Overview
What is SOLIDWORKS?
Dassault Systemes offers SOLIDWORKS, a computer-aided design (CAD) system for education and manufacturing supporting 2D or 3D design, electrical design, simulations, and product development with collaboration tools.
A student's perspective on SOLIDWORKS
Solidworks ! Best to use for Parametric modelling & Configuration based Products.
SOLIDWORKS - Best Companion for Mechanical Engineers
Solidworks is a good choice
Solidworks and Injection Molding Analysis Review
My experience with SOLIDWORKS as a mechanical design engineer
Solidworks - solid modeling functions and features that work great
SolidWorks is the leading standard in 3D parametric solid modeling!
SOLIDWORKS works good
Solidworks is easy to use with great functions
SOLIDWORKS for the future generations
Sketch feature should be like DraftSight
SOLIDWORKS and its Capabilities
SOLIDWORKS Review
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Pricing
Solidworks Annual Subscription
1,295
Solidworks Standard
3,996
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is SOLIDWORKS?
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SOLIDWORKS Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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- Recommendations
Users of Solidworks have made several recommendations based on their experiences with the software. The most common recommendations include evaluating other products to consider their benefits, especially for CAD software. Users also recommend utilizing Solidworks for 3D design work, highlighting its user-friendly interface and easy learning curve for new users. Additionally, users praise Solidworks for its active community and available support resources, which they recommend taking advantage of. Overall, these recommendations emphasize the importance of exploring different options, leveraging community support, and considering Solidworks for 3D design purposes.
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(1-11 of 11)- Isolate feature
- Configuration Matrix
- Material Properties Selection
- Assembly
- Bill of Material
- Material Properties like Weight and Volume
- Self Verification of Design
- Design for Manufacturability Integration
- Web Version of SOLIDWORKS
- Mobile Version of SOLIDWORKS
- Integration with Sharepoint or onedrive for data
SOLIDWORKS - Best Companion for Mechanical Engineers
- Simple Modelling and Assembling of parts
- Contains large database of materials
- Design Library to import every important standard parts, hence reducing time in designing the same
- Allows every simulation, with results as per the real time scenario
- Animation wizard, to view the deformation and stress occuring in a precise way
- No need of manual calculation in calculating the weight and inertia of the component, SOLIDWORKS can do the work for you
- With increase in complexity of the mechanical components, the solving time also increases exponentially.
- With SOLIDWORKS, I can't do manual meshing by selecting the face of the components, unlike Ansys
- SOLIDWORKS is a high end software, hence requires system which can support the software.
SOLIDWORKS for the future generations
- Heal corrupt 3D models.
- Feature recognition is invaluable to correcting corrupt models.
- Drawing 3D models made easy.
- Some 3D models are completely impossible to repair via feature works and healing. Understanding all the different 3D modeling software and convincing customers to set standards for all models drawn by employees would be ideal even though it is outside of SOLIDWORKS control, some people that model parts are plain and simply not suited or managed properly to ensure the end customer has the ability to work with their model.
SOLIDWORKS Review
- Generate bill of materials that can be sent to Microsoft Excel
- It has a very user friendly interface
- It gives the ability to visually depict a design
- Large assembly load time could be improved
- Importing .dwg files is fairly clunky
- File management without having to buy an add-on program
I know for building construction there are better suited, more specific computer applications that work far better.
Definitely not worth it. Very Slow and the program is a crash-maniac
- Large community
- Program Stability (Very Unstable)
- User Interface is dated and impractical
- Every new version introduces many new bugs and makes the program even slower
- Insufficient official support despite the large cost of the program
- Very Slow
- Text Editor is dated and impractical
- Solidworks Corp does not support customers
SOLIDWORKS is a solid choice for 3D CAD
- Makes changes fast. It adapts the assembly to part modifications and then saves the changes back to the part models.
- Interface checking and analysis are simple yet effective.
- Parts and template lists are quick and easy to generate.
- CAM is only 2.5 axis.
- The import of scanned objects should require less work.
- Adding features could be more intuitive. Tube trims and weldments take too much tinkering.
It is too complicated to learn for simple sketches where precision is not important. For example, I was drawing a stepstool that would fold and it was faster to sketch it out on paper.
Opinion on SOLIDWORKS for product design
- It has the precision required for manufacturing that is necessary so that you can guarantee that the product can be produced in the end.
- SolidWorks makes it possible to visualize how the product is going to look in the end.
- It is intuitive, so you don't waste time looking for resources or tools in the program.
- It gives feedbacks about errors in the parts so that you can review and correct them.
- The rendering function "Photoview" could be improved in terms of realism.
- The metal sheet resources are not so intuitive and could be improved. I often get stuck in some errors that I can't figure out the solution or the cause.
- I think it is the best CAD tool in terms of design of extreme technical details.
- Its system of assembly of pieces is very useful when it comes to show off or create high-quality simulations.
- Particularly I think sketch tools are excellent for create 2D drawings of pieces, thanks to this the process of creation of 3D objects is streamlined.
- Its rendering system is very professional and provides very great visual details.
- Very unfavorable not being able to open versions of modern SOLIDWORKS in older versions.
- Sometimes it is difficult to understand the process of rendering 3D parts.
- It is not capable of processing solid pieces of STL format with many surfaces.
For companies that need to make designs of small mechanical parts it is very useful. We can create these pieces in less than hourly, and therefore give quick responses to our customers. Also to show mechanical simulations to companies.
Less appropriate:
Creating 3D objects as sculptures is not very appropriate since it does not have mesh design. Do not try to modify STL format files, since it causes many design errors.
Incredible software for 3D designing
- The GUI of SOLIDWORKS is extremely comfortable, every tool is arranged in a way that makes the workspace a well-organized place, and makes the learning process (which tends to be complex) a bit simpler.
- Moving from 3D to 2D models is extremely easy with this software and this makes the modeling process more streamlined.
- It is universally used so we have never encountered compatibility issues between the models we create and the software used by our clients.
- This software is extremely demanding, our high-end PCs tend to suffer and lag when this software is being used with pdf readers or other software.
- This is not an easy to use software, it has a steep learning curve and since it counts with a vast amount of tools it can sometimes feel overwhelming.
- This software is really expensive.
Review of SOLIDWORKS
- Interface is easy to use
- Software updates are readily communicated, and installed with limited to no bugging in the system
- Easy to roll out to a global user group with a centralized shared license server
- Memory usage when exporting form one format to another, specifically high resolution renderings and .stl files for additive manufacturing
- More standard file format capabilities both to import and export in the basic licensing plans
- Easier interfacing and more adaptive feature recognition to reverse engineering software and scanning devices
- Quick learning curve so you can incorporate its use across different areas of your company.
- Low entry price for 3D CAD software.
- Great tool for designing new product and ideas from concept through production.
- Great marketing tool to allow digital images and animations to be used across the web, manuals, advertising, and support done in house.
- Supports different methods of modeling to really suit the needs of the specific industry that you work in.
- With so many newer users, possibly a guide towards better drafting standards for creating your designs. Some times it's so easy to make a part itself, but if you are not thinking of the end game WHILE making the part, you can kick yourself in the end for taking short cuts in the beginning.
- I know that they have tried to make each release of SOLIDWORKS more and more user-friendly, but I've noticed sometimes it actually make is more difficult. For example, when selecting a line by default it would select the line while you were over it, now if it is a shorter line and you are near the center, it will tend to grab the centermark over the line. If I wanted the center mark more often I would turn on filters for this.