SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

You can convert your ideas into 3D models of parts and assemblies in no time. Quickly generate 3D designs using imported graphics, simple sketches, or 3D scan data for simple concept modeling, then add detail as your design concept develops. Direct model editing is available in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, allowing you to change and revise your geometry while working directly on your 3D CAD models.

Create associative 2D drawings from your 3D models that clearly illustrate how to produce and assemble your design. Associativity in SOLIDWORKS connects your 2D drawing to the 3D model, reflecting changes between drawings and models.

Using search, automation, and configuration tools, you can easily exploit your existing data to reduce design and development timelines.

3D Interconnect, Product Data Management (PDM), eDrawings®, and other collaboration tools are available in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. These technologies make it easier for your design team to collaborate with all project stakeholders across your organization. Protect confidential information, manage data, and keep track of design revisions.

Before sending designs to production, use SOLIDWORKS Interference Check to ensure that the parts and assemblies you design will fit, assemble, and work correctly. This will save you time in the product development process.

SimulationXpress is a simple analysis tool included with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that lets you perform basic stress analysis on your part designs. Quickly calculate the effects of force and pressure and create detailed reports outlining the outcomes of your experiments.

CAMWorks® is used to power SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard. This tool is a 2.5-axis milling programming solution in one package. SOLIDWORKS CAM can improve communication, reduce errors, shorten cycle times, and improve product quality in your design-to-manufacturing process. A current SOLIDWORKS CAD subscription includes SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard for free.

Most major CAD formats are opened immediately inside SOLIDWORKS without the requirement to convert or save them as SOLIDWORKS files with 3D Interconnect. If you need to convert files, use one of the 30+ translators available to convert imported CAD data to the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD file format or export SOLIDWORKS files to other formats.

Access a library of standard parts and fasteners that you can customize to your company's standards. Help automate the size and location of fasteners, saving time and streamlining the design process.

SOLIDWORKS Costing is an integrated, automatic cost estimation tool that instantly lets you compare your designs to cost targets. To minimize costly redesigns and production delays, keep track of your manufacturing expenses while you're designing. SOLIDWORKS Costing can also be used to automate your quoting procedures.

CircuitWorks allows you to share data between your electrical and mechanical teams. You can use this application to communicate, compare, update, and track your printed circuit board (PCB) information, allowing you to resolve any electrical-mechanical integration or cooperation issues swiftly.

The SOLIDWORKS Design Checker allows you to generate uniform designs, drawings, and documentation by establishing design criteria and checking drawings or models against them.

eDrawings® Professional enables sharing viewable 3D models in HTML format that you can open without a software install. This tool improves collaboration by quickly and accurately inspecting, measuring, and marking up drawings.

The TolAnalyst tool in SOLIDWORKS automatically examines the effects of tolerances on your part and assembly designs. Before sending a product into production, these inspections assure a consistent fit of your components and verify tolerancing methods. If/when you make a dimensioning or tolerancing adjustment, rerun the analysis to optimize your tolerancing scheme.

Create realistic visual material from your 3D models quickly and effectively for marketing, product pitches, and more. With a valid SOLIDWORKS subscription, SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is provided for free.

SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard organizes your users and teams by storing and managing project data, changes, and file access. More advanced data management routines are available with 3DEXPERIENCE Data Management, SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, or SOLIDWORKS Manage.

SOLIDWORKS ScanTo3D allows you to effortlessly build designs based on existing objects by importing, editing, evaluating, and creating solid geometry from 3D scanning data.

Examine how your product would move in real life, take measurements of forces and stresses on your design, and use the information to determine the motor size and build the optimum mechanism for performance, quality, and safety.

Calculate the stresses and deformations of your design geometry with robust linear static analysis on assemblies. Static analysis lessens your reliance on prototypes and development delays during the design process.

Add-on analysis tools are available for more advanced functionality. You can find tools for advanced finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and electromagnetic simulation with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, SIMULIA, and 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULIA.

SOLIDWORKS makes designing and documenting pipe and tubing much easier. Routing is constructing a channel of pipes, tubes, or electrical cables between components using a particular subassembly. By mapping connections between components in the system, SOLIDWORKS Routing can streamline the creation of 3D models of your piping, tubing, or electrical systems.

The surface flattening functionality can help create flat patterns for various shapes, including those that don’t fit traditional bent sheet metal.

Using 3D Interconnect and SOLIDWORKS Premium, you can open CATIA V5 CATPart and CATProduct files up to V5R27, including custom properties, material properties, and PMI (additional license required). Using 3D Interconnect and SOLIDWORKS Premium, you can open CATIA V5 CATPart and CATProduct files up to V5R27, including custom properties, material properties, and PMI (additional license required).