolidWorks University Research License, researchers can access the latest in engineering technology, while communicating with other researchers and industrial users around the world.

SolidWorks Sustainability

The easy way to more Environmentally Friendly Designs. In today’s global marketplace, being a responsible company is often paramount to success. From shareholders to consumers, everyone is increasingly demanding products that are more environmentally conscious, if not 100 percent “green.” SolidWorks Sustainability helps the design community better understand the ecological impact of its work and make more environmentally friendly design choices.

SolidWorks Sustainability quickly and easily integrates environmental assessment and sustainable design into your established design process. Sustainability becomes a natural part of your workflow. You get a continuous, real-time dashboard of the impacts of your designs, helping you quickly compare design alternatives to find the most environmentally conscious options that meet your design requirements. You can ensure product quality and performance while developing greener products to better serve your customers and the environment.

SolidWorks Sustainability provides screening-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of your design, applied to both parts and assemblies, with seamless integration to SolidWorks design. SolidWorks Sustainability uses the gold-standard GaBi LCA database from PE International, and offers time-dependent environmental comparisons of different designs, more flexible inputs for detailed assessments, and expanded reporting capabilities to quickly communicate your sustainable design solution.

SolidWorks Sustainability Xpress

Included with all SolidWorks 3D CAD packages, SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress performs screening-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of your part designs using the gold-standard GaBi LCA database from PE International to help you understand and communicate the impacts of your design decisions.

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Advantages

Seamless Integration to Create Sustainable Design

SolidWorks Sustainability technology enables you to quickly and easily assess the environmental impact of your design to create more sustainable products. The software integrates powerful Life Cycle Assessment-based tools into your established design process, measuring the environmental impacts of Carbon, Energy, Air and Water. The material selection tool provides instant feedback to help you choose the most environmentally-friendly material for a particular design. Analysis of parts, assemblies, and configurations, as well as automatic saving of environmental baselines, makes for better iterative design, while one-click report generation helps you easily communicate your findings.

Education Products

Perhaps no other application can do more for the future than SolidWorks Sustainability software. Empower your students with the capability to understand the environmental consequences of their design decisions and to make the right choices for a better world. SolidWorks Sustainability tools provide easy to read world geography maps, engineering material properties, and assessments of environmental impacts. The online SolidWorks Sustainability calculator puts environmental outcomes of carbon footprint, energy, air, and water into common everyday product usage for cars, home water, light bulbs, and TVs.

DraftSight

DraftSight – 2D CAD Product is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. A better way to create, edit and view DWG files.

DraftSight™ takes just a few minutes to download and runs on Microsoft® Windows XP®, Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 (general release available), Mac® and Linux® (Mac and Linux currently in beta).
Download DraftSight free 2D CAD Software Now

Moving to 3D design–it’s not that hard

Have you ever gotten a call from your machine shop pointing out an error in a drawing; or even worse, received parts back from the shop only to discover an error that was overlooked? One of the major benefits of 3D CAD is that it lets you check for form, fit and function before spending a dime to manufacture parts.

Moving to 3D is easier than you think. SolidWorks software allows you to preserve the value of your 2D DWG data with the best available tools for converting data from 2D to 3D, accommodating reusable 2D geometry, and enabling a smooth transition–including extensive help documentation for AutoCAD users.

Moving from DraftSight 2D to SolidWorks 3D: learn more in SolidWorks Help

See how you can automate the creation of drawings, and automatically check designs for common errors and auto-updates while you work. You’ll work more efficiently while eliminating manual errors.

SolidWorks 2012

SolidWorks 2012 includes many enhancements and improvements, most in direct response to customer requests. This release focuses on the following themes:

Automated functionality that you use most often

• Improvements in performance and quality that speed up software operation and create a more continuous workflow
• New tools that greatly extend current SolidWorks design capabilities and enable fundamental changes in your product development process
• Extensive support for collaboration and connectivity that allows your design teams to work on joint projects across the globe

SolidWorks 2012 – New Features

Costing Tool SolidWorks 2012 Costing automates manufacturing cost calculations for sheet metal and machined parts. Modify your design or switch part configurations and instantly see the new, updated manufacturing estimate. Default templates are customizable to simulate your specific manufacturing environment.	Customer Benefits Designers can make more informed decisions based on cost throughout the design process, continually modeling different scenarios. Automate your quoting process to increase manufacturing sales opportunities.
Large Design Review Large Design Review is the fastest way to open and interrogate a large assembly. Capabilities include walkthrough, sectioning, and measuring, as well as the ability to open any assembly component.	Customer Benefits Instantly open and review massive assemblies for any purpose without the need for a high-powered computer or any special file preparation.
Magnetic Lines and Balloon Enhancements Magnetic Lines allow you to automatically and precisely arrange balloons on a drawing. Balloons will snap to Magnetic Lines and can be moved from one Magnetic Line to another in SolidWorks 2012.	Customer Benefits Create and place balloons precisely where they need to go, while spending less time detailing and aligning your drawings.
Feature Freeze Feature Freeze lets you control whether specific features will rebuild or not. Additional features can be added without having to rebuild earlier ones; at any point, features can be unfrozen.	Customer Benefits Dramatically speed the design of complex models where rebuilding of specific features is not desired.
Enhanced Equation Editor The Equation Editor has been completely revamped for easier navigation and use. Syntax highlighting is especially useful for trouble-shooting equations. Multiple views include Variable and Equation View, Dimension View, and Solve Order View.	Customer Benefits Use the new capabilities to create equations faster and understand equation order more easily.
Command Search Command Search allows you to quickly find commands that are either hard to access, or not on the standard toolbars. Launch commands, drag and drop commands, or just highlight command locations in pull-down menus or toolbars directly from the search results.	Customer Benefits Get up to speed faster with Command Search, and more easily customize the SolidWorks user interface to streamline your workflow.
Motion Optimization Motion Optimization automatically uses motion study results to create sensors and refine machine aspects such as motor size, bearing loads, and range of travel. Dynamically adjust any input and immediately see changes to constraints or goals.	Customer Benefits Optimize designs in a fraction of the time by refining the mechanism configuration to suit stock motors and actuators, ensuring range limits or bearing loads are not exceeded.
SolidWorks 2012 Enterprise PDM Integrated Search Enterprise PDM Integrated Search gives you the option of searching from within your current Explorer window— no separate dialogs needed. Access favorite searches or open the full search tool for all options.	Customer Benefits Reduce screen clutter by streamlining the number of open dialog boxes.
3DVIA Composer™ Enhanced Lifelike Experience Enhanced Lifelike Experience enables you to add part-to-part shadows, ambient occlusion, and shadows to 2D panels with precise control for a more 3D appearance. A glow effect can also be added to highlight specific areas of interest in SolidWorks 2012.	Customer Benefits Take precise control over your 3DVIA Composer renderings and add a more lifelike appearance to your visualizations.
SolidWorks Sustainability Sustainability has a new, advanced user interface that allows you to more closely model processes, with parameters like recycled content and duration of use. You also have access to the latest Sustainability Extras materials as soon as they become available—without waiting for service packs or new releases.	Customer Benefits More accurately model your products with new “what if” scenarios and better support for unique and custom materials, beyond the standard SolidWorks 2012 material database.