SolidWorks Computer Aided Design Products

Design and change components easily from within the assembly to ensure optimal fit. Gain unparalleled performance for designing large assemblies with tens of thousands of parts. Drag and drop parts and features into place. Speed assembly design with incomparable ease and performance.

Be Productive in Hours, Proficient in Days

Become productive rapidly using familiar Windows® functions like point-and-click and cut-and-paste. If you know Windows, you’re well on your way to designing with SolidWorks 3D modeling software.

Visualize Better with Heads-up Interface

Improve visualization with Heads-up User Interface, a complete set of visual display and mouse-driven control capabilities that
reduce design steps, minimize the need for dialog boxes, and lessen visual clutter. All design properties and parameters are within easy reach with the PropertyManager, an intuitive design editor.

The productivity enhancing drag-and-drop and snap-to-fit functions of SolidWorks software simplify the entire design process. Save time with Smart Part Technology, an innovation that automates assembly tasks such as selecting and inserting standard bolts into holes and adding washers and nuts in the correct sequence.

Construct production-ready detailed drawings without drawing a single line or arc. SolidWorks software does it for you, eliminating time-consuming drawing view creation, manipulation, and maintenance. Show your design from multiple angles and enlarge details of specific components easily with a few mouse clicks.

Speed the development of drawings for designs that contain hundreds or thousands of parts by automatically populating
bills of materials (BOMs) with a description and quantity for each component. SolidWorks software minimizes the time required to create production-ready drawings, complete with up-to-date BOMs and balloons.

Preserve the value of legacy data with the best available transition tools, including help documentation for AutoCAD® users, the ability to drag 2D drawings into SolidWorks drawings, support for reusable 2D geometry, and view folding, a tool
that lets you build 3D models more easily from DWG data.

The DWGeditor is for SolidWorks customers who use AutoCAD® to edit or maintain existing DWG files. The DWGeditor provides a low risk, low cost alternative for editing DWG files in their native format, using a familiar user interface.

Exchange CAD data using a wide variety of file formats including: CGR (CATIA® graphics), HCG (CATIA highly compressed graphics), Pro/ENGINEER®, IPT (Autodesk Inventor®), Mechanical Desktop®, Unigraphics®, PAR (Solid Edge™), CADKEY®, IGES, STEP, Parasolid®, SAT (ACIS®), VDA-FS, VRML, STL, DWG, DXF™, TIFF, JPG, Viewpoint, Adobe® Illustrator®, IDF, and HSF (Hoops).

Gain basic insight into how parts will function under real-world conditions with COSMOSXpress™, a point-and-click stress analysis Wizard built into SolidWorks 3D modeling software. COSMOSXpress guides you step-by-step through the design analysis process to help improve the integrity of your designs.

Understand if your plastic part design can be manufactured in an injection molding process with MoldflowXpress, a plastic fill
analysis Wizard built into SolidWorks 3D modeling software. MoldflowXpress guides you step-by-step through the fill
analysis process to help minimize material and optimize cycle time.

Save design time with 3D ContentCentralSM, an online directory that lets you download 3D models and 2D drawings of components from major suppliers directly into your designs. Benefit from the underlying capabilities of 3D PartStream.NET®, an online catalog solution that allows you to visualize components from all angles and configure them to meet your requirements, as well as enabling convenient downloading of CAD files in a variety of file formats.

Show How Products Look and Perform
Demonstrate how products look and perform with SolidWorks Animator, easy-to-use animation software. Combine with PhotoWorks photo realistic rendering capabilities to communicate design concepts more effectively.

Create and Publish Web Pages Instantly
Share your 3D product designs easily using 3D Instant Website, an innovative tool that lets you create and publish web pages instantly. Allow others to view, rotate, zoom, and pan your 3D models. Use ready-made templates and a SolidWorks- hosted site for even greater convenience.

A Time-Saving Library of Standard Parts

With SolidWorks Toolbox you have instant access to an entire encyclopedia of standard components. Now you can select and place the right part in the right hole in seconds. Just indicate your hole or thread size and click.

Find difference between two versions of the same part quickly and easily. Identify and highlight problematic imported geometry in a part and avoid errors downstream. Find, modify, and suppress features within a model. So easy to learn and use, you'll be up and running in minutes.

A timesaving tool for ensuring compliance with your organization's design standards

Streamline your organization's design release process with SolidWorks Design Checker, a new productivity tool that automatically identifies elements that may be inconsistent with your organization's design standards.

Securely manage and share engineering design data, eliminate lost files, prevent unauthorized changes and enable concurrent design. PDMWorks lets you easily vault, search for, and retrieve design data while maintaining complex file relationships and design history.