3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional Offer (Annual)

This product is for an annual subscription to the 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional offer which includes SOLIDWORKS, xDesign, xShape, Visualize, and the Derived Format Converter. After 12 months, the subscription will end and can be renewed.

SOLIDWORKS offers are available with subscription terms of 3 months, 12 months, or 36 months.

If you're looking for a lower cost solution focussed on part and assembly modelling, 2D drawing, and basic stress testing, take a look at the SOLIDWORKS Standard offer.

If you need everything in the Professional offering, plus stress and time-based motion analysis, advanced cable routing, and more, check out the SOLIDWORKS Premium offer.

SOLIDWORKS Professional

SOLIDWORKS Professional is everything included with SOLIDWORKS Standard, and much more. As a foundation, SOLIDWORKS Standard gives you part & assembly modelling, 2D drawing, basic stress analysis for individual parts, rapid 2.5-axis CAM programming, design review tools, filetype translators, an XR Exporter, collaboration tools, and more. View our page here for full details on SOLIDWORKS Standard. With SOLIDWORKS Professional, those tools are expanded and you get access to everything below as well.

CAD Libraries
The SOLIDWORKS Toolbox CAD libraries provide easy access to prebuilt 3D CAD models and commonly reused CAD data.

Cost Estimation Tools
Fully integrated with the 3D CAD data, automatic cost estimation tools continuously check designs against target costs. Monitor manufacturing costs as you go in an effort to avoid redesigns and delays. SOLIDWORKS cost estimation tools also help automate the quoting process.

Electrical & Mechanical CAD Tools
Use CircuitWorks to share electrical CAD (ECAD) and mechanical CAD (MCAD) data with collaborators. Quickly resolve electrical and mechanical issues by sharing, comparing, updating, and tracking design data.

Design Validation Tools
Establish design standards and check 2D and 3D projects to ensure uniform designs and documentation.

eDrawings for Quick Markup and Previewing
Use eDrawings to view both 3D models and 2D drawings in an email-ready format. Quickly and accurately view, measure, and mark-up designs.

Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis
Use TolAnalyst to automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure correct fittings and verify tolerancing schemes before production. If a dimensioning or tolerance change is made, tolerance analysis can be rerun.

Photorealistic Renderer
Visualize Standard lets you create visual content of your 3D designs. Using photorealistic imagery early in the design process means that useful feedback can be received and more informed decisions can be made moving forward.

Point Cloud to 3D
With ScanTo3D reverse engineering, you can recreate designs based on ones that already exist. Accelerate product development, reduce risk, and save time by importing, editing, evaluating, and creating solid geometry from point cloud and mesh data.

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New in SOLIDWORKS 2024

Previous Release Compatibility

• Collaborate with suppliers who use older versions of SOLIDWORKS.
• Save parts, assemblies, and drawings as SOLIDWORKS versions that are up to two years prior to the latest release..

Assemblies

• Simplify your large assemblies faster by applying rules when you defeature your model.
• Represent post-assembly machining operations in SOLIDWORKS with Insert Assembly into Part.
• Simplify assembly STEP file import with the ability to filter out unwanted components on the fly.

Parts and Features

• Speed up sketching with a new option to preview and edit a dimension as soon as you select one or more entities.
• Create bidirectional, symmetric patterns with the Symmetric option for Linear Pattern.
• Display the unit of measurement as a custom property in notes and tables.

Drawings and Detailing

• Clean up dangling dimensions more efficiently by reattaching them to the proper reference points.
• Detail drawings faster with improved chain dimensioning alignment and adherence to drawing standards.
• Exclude hidden sketches from DXF Flat-Pattern with a new option.

Sheet Metal

• Adhere to manufacturing practices by providing a Normal Cut option for slots when tabs are created at an angle.
• Automatically propagate slots to all instances of a tab that intersects a specific part
• Eliminate the need for form tool creation with the option to create a stamp/form feature on the fly using just Sketch.

Structure System

• Speed up the editing and management of corner treatments with the ability to group similar corners and apply treatments automatically or manually
• Automatically create an open corner for the addition of a connection block with a new Corner Treatment option.

Electrical Design

• Autoballoon components in 2D control panel (cabinet) drawings similar to SOLIDWORKS drawings.
• Configure wire properties using Excel automation with the new Autoconnection feature

SOLIDWORKS MBD

• Export Hole Tables to 3D PDF.
• Edit the dangling dimensions to reattach in the model.
• Display dual dimensions while creating geometric tolerance symbols.

Visualize

• Select appearance types and optimise their parameters.
• Adjust textures and texture maps for parameters.
• Combine normal and displacement maps.

xShape

xDesign

Visualize

SOLIDWORKS Visualize (formerly known as Bunkspeed) uses your 3D CAD data to create high quality images, animations, interactive web content, and immersive virtual reality experiences. It is a suite of standalone software tools ideal for quickly and easily creating visual content for designers, engineers, marketing personnel, and other content creators. Think of Visualize as the camera for your CAD data! Cut costs by accelerating the time it takes to get compelling imagery to market.

Within a single Visualize project file, users can rapidly generate multiple design variations with different materials, environments, camera angles, etc. Then with one click, render out all of the configurations at once. The perfect tool to present projects with multiple part or material options.

Visualize includes a full animation suite which makes 360° turntable animations, exploded views, sequence animations, and camera animations a breeze to produce. You can even check how light falls across your model with Sun Study.

Download Visualize Datasheet

Derived Format Converter

The Derived Format Converter for SOLIDWORKS takes the exact geometry in .SLDPRT and .SLDASM files and provides data for use in other 3DEXPERIENCE modelling and simulation apps such as DELMIA and SIMULIA.

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