Visiativ myCADtools

 

Minimize repetitive tasks with a suite of tools designed to enhance your SOLIDWORKS experience by supporting design offices in their design.

Included in your Visiativ myCADservices Premium subscription.

 

Developed by Visiativ, myCADtools is the best package of SOLIDWORKS add-ins that supports design offices.

 

This solution enables CAD designers to improve productivity by reducing repetitive, non-value-added tasks and adapt SOLIDWORKS to their industrial workflows.

 

 

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Save time and increase reliability

 

  • Standardize Your SOLIDWORKS Data
  • Avoid errors and oversights by automating repetitive tasks
  • Design faster and more efficiently

 

Be more productive and drive innovation

 

  • Eliminate repetitive and time-consuming tasks
  • Simplify and optimize your daily work
  • Accelerate and optimize the transition from design to production

 

Highlight your business specificities

 

  • Benefit from feedback from over 5 000 customers
  • Adapt SOLIDWORKS to your specific needs
  • Rely on 35 years of CAD experience

Over 50 SOLIDWORKS-integrated business tools provided by Visiativ myCADtools

 

Discover our 8 must-have features

SmartProperties

 

Standardize properties, create your own item code with counters per project, and automatically name your new documents

 

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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...

Our Customers say...

 

"We have set up a custom coding rule... Numbering is no longer done manually, which saves time and eliminates oversights and duplicates permanently."

 

SmartBom

 

One step creation of multiple BOMs filtered by type (manufacture, purchase) from an assembly or a Windows folder.

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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

Our Customers say...

 

“Enables final formatting of components to pass on the right information to production and the various departments concerned”.

 

 

 

BatchConverter

 

Standardize export files name and save time

 

Automatically convert a list of SOLIDWORKS documents – Parts, Assemblies or Drawings – into SOLIDWORKS compatible formats: DXF, TIFF, PDF, IGES.

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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

Integration

 

Perform customized processing on batch documents

 

Automatically standardise SOLIDWORKS documents via work rules. With a library of more than 50 conditions and 100 operations, now you can make mass changes to properties, materials, export, zoom, configurations, sheets, and more!

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

SheetMetalManufacturing

 

Save time, eliminate unnecessary tasks and focus on design

 

Automatically export all sheet-metal part layouts for a project to a single file.

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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

CuttingOptimization

 

Optimize profile cuts and save materials every year!

 

Save material by optimising weldment profile cuts based on your SOLIDWORKS assembly or parts.

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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

ProjectManager

 

Reuse your projects for new deals 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 in a SOLIDWORKS ‘Pack and Go’ style interface.

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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

Research

 

Find tools, news and links to myCADtools online help related to a keyword entered in the search.

 

You’ll discover all the possibilities myCADtools has to offer, according to your needs.

“When you need to modify a title block on all your plans, you use a Visiativ myCADtools. Changes are made automatically everywhere. It's time-consuming and tedious work if you don't have them.”

Rémy Morel

Project Designer

Our standards:

Dassault Systèmes Gold Product Certification

 

  • Proof or the added value and compatibility of our solutions with SOLIDWORKS
  • Certification obtained after studies and testing by a panel of 8 SOLIDWORKS experts
  • Eligibility criteria: Added value, Integration, Associativity, Standard UX, Compatible versions, etc.

3DEXPERIENCE compatibility

 

  • Visiativ myCADtools is the only add-on in the world capable of fetching files into 3DEXPERIENCE from an independent tool.
  • Visiativ myCADtools works with SOLIDWORKS Connected* (*see limitations)

Support and development driven by our customers’ needs and requirements

 

  • Visiativ myCADtools are integrated into Visiativ myCADservices Premium. You will therefore benefit from privileged support to install them; it is also possible to learn how to use them independently thanks to our training sessions.
  • With more than 500 000 tool launches every month, our R&D team uses customer feedback to help our tools evolve to meet business needs.
  • Direct communication communication with users through our products (new versions, news, etc.)

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Visiativ myCADtools compatible with all versions of SOLIDWORKS?

Visiativ myCADtools are compatible with all versions of SOLIDWORKS. Backward compatibility: the latest version of myCADtools is compatible up to SOLIDWORKS 2016.

Are Visiativ myCADtools compatible with 3DEXPERIENCE?

Yes, with limitations for batch tools. You can find out more in the online help.

Visiativ Innovation Engine

 

Visiativ myCADtools is a business solution from the Visiativ Innovation Engine.

 

Our cloud innovation platform is a unique and innovative approach that offers a continuum of local services for the digital, social and environmental transformations of SMEs: services and solutions to plan, implement and manage your transformations, serving your competitiveness and your company's performance.

 

For over 35 years, Visiativ has been helping SMEs to accelerate their innovation, improve their competitive edge and meet their sustainable development commitments. We are a trusted consultant, with a real ability to deploy solutions, in a collaborative economy of shared experience.