Benefit from an intuitive, powerful and innovative design and manufacturing solution to transform your ideas into innovative products.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is the foundation for the fully integrated suite of SOLIDWORKS solutions: design, simulation, cost estimation, manufacturability checks, CAM, sustainable design and data management (PDM).
Powerful and easy to use, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD enables designers and engineers to increase productivity, reduce the design cycle and their manufacturing costs, while improving product quality and reliability.
All SOLIDWORKS solutions are integrated into a single interface to help you accelerate your product to market or production.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD provides engineers, designers, and manufacturers with easy-to-use, high-performance features to design their products.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD allows you to quickly create your 2D plans. Whether your 3D model is a part or an assembly, it is linked to the drawing. In the event of a change to the 3D model, the impact is immediate on the drawing. This associativity guarantees that your documents are always up to date, thus limiting the risk of errors. In addition, the creation of the different drawing views is automatic, by simply dragging and dropping the 3D model. Similarly, the dimensioning is directly retrieved from the 3D. The parts lists are also automatically created and directly linked to the 3D assembly.
SOLIDWORKS detects potential interferences in your assemblies. This means that problems are detected early in the design process, preventing them from being discovered during manufacturing. This means that you can be sure that your parts will fit together correctly.
In addition, SOLIDWORKS allows you to verify that your holes between different parts are perfectly aligned and that the tolerances are consistent between them.
SOLIDWORKS Standard and SOLIDWORKS Professional include a static analysis tool that allows you to perform stress analyses on parts. You can easily determine the effects of forces and pressures on a part.
It is possible to check very early on whether a part can be manufactured. With the DFMXpress tool, you compare the design to standard manufacturing standards, but also, you compare different designs in order to see the differences, analyze them. In addition, the tool allows you to check whether a part can be easily demolded. The same goes for your sheet metal parts, thanks to the folding and unfolding functionalities, you can easily see whether the sheet metal can be developed.
SOLIDWORKS Utilities is a large set of features that can accelerate the development of your products.
Among these features, the analysis of the thickness of a part allows you to determine the thin or thick regions, based on values specified by the designer. SOLIDWORKS Utilities also offers the comparison of parts lists or the comparison of geometry between 2 versions of a part. The tool also offers the possibility of creating simplified configurations of your parts in order to perform analyses more quickly or to share only the envelope of your parts.
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Parametric 3D modeling | |||
Model Break - Generating broken views on ISO views | |||
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Surface development - Calculation of surface unfoldings (fabrics, etc.) |
Without being a technician or an expert, you can very quickly present to your clients realistic renderings of your designs that you can manipulate as you wish. Compared to 2D, which can be difficult for your clients to understand, 3D provides a certain visual impact. In addition, using 3D makes it easy to show movements between several parts without resorting to costly prototyping. This saves you time in exchanges between you and your clients.
Are your new designs often variations of older designs, keeping some subassemblies the same? SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD lets you reuse existing designs. With powerful search, configuration, and automation tools, you don’t waste time searching.
All solutions in the SOLIDWORKS range support (in a single interface) full integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software. All SOLIDWORKS products therefore work together seamlessly. They use the same design data, so that all design changes are automatically reflected across all applications.
SOLIDWORKS licenses offer powerful simulation capabilities that allow users to test product performance based on real-world movements and forces. For example, tolerance stack-up analysis ensures product manufacturability and solves complex assembly problems early in the design process.
Also, thanks to a wide range of tools offered, you provide a schematic representation of electrical wiring, pipes and tubes. In addition, you create the corresponding documentation. Finally, you can quickly integrate data from integrated circuit boards into the 3D model.
SOLIWORKS also works with 3D scanned data. As a result, you benefit from all the advantages of a complete 3D design solution.
