Transform ideas into innovative products using intuitive and powerful design and manufacturing solutions

By leveraging comprehensive tools for design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and collaboration, we can significantly improve the way products are developed and manufactured, helping you reduce costs and improve quality.
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SOLIDWORKS ®  3D CAD is the foundation of the entire SOLIDWORKS solution portfolio, providing engineers, designers, and manufacturers with easy to learn and powerful features for designing and delivering products. All SOLIDWORKS solutions support full integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD in a single window. Therefore, all SOLIDWORKS products work seamlessly together using the same design data, so that every design change is automatically updated in all applications.
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3D design and 2D engineering drawings - create designs faster and more accurately, including 3D models and 2D engineering drawings of complex parts and large assemblies.
Specialized tools for specific design tasks - Through application specific tools for holes, fasteners, sheet metal, injection molding, plastic and cast parts, welding, surface fabrication, mesh modeling, reverse engineering, piping, and electrical wiring, work can be carried out more efficiently.
• Pipes, tubes, and electrical wiring - Use tools specifically designed to accelerate these tasks and complete the design of all pipes, tubes, and electrical wiring.
Design changes that can be propagated downstream - designs can be changed at any time. Quickly and easily propagate changes to all downstream departments.
Design automation and configurability - Utilize built-in configurability tools to automate design and engineering creation.
Prefabricated component library - Utilizing a wide range of components and part libraries, you don't have to waste time modeling common parts such as bolts, nuts, washers, and other common hardware components.
• Eliminate design errors and manufacturing rework - By using integrated motion and stress analysis tools for automatic interference checking, eliminate design errors and rework before starting manufacturing.
Automatic interference inspection - Automatically check for interference and misalignment before production.
Integrated design and manufacturing - allows design and manufacturing teams to work in parallel in a seamlessly integrated system.
Accurate Material List - Just click the mouse to output the accurate Material List (BOM) required by the manufacturing department.
Cost and production optimization - achieve "cost oriented design" and "manufacturing oriented design" through the use of automated manufacturing cost estimation tools and manufacturability checks.
Advanced Surface Flattening - Use advanced surface flattening tools to save time and materials in determining the initial blank size of fabrics and metal components with complex, non unfoldable shapes.
Collaborate directly with others using SOLIDWORKS - share data directly with suppliers and customers using SOLIDWORKS and eliminate data conversions, which not only wastes time but also leads to design errors.
CAD interoperability - can open and use most 3D CAD data, and can choose to link and use models in their original CAD format, or automatically convert them to SOLIDWORKS files.
Reduce the cost of maintaining multiple CAD systems - Implement a seamlessly integrated design to manufacturing solution to significantly reduce costs associated with supporting multiple design and manufacturing tools.
Simulation tools - By using motion and structural analysis simulation tools, you can understand the performance of designs in real-world environments without the need to manufacture expensive and time-consuming prototypes, thereby reducing costs and accelerating time to market.
• C A M programming - using C AM W o r k s ™  SOLIDWORKS CAM provides support for automated CAM programming through embedded, easy to customize, rule-based machining.
• Data management - Manage interactions among team members and use data management tools to control revisions.
• Photo level images and videos - Create, publish, and view photo level realistic images and videos of designs using tools to communicate ideas more effectively.
• Support for AR and VR - greatly simplify the path from SOLIDWORKS CAD to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) through export options (augmented reality).
Environmental Impact - Use built-in analysis tools to examine the impact of design on the environment.
Learn quickly and easily - use online help and tutorials, on-site technical support, and training to quickly master the usage methods.
• Interconnected ecosystem from design to manufacturing - through accessing cloud based 3DEXPRESSERENCE ®  Platform for easy sharing of CAD data, collaboration with others, and utilizing a growing suite of interconnected tools to design, manufacture, and manage your products.