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SolidWorks Standard |
SolidWorks
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SolidWorks Premium |
| Mechanical CAD
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| SWIFT SolidWorks Intelligent Feature
Technology (SWIFT) lets you spend time creating products
that work well, instead of trying to make your software
work for you. SWIFT automates time-consuming detail work
and techniques, diagnosing and resolving problems related
to feature order, mates, sketch relationships, and the
application of dimensions. As a result, users of any
experience level can be more effective and innovative.
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| Getting Started
Get up to speed fast. SolidWorks
CommandManager logically groups similar functions for easy
access. And integrated tutorials provide instructive
workflow demonstrations along with visual cues.
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| User Interface With the Heads-up User Interface, you
get a complete, customizable set of visual display and
mouse-driven control capabilities that reduce design
steps, minimize the need for dialog boxes, and lessen
visual clutter.
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| Working with DWG
There’s no need to start from scratch
when you want to transition a 2D drawing to a 3D model.
SolidWorks includes data translation tools along with help
documentation for AutoCAD users, so you can smoothly
convert DWG files into 3D models. Alternatively, use
DWGeditor®—included with SolidWorks software—to edit,
manipulate and maintain existing AutoCAD® DWG files in
their native format.
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| Part Modeling
Speed product development from concept
to production with powerful and easy-to-use 3D part
modeling tools. Design parts as they will be positioned in
the assembly to manage relationships to other parts.
Sketch in 2D and then extrude, revolve, blend or sweep the
section along a path to create any 3D geometry. Edit by
merely clicking and dragging geometry, or by clicking and
changing dimensions. Time saving features such as holes,
bosses, fillets, chamfers, slots, keyways, o-ring grooves,
louvers and ribs are also provided. Drag/drop, pattern,
copy and mirror features to eliminate repetitive modeling
tasks.
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| RealView Graphics Visualize and communicate your designs
more clearly than ever. Without rendering, you can quickly
create nearly lifelike, fully dynamic representations of
your parts, assemblies, and completed products.
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| Advanced Surfacing Improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and
usability of your product designs. Using the Freeform
feature, creating new geometry or importing and
manipulating new surfaces is easy and intuitive.
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| Sheetmetal Design Tools Create sheet metal parts from scratch
using folds, bends, flanges, rips, tabs, mitres, lofted
bends, sketched bends, hems and more. Alternatively,
create a solid shape as starting point then use advanced
capabilities such as ‘convert solid-to-sheetmetal’
functionality to develop a manufacturable sheet metal
part.
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| Weldment Design Sketch a layout for your frame and
select a weldment profile, then SolidWorks will
automatically generate a weldment design in 3D. Modify,
validate, reinforce your design then enhance it with
standard parts that you can drag & drop from the Design
Library and/or 3D ContentCentral. Then, generate precise
manufacturing drawings with cut lengths for all segments.
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| Mold Design Tools In SolidWorks, you can import any of
the major CAD formats including IGES, STEP, Parasolid and
ACIS to begin your mold designs. Complete your mold design
using specialized mold design features such as parting
lines and surfaces, and core/cavity splitting as well as
specialized plastic part design features such as
shrinkage, draft, ribs, fastening features and lip and
groove features. Automatically check for draft angle,
undercuts and thickness to ensure that parts are really
ready for manufacturing.
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| Assembly Modeling SolidWorks gives you the tools to “get
it right” on screen when you create assemblies—saving the
time and cost of physical prototypes and remanufacturing.
Mate components by picking individual surfaces, edges,
curves, and vertices. Create mechanical relationships
between components. Conduct interference, collision, and
hole alignment checks. Link motion of pulleys and
sprockets. Automatically assemble fasteners and
accompanying hardware. Automate assembly of commonly used
components, appropriate hardware, and required features.
Use MateXpert to fix conflicts such as over-constraining a
component.
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| Assembly Motion Simply by clicking and dragging
components, you can check an assembly for proper motion
and collisions. In addition, you can simulate physical
motion involving assembly mates, contact, springs, and
gravity, as well as create, edit and save video
animations.
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| Large Assembly Mgt Use “Lightweight” mode to reduce time
spent opening and working on large assemblies. Speedpak
technology enables simplified versions of assemblies to be
created that speeds assembly operations and drawing
creation. Use Quick View to select and open just the
components you need to work on. Analyze and improve your
assembly’s performance using the AssemblyXpert.
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| 2D Drawing Creation Develop production-ready engineering
drawings that automatically reference the 3D part so that
drawing views and bills of materials update each time that
you modify the part or assembly design. In addition, you
can use DWGeditor to maintain and update all your existing
DWG drawing files.
