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Comprehensive 3D Design
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.
Mechanical CAD Capabilities
When you have an idea for a great product, SolidWorks® software
provides the tools you need to create an accurate design – in less time
and at lower cost.
 SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology). With
SWIFT, you can spend time creating products that work well, instead of
trying to make your software work for you. SWIFT automates
time-consuming detail work and techniques, diagnosing and resolving
problems related to feature order, mates, sketch relationships, and the
application of dimensions. No matter what your experience level, SWIFT
allows you to work more effectively and innovatively.
Getting Started. Get up to speed fast. SolidWorks
Command Manager logically groups similar functions for easy access,
while integrated tutorials provide instructive workflow demonstrations
along with visual cues.
 User Interface. With the Heads-up User Interface, you
get a complete, customizable set of visual display and mouse-driven
control capabilities, reducing design steps, minimizing dialog boxes,
and decreasing visual clutter.
Working with DWG. There’s no need to start from
scratch when you want to transition a 2D drawing to a 3D model.
SolidWorks includes data translation tools along with help
documentation for AutoCAD® users, 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 “drawing-less” data) to ensure your
parts will fit when manufactured.
 RealView® Graphics. Visualize and communicate your
designs more clearly than ever. Without rendering, you can quickly
create nearly lifelike, fully dynamic representations of your parts,
assemblies, and completed products.
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. Then use advanced
capabilities – such as the “convert solid to sheetmetal” functionality
– to 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
designs – 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’s
performance.
2D Drawing Creation. Use the familiar interface of DWGeditor to draw in 2D, as well as edit and maintain your existing DWG data files.
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.
Design Reuse. Leverage your successful designs to
create compelling proposals for new ones. Quickly search for
already-created components in SolidWorks Toolbox, 3D ContentCentral,
and your own custom Design Library. Then, simply drag and drop those
parts into your new designs.
Bill of Materials. Save significant time when you use
SolidWorks to automatically generate a complete bill of materials (BOM)
from your design. Your BOM is associative: When you change your design,
the BOM updates automatically, and vice versa. Plus, you can export the
BOM data to Excel, Intuitive ERP®, and other applications.
Part Validation. SolidWorks Simulation tools help both
new users and experts ensure their designs are durable, safe, and
manufacturable. In addition, you can use SolidWorks FloXpress™ to
optimize your designs for water- and air-flow effects.
 Design Automation of Repetitive Tasks. Save time with
SolidWorks Smart Component technology to automate the selection and
insertion of standard components. Use DriveWorksXpress to automate
repetitive design tasks that can be used in product/sales
configurators.
Design Communication. With SolidWorks, you have
numerous capabilities for accurately communicating design ideas and
data to collaborators, upstream and downstream partners, and customers:
- eDrawings® Files. Provide accurate – even animated – 2D and 3D models that anyone can understand.
- PDF Files. Generate 2D or 3D PDF files directly from your SolidWorks designs.
- 3D Instant Website. Create and publish live webpages
to communicate visual information with customers or staff, and then
receive immediate feedback.
Feature Recognition. When collaborators or partners use other CAD systems, FeatureWorks® helps you share and use 2D and 3D models more productively.
Standard Hardware Libraries. With SolidWorks Toolbox,
SolidWorks Design ClipArt, and 3D ContentCentral, you have instant
access to virtual encyclopedias comprising thousands of standard
components.
Photorealistic Rendering. Use PhotoWorks™ and
PhotoView 360 to leverage your SolidWorks 3D models for presentations,
proposals, or virtual and material studies –before creating any parts.
You’ll save time, while eliminating the high costs of prototyping and
photography.
Design Standards Checking. Raise your quality level
with SolidWorks Design Checker. With thorough, automated checks and
autocorrect capability, you can ensure full compliance with your
company standards – before you release your designs for manufacture.
Productivity Tools. SolidWorks Utilities enables
designers to compare parts or drawings to find the differences between
two similar designs or similar drawings. FeatureWorks streamlines the
use of data from different CAD systems to work together.
Simplify Parts and Assemblies. Copy the visual
properties of a selected annotation to another annotation. In addition
to checking spelling, you can schedule a range of project-related
tasks.
Leverage Scanned Data. Import digital scans of
handcrafted models into SolidWorks using ScanTo3D. You can also import
design concepts created in Rhinocerous software or sketches developed
in Adobe Illustrator.
Routed Systems. Automate and accelerate the process of
routing tubes, pipes, electrical cables, cable harnesses, and
electrical conduits with SolidWorks Routing.
ECAD to MCAD Translation. Use CircuitWorks™ – a
bi-directional ECAD translator – to ensure the fit and function of
printed circuit boards (PCBs) into electrical and mechanical products.
Design Validation Capabilities
With the powerful design validation tools in SolidWorks® software, you
can easily subject your designs to the same conditions that they’ll
experience in the real world.
Tolerance Stack-up Validation. TolAnalyst analyzes a
design based on the order and manner in which parts are assembled, as
well as DimXpert-applied dimensions and tolerances.
Assembly Simulation. Study the
interactions of assembly components on-screen, before incurring the
costs of physical prototypes. Simulate static or dynamic loads to
evaluate your design’s performance under stress, strain, and
displacement.
Mechanism Simulation. Apply a wide variety of
physics-based models to simulate real-world operating conditions for
your design. Check for colliding parts. Output numerical and graphic
data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.
Simulate Welded Structures. Ensure your welded
structures perform at peak operating conditions. Apply pressure,
forces, and bearing loads. Then use visualization tools like section
plots, ISO clipping, and animation to review the response.
PDM Capabilities
SolidWorks Workgroup PDM helps engineering workgroups minimize
errors and duplicated effort by capturing file revision histories
automatically and managing data access and use.
 Secure access. Protect your product design data with
secure managed access to authorized individuals, over a network or via
the web. In addition to internal users, you also can permit access to
partners, customers, and your supply chain.
Revision control. Help your design team avoid
overwriting files, and assist purchasing and manufacturing in ordering
and producing the correct parts, every time.
Full document preview. View and print more than 250
file types – including SolidWorks, AutoCAD®, Inventor®, Solid Edge®,
PDF, and Microsoft® Office – plus images, animations, movie files, and
more.
 Find and reuse design data. Quickly locate documents
based on their names, contained data, attached metadata, workflow
state, and other parameters. For even greater productivity, you can
predefine, save, and share your searches.
Custom configuration. SolidWorks Enterprise PDM is
fully configurable to work effectively within your unique team
structure, design process, and industry.
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