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SolidCAM

Rod Mackay — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:16:44 +0000

SolidCAM

Complete CAM Suite for CNC Programming in SOLIDWORKS

Complete CAM Solution

SolidCAM is a best-in-class, complete CAM Solution seamlessly integrated in SOLIDWORKS. The major benefits of SolidCAM's SOLIDWORKS integration include:

SOLIDWORKS look and feel through seamless single window integration – with full support for modern 4K displays
Full associativity: toolpaths automatically update when the SOLIDWORKS model changes
SolidCAM works in the SOLIDWORKS assembly mode to define fixtures, tooling and vices

Streamline your CNC machine programming

With the single-window integration, all machining operations can be defined, calculated and verified without leaving the SOLIDWORKS assembly environment.

All 2D and 3D geometries used for machining are fully associative to the SOLIDWORKS design model. If you make any changes to your SOLIDWORKS model, all of your CAM operations will be automatically updated.

SolidCAM + SOLIDWORKS is scalable for all CNC machine types and applications. The integrated CAD/CAM Solution, is available from SolidCAM, as a bundle-package.

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What is SolidCAM?

Overview

Powerful Tools for CNC Programmers & Operators

In many machine shops, the tasks of CAM programming and CNC operation are often worlds apart. CNC operators require a deep understanding of setup, tooling, and simulation.

When minor G-Code adjustments are needed, like altering cutting conditions or tool offsets, operators should have the flexibility to make these changes swiftly. However, this process often involves back-and-forth with CAM programmers, leading to workflow delays.

That is why SolidCAM created Tools for Operators – to simplify shop floor processes and empower experienced CNC operators to grasp CAM data easily and, if necessary, make quick edits to machining parameters.

In a typical CNC machine shop using SolidCAM, you'll find seats for CAM programmers and SolidCAM for Operators Editor/Simulator Seats. The choice of using the SolidCAM for Operators Editor or SolidCAM for Operators Simulator is made by the shop floor manager.

It depends on whether they want to provide CNC operators with simulation capabilities only or grant them additional editing capabilities. For more information, refer to the detailed comparison table.

CAM Programmers

CNC Operators

The CAM and CNC staff of most medium and large-size machine shops work in three main levels:

Level I: CAM Programmer

CAM Programmers are technologists that determine the strategy for machining a part on the shop floor. Usually well acquainted with CNC technology and capabilities, a CAM Programmer uses SolidCAM to define the machining process, using a variety of machine operations. At each stage, the Programmer can use the SolidCAM simulation capabilities to check the operations, edit specific operations and machining parameters and then produce a G-Code file.

Level II: Setup Staff & experienced CNC Operators

CNC Operators normally get the G-Code file together with a list of tools, a setup sheet showing the part clamping and locations of work offsets, but do not have direct access to the CAM-System.

So by having the SolidCAM for Operators Editor, they have access to the CAM part data, including tool table data and set up, do a simulation and perform a dry run at the CNC. They can also edit basic parameters, like speeds and feeds, using the SolidCAM for Operators Editor.

Level III: CNC Operators

Tools for CAM Programmers

The complete CAM Solution for your Manufacturing, with revolutionary iMachining, best MillTurn and Swiss CNCs support, seamlessly integrated and fully associative in SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge and Inventor.

CAM Programmer

SolidCAM Machining Capabilities

The leading integrated CAD/CAM solution that can control the most complex Mill-Turn & Swiss-Type CNC-machines

2.5D Milling

SolidCAM's 2.5D Milling module provides the most straightforward, easy-to-use interface that is seamlessly integrated in SOLIDWORKS and Inventor. Combined with the latest toolpath technology, SolidCAM 2.5D Milling provides the fastest, most powerful and easiest to create 2.5D CNC Milling toolpaths.

Easily work on parts, assemblies, and sketch geometry to define your CNC machining operations. Quickly place fixtures and components for full visualization.

AFRM

Automatic Feature Recognition & Machining (AFRM) from SolidCAM sets the new standards for automating CAM Programming, including:

Pocket Recognition
Chamfering and Deburring
Advanced Drill Recognition
SolidCAM Hole Wizard
Drag & Drop Operations

HSS High-Speed Surfacing

SolidCAM HSS is a high speed surface machining module for smooth and powerful machining of localized surface areas in the part, including undercuts.

SolidCAM HSS provides easy selection of the surfaces to be machined with no need to define the boundaries, and supports both standard and shaped tools.

Indexial 4/5-Axis Milling

A common scene in any machine shop today is that 4- and 5-axis CNC machines are increasing production, providing faster cycle times and the ability to manufacture parts completely in one setup only. SolidCAM provides an effective and easy way to program on multiple sides of a part.

Indexial 4/5-axis machining is where SolidCAM absolutely shines and where you will see incredible improvements in your workflow.

HSR & HSM High Speed Machining

Unique machining and linking strategies for 3D high-speed toolpaths. It smooths the paths of both cutting moves and retracts, wherever possible, to maintain a continuous machine tool motion – an essential requirement for maintaining higher feed rates and eliminating dwelling.

3D machining taken to an entirely new level of smoothness, efficiency and smart machining.
The finest toolpaths available anywhere for complex 3D parts, aerospace parts, molds, tools and dies.

SolidCAM THSR and THSM

SolidCAM’s Turbo 3D HSR (THSR) and Turbo 3D HSM (THSM) are powerful High Speed Roughing (HSR) and High Speed Machining (HSM) modules for much faster calculations than the regular HSR / HSM modules.

THSR and THSM offer unique machining and linking strategies for generating high-speed tool paths. The 3-Axis calculation engine recalculates the tool path at lightning speeds. Its 64-bit architecture completely utilizes all the cores for tool path calculations.

Simultaneous 5x Milling

Benefit from the most tested and proven 5-Axis machining tool paths in the industry, with a user-friendly interface, collision checking and the most advanced control over all aspects of the tool path:

Wide variety of Simultaneous 5X cutting strategies
Flow line cutting produces a toolpath that follows the natural shape of the component
Multi-surface finish machining keeps the tool normal to the surface (or with specified lead and lag) to provide a smooth surface finish
Advanced tool tilting control and direct control on side tilting and lead/lag angles
Automatic collision avoidance strategies that check each part of both the tool and holder
Multi-axis rest roughing efficiently removes the remaining material of the larger cutter diameter used previously
Realistic full 3D machine simulation with comprehensive collision and axis limits checking

Solid Probe

With probes, the setup of your CNC-parts becomes easier and the can be used to control the quality of machined parts right on the machine. Programming Probe cycles for Home definition and On-Machine Verification has never been easier.

The Solid Probe operations are based on the same geometry as 2.5D milling operations. The user interface provides full control over tolerances, different sorting options and a fast preview of cycle movements.

Easy Home definition
On-Machine Verification
Tool Presetter support
Easy geometry selection on solid model
Supports a wide range of probe cycles
Visualization of all the Probe tool movements
Support of different Probe controllers

Turning

SolidCAM provides a comprehensive turning package with powerful toolpaths and techniques for fast and efficient turning with fixture and holder protection.

SolidCAM's Turning module produces advanced rough and finish profile turning, together with support for facing, grooving, threading and drilling cycles.

Turning geometries and profile can be generated very quickly, easily adopted or modified for production
The Machine Preview allows you to interactively, in machine environment, check and verify your setup and machine position at every stage of tool-path programming minimizing programming and setup errors
SolidCAM turning supports the widest range of machine tools, including 2-Axis lathes, multi-turret configurations with or without sub-spindles
Custom turning inserts, shape inserts with multiple cutting edges can be used

Mill-Turn Machining

The complete solution for advanced, multi-turret/multi-spindle Mill-Turn CNC Machines

Modern Mill-Turn CNC centers are designed to combine as many milling and turning operations as possible, to manufacture workpieces at maximum productivity.

Manual CNC programming of sophisticated parts on complex machines, directly at the machine controller is – if at all humanly possible – unproductive, error-prone and expensive.

Swiss Machining

Easy Programming for Complex Multiple Turret and Multiple Spindle Swiss CNC Machines

Swiss CNC turning centers are a cost-effective solution for machining small, complex, and precision parts. These advanced machines feed material through a guide bushing, and cut using linear or revolver tools, all in one setup. Swiss machines handle multiple operations simultaneously, efficiently automating the entire machining process.

70%

Time Savings

iMachining Technology Wizard

Provides 70% and more in cycle time savings, increases tool life 5 times and more, and the iMachining Technology Wizard provides optimal feeds and speeds for every point of the toolpath, taking into account the stock material, cutting tool properties and the CNC machine parameters.

CAM Programmer

SolidCAM iMachining

SolidCAM's exclusive and patented iMachining is an intelligent high speed milling technology that creates significantly faster and safe CNC programs to machine mechanical parts with first part success, while maximizing tool life.

iMachining's features and algorithms give you unbelievable cycle time savings and unmatched tool life performance while providing you with perfect machining feeds and speeds, the first time, every time.

Increase Your Profits - iMachining Benefits

Increase Your Profits by Greatly Increasing Your Machine Output with Extremely Enhanced Material Removal Rates:

Machine deeper for far fewer passes
Fully optimized Feeds & Speeds keep the cutter at maximum efficiency
Rest-Material (Exact Stock Material Machining) and finish cuts eliminate air cutting and unnecessary tool retracts so you're cutting ONLY what's left
Avoid machine downtime - less wear and tear on your CNC results in higher up time, reduced maintenance costs and extended machine life
Skip costly machine tool upgrades and new CNC purchases – happy iMachining owners have cancelled many planned purchases of new CNCs

Slash Your Tooling Costs

The revolutionary iMachining CAM module, fully integrated in SOLIDWORKS, will make you and your CNC machines more profitable and more competitive than ever before.

Average Tool life increased by 5 times and more
Full depth-of-cut ensures that the entire tool is utilized, rather than only the bottom part
Eliminate the cost of premium and specialty tooling for hard materials

Reduce Your Machining Time

Reduce Your Machining Time with the Efficient Morphing Toolpath and Unique Technology Wizard - The Perfect Strategy:

Automatic, optimal Feeds & Speeds eliminate the time-consuming trial and error to find the optimal machine settings - First-part success guaranteed.
The perfect tool for even the most seasoned machinist for getting it perfectly dialed in, the first time - or for the less experienced machinist, iMachining will turn them into an expert in no time.

CAM Programmer

iMachining Modules

iMachining Tool Paths

Morphing Spirals – iMachining uses an advanced, patented morphing spiral that gradually conforms to the geometry of the feature being machined rather than a conventional offset toolpath. This maximizes tool to stock contact or "tool in the cut" time.
Channels and Moats – Divide & Conquer – In order to most efficiently attack large areas of material removal as well as stand-alone islands, they are separated or subdivided into smaller sections using iMachining’s patented Moating technology. This maximizes the continuous morphed spiral cutting.
Eliminate Wasted Time & Motion – iMachining toolpaths only cut the stock that needs to be removed, eliminating "air cuts". From the initial approach, right to the last cut, rest material tracking ensures every toolpath is always efficiently cutting material.

iMachining 2D

The revolutionary iMachining CAM module will make you and your CNC machines more profitable and more competitive than ever before. iMachining, a real breakthrough in CNC milling tool path technology, enables extremely faster and deeper machining by optimizing tool cutting angles and feed rates on every tool path position.

iMachining 2D with feature recognition

iMachining 2D's Feature Recognition technology detects and defines the part machinable features by utilizing the solid model data, with minimal input from the user.

Faces: Smart Face technology builds chains by just the simple selection of faces.
Chains: Machinable areas are recognized by chains in combination with the solid model data.
Outside Feature Recognition: Machinable stock surrounding the target is recognized and its levels are detected automatically.
Chains without Feature Recognition: Option to use SolidCAM's standard chaining method, without iMachining's Recognition and Protection functionality.

iMachining Technology Wizard

The knowledge and experience of hundreds of CAM and CNC masters in the palm of your hand, as the iMachining Wizard and Toolpath take you to an entirely new level of CNC performance!

SolidCAM’s iMachining has the exclusive patented iMachining Technology Wizard, the industry’s first and only Wizard that automatically calculates optimal cutting conditions for every segment of the iMachining tool path.

iMachining 3D

iMachining 3D provides amazing 3D machining results, regularly saving 70% in machining time, reaching up to 90% in many cases.

iMachining 3D automatically produces a complete, ready to run CNC program, with optimal cutting conditions, achieved by the expert knowledge-based Technology Wizard, to rough and rest rough an entire 3D part in a single operation.

iMachining 3D for Prismatic Parts

Programming times for prismatic parts are drastically reduced with iMachining 3D. In a single operation, roughn and rest rough an entire 3D prismatic part that includes any number of pockets and islands, without chaining or sketching a single contour. With just the solid geometry and cutting tool as input, iMachining 3D calculates the rest - automatically and optimally.