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| Data Translation Easily import and use existing data, as
well as data from external sources. SolidWorks includes
translators that support DWG, DXF™, Pro/ENGINEER®, IPT (Autodesk
Inventor®), Mechanical Desktop®, Unigraphics®, PAR (Solid
Edge™), CADKEY®, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, SAT (ACIS), VDA-FS,
VRML, STL, TIFF, JPG, Adobe® Illustrator®, Rhino®, IDF,
and HSF (Hoops) formats.
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| Design Reuse Leverage your successful designs to
create compelling proposals for new ones. Quickly search
for pre-existing components in your own custom design
library, then simply drag and drop them into your new
designs.
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| Bill of Materials Significant time savings result when
you use SolidWorks to automatically generate a complete
Bill of Materials (BOM) from your design. Your BOM is
associative: When you change your design, the BOM updates
automatically, and vice versa. Plus, you can export the
BOM data to Excel, ERP, and other applications.
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| Part Validation SolidWorks Simulation tools help both
new users and experts to ensure your design is durable,
safe, and manufacturable. In addition, you can use
SolidWorks FloXpress to optimize your designs for water
and air flow effects.
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| Design Automation of Repetitive
Tasks Save time with SolidWorks Smart
Component technology to automate the selection and
insertion of standard components and DriveWorksXpress to
automate repetitive design tasks and provide
configurability of your design, allowing the quick
creation of several variants from a single design.”
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| Import/Export Capabilities With SolidWorks, you’ll have numerous
capabilities for accurately communicating design ideas and
data to collaborators, upstream and downstream partners,
and customers. Formats include PDF, TIF, JPEG, DWG, DXF,
IGES, STEP, STL, AVI, Parasolid, Pro/ENGINEER, eDrawings
as well as many others.
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| Design Collaboration Collaborate more effectively by
creating eDrawings files that can be reviewed and
marked-up. Let an unlimited number of recipients mark-up
and provide feedback on product designs.
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| Feature Recognition When people you collaborate with use
other CAD systems, FeatureWorks helps you share imported
data by allowing conversion directly to a SolidWorks 3D
model. You can elect to rebuild the entire imported model
with SolidWorks features, or select individual features to
convert.
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| Standard Hardware Libraries With SolidWorks Toolbox, you have
instant access to thousands of pre-built SolidWorks models
of standard hardware such as bolts and screws, bearings,
o-rings, gears, etc. Just drag and drop them into your
design, or use the SmartFasteners capability to
automatically assemble and size fasteners.
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| Photorealistic Rendering Use PhotoWorks and PhotoView 360 to
leverage your SolidWorks 3D models for presentations,
proposals, and virtual and material studies—before
creating any parts. Save time and eliminate the high costs
of prototyping and photography.
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| Design Standards Checking Raise your quality level with
SolidWorks Design Checker. With thorough, automated checks
and autocorrect capability, you can ensure full compliance
with your company standards before you release your
designs for manufacture.
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| Advanced Productivity Tools SolidWorks Utilities enables the
designer to do many things including compare parts or
drawings to find differences between two similar designs
or similar drawings. FeatureWorks streamlines use of data
from different CAD systems to work together.
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| Leverage Scanned Data Import digital scans of handcrafted
models into SolidWorks using ScanTo3D. You can also import
design concepts created in Rhino® software or sketches
developed in Adobe® Illustrator®.
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| Routed Systems Automate and accelerate the process of
routing tubes, pipes, electrical cables, cable harnesses,
and electrical conduits with SolidWorks Routing.
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| ECAD to MCAD Integration Use CircuitWorks, a bi-directional ECAD
translator, to ensure the fit and function of printed
circuit boards (PCBs) into electrical and mechanical
products.
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| Data
Management Capabilities |
| Secure
Access
Protect your product design data with
secure, managed access to authorized individuals, over a
network or via the web. In addition to internal users, you
can also permit access to partners, customers and your
supply chain.
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| Revision Control Help your design team avoid overwriting
files and help purchasing and manufacturing order and
produce the correct parts, every time.
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| Find Files Quickly and easily find SolidWorks
files by searching on metadata (Custom Properties).
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Design Validation Capabilties |
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Tolerance Stackup Validation TolAnalyst allows tolerance stack-up
analysis directly inside SolidWorks, and analyzes designs
based on the order and manner in which parts are
assembled, as well as DimXpert-applied dimensions and
tolerances. Determine if your design meets fit and
function requirements without tedious and error-prone hand
calculations.
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Assembly Simulation Study the interactions of assembly
components onscreen, before incurring the costs of
physical prototypes. Accurately simulate static or dynamic
loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress,
strain, and displacement.
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Fully-Integrated Mechanism Simulation Apply a wide variety of physics-based
models to simulate real-world operating conditions for
your design. Check for colliding parts. Output numerical
and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of
your tests.
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Simulate Welded Structures Ensure your welded structures perform
at peak operating conditions. Apply pressure, forces, and
bearing loads. Then use powerful visualization tools like
sections plots, iso-clipping, and animation to review the
response of either the full assembly or only certain
parts.
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