Minimize fruitless tasks with a suite of tools complementary to SOLIDWORKS and support design offices in their design.
Developed by Visiativ, myCADtools is the best SOLIDWORKS add-on package that supports design offices in their design.
This solution allows CAD designers to improve their productivity by reducing repetitive tasks without added value and adapt SOLIDWORKS to their industrial working methods. It is included in the Visiativ myCADservices Premium subscription.
Save time and improve reliability
Increase productivity and promote innovation
Promote your business specificities
Standardize properties, create your own item code with counters per project and automatically name your new documents
“We have implemented a custom coding rule… Numbering is no longer done manually, which saves time and eliminates oversights and duplicates forever.”
myCADtools SmartProperties | SOLIDWORKS | |
Create your own mask to create properties in SOLIDWORKS files | ||
Copy an existing part with its drawing in 2 clicks | ||
Use a project counter to create an item code | ||
Automatically name your new documents with a property | ||
Concatenate length properties for mass renaming of all welded and sheet metal files... |
Create in one operation several nomenclatures filtered by type (manufacturing, purchasing, …) from an assembly or a Windows folder
“Allows the final formatting of components to transmit the right information to production and the various departments concerned”
myCADtools SmartBom | SOLIDWORKS | |
Extract welded components directly from assembly BOMs | ||
Create multiple BOMs in a single operation using filters on document properties | ||
Export drawings in PDF format with quantity information | ||
Concatenate multiple properties in one column | ||
Exporter au format Excel avec les aperçus 3D et dans votre template | ||
Modify properties from the BOM | ||
Export all properties (documents and configuration) from files in a folder to an Excel file |
Standardize export file names and save time
Automatically convert a list of SOLIDWORKS documents (Parts, Assemblies or Drawings) into all formats supported by SOLIDWORKS (DXF, TIFF, PDF, IGES, …)
myCADtools BatchConverter | SOLIDWORKS | |
Batch export of your SOLIDWORKS documents | ||
Automatically retrieve all drawings from an assembly and concatenate all generated PDF files | ||
Mass import documents in SOLIDWORKS format | ||
Export a document by configuration | ||
Set naming rules according to file properties and choose destination directories | ||
Export to multiple formats simultaneously |
Perform custom processing on documents in batches
Standardize your documents based on rules. With a library of more than 50 conditions and 100 operations, make mass changes to your documents (Properties, materials, export, zoom, configurations, sheets, etc.)
myCADtools Integration | SOLIDWORKS | |
Standardize property names, define values from an Excel table... | ||
Run a macro on mass SOLIDWORKS documents | ||
Create a customized report on anomalies | ||
Manage SOLIDWORKS document options |
Save your time, eliminate unnecessary tasks and focus on design
Get automated export of all sheet metal part flattenings in a project in a file.
myCADtools SheetMetal Manufacturing | SOLIDWORKS | |
Generate a DXF/DWG containing all flat patterns of your sheet metal project | ||
Group unfolded parts by sheet or by file according to material and thickness | ||
Generate a drawing in SOLIDWORKS format that can be modified before sending to production | ||
Manage exported file names |
Optimize your cuts and save material every year!
Save material by optimizing your weld profile cutting based on the assembly or SOLIDWORKS parts
myCADtools CuttingOptimization | SOLIDWORKS | |
Import profiles in 3D or 2D | ||
Calculate and optimize profile flow rates | ||
Calculate flow costs (time, % drop, etc.) | ||
Manage cutting angles | ||
Manage different profiles in the same project | ||
Calculate optimum bar length to supply | ||
Generate a report with cuts for each profile |
Reuse your projects for new business by recreating your item codes when duplicating
Manage property values, set a new name using counters (like in SmartProperties), and manage folder structure by properties with a tool like Pack and Go SOLIDWORKS.
myCADtools ProjectManager | SOLIDWORKS | |
Duplicate a project with all or some of its dependencies by renaming files with prefixes or suffixes | ||
Manage document properties when copying | ||
Rename documents according to user-defined filters and rules | ||
Redefine location and structure of duplicated files according to filters and user-defined rules | ||
Set up local search folders for referenced files and drawings |
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You will discover all the possibilities that myCADtools can offer you according to your needs.
“When you have to modify a cartridge on all the plans, you use a Visiativ myCADtools utility. The change is done everywhere automatically. The work is long and monstrous if you don't have them”
Rémy Morel
dessinateur-projeteur
A Gold Product certification from Dassault Systèmes
Compatibility with 3DEXPERIENCE
Support and developments guided by customer needs and requests
Visiativ myCADtools are compatible with all versions of SOLIDWORKS. Backward compatibility: the latest version of myCADtools is compatible up to SOLIDWORKS 2025
Yes, with limitations for batch tools. You can learn more about it in the online help
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