While standard 2.5D CAM programming requires users to select or define geometry for each feature (both chain and depth) resulting in several operations, iMachining 3D eliminates the need for time-consuming geometry definition by automatically identifying geometry and depth directly from the 3D CAD model.
Using true Scallop-driven, intelligent step-up technology (small upward steps with constant scallop height) to optimally prepare the part for Finishing during the Roughing cycle, combines Roughing and Rest Roughing in a single operation.

"This approach shortens the learning curve for programmers, offers greater geometry editing and manipulation power to manufacturing and provides a common tool for supporting interaction between designers and machinists"

"If changes are made on the manufacturing side, we capture them on both the design side and the manufacturing side because SOLIDWORKS and SolidCAM are fully associative.”

"The integrated approach facilitates discussion and resolution of manufacturing issues because everyone is working with the same model and modeler. We communicate issues and features a lot better working with an integrated system.”

"The integrated approach has a lot of advantages, including saving time, accessing a single geometry file, and using the intelligence of our design data in a more efficient, systematic way."

"SolidCAM is the Swiss pocket knife for machining. With the modules for the 2.5D, 3D, simultaneous 5-axis machining and rotary milling, all daily machining tasks can be done quickly – from the complex drilling pattern to the most demanding 5-axis impeller. Program the part, simulate and off you go on the machine. The software delivers, what it has promised!"

Tools for CNC Operators

Empower your CNC Operators with tools for faster setups, editing and simulation

CNC Operators

SolidCAM for Operators Tool Benefits

Minimize Reliance on 'Dry-Runs': With SolidCAM for Operators, step-through each move in the G-Code program, reducing setup time and the need to 'dry-run' programs on the CNC.
Preventing CNC Machine and Tool Damage: Operators see full simulations so they can prevent unexpected crashes or collisions.
Working Efficiently: Operators can make minor adjustments, without needing to rely on the CAM Programmer, who is already busy programming the next part.
Full Setup Picture: SolidCAM for Operators enables the Operator to see all details of each operation, including Tools, Setup Definition, Stock Clamping, Work Offsets, and full simulation of the process.

Editor Mode

SolidCAM for Operators Editor enables the CNC machine Operator to open existing CAM parts, created by the SolidCAM Programmers, edit the operations if needed (e.g. change step down or change the tool speeds and feeds), recalculate, simulate, then post-process the new G-code, right by the CNC machine.

Simulator Mode

SolidCAM for Operators Simulator has no CAM part editing capabilities at all. It enables the CNC Operator to see the Tool table list with full details, to understand the clamping, the work offsets, and to see the simulation of the CAM Part, before running the G-Code on the CNC machine.

CNC Operators

SolidCAM Matrix

SolidCAM CNC Operator Feature Comparison – Editor/Editor LT vs. Simulator

Feature	EDITOR	EDITOR LT	SIMULATOR
View the model, including Fixtures and location of work offsets	●	●	●
View the tool table in full detail	●	●	●
View all machining operations, data and defined geometries	●	●	●
View Cutting conditions for each operation	●	●	●
Fully simulate the machining process	●	●	●
Change the Tool data and cutting conditions	●	●
Calculate operations	●	●
Regenerate G-Code after edits	●	●
Change the operations data	●
Change the setup definition	●

SolidCAM Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Connected to SOLIDWORKS

Best-in-class, complete CAM-Solution seamlessly integrated in SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge and Inventor. Easy to learn and to use. Fast programming for Maximum Productivity.

Supports all CNC machine types

Supports all CNC machine types and brands on the market - up to complex multi channel MillTurn CNCs including Swiss-Type.

Certified post-processors

Certified post-processors which reliably generate the G-code – specially tailored to customer requirements.

Automated Features

Automatic Feature Recognition and Machining, using pre-defined templates for fast programming. Advanced collision control and machine preview shows the complete machine kinematics during programming.

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to SolidCAM for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

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SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Rod Mackay — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:53:26 +0000

Software

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

The ultimate end-to-end product development solution from SOLIDWORKS

Go Beyond Design with Ultimate

Today’s designers and engineers face challenges that extend beyond just design. SOLIDWORKS® Ultimate provides a holistic approach to expand into all aspects of product development. A foundational solution for professional designers and engineers, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate builds on 3D design by laying the groundwork for simulation, manufacturing, marketing, and management tools that eliminate silos and accelerate your product development processes.

Your job does not stop at making great designs. Watch this video to learn how SOLIDWORKS Ultimate accelerates all phases of your product development process.

NOTE: This is 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, the desktop version is coming soon.

OVERVIEW

Take a First Look at SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Included Ultimate Tools

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes SOLIDWORKS Premium, and expands your capabilities well beyond design, into simulation, collaboration, management, marketing, and manufacturing. Learn more about the additional tools below:

Project and Resource Management

Shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.
Lean Teamwork

Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.
Release Management

Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.
Product Structure Management

Reduce development time with the ability to create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context, reducing design iterations by making the review of designs and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders.
Virtual Experiences & Renderings

Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging virtual twins. Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements

Sheet Metal Design on the Cloud

Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities.
Mold Design on the Cloud

Provide specialized, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mold cores, cavities, and inserts.
Weldments Design on the Cloud

Create structure members; add plates, gussets, and end caps; and generate a manufacturing cut list with associative, feature based frame design capabilities.
Structural Analysis for Cloud Design

Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress analysis.
Motion Analysis for Cloud Design

Understand the impact of assembly motion on your design with motion simulation in the cloud. Study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your designs by checking the range of motion, component interference, and performance.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Features

All the design and cloud collaboration tools you need are included with the Ultimate version

Design and Simulate

Professional, flexible, and trusted design tools combined with robust simulation solutions

Industry-standard SOLIDWORKS design solutions found in the Premium offer
Freeform, subdivision design tools
Vast library of fasteners, hardware parts, and a catalog of over 50 million components from manufacturers worldwide through our online catalog
Specialized design tools for routing, large assembly design capabilities, weldments, mold design, sheet metal, and more
Flexible cloud-based design tools so you can create on-the-go
Simulation tools to account for linear stress, frequency/modal, thermal, linear buckling and motion analysis
Ability to leverage cloud-computing for simulation

Collaborate and Manage

Cloud-based BOM and product lifecycle management tools that are secure and always available, and greatly improve communication between teams

Built to support cross-discipline collaboration between disparate teams
Easy sharing and markup capabilities for outside stakeholders
Secure, CAD-aware cloud storage
Easy revision management with branching and merging
Flexible, cloud BOM and lifecycle management tools
Associate project tasks to your design data
Conceptualize and release entire product structures online
Collaborative planning tools, Gantt charts, and project management
Whiteboarding and organization tools that follow Lean principles

Document and Market

Solutions to create product documentation along with stunning and compelling marketing assets

Connect engineering and marketing directly to single source of truth
Cloud-based solutions to create technical illustrations, user guides, photorealistic images, and immersive experiences
Cloud-based studio for capturing lifelike photo renderings quickly and easily
Marketing content creation and product illustration for everyone, everywhere, at any time
Impactful 3D experiences for commercial customer engagements from VR to web

Manufacture

Advanced CAM tools combined with cloud-based 3D machine programming solutions to manufacture correctly the first time

Rule-based machining that enhances programming processes and accelerates quoting
Automatic feature and hole recognition
Real-time toolpath verification for improved accuracy and efficiency
Nesting to easily cut multiple parts on one sheet for routers, lasers, plasma, and water-jet machines
Manufacturability checker for quick part design validation to determine optimal manufacturing process
Extended capabilities specific for wire EDM, laser, water-jet, and plasma cutting

Roles included with Ultimate

Discover the 3DEXPERIENCE Roles included with the SOLIDWORKS Ultimate version

All

All
Design
Manufacturing
Marketing
PDM / PLM
Simulation
Technical Communication

3D Creator

3D Demonstrator

3D Mold Creator

3D Motion Creator

3D Product Architect

3D Render

3D Sculptor

3D Sheet Metal Creator

3D Structure Creator

3DSwymer

Collaborative Industry Innovator

DELMIA Lean Team Player

Manufacturing Definition Creator

NC Shop Floor Programmer

Product Communicator

Product Release Engineer

Project Planner

Structural Designer

Compare SOLIDWORKS Versions

Standard, Professional, Premium, or Ultimate offering

Capabilities	Standard	Professional	Premium	Ultimate
Cloud Collaboration
Cross-Discipline Collaboration Collaborate in real time using configurable dashboards, social communities, Kanban-style task management, activity streams, persistent chat, and video calls. Easily search, visualize, explore, and mark up SOLIDWORKS and other files directly in your browser, from any device.	●	●	●	●
Share and Markup Invite anyone, inside or outside your organization, to view, share, and mark up your 3D designs in the cloud, directly within SOLIDWORKS. Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a link from within SOLIDWORKS, with no download required.	●	●	●	●
Project and Resource Management Shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.				●
Lean Teamwork Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.				●
Cloud Data Management
Store and Revise Utilize secure cloud storage that’s purpose-built with CAD relationships and collaboration in mind. Save your data to the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS. Lock designs to ensure no one overwrites your work, easily manage revisions, and create detailed markups with redline, measurements, and annotations.	●	●	●	●
Data and Lifecycle Management Manage the life cycle of any type of content, such as CAD files, simulation models, and documentation, across disciplines and CAD solutions. Assign tasks, track issues, communicate and coordinate design changes, manage reviews and approvals, and capture decisions.	●	●	●	●
Administration Monitor license usage, manage members, and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative dashboard, lowering administrative overhead. Easily stay up-to-date and benefit from the latest enhancements.	●	●	●	●
Release Management Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.				●
Product Structure Management Reduce development time with the ability to create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context, reducing design iterations by making the review of designs and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders.				●
Cloud 3D Design and Modeling
Parametric Modeling Create, review, and evaluate 3D models through an intuitive parametric modeling solution that interacts seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.	●	●	●	●
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation Define, organize, and communicate key manufacturing information such as dimensions, tolerances, and notes all from a web browser with a combined 2D drawing and model-based solution.	●	●	●	●
Subdivision/Freeform Modeling Create organic shapes quickly and easily with an intuitive modeling solution that interacts seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.		●	●	●
Sheet Metal Design Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities				●
Mold Design Provide specialized, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mold cores, cavities, and inserts.				●
Weldments Design Create structure members; add plates, gussets, and end caps; and generate a manufacturing cut list with associative, featurebased frame design capabilities				●
3D Design and Modeling
Part and Assembly Modeling Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models	●	●	●	●
Specialized Design Tools Speed up the design of sheet metal, plastic and cast parts, weldments, molds, tools, and dies.	●	●	●	●
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation Create production-ready 2D drawings or go drawingless and use intelligent, automated 3D dimensioning and tolerancing capabilities.	●	●	●	●
Productivity Tools Easily analyze, compare, check and report on your designs	●	●	●	●
Industry 3D Component Catalog Access over 50 million components from manufacturers worldwide through our online catalog.	●	●	●	●
Interference Check Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit, assemble and operate correctly	●	●	●	●
Design Reuse & Automation Simplify the reuse of existing design data with search, automation and configuration tools that help you speed up the creation of new designs	●	●	●	●
Manufacturability Checks Review your designs for Draft, Undercut, Thickness and Hole Alignments early in the development process to ensure manufacturability.	●	●	●	●
Advanced CAD File Import/Export Convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators	●	●	●	●
Linked CAD Models Use models saved in other CAD formats directly inside SOLIDWORKS assemblies, parts, and drawings while maintaining associativity with the original CAD model.	●	●	●	●
AR/VR Exporter Export CAD data for AR, VR, and web viewing experiences while retaining geometry, appearance, motion studies, display states, and more	●	●	●	●
ECAD/MCAD Collaboration Share, compare, update, and track electrical design data so users can quickly resolve electrical-mechanical integration and collaboration issues.	●	●	●	●
Intelligent CAD Libraries Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard fasteners that configure on the fly and assemble automatically in your design.		●	●	●
CAD Standards Checking (Design Checker) Establish design standards and check drawings (or models) against them to create uniform designs and documentation.		●	●	●
Automated Tolerance Stackup Analysis (TolAnalyst™) Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and verify tolerancing schemes before manufacturing your designs		●	●	●
Design for Cost (SOLIDWORKS Costing) Continuously check your designs against cost targets with automatic cost estimation tools fully integrated within the 3D CAD solution		●	●	●
Reverse Engineering (ScanTo3D) Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data		●	●	●
Advanced Surface Flattening Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces typically encountered in products made from textiles, like clothing, or sheet metal, like metal stampings			●	●
Pipe and Tube Routing Simplify the design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping.			●	●
Electrical Cable and Wiring Harness Routing Quickly add cables, wires, and harnesses to your design. Create flattened drawing representations of your 3D cables and harnesses with wire lists, connection information, and bills of materials			●	●
Rectangular and Other Section Routing Route rectangular and round sections that include ducting, cable trays, conveyors, material handling chutes, and other systems.			●	●
Cloud Immersive Experiences
Training and User Guides Create stunning digital content including interactive product presentations and technical illustrations to showcase product values, enable partners, guide use, and win customers.				●
Virtual Experiences Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging virtual twins.				●
Rendering Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements.				●
Rendering
Basic Animation and Visualization Move assemblies by dragging components or using motors, create CAD videos, and generate basic CAD renderings and 3D walk-throughs.	●	●	●	●
GPU Rendering Utilize the full power of your hardware with GPU rendering capabilities.		●	●	●
Artificial Intelligence Denoiser Leverage artificial intelligence to eliminate noise from your renders with a single checkbox, dramatically boosting your render speed.		●	●	●
Full Animation Suite Tell a more compelling story with your CAD data by using the full Animation suite. Easily animate exploded views, appearance properties, cameras, and much more to create photo-quality videos to showcase even the most complex projects.		●	●	●
Immersive Virtual Reality Create immersive virtual reality experiences with 360-degree cameras and interactive output.		●	●	●
Advanced Lighting Techniques for Sun and Sky Simulate the lighting at a specific location and time, and create sun study animations.		●	●	●
Physics Simulation Create more realistic and immersive content with rigid-body and vehicle-driving physics simulations.		●	●	●
Simulation
Linear Static Analysis for Parts and Assemblies Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods and running linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.			●	●
Motion Analysis Realistically visualize your product moving throughout its operational cycle, measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to correctly size motors and ensure product performance, quality, and safety.			●	●
Structural Analysis for Cloud Design Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress analysis.				●
Motion Analysis for Cloud Design Understand the impact of assembly motion on your design with motion simulation in the cloud. Study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your designs by checking the range of motion, component interference, and performance.				●
Training and Support
Support Get up to speed fast using online training content, a vibrant community, and support from TriMech	●	●	●	●
Learning Experiences Improve your skills with a library of over 200 learning modules comprising thousands of on-demand lessons.				●

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Benefits

How you and your team can benefit with the Ultimate tools

Scalable Solution

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate lays the foundation for companies at any stage, from startup to sustaining.

As you expand beyond design, you can utilize the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate to tackle today’s product development needs and overcome tomorrow’s challenges.

Single Source

Everything in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate connects to a single source of truth.

Seamlessly take your CAD data downstream without the need to export or import, improving accuracy and eliminating the need to move or duplicate data. Your data stays safe and in your control, while providing accessibility to your trusted stakeholders.

Set Up for Success

Engineers and designers can experience challenges when they are required to expand into other disciplines.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes access to thousands of training lessons to help you quickly learn how to use new tools and be productive. You can master the included applications and level up your skills with in-depth learning modules.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate FAQs

Get answers to your questions

What is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is an end-to-end software package from SOLIDWORKS that builds on the tools and functionalities included with SOLIDWORKS Premium. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate adds specialized design tools in the cloud, product release and structure management, cloud-immersive tools for documentation and marketing content, and on-demand learning experiences enabling and accelerating seamless collaboration for any product development workflow. By unifying design, engineering, simulation, manufacturing, and go-to-market activities, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate eliminates siloed processes, allowing rapid iteration and exceptional product delivery.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is available for 3DEXPERIENCE® SOLIDWORKS and will be available with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD at a later date. Contact your us to discuss which option is best for you.

Who is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate for?

What industries does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate support?

What is the difference between SOLIDWORKS Standard, SOLIDWORKS Professional, SOLIDWORKS Premium, and SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

SOLIDWORKS Standard is the basic SOLIDWORKS CAD package that comes with industry-standard 3D design software, production-ready 2D documentation tools, advanced CAD file import/export, cloud-based share and markup capabilities, and more.

SOLIDWORKS Professional builds on the design tools in the Standard package with SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, a library of hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard models and commonly reused CAD data, a design for cost feature, ECAD/MCAD collaboration, and beyond.

SOLIDWORKS Premium expands your design tools to include specialty tools like wire and tube routing, circuit board import, photo rendering, kinematics, linear static stress, and more.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes SOLIDWORKS Premium, and expands your capabilities well beyond design, into simulation, collaboration, management, marketing, and manufacturing.

Can I test out SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

Does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate work with my existing environment?

Is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate in the cloud?

How do I learn how to use the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate?

How does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate connect to the cloud?

The cloud-based product development tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate are based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a business and innovation platform that scales with users. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD connects to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, while SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS deploys directly from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. All of the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate, whether installed locally or in the cloud, are interoperable and connect with one another.

Can I upgrade from SOLIDWORKS Premium to Ultimate?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

SOLIDWORKS Value Upgrade Offers

Rod Mackay — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:04:11 +0000

PromotionSoftware

SOLIDWORKS Value Upgrade Offers

Switch to Term Licensing & Save 50% on SOLIDWORKS

Move from a SOLIDWORKS Perpetual license to a Term license and you can save 50% on software costs for three years, and 25% thereafter.

Promotion Highlights

Available to any SOLIDWORKS perpetual license owner, you do not need to be a current subscription service customer.
Promotion applies to a variety of SOLIDWORKS products including CAD, Composer, Electrical, Inspection, MBD, Plastics, and Simulation.

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What is Term Licensing?

Term Licensing is for individuals and companies that want access to SOLIDWORKS best-in-class design solutions with lower upfront costs compared to traditional perpetual licensing.

With a term license you can use SOLIDWORKS products with a quarterly subscription. A term license gives SOLIDWORKS users access to a variety of SOLIDWORKS applications with the same full version as a perpetual license — but with a flexible and affordable approach that’s easy on a software budget and easy to manage.

Why Rent SOLIDWORKS?

SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses are ideal for companies that need to maximize their cash flow, this could include the following:

Licenses are required for short term projects or for the specific phase of a project where specific software such as simulation is needed to validate a design.
Licenses are to meet staffing requirements such as contract staff or intern that require SOLIDWORKS for a short time period.
A new division or project has been initiated and cash-flow is a concern.
A start-up/new business requires SOLIDWORKS software at the minimum cost to get started.
Companies that need technical support and upgrades with their SOLIDWORKS license (Subscription Service is included with a term license)

New SOLIDWORKS Subscriber Benefits

Learn about the new Cloud Services available with Subscription Service

SOLIDWORKS perpetual products that can be switched to term licensing

Term licenses are available for the following SOLIDWORKS perpetual licensed products (* NOTE: in some cases the upgrade will be to a 3DEXPERIENCE role):

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software
- SOLIDWORKS Standard
- SOLIDWORKS Professional
- SOLIDWORKS Premium
SOLIDWORKS Communication Tools
- SOLIDWORKS Composer*
- SOLIDWORKS Inspection
- SOLIDWORKS MBD
- SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard or Professional
SOLIDWORKS CAM software
- SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard
- SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional
- SOLIDWORKS Machinist Standard or Professional
SOLIDWORKS Electrical software*
- SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Standard
- SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Professional
- SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
- SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional

SOLIDWORKS Simulation software*
- SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard
- SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional
- SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium
SOLIDWORKS Plastics software
- SOLIDWORKS Plastics Standard
- SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional
- SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software
- SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
- SOLIDWORKS HVAC Applications
- SOLIDWORKS Electronic Cooling

Get a Quote

Benefits

SOLIDWORKS Term License Advantages

Lower Upfront Cost

Start-ups, makers, individuals and small business often have cash flow constraints.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing allows companies to design new products with the world’s most widely used CAD software without the traditionally higher upfront costs of perpetual licenses.

Budgeting

From year-to-year, your software budgets can change drastically.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing can increase budget flexibility as you can spread the cost of your CAD software over multiple years and calculate exactly how much you will pay.

Flexibility & Scalability

Companies have fluctuating workforces with turnover and temporary employees or interns. Having the right tools for everybody can be challenging.

With SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing, companies can purchase explicit numbers of seats based on their needs. They can also choose term lengths that match their product or project schedules.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing

What are the minimum and maximum length Term licenses available?

I am not currently a Subscription Service customer, is this offer available to me?

Do SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses include a Grace Period?

How many machines can be activated with a Term License?

Can a Term License asset be transferred from one machine to another?

How are SOLIDWORKS Term License products installed?

Do Term License products require internet access during the entire term commitment period or just during activation?

What services and level of support do SOLIDWORKS Term License customers get access to?

SOLIDWORKS Term License customers have access to the same benefits and services as SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service customers: Technical support, knowledge base, software upgrades and enhancements, customer portal and My.SolidWorks.

But please note: these benefits are applicable only for the length of the term license and if customers want uninterrupted support, they only need to renew (or repurchase) their term license.

Does a SOLIDWORKS term license include access to My.SolidWorks.com and if so, what version of My.SolidWorks is included?

Can customers using SOLIDWORKS Term License products collaborate with colleagues or customers using traditional Perpetual Licenses?

Is the Expiration or End Date calculated from the day the software is purchased, installed or activated?

Can I run a SOLIDWORKS Perpetual License Add-in product with a Term License of SOLIDWORKS?

Yes. You can run a perpetual license of an add-in with a Term License of SOLIDWORKS CAD as long as the term license of SOLIDWORKS is not expired and the add-in is licensed independently of SOLIDWORKS CAD or SOLIDWORKS Simulation.

For example, you can run a perpetual license of SOLIDWORKS Plastics with a Term License of SOLIDWORKS CAD. Similarly, you can run a Term License of SOLIDWORKS Simulation with a perpetual license of SOLIDWORKS CAD. However, you cannot run a perpetual license of SOLIDWORKS Routing (Premium Add-in) with a Term License of SOLIDWORKS Standard.

Can a customer use SOLIDWORKS Standard on Term License if their company has an existing SOLIDWORKS PDM setup?

Are SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses available for Education, Research, or Global Licenses?

Is Term Licensing available to both new and existing SOLIDWORKS customers?

Are SOLIDWORKS Term License products available for a Network License?

Is Subscription Service optional with Term Licensing?

Is Term Licensing Service Pack specific?

Can a customer without active Subscription Service for a Perpetual license, order a Term License?

Can Term License customers update to the next major version when available?

Can I renew my Term License by myself or do I need to contact TriMech?

When can I renew a Term License product?

How many times can a Term License be renewed?

"The time we save using SOLIDWORKS and doing our own 3D printing helps us validate designs quickly to meet demanding project deadlines"

Ron Ryan, Fabrication Group Manager

Oceanic

"SOLIDWORKS has definitely brought something different to the Solar Industry. Our U.S. counterparts use 2D, but they will be switching to 3D soon"

Chris White, Design & Technical Manager

Sunrise Power

"I’ve been a believer in SOLIDWORKS PDM since day one because it’s been effective since day one"

Ray Minato, President

Inertia Engineering + Design

Why Subscribe With TriMech?

To enhance your current and future opportunities, it's paramount to maintain an up-to-date design and development environment that helps keep you competitive and improve your operational efficiency.

The TriMech SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service Program offers a smart, flexible way to protect your investment in the 3D design experience.

Service Capabilities

Boost your design process and support your team with resources to help them work faster and smarter.

Support, upgrades, cloud services, certification - all designed exclusively for SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service program members. You can improve your performance and productivity with an intuitive 3D design experience for a competitive advantage.

Award winning Technical Support

Telephone, email and web support provided by our certified technicians. Includes remote desktop support service - support directly on your machine.

Software Upgrades & Service Packs

Download the latest version and upgrades plus early visibility (EV) access for testing purposes. Learn What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2024 »

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

All new SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD licenses now include "Cloud Services" as part of the subscription. Providing secure data storage and sharing, versioning and revision management; easy design reviews with other CAD users and nontechnical team members, and a single hub to keep everyone on the same page.

SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams

Take a certification exam for FREE as part of your annual service.

SolidProfessor On-demand Video Training

An online, video-based training resource designed for engineers. SolidProfessor includes a SOLIDWORKS add-in, which provides quick, on-demand access to over 15,000 searchable tutorials, broken into 3-7-minute videos. Learn more about SolidProfessor »

Enhanced Subscription Service Benefits

Good reasons why you should subscribe with TriMech

NEW Cloud Services Stay ahead Keep up-to-date Community & Resources SolidProfessor Videos SolidProfessor Site License SOLIDWORKS Visualize SOLIDWORKS CAM Free Certification Exams Manufacturing Service Voucher ($500 Value) SOLIDWORKS Training Voucher ($500 Value) Client Care Visit (CCV) Ask an Expert Session

NEW Cloud Services

Take advantage of 3D design sharing, markup, data storage, design review, and collaboration with SOLIDWORKS Subscription:

Share and Markup: Need to share your designs with colleagues, contractors or clients? Now you can do so from directly within SOLIDWORKS.
- Whoever you're working with can then view the files from any browser, no download or installation required.
- Better yet they can add markup and comments directly to the shared file, making it easy to keep track of collaboration history.
Store and Revise: Access secure cloud based storage from within the SOLIDWORKS interface with the new tools available as part of SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services.
- This isn't just Dropbox or Google Drive either, the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is CAD intelligent so it can understand how files relate and provides tools so that you can easily share, revise and review your files.
- Collaborating with other designers is also streamlined with the ability to lock files your working on, revert to previous revisions and provide feedback attached to files.
Manage and Control: If your requirements grow more complex then it is easy to scale up with the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
- At any point you can upgrade to gain access to advanced process, project and file management, allowing for better control over your data and workflows.
- Plan projects, assign tasks, control engineering change, resolve issues and eliminate data silos by managing your CAD data on the 3DEXEPRIENCE Platform.

Stay ahead

Stay ahead of your competition

Support, upgrades, new versions, special releases, add-on features, webcasts—all designed exclusively for SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service program members. You can improve your performance and productivity with an intuitive 3D design experience for a competitive advantage.

* Services and benefits are only available during the SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service term.

STAY PRODUCTIVE: With Subscription Service, you have access to extensive support from TriMech’s SOLIDWORKS experts to enhance your investment in SOLIDWORKS software and guide you through development challenges.
STAY KNOWLEDGEABLE: You get full access to the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base, an expansive, easily searchable web-based library of technical articles, help topics, tech tips, best practices, solutions, and macros, all written, reviewed, and frequently updated by SOLIDWORKS experts. A few minutes of self-directed learning can help improve your productivity.
STAY CURRENT: Subscription Service program members get free access to testing and certification for Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) credentials.

Keep up-to-date

Keep your SOLIDWORKS software package up-to-date

Gain full access to the SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal, an easy-to-search repository of in-depth information and resources, with support in multiple languages, to help improve productivity.

Service Requests (SRs) and Software Performance Reports (SPRs): Submit incident reports of software issues to Technical Support or the development team. View status with tracking numbers and monitor issue resolution in documented service packs.
Customer Experience Programs: Share your opinions and preview SOLIDWORKS beta versions and upcoming SOLIDWORKS Early Visibility (EV) Service Packs.
Enhancement Requests: Influence the development of SOLIDWORKS and provide your feedback on what we can do to improve our software. Ninety percent of new enhancements come from client suggestions.
Online Technical Support: Access live technical support from TriMech to get your questions answered

Community & Resources

Access the MySolidWorks Online Community and Resources

MySolidWorks makes you more productive by connecting you with relevant SOLIDWORKS community, content and services all in one online location — anytime, anywhere and on any device. MySolidWorks Standard and Professional is available for Subscription Services users only.

Knowledge Base: Access the powerful search engine that explores an extensive library of technical data, such as solutions, help topics, tech tips, and best practices. Access our resource library, from webcasts and tech tips to administrative guides and technical presentations.
Discussion Forums: Connect with the SOLIDWORKS Community of users in a broad range of discussion topics on virtually all facets of SOLIDWORKS.
CAD Models: Discover 3D models and connect with the world’s best designers and exchange high-quality free 3D models.
SOLIDWORKS Trials Try SOLIDWORKS CAD Premium live online
Training Content: Convenient, unlimited 24/7 access to classroom, online training, and certification resources
My Reseller: Quick response for questions and needs with real-world experience from your reseller

SolidProfessor Videos

Continued learning & development with SolidProfessor Online Training

SolidProfessor is the largest online training platform for design engineers. With more than 15,000 video tutorials covering SOLIDWORKS, PDM, GD&T, certification prep, and more, your engineering team can improve their skills to achieve higher rates of accuracy, productivity, and innovation for your business. Plus, our on-demand, online courses give you more flexibility to train anytime, anywhere, and in a matter of minutes

ON-DEMAND TRAINING PLATFORM: 15,000+ video tutorials for SOLIDWORKS, PDM, Autodesk products, and more to train anytime, anywhere
COURSES: You have access to tutorials on all the major software; including SOLIDWORKS, Inventor, AutoCAD, and more. Become an expert in design processes like PDM, GD&T, and FEA.
SOLIDWORKS TASK PANE ADD-IN: Pull up a SolidProfessor video tutorial when you can’t find what you’re looking for in the SOLIDWORKS toolbar or a component stumps you.
CUSTOM TRAINING PROGRAMS: Create a culture of learning with customizable training programs within the platform.
SOLIDWORKS SKILLS ANALYZER: Get a baseline assessment of your team’s SOLIDWORKS knowledge. Each user will receive custom course recommendations based on questions they’ve answered incorrectly.
REPORTING TOOL: With SolidProfessor’s admin dashboard and reporting tools you can assign courses, get new hires up to speed, and see how your team is progressing.
CERTIFICATION PREP: While you may have many SOLIDWORKS masters at your organization, you can speak the same language when everyone is certified. Prepare for a variety of exams including Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA), Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP), and Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE).

SolidProfessor Site License

SolidProfessor has over 15K online lessons covering CAD, CAM, Simulation and Engineering theory with topics such as GD&T and Finite Element Analysis. SolidProfessor puts an expansive library of learning resources at your engineering teams’ fingertips.

Unique to the TriMech Elite SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service is access to a SolidProfessor “site license” which includes logins for up to 3x the number of Elite SOLIDWORKS Subscription users you have. This is a great option for teams in a multi-CAD environment, or an engineering team larger than your SOLIDWORKS user base, all of whom would benefit from access to on-demand training.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE Standard Rendering Software

For every SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium license on active subscription, SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is included. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is the fastest and easiest way to create photo-quality images for anyone who needs to take “photos” of their 3D data. This standalone Visualize seat can be given to anyone in your company and does not require SOLIDWORKS CAD to be installed on the same machine. This means that 3D modeling and 3D visualization can happen in parallel.

Create lifelike photo-quality images
A mood board of different colors and finishes
High-resolution images ready for print and the web
Technical illustrations of key features
Physically-Based Raytracing and Hybrid Render Mode
CAD and Graphic File Support
Surface/Part Splitter and Interactive Depth of Field

SOLIDWORKS CAM

SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Software

For every SOLIDWORKS Standard, Professional and Premium license on active subscription, SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard is included. SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard is the fastest and easiest way to create 2.5 axis toolpaths on part files. (Milling, Waterjet, Plasma, Laser and Router) SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard leverages a rules database to streamline your programming process and capture your Model-Based Definition (MBD) tolerances to standardize your workflows.

Tolerance Based Machining: Model Based Definition (MBD) is leveraged to ensure machining strategies are automatically adjusted based on tolerance specifications.
2.5 Axis Milling: Machine prismatic features with 2.5 axis milling capabilities. SOLIDWORKS CAM includes Automatic Roughing, Rough Milling, Finish (Contour) Milling, Face Milling, Thread Milling, Center Drilling, Drilling, Countersinking, Reaming, Tapping, and Engraving.
3 Axis Milling: SOLIDWORKS CAM includes 3 axis milling routines to machine complex, contoured surfaces routinely encountered in mold/tool making and aerospace applications.
Machining Strategies: Assigning machining strategies based on features that are recognized. Updating machining strategies if a design’s tolerance changes.
Rules-based Machining: Enables designers and engineers to catch design errors and new part setups through Automatic Feature Recognition. Quote components quickly using company standards captured as rules.

Free Certification Exams

Free SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams

The SOLIDWORKS Certification exams validate user proficiency and help managers highlight areas for training. Build your team’s skills and professional development to advance their careers and improve productivity. Subscription Service clients can take up to two core exams and two advanced exams per year for every seat of SOLIDWORKS for free to help sharpen their engineering team’s skills in SOLIDWORKS.

Receive one free core Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) or Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP), one Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced (CSWPA) certification and one free specialty exam voucher for every seat of SOLIDWORKS on subscription
Certification Preparation Courses are available with the included SolidProfessor Online Video Library
Prep exams and other resources are available with the included MySolidWorks online resource

Manufacturing Service Voucher ($500 Value)

Advanced Manufacturing Voucher (worth $500) included with Elite Subscription Service*

TriMech Advanced Manufacturing Services (AMS) help engineers to DESIGN, MAKE and FINISH their products. Use a $500 voucher* towards the cost of a manufacturing service for your project.

* Minimum $2,500 USD order required. In-house services only. Contact us for details.

3D Design Service: Our team of experts are dedicated to helping you design your products freely, improve quality, and create new business opportunities for your business. From ensuring a seamless 3D design to product manufacturing process, our team will help you achieve your business goals with 3D Design, 3D Scanning / Reverse Engineering and Design Simulation.
On-demand Manufacturing: We provide Designers and Manufacturers with a variety of custom-tailored 3D printing and CNC machining services, including high-performance prototypes, tooling, molding and manufacturing aids, end-use parts, and low-volume production runs.
Get a Professional Finish: Make your prototypes functional and look realistic with professional finishes from expert model makers. TriMech offers a wide variety of 3D Printing Post-Processing Services to meet even the most demanding applications. Allowing you to reduce your 3D printing cycle time and obtain the most realistic prototype for fit, form and function testing, sales, and marketing.

SOLIDWORKS Training Voucher ($500 Value)

Live In-Person Training Voucher (worth $500) included with Elite Subscription Service*

Looking to maximize the benefits of your SOLIDWORKS software. We have the classes for you to master the fundamentals or get advanced training, at every level. No one beats our team of trainers! Learn from the most qualified experts in the industry and advance your skills in any one of our available courses. Take a training class live online or at one of TriMech’s SOLIDWORKS Authorized Training Centers located throughout the eastern United States, across Canada and the UK. We provide training classes online and in-person for all user levels. Use the $500 voucher included with your subscription towards the cost of a training course from TriMech.

* Included with the SOLIDWORKS Elite Subscription Service during the active subscription term

SOLIDWORKS CAD Basic to Advanced Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Communication (Visualize, MBD, Inspection, GD&T) Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS PDM Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS CAM Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Automation (DriveWorks) Training Courses
3DEXPERIENCE Training Courses
3D Printing and 3D Scanning Training Courses

Client Care Visit (CCV)

A Client Care Visit is an opportunity for you to benefit from engagement with our Applications Engineers. For our clients currently on subscription, these complimentary visits are our way of saying ‘thank you’ for your business. We want to be respectful of your time, so a typical CCV is usually around one hour.

What do you get from a CCV?

A closer partnership with TriMech.
Escalated technical support cases.
Lessons learned
A post-visit report recapping what we discussed, along with some additional recommendations.

Let Us Come To You

Allow our expert engineers to come and visit you and your team! We can trouble shoot specific technical support issues with your engineers, review a topic, or simply sit down and get to know your business a little better from the technical end of things.

This service is available to both Essential and Elite Subscription clients during the active subscription service term.

Ask an Expert Session

Get your SOLIDWORKS design and manufacturing questions answered through a LIVE online consultation session with a TriMech certified expert.

* A company will get an equivalent number of “Ask an Expert” sessions to the number of SOLIDWORKS Elite seats on Subscription during the active subscription service term.

Discover New Techniques: You may not have had the opportunity to make the most of your existing technology such as a SOLIDWORKS Premium add-in. A live session will give the opportunity to learn new techniques and get the most out of the technology you already have.
Research New Technology: We know that finding the right technology to meet your needs is often time consuming and frustrating. So we want to make it quick and easy for you to research new SOLIDWORKS technology for your business with a live session with an expert.
Improve your Business: Let us show you how the expansive SOLIDWORKS technology solutions from TriMech can help you improve many areas of your business, from electrical design to cloud collaboration.

Get a Quote

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Offer valid until February 28, 2025, in the U.S, Canada and Mexico only.
SOLIDWORKS standalone or SOLIDWORKS Network licenses can be upgraded to a SOLIDWORKS Term license.
50% off list price of applicable SOLIDWORKS license for year 1-3 and 25% off list price for year 4+
You do not have to purchase 3 years upfront to obtain the 50% off deal.
Educational and Research licenses do not qualify for this offer.
Anti-piracy and compliance cases do not qualify for this offer.
Other restrictions may apply. Contact us for more information.

SIMULIA CST Studio

Patrick Musgrave — Wed, 15 May 2024 11:04:42 +0000

The SIMULIA CST Studio is a high-performance 3D electromagnetic (EM) analysis software package for designing, analyzing, and optimizing components and systems.

Datakit Cross CAD

Rod Mackay — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:14:36 +0000

Software

Datakit Cross CAD

CAD File Converters, Importers, Exporters and SDK

What is Datakit Cross CAD?

Datakit Cross CAD is a suite of data exchange software that converts files from most CAD formats. Cross CAD is available as standalone software, integrated plug-in or Software development kits (SDK).

Datakit can import or export a variety of CAD file formats along with related data, including geometric data, topological data, attributes, meta data, and construction history that works inside your CAD package.

Who is Datakit?

Datakit was founded in 1994 to develop and promote CAD data exchange solutions and has grown into a world-leading supplier of CAD data exchange technologies used by industrial companies as well as major software vendors worldwide.

Datakit helps companies to:

Import files from a variety of CAD systems
Export and exchange files to share data with other CAD system users
Heal, modify, simplify or compare the models
Data migrate and batch process files

Datakit Cross CAD Capabilities

Easily import and export your CAD data with users of other CAD systems

Data Exchange Types

Exchange and convert 2D, 3D, geometric, topological, attributes, construction history, FD&T and Features with a wide choice of control parameters addressing specific user needs (choice of coordinate system, entity filtering, etc.)

Batch Conversion & Migration

To optimize automatic file transfer, a batch mode is available. Time is saved by directly selecting a whole directory to be processed along with its sub-directories.

Flexible Licensing & DLL

Datakit Cross CAD is available as single or floating licenses, and as file-to-file Dynamic Link Library (DLL) to allow you to pay for the file converters you need.

File Repair and Modification

Datakit Cross CAD allows you to repair, modify and compare files to ensure that CAD data is exchanged accurately.

CAD Software Plugins

Datakit CAD Cross is available as a native plugin for SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD, Rhino, Autodesk 3DS Max, Alibre, Opencascade and ThinkDesign software.

Software Updates & Maintenance

Ensure your converters are up-to-date with maintenance and downloadable updates. DataKit Cross CAD is compatibile with new versions of major software including SOLIDWORKS 2024, NX series 2306 up to 2306.7000, CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE R2024x, Rhino 8, Autodesk Fusion 360 2.0.17721.

Compatible file formats

3DVIA / CATIA / SOLIDWORKS Composer, 3Shape DCM, ACIS, CADDS, CATIA V4 2D, CATIA V4 3D, CATIA V5 2D, CATIA V5 3D, CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE 2D, CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE, CEREC – Sirona Dental, CGR Creo View, DWG / DXF 2D, DWG / DXF 3D, FBX, Fusion 360, glTF, IFC, IGES, Inventor, JT, Navisworks, OBJ, Parasolid, PLMXML, Procera ProE / Creo Parametric 2D, ProE / Creo Parametric 3D, Revit, Rhino, Robcad, Solid Edge 2D, Solid Edge 3D, SOLIDWORKS 2D, SOLIDWORKS 3D, STEP, STL, UG NX 2D, UG NX 3D, and VDA

Datakit Cross CAD Packages

Three CAD data exchange solutions to choose from

Package

Datakit Cross Manager

CrossManager is a standalone software allowing you to convert files from most CAD formats.

With Cross Manager, you select one or several CAD files to translate them automatically in the format you want. Cross Manager is available as a single or floating license.

Package

Datakit Cross CAD / Plg

Datakit provides integrated data exchange plug-ins for the major CAD software products including SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD, Rhino, Autodesk 3DS Max, Alibre, Opencascade and ThinkDesign software.

Cross CAD / Plg can import or export a wide variety of file formats directly inside your CAD package.

Package

Cross CAD / Ware

Cross CAD / Ware is a software development kit (SDK) that allows software vendors to integrate Datakit technology into their own application.

Datakit libraries provide you a full-documented Application Programming Interface (API) to enable interoperability among CAD systems.

Datakit Cross CAD Matrix

Compare the different versions of Datakit Cross CAD software

All 3D combinations of CrossCad/Ware FileToFile
Inputs	3DXML	3MF	ACIS	CADDS	CATIA V4 3D	CATIA V5 3D	CGR	COLLADA	FBX	glTF	IFC	IGES	JT	OBJ	Open CASCADE	Parasolid	PDF 3D	PRC	Robcad	SOLIDWORKS 3D	STEP	STL	UG NX 3D	Unisurf	VDA	VRML
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3DVIA / CATIA / SOLIDWORKS Composer	●	●					●	●		●	●		●	●			●	●			●	●				●
3Shape DCM	●	●						●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
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CADDS	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
CATIA V4 3D	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
CATIA V5 3D	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE 3D	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
CEREC - Sirona Dental	●	●						●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
CGR	●	●						●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
Creo View	●	●					●	●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
DWG / DXF 3D	●	●				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●	●	●			●
FBX	●	●					●	●		●	●		●	●			●	●			●	●				●
Fusion 360	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●
glTF	●	●					●	●	●		●		●	●			●	●			●	●				●
IFC	●	●	●				●	●	●	●		●	●	●		●	●	●		●	●	●				●
IGES	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Inventor	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
JT	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Navisworks	●	●						●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
OBJ	●	●					●	●	●	●	●		●				●	●			●	●				●
Parasolid	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
PLMXML	●	●					●	●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
Procera	●	●						●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●				●				●
ProE / Creo Parametric 3D	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Revit	●	●	●				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●		●	●	●				●
Rhino	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Robcad			●	●	●	●						●	●			●	●		●	●	●			●	●
Solid Edge 3D	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
SOLIDWORKS 3D	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●
STEP	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
STL	●	●					●	●	●	●	●		●	●			●	●			●					●
UG NX 3D	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●
VDA	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●

Datakit Cross CAD Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Reduce Work

The ability to import data into your CAD system rather than modeling from scratch can save production time especially with complicated models.

Share data with other CAD users

Datakit allows sub-contractors to communicate directly with their clients and deeply enrich their product’s interoperability. They are affordable and very popular within design and engineering departments.

Enhance your CAD software

Many CAD software packages have limited file exchange options. With Datakit you can expand your software's capabilities with more file formats to import and export.

Flexible Licensing

With floating licenses, installed on a license server allows Cross Manager to be used by several users on different workstations. This allows large companies to share resources.

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to Datakit Cross CAD for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

Learn more

Excellerant CNC Machine Monitoring & IIoT Platform

Kelly Clancy — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:28:15 +0000

Software

Excellerant CNC Machine Monitoring & IIoT Platform

Optimize your shop floor with Excellerant. A real-time machine data and communications platform designed to connect and integrate your entire manufacturing process.

Open Tomorrow’s Frontiers by understanding Today’s Data with Excellerant MDC

Excellerant is a shop-floor monitoring, DNC, and communications platform that integrates your CNC machine tool data directly into your existing network of CAD/CAM, ERP, and MES software solutions.

Connect Shop Floor to ERP

Excellerant MDC™ connects manufacturing data streams in real time — from shop floor controls to ERP and back again. It operates with both modern and legacy machines across a wide array of retrieval standards and protocols.

Measure Machine Performance

Excellerant MDC’s deep functionality allows machine performance to be reviewed, predicted, and even simulated, while enabling timely communication about production and capacity across the organization.

DEMO

Excellerant MDC Overview

“Excellerant MDC is transforming our machine environment. It is providing us with more accurate and timely production data by streaming directly into our ERP system without the need of unnecessary paper documents that were laden with error.”

Shawn Bergeron

Continuous Improvement Leader, C&M Machine Products

Excellerant Capabilities

CNC Machine Tool Monitoring DNC Built For CAM Programmers Wired & Wireless DNC Systems Standards Compliance Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Downtime Tracking Built-In Chat System

CNC Machine Tool Monitoring

Optimize your shop with Excellerant’s Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Solutions

Real-time CNC machine tool monitoring

Your shop-floor data made actionable. Excellerant is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform designed to optimize the efficiency of your manufacturing equipment. By networking your CNC machine tools (both new and old) together with your ERP and MES software, you can easily generate insights that let you make better decisions, faster.

Monitor your jobs in real-time from anywhere with an internet connection.
Receive instant email alerts if your machines experience unplanned downtime.
View historical data to find and eliminate bottlenecks in your production.

DNC Built For CAM Programmers

DNC built for CAM programmers

Powerful, yet intuitive NC file management

Excellerant DNC was built with CAM programmers in mind. By using a centralized database, programmers have complete control over their NC files and revisions. Tablets at each machine give operators immediate access to the latest NC file for their specific job. If they make adjustments to feed-rate or other code during manufacturing, these changes are automatically flagged and sent back to the programmer for review. Excellerant’s “One-Click G-Code Compare” ensures your files are always up-to-date and that code improvements are saved from run-to-run.

Wired & Wireless DNC Systems

Excellerant DNC hardware is plug-and-play ready for both modern machine connections and older serial protocols

30 years DNC networking experience

The Excellerant team has spent the last 30 years DNC networking thousands of machine tools across hundreds of manufacturing plants. We have the expert knowledge needed to network any mix of CNC machines, modern or legacy.

Excellerant DNC hardware is plug-and-play ready for both modern machine connections and older serial protocols, such as MTConnect, OPC UA, Fanuc Focas, HAAS MNET, and Mazak Mazatrol. Our Open API support ensures any peripheral system can connect, as well.
Whether you want to expand an existing wired DNC network, or are looking to add a wireless DNC adaptor to an older RS232 serial connection, we have the tools and experience you need.

Standards Compliance

Standards Compliant NC File Revisions and Process Management Tools

Preferred choice for aerospace, defense, and medical manufacturers

Excellerant DNC is the preferred choice for many aerospace, defense, and medical manufacturers whose customers require adherence to strict quality and compliance standards. Since confidentiality is essential when handling sensitive customer information and drawings, user permissions were built to be highly customizable.

100% secure and compliant with quality and defense standards such as ISO 9000 and CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification)
Excellerant DNC ensures files remain secure and access is only passed to authorized machine operators and programmers.
Our Active Directory integration makes managing group permissions both simple and consistent across your entire organization.
Our optional Rev-Lock-Load feature limits each CNC machine to a single program request and requires the program to be sent back to the server before accessing a new program.
Ensure compliance with any one-program-per-machine requirements your quality process may require.

Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Excellerant is designed to streamline your operations

An efficient ecosystem of humans, machines, software, and process

Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers the opportunity to streamline operations quickly and efficiently through connection of the CNC machines and systems above the shop floor, allowing you to leverage the insights given to optimize and fix what needs attention.

Improve your factory by familiarizing yourself with new data resources. Consider increasing the synergy between machines and workers to avoid stagnation and drive innovation.
Streamline your process by learning from past data, current issues, and downtime across the factory floor to more effectively test new procedures. You’ll be less afraid to try something new in a smart factory!
Scales your business by discovering where an area of your manufacturing business may have plateaued. But by watching what is happening in other areas, you can see the growth that you could never have predicted before.

Downtime Tracking

Track and reduce equipment downtime

How does your company handle machine downtime?

Excellerant’s software gives you the power to track and reduce equipment downtime, increase your facility’s productivity and meet production goals by using machine downtime reports from connected machines to make historical and real-time decisions.

Avoid unplanned downtime by monitoring machine control and sensor data.
View real-time machine data to measure changes in frequency, amplitude, intensity of forces, and bearing wear.
Track down problems by analyzing time-series charts that show how the machinery is performing over time.
Monitor and track the status and health of your machine assets; export real-time data to help diagnose problems.
Instantly share machine data with your service provider so they can provide quick, remote support and help to bring the machines back online.
Stay connected to your team. Track incidents through a workflow, and stay informed while alerting the right person at the right time.

Built-In Chat System

A Shop-Wide, Job-Aware Chat System

Bridging the gap between the shop-floor and the top-floor

Excellerant’s built-in chat module allows operators to chat directly with floor-managers and engineers via tablets on each machine tool.

Job notes and live machine data (such as tooling information) is available directly in the chat tool, so there is always context for each conversation.
One-click dialog options are available via the tablet interface, so operators can quickly respond without needing to type.

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How Excellerant Works

1. CONNECT

It has never been easier to integrate shop floor data into a company’s manufacturing process.

Many modern CNCs come equipped with options that make connecting to Excellerant as simple as plugging in an ethernet cable or connecting to WiFi.

Specialty or legacy devices can be linked through serial communications or an added PLC – regardless of control type or device age.

2. INTEGRATE

Powerful as they are, ERP systems are not the full solution — they cannot process what they cannot see.

Manufacturing data is so complex and non-uniform that ERP and MES systems often struggle to reach even basic manufacturing environment data. As a result, the front office remains critically separated from the shop floor.

The Excellerant platform conforms a vast array of data streams and makes them accessible in an elegant, logical, and adaptable computing environment.

3. DEPLOY

Because Excellerant is a server-based platform, client deployment is as simple as opening a web browser from any device.

Easily deploy tablets with operator-specific inputs for each machine tool. Mount industrial displays for real-time production schedules across your plant. View machine state and data reports from any PC, Mac, or mobile device.

Client access is unlimited, so you can add additional users and displays at any time, with no additional licensing fees.

ESP FOR YOUR ERP™

Powerful as they are, ERP systems are not the full solution — they cannot process what they cannot see.

Excellerant MDC conforms a vast array of data streams and makes them accessible in an elegant, logical, and adaptable computing environment.

Let your managers, report writers, and developers focus on their core missions rather than spending time becoming domain experts on CNC connectivity.

See it live

Request an Online Demo

Learn how Excellerant can unlock your shop’s full potential. Contact us for a one-on-one session with one of our solution experts.

3DEXPERIENCE Roles

Patrick Musgrave — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:57:44 +0000

Software

3DEXPERIENCE Roles

Discover the 3DEXPERIENCE Roles available from TriMech

Explore 3DEXPERIENCE Roles

Explore 3DEXPERIENCE roles and discover the powerful capabilities you can unlock for design, simulation, marketing, product lifecycle management, and manufacturing. Unfamiliar with the concept of roles? Learn more and view a video introduction on our 3DEXPERIENCE platform webpage.

All

All
Design
Electrical Design
Manufacturing
Marketing
PDM / PLM
Simulation

3D Creator

3D Mold Creator

3D Motion Creator

3D Product Architect

3D Render

3D Sculptor

3D Sheet Metal Creator

3D Structure Creator

3DSwymer

Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS

Collaborative Industry Innovator

DELMIA Lean Team Player

DELMIAWorks Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

DELMIAWorks IQAlert Business Activity Monitoring

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing and Tooling Project Management

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing Automated Workflow

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing Document Control

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing Financial Management

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing Forecasting

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing Inventory Control

DELMIAWorks Manufacturing Inventory Labeling and Barcoding

Additional roles

Visit Enterprise Solutions Site

Can't find what you're looking for? Visit our Enterprise Solutions website to view more 3DEXPERIENCE roles.

While the roles on this site largely fall under the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio and complement SOLIDWORKS, our Enterprise Solutions range includes roles from other Dassault Systèmes products including CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA.

Enterprise Roles

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing

Paige Woolley — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:21:33 +0000

Software

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing

Gain access to SOLIDWORKS software with a lower upfront cost

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing is a new licensing option that lowers the upfront cost of SOLIDWORKS software and allows for more flexible deployment options for start-ups, makers, consultants, contractors and businesses of any size.

Term Licensing is essentially renting a SOLIDWORKS License for a three month or 1 year term rather than purchasing a perpetual license which you own.

What is SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing?

Term Licensing is for individuals and companies that want access to SOLIDWORKS best-in-class design solutions with lower upfront costs compared to traditional perpetual licensing.

Why Rent SOLIDWORKS?

SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses are ideal for companies that need to maximize their cash flow, this could include the following:

Licenses are required for short term projects or for the specific phase of a project where specific software such as simulation is needed to validate a design.
Licenses are to meet staffing requirements such as contract staff or intern that require SOLIDWORKS for a short time period.
A new division or project has been initiated and cash-flow is a concern.
A start-up/new business requires SOLIDWORKS software at the minimum cost to get started.

Term vs Perpetual SOLIDWORKS License

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing Options

Choose between a 3 Month or 1 Year term for renting a SOLIDWORKS Software License.

*Includes SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service

SOLIDWORKS Applications available for a Term:

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software
SOLIDWORKS Communication Tools
SOLIDWORKS CAM software
SOLIDWORKS Electrical software
- SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Professional

3 Month

Quarterly Term License*

1 Year

Annual Term License*

Mix & Match SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses with Perpetual Licenses

A Term License offers more flexibility allowing you to mix and match SOLIDWORKS Add-in products with your existing SOLIDWORKS perpetual (full) license. For instance you could add SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation for a 3 month term to your existing SOLIDWORKS Premium perpetual license.

Benefits of a SOLIDWORKS Term License

Renting SOLIDWORKS software can provide your company with many benefits:

Lower Upfront Cost

Start-ups, makers, individuals and small business often have cash flow constraints.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing allows companies to design new products with the world’s most widely used CAD software without the traditionally higher upfront costs of perpetual licenses.

Budgeting

From year-to-year, your software budgets can change drastically.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing can increase budget flexibility as you can spread the cost of your CAD software over multiple years and calculate exactly how much you will pay.

Flexibility & Scalability

Companies have fluctuating workforces with turnover and temporary employees or interns. Having the right tools for everybody can be challenging.

With SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing, companies can purchase explicit numbers of seats based on their needs. They can also choose term lengths that match their product or project schedules.

SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions about SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing

What are the minimum and maximum length Term licenses available?

Is a 1-month SOLIDWORKS Term License available?

Do SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses include a Grace Period?

If I own a Perpetual License can I also add a Term License?

How many machines can be activated with a Term License?

Can a Term License asset be transferred from one machine to another?

How are SOLIDWORKS Term License products installed?

Do Term License products require internet access during the entire term commitment period or just during activation?

What services and level of support do SOLIDWORKS Term License customers get access to?

But please note: these benefits are applicable only for the length of the term license and if customers want uninterrupted support, they only need to renew (or repurchase) their term license.

Does a SOLIDWORKS term license include access to My.SolidWorks.com and if so, what version of My.SolidWorks is included?

Can customers using SOLIDWORKS Term License products collaborate with colleagues or customers using traditional Perpetual Licenses?

Is the Expiration or End Date calculated from the day the software is purchased, installed or activated?

Are Customers entitled to SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard, SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard and SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard with a Term License of SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium?

Yes. SOLIDWORKS Term License customers enjoy the same benefits as SOLIDWORKS perpetual license customers, meaning SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard, SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard and SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard will be included with SOLIDWORKS Professional or SOLIDWORKS Premium Term Licenses. And in those instances, all products – SOLIDWORKS, Visualize Standard, PDM Standard and CAM Standard will all have the same expiration date.

Can I run a SOLIDWORKS Perpetual License Add-in product with a Term License of SOLIDWORKS?

Can a customer use SOLIDWORKS Standard on Term License if their company has an existing SOLIDWORKS PDM setup?

Are SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses available for Education, Research, or Global Licenses?

Is Term Licensing available to both new and existing SOLIDWORKS customers?

Are SOLIDWORKS Term License products available for a Network License?

Is Subscription Service optional with Term Licensing?

Is Term Licensing Service Pack specific?

Can a customer without active Subscription Service for a Perpetual license, order a Term License?

Can Term License customers update to the next major version when available?

Can I renew my Term License by myself or do I need to contact TriMech?

When can I renew a Term License product?

How many times can a Term License be renewed?

"The time we save using SOLIDWORKS and doing our own 3D printing helps us validate designs quickly to meet demanding project deadlines"

Ron Ryan, Fabrication Group Manager

Oceanic

"SOLIDWORKS has definitely brought something different to the Solar Industry. Our U.S. counterparts use 2D, but they will be switching to 3D soon"

Chris White, Design & Technical Manager

Sunrise Power

"I’ve been a believer in SOLIDWORKS PDM since day one because it’s been effective since day one"

Ray Minato, President

Inertia Engineering + Design

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Michael Ash — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:45:18 +0000

Software

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Your online collaborative hub for complete product development

What is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a business-wide tool that provides access to Dassault Systèmes' huge range of engineering software solutions to enable complete product development through browser-based applications.

As a modular solution, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is scalable, and can be adapted to grow with your business and empower collaboration between departments.

How does the 3DEXPERIENCE platform work?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is comprised of purchased roles which contain individual applications.

MODULAR

What are Roles?

Functionality on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is broken down into different job roles which can all be licensed separately.

Each role unlocks access to tools from one of Dassault Systèmes' major software brands including CATIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, and many more.

SOFTWARE

What are Applications?

Every role contains a unique set of tools that are the software applications.

For example, the Project Planner role contains applications for project management, while the Structural Engineer role contains applications for linear FEA analysis.

TRACEABILITY

What is the Digital Thread?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is built around the concept of the digital thread to aid collaboration across departments.

This ensures all users work on the same files by eliminating data silos and file duplication with complete product lifecycle management.

Where do I start with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

Explore the three core methods for implementing and using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Entry Level

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

These applications provide a brilliant introduction to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform through seamless integration within the SOLIDWORKS interface.

Access formal CAD data management and open the door to powerful tools for advanced simulation, freeform modeling, marketing, and much more on the wider 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Discover Cloud Services

Expansion

3DEXPERIENCE Works

Extend your product development capabilities and solve new problems faster with the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio.

This suite of Cloud-connected design, simulation, and lifecycle management applications are perfect for businesses who use SOLIDWORKS and are looking to expand and enhance their workflows.

Discover 3DEXPERIENCE Works

advanced

Enterprise Solutions

Empower your teams to better design, collaborate, validate, document, and manufacture through our comprehensive Enterprise Solutions.

We partner with businesses to help them realize their visions by implementing advanced design, validation, and PLM solutions optimized for your processes and centered around the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Discover Enterprise Solutions

WHO USES THE 3DEXPERIENCE PLATFORM?

Trusted by Global Leaders

Client Testimonial

Dexai Robotics - Transforming Commercial Kitchens

"There’s a big human component that I really appreciate about TriMech. It’s very easy to get on the phone with them or email them and get an answer.

Even as we were researching 3DEXPERIENCE and comparing it with other products on the market, they seemed to have unlimited time to go through the decision-making process, which was amazing. And later, TriMech allowed me as an individual with no IT experience to roll out a PLM product to a big team."

Justin Rooney

Hardware Team Lead at Dexai Robotics

Read the full case study

Learn 3DEXPERIENCE

To help you learn how to use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and get started with the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services, we've prepared a series of short and easy-to-follow guides.

We also offer a paid Quick Start service to get you set up quickly and equip you with efficient workflows to maximize your productivity.

During this service, one of our engineers will run through the initial setup with you and make sure that everything is configured optimally for your company's requirements.

FREE Starter Guides

Want to know More?

3DEXPERIENCE Platform FAQs

What are the benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

What areas of 3DEXPERIENCE are most useful for SOLIDWORKS users?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a vast range of capabilities with solutions for virtually every aspect of product development.

Alongside the cloud data storage, design management and collaboration tools we have mentioned, the areas we believe will be most beneficial to existing SOLIDWORKS users include: advanced cloud data management, sub-divisional modelling and digital manufacturing.

This subsection of the platforms tools is also known as 3DEXPERIENCE Works. Learn more about these advanced capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on our 3DEXPERIENCE Works page.

How can you purchase 3DEXPERIENCE?

How are the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services related to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

The SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services provide a connection from SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and access to a small subsection of tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The platform's capabilities are vast, but they are also completely modular, we recommend that you start by taking advantage of the cloud data storage and collaboration tools and expanding into other areas as and when you need.

Why use the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform as a SOLIDWORKS user?

https://video.trimech.com/why-use-the-3dx-platform

There are many potential reasons but one that we can recommend to most users is that with the platform you get secure cloud-based data management.

This data management is CAD intelligent and it has many advantages, you don't need to purchase and maintain servers, you avoid any cyber security issues and you can access your data anywhere and on any device.

How can I get started?

To help you make the most out of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and the new SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services included in your subscription, we are preparing a self start guide for you to follow.

The guide will be comprised of short tutorial videos that have been grouped into digestible sections, it has been designed to allow you to learn about the different aspects of the platform at your own pace.

This guide will become available later in May on this site, so make sure to bookmark this page.

If you can't wait to get started and want the most efficient set up possible then we also offer a paid Quick Start service. During this service one of our engineers will run through the initial setup with you and make sure that everything is configured optimally for your company's requirements.

Who can use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

How can I get more information or see a demo?

Please explore this site for more information about 3DEXPERIENCE or contact us with your questions.

We regularly run online demos though the schedules for these vary between the U.S.A., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland. To find out more or organise a demonstration at a time that is convenient for you then we recommend that you contact us.

During the demo we will cover common use-case scenarios and be available for you to ask questions that apply to your specific project or company needs.

How much does the 3DEXPERIENCE platform cost?

To access different tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform you need to purchase roles. There are many different roles available so the cost of purchasing 3DEXPERIENCE will vary depending on your requirements.

We're here to advise you and can help to tailor a package that perfectly suits your company's needs.

For many users the new SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services will be included in the price of their subscriptions, this grants access to three 3DEXPERIENCE roles and provides a perfect entry point for SOLIDWORKS users.

Can I use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to avoid hardware costs?

What is the difference between SOLIDWORKS Cloud, SOLIDWORKS Desktop with Cloud Services, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works?

There are a number of similarly named offers available surrounding SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE, and while there is overlap between them they are not the same thing.

To clear things up here is a brief explanation of the main offerings including SOLIDWORKS Cloud, SOLIDWORKS Desktop with SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

SOLIDWORKS Cloud
SOLIDWORKS Cloud is a bundle of cloud-based modeling apps that allows users to access and use best in class CAD functionality and files from any device with an internet connection.

These apps provide many of the same design capabilities as SOLIDWORKS Desktop but without the need to install the software on their local devices. These apps will feel very familiar to SOLIDWORKS users but they have been developed from the ground up and are not the exact same as SOLIDWORKS Desktop.

The apps in the SOLIDWORKS Cloud offer make an ideal solution for users who need to access CAD tools on multiple devices or locations and those who do not want to maintain the software locally. These apps all run on the cloud based 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Learn more about SOLIDWORKS Cloud.

SOLIDWORKS Desktop (with SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services)
SOLIDWORKS Desktop is a standard installation of SOLIDWORKS software on a local device. It provides users with the full range of capabilities and features of SOLIDWORKS but requires the software to be installed and maintained locally.

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services is a collection of tools that will be included with new SOLIDWORKS Subscriptions and term licenses.

They connect desktop SOLIDWORKS to the cloud based 3DEXPERIENCE platform and enable SOLIDWORKS users to easily share and markup designs, access CAD intelligent online storage and manage their design data effectively. In a nutshell, they provide a secure online hub for storage and collaboration.

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services is best suited for traditional SOLIDWORKS users that want to take advantage of better design sharing and cloud data storage.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS is a cloud-focused version of SOLIDWORKS that has a virtually identical set of capabilities as SOLIDWORKS Desktop but has a built in connection to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS launches from and saves files to the 3DEXPERIENCE but it still runs locally, this means that you still need a machine with the power to run SOLIDWORKS.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS software provides access to the same tools contained within SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services and can be bundled other cloud applications for flexible sub-divisional modelling and simulation.

Overall using 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS will be very similar to using desktop SOLIDWORKS with Cloud Services, it's a great choice for companies looking to simplify license management and consolidate their tools in one place, providing a more consistent user experience.

Learn more about 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS

3DEXPERIENCE Works

3DEXPERIENCE Works refers to a wider portfolio of applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that are the most beneficial for typical teams that use SOLIDWORKS.

3DEXPERIENCE Works includes 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS alongside a number of cloud-based tools for simulation, manufacturing, data management and marketing.

All of these applications are seamlessly connected and make use of the same SOLIDWORKS CAD data, which enables the key stakeholders of every project to work smoothly together.

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Manufacturing Software

Michael Ash — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:03:57 +0000

Software

Manufacturing Software

Integrated CAM Solutions for SOLIDWORKS

What is Manufacturing Software?

Manufacturing software bridges the gap between your CAD designs and the manufacture of a physical product.

Encourage drawingless manufacture through SOLIDWORKS MBD, and enhance quality assurance with SOLIDWORKS Inspection.

Regardless of the material you work with, there's a manufacturing software solution out there. Program, nest, and control CNC machines using SOLIDWORKS CAM or become a digital carpenter with SWOOD by EFICAD.

With complete SOLIDWORKS compatibility, these software solutions pair with the DELMIA digital manufacturing suite to help you create components to tight tolerances in rapid time.

Benefits of CAD/CAM Software

High precision machining to manufacture accurate physical products from 2D and 3D CAD drawings.
Create and simulate complex toolpaths automatically from your part geometry.
Maximise stock and minimise scrap with automatic and optimized nesting tools.
Streamline workflows and improve efficiency of manufacturing processes to get to market faster.
Utilize 3D scanning, stereolithography, 5-axis machining, mold tools, and a variety of CNC machines to supplement your design process.

TriMech Desktop Manufacturing Software

SolidCAM

SOLIDWORKS CAM

SOLIDWORKS Inspection

SOLIDWORKS MBD

SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking

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3D Scanning & Reverse Engineering

Get the most accurate 3D models of your small or large objects with our cutting-edge Artec 3D scanning and processing services.

We can provide you with various scanning applications including reverse engineering, and models for manufacturing, healthcare applications, and industrial design.

Lightweight and battery compatible, we can take Artec scanners anywhere and scan anything from small components with our Artec Micro desktop scanner, to large objects such as a car or plane using our Artec Ray 3D scanner.

CNC Machining

CNC Machining Services, including milling, and turning for the production of high-quality parts using modern machining methods.

With highly skilled machinists and industry-leading equipment TriMech can accommodate a vast array of manufacturing applications.

CNC machining is usually a slower prototyping process than 3D printing parts.

However, it is an extremely accurate process and is, therefore, ideal for low- and high-volume production of end-use production-grade metal and plastic components.

Design & Manufacturing Consulting

Professional Design and Manufacturing Services for clients that don’t have 3D CAD capabilities.

Does your company need help designing and manufacturing a new product, or optimizing a design for the manufacturing process?

Are there times when you’re short-handed and could use some help meeting a critical project deadline?

The TriMech team consists of CAD designers, product engineers, and production manufacturing engineers who bring decades of experience to the table.

They are available to help you design a new product, improve a design for best performance, and optimize for full-scale production at the lowest cost.

Laser Processing

TriMech can take your 3D printed or machined parts to the next level with serialization and custom marking. Or manufacture custom parts from your 2D designs from a variety of materials.

TriMech provides laser processing services for research and development, engineering, sales, marketing, part serialization and facilities management.

We provide precise laser cutting and engraving of thin materials (less than 0.060” or 1.5 mm). Using a non-contact method for cutting, engraving, and marking.

Our laser system eliminates the need for physical tooling with dies, blades or permanent holding fixtures, and are driven by software files allowing for faster processing of your part.

Stereolithography (SLA)

TriMech offers SLA ultra-high resolution and ultra-large SLA-printed parts with a choice of materials to meet your project needs.

TriMech’s SLA technology produces incredibly small and extremely large prototypes with incredible accuracy, utilizing a variable-diameter laser beam that refocuses every millisecond to define high-precision features.

TriMech offers many Stereolithography materials to choose from, including glass clear, high-impact strength, high heat-resistant and Class VI medical grade.

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Simulation Software

Michael Ash — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:32:30 +0000

Software

Simulation Software

Analyse and Validate Design Performance

What is Virtual Testing/Simulation?

Virtual testing is conducted through simulation analysis software to validate the performance of prototypes in a representative environment.

Real world physics are applied to CAD models and their environments to replicate a physical scenario. This allows designers to evaluate performance, improve quality, and increase product innovation.

Testing in virtual environments can dramatically reduce costs and decrease lead times by removing the need for physical prototypes prior to manufacture.

We offer software solutions that consider a wide range of properties such as durability, static and dynamic response, motion of assembly, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and plastic injection.

What are the Benefits of Simulation?

Reduce costs and save time with fast and accurate solvers.
Evaluate performance of designs without manufacturing physical prototypes and reduce wastage.
Optimize designs through automated iterative processes.
FEA and CFD analysis solutions integrated directly into SOLIDWORKS for seamless validation.
Our solutions are scalable, so you can access the tools you require and expand as your growth demands.

TriMech Desktop Simulation Software (FEA & CFD)

SOLIDWORKS Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

OVERVIEW DEMO

Virtual Testing with SOLIDWORKS Simulation Software

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CAD Data Management Software

Patrick Musgrave — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:16:41 +0000

Software

CAD Data Management Software

Collaborate, Store, and Manage SOLIDWORKS Data

What is CAD Data Management?

CAD Data Management enables users to store, organize, and revise complex CAD relations, files, and related design data.

Keeping SOLIDWORKS data organized is integral to maintaining efficient and productive design and manufacturing teams. A reliable data management system ensures security for and brings traceability to your CAD data.

The security provided by CAD data management software comes from controlling file access and visibility with strict user permissions and workflows to map paths for files throughout the design and manufacture phases.

Traditionally, CAD data management adds a layer of protection by storing files on a server. All of our CAD data management solutions integrate seamlessly with SOLIDWORKS, and we offer both on-premise and cloud-based solutions.

Benefits of CAD Data Management

Security for your CAD files and associated data.

Rapid database searching mean you can access data easily and work within customized folder stuctures.

All interactions with files are logged to give complete traceability to file history through controlled user permissions.

Automated revision management ensures modifications are logged and approval routes are utilized.

Our solutions are scalable, so you can benefit no matter the size of your business or CAD data.

TriMech PDM/PLM Software

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

SOLIDWORKS PDM

SOLIDWORKS Manage

OVERVIEW DEMO

Why you need Data Management for SOLIDWORKS

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Installation, configuration, data migration & admin support services provided by our certified technicians.

Service

Data Migration Services

TriMech’s Data Migration Service is for all customers – whether a new or existing SOLIDWORKS PDM system – adding data to their vaults.

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Service

SOLIDWORKS PDM Upgrade Service

TriMech’s team of Certified Experts can provide you with a comprehensive SOLIDWORKS PDM Upgrade Service for SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard or Professional.

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Service

SOLIDWORKS Manage Deployment System

Get the best start using SOLIDWORKS Manage, our team will help get you set up with best practices so you can begin taking advantage of better SOLIDWORKS Document Control, BOM Management, ECX Process Control, and Project Management.

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SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking

Rod Mackay — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:09:35 +0000

Software

SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking

Woodworking software add-in for SOLIDWORKS

What is SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking?

SWOOD is a suite of woodworking design and manufacturing tools for SOLIDWORKS. Easily complete your woodworking projects with features dedicated to wood and panel processing, SWOOD makes it easier and faster to make production ready designs.

Woodworking software inside SOLIDWORKS

SWOOD meets all of your woodworking project needs with tools for 3D design, production documentation, CNC machining, Nesting, Automation, and Timber Construction.

SWOOD works right inside of SOLIDWORKS making it easy to use and very intuitive. SOLIDWORKS and SWOOD provides woodworkers with a dynamic and interactive environment with collaborative working and 3D parametric modeling for all the wood cabinetry, product, and construction needs.

Overview Demo

Get to know SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking

SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking Capabilities

The SWOOD add-in for SOLIDWORKS provides woodworking CAD, CAM, and Automation tools to complete your projects faster.

Woodworking Design

SWOOD Design allows you to quickly and easily create cabinetry and wooden products within the SOLIDWORKS 3D environment utilizing the core parametric capabilities. A complete drag and drop hardware library is included plus connectors, materials, cut lists, BOMs, and customized reporting.
Woodworking CNC

SWOOD CAM provides the machining and manufacturing tools for all your wood projects. SWOOD CAM manages CNC machines and their specific technology. You can create your programs and production documents directly from within SOLIDWORKS.
Woodworking Nesting

SWOOD Nesting is an add-on module for SWOOD CAM. It allows you to accurately nest your project parts onto wood panels for manufacture. Thanks to the nesting technology your wood panels will be optimized and material waste is reduced.
Woodworking Automation

SWOOD Center Service is a configurator that enables production automation on a large scale and can be linked to one of your company databases (ERP or MES).
Timber Construction

SWOOD BW (Beam & Wall) is software dedicated to timber and frame construction. Thanks to the 3D parametric design capabilities, SWOOD BW allows you to design your frame and produce the required build documentation.

SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking Features

Make all of your wooden products faster and easier with tailored software

SWOOD Design Furniture

Woodworking Process Specific Tools

With process specific tools it's never been easier to complete your woodworking projects with parametric models and production drawings. SWOOD includes:

Panel management: laminate, grain direction, material production info.
Edge-banding: Design feature of well-formed edge-bands on panels edges.
Connectors: Insertion of parametric fittings between panels.
Library: Drag and drop insertion of objects and associated machining in cubic context, includes drawers, doors, shelves and partitions.
Production data extraction: Cut list, hardware list, panel list, costing etc.

Woodworking Manufacturing

SWOOD provides CAM and Nesting capabilities for all your wood production needs:

CNC Machine Control for 3 to 5 axis continuous.
CNC Program Generation: Interfaces (woodWOP, BSolid, Maestro, Xilog, ImaWOP, BiesseWorks, TPA, NC-Hops...).
Post-Processor Control (Homag, Biesse, SCM, IMA, Holzer, Felder, Masterwood, Maka...)
Dedicated Woodworking Tools Library: Drilling block, aggregates, horizontal spindle, edgebanding aggregates.
Trajectories Simulation with Material Removal.
Automatic and Detailed Production Data: Cut lists, Program lists, Tools lists, and Labels.
Automatic Nesting, material optimization and reporting.

SWOOD Manufacturing

SWOOD Beams

Design Timber Structures faster

Help reduce design errors and ensure that your structures are cut and assembled correctly.

Geometric Analysis and shape recognition.
Several export configurations (Beams & Walls).
Quick and easy modifications.
Complete associativity thanks to the SOLIDWORKS integration.

SWOOD SOLIDWORKS Woodworking Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Control & Collaboration

The current SWOOD version is always backward-compatible with the previous two versions of SOLIDWORKS allowing you to work with others easily.

Plus SWOOD incudes SOLIDWORKS PDM integration allowing you to integrate SWOOD into your current process and ensure revision and change management for your project.

Assembly & User Manual

Create user manuals and assembly instructions for your wood products with SWOOD documentation tools.

Ensure that your products are not only manufactured correctly but also assembled and used correctly by end-users and customers with the reports and documentation generated by SWOOD.

Marketing Content Creation

As SWOOD works natively inside SOLIDWORKS you can take advantage of the existing add-in tools included with SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium — including SOLIDWORKS Visualize to generate realistic imagery and animations for sales and marketing.

Improved Productivity

Smart control of the whole production chain with task automation providing improvement of the products’ design process

DriveWorks

Rod Mackay — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:09:23 +0000

Software

DriveWorks

SOLIDWORKS Automation & Configuration Add-in

What is DriveWorks?

DriveWorks software is used for Design Automation and Sales Configuration by companies large and small.

Whether you are an engineer that needs Design Automation to automate your SOLIDWORKS models, or a company wanting to provide a Product Configurator for your sales teams, distributors and even customers; DriveWorks software is the ultimate choice for businesses that use SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Products

There are 3 DriveWorks products – DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo and DriveWorks Pro.

Each product is a SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner Product and DriveWorksXpress is already included in every license of SOLIDWORKS.

All DriveWorks products are modular and scalable, you can implement DriveWorks and grow your projects at your own pace, adding additional capabilities as and when you need them.

Overview Demo

Get to know DriveWorks

DriveWorks Capabilities

DriveWorks Design Automation software will free up design engineers from repetitive design tasks, and enhance product quality and reduce errors.

Product Configurator

Impress your customers from the start with an easy to use configurator and quick, accurate quotes and responses. Respond quicker and better than your competitors and win more orders.

Reduce SOLIDWORKS Design Errors

Providing Design Automation with a Product Configurator based on rules, calculations and logic, improves the quality of outputs, reducing costly errors and strengthening your reputation.

Easy to Use Automation

You can build a DriveWorks configurator with no programming skills, and we can provide you with configuration design service. Empower your sales teams, distributors and customers to configure custom designs quickly and easily.

Online Product Configurator. Any Device. Anywhere.

Break free from the constraints of conventional configurators. DriveWorks configurators look and work great on any device, allowing you and your customers to configure custom designs anywhere. Changes can be distributed instantly, so everybody sees accurate, up-to-date information at all times.

Immersive 3D

Let your customers see their custom products in impressive 3D and view the effects of their design changes immediately.

Compelling Custom Documents

Automatically send eye catching branded documents that are personalized to each customer and order.

Simple Templates

Get started really quickly by customizing the Sales Configurator and Catalogue templates with the intuitive Form Designer.

Seamless links to Business Systems

An easy to use workflow provides seamless links between teams as well as company systems such as CRM, ERP and CAD.

Time Saving Automation

Reduce repetitive tasks by automating customer responses and repetitive engineering tasks.

TriMech Capabilities

TriMech is an award winning DriveWorks reseller, able to provide technical services and training. Learn how we have helped clients implement DriveWorks software »

"Evolve Design Solutions appreciates the excellent customer service, product knowledge and technical support provided by TriMech, our SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR).”

Aldo Balatti

Principal, Evolve Design Solutions

“Our engineering processes are well defined and well documented. I can tell new customers with confidence that we’re delivering on milestones because we’re tracking our performance on speed and quality every day.”

Ray Minator

Owner, Inertia Engineering + Design

DriveWorks Features

Automation for everyone

DriveWorks Input Form

Using rules to automate Part, Assembly and Drawing creation

DriveWorks is an easy-to-use design automation solution that allows design engineers and product designers to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

Capture and re-use your design knowledge
Incorporate design rules to reduce errors and rework, and improve product quality
Automate repetitive tasks to reduce design time
Free up design engineers to focus on improving product quality and designing new products
Create sales proposals quickly, win more business, and increase profit margins

Design Automation inside SOLIDWORKS

DriveWorks is a SOLIDWORKS Add-in that allows you to quickly and accurately capture design data and create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings.

Capture the dimensions, features and components you want to drive in SOLIDWORKS
Create dynamic, data-driven forms to input the values that drive your design
Build design rules to drive your models using the values entered on the form
Run the project again and again to create custom manufacturing files and quotes

DriveWorks inside SOLIDWORKS

Online product configurator

Design Online Product Configurators

DriveWorks Professional includes an Online Configurator designer that can provide your customers with a web-based interface.

The configurator can also be launched from within a Customer Resource Management (CRM) system like Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics.

Meet the increasing demand for custom products to gain a competitive edge.
Generate quotes in record time.
Reduce the cost of custom designs.
As an online tool you will allow anyone to access the product configurator
Present your configurable products in a web browser as 3D interactive models rather than static 2D images.

DriveWorks Resources

Learn how clients are using DriveWorks to automate their business

Webinar

Automating SOLIDWORKS With DriveWorks

Case Study

DriveWorks CPQ software helps Maglin Site Furniture operate efficiently and win more business

Video

Interesting and Unique Uses for DriveWorks CPQ

DriveWorks Packages

Three packages to choose from

Package

DriveWorksXpress

Entry level design automation included in every license of SOLIDWORKS®

DriveWorksXpress is easy to use design automation tool that allows you to quickly and accurately create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings.

Package

DriveWorks Solo

The quick and easy way to create custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Solo is the easy-to-use design automation solution that allows design engineers and product designers to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

Package

DriveWorks Pro

The easy to use online product configurator for desktop, mobile and tablet.

Transform the way you do business by closing the gap between initial sales inquiry and manufactured product with DriveWorks Pro for SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Matrix

Compare the different versions of DriveWorks software

CAD - Controlling SOLIDWORKS 3D Models and 2D Drawings	DriveWorksXpress	DriveWorks Solo	DriveWorks Pro
Drive Dimensions, Features and Custom Properties	●	●	●
Drive Color, Material and Textures		●	●
Drive Advanced Feature Properties (Hole Wizards, Sheet Metal, Weldments)		●	●
Drive Instances		●	●
Replace Components (with existing files or dynamically driven files)		●	●
Create additional model file formats (STEP, STL, PDF, DXF, JPEG, etc.)		●	●
Full control over new model file names and locations		●	●
Control multiple model sets from a single project		●	●
Run SOLIDWORKS Model Macros			●
Generative design - create new features on the fly (configurations, insert components, mates, etc.)			●
Create a drawing for each part and assembly	●	●	●
Create multiple drawings for each part and assembly		●	●
Full control over new drawing file names and locations		●	●
Create additional drawing file formats (PDF, DXF, DWG, JPEG, etc.)		●	●
Control Drawing Sheets (Re-scale, Rename, Delete)		●	●
Control Drawing Views (Re-scale, Re-position, Delete)		●	●
Control Annotations (Dimension Text, Notes, Symbols, etc.)		●	●
Control Dimension positions		●	●
Control Custom Properties, Break Lines and Layers		●	●
Run SOLIDWORKS Drawing Macros			●
Run additional tasks on the fly (Auto Balloon, Arrange Dimensions, Rescale and Position Views, etc.)			●

Document Creation	DriveWorks Solo	DriveWorks Pro
Create documents (such as Sales Quotes, Purchase Orders, Bills of Materials, etc.)		●
Built in document templates	●	●
Fully customizable document creation (from Word, Excel, XML, etc.)		●
Send HTML emails with attachments		●
Create Additional File Formats (PDF, HTML, TXT, XML, etc.)		●

Output Generation	DriveWorksXpress	DriveWorks Solo	DriveWorks Pro
Immediate generation of SOLIDWORKS models and drawings	●	●	●
Real Time Preview (On Demand) - updates model while specifying		●	●
Manual release of generation queue - allows multiple specifications to have their models generated from a queue			●
Automatic generation - unattended generation of outputs			●
Load balancing - distributes output generation over multiple machines			●
Priority processing - Change the order that outputs are created based on rules			●
Output Tagging - Generate outputs on targeted machines or in specific locations			●

Working with Data and Rules	DriveWorks Solo	DriveWorks Pro
Use tabular data to calculate rules	●	●
Copy and paste Excel data	●	●
Create internal data tables	●	●
Use dynamic data from ODBC Data sources in rules (SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, etc.)		●
Export data to ODBC data sources (for example SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer)		●
Pull and Push data dynamically to and from SQL Server Databases using SQL or Windows authentication		●
Create Group Level Tabular data for use across an entire implementation		●
Create Calculation tables where each cell can be calculated from other cells		●
Create Rollup data tables - where information such a price or BOM Quantities is rolled up through the project hierarchy		●
Web Service integration - communicate with any web service OR use DriveWorks as a web service		●
Over 250 engineering, mathematic and scientific functions	●	●
Over 50 vector (3D), database and PDM functions		●
Rules builder with function wizard and rule insight (rule breakdown and drill down, function assistance, syntax highlighting and function helper text)	●	●
Reusable rules (Variables)	●	●
Pervasive search/filtering capabilities	●	●

Maintainability, Reporting and Diagnostics	DriveWorksXpress	DriveWorks Solo	DriveWorks Pro
Rules commentary		●	●
Rules revisioning		●	●
Reporting on model generation success or failure	●	●	●
Reporting on specification process success or failure			●
Real time testing during form design		●	●
Rules analysis and breakdown		●	●
What-if scenarios (Specification Test Mode)			●
Interactive step through of model generation			●
Rule Profiling (rule specific error debugging, performance solving and insight features)			●

Additional features	DriveWorksXpress	DriveWorks Solo	DriveWorks Pro
Integration with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (Automatic check-in of models, drawings and documents)			●
Fully documented API with Software Development Kit			●
Online Configurator and DriveWorks 3D			●
3rd party system Integration through SQL\ ODBC connections			●
Direct link to Salesforce			●

DriveWorks Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Design automation

Automating your design process lets you create custom designs quickly and efficiently. Automation is ideal for Same but Different design, where new orders or new products are based on a variation of your existing designs.

Automatically generate sales documents

Free up engineers from repetitive design tasks by automatically generating 2D and 3D drawings of your SOLIDWORKS CAD models, sales quotes, letters and manufacturing data.

Online product configurator

Implement an Online Product Configurator for your sales team, distributors and even customers to use. Use it to guide non-technical people through the custom product options available, provide a fast response to sales inquiries and configure accurate quotes quickly.

Anyone can configure your products

Whether your engineers and sales teams are in house, out in the field, or you work through dealers and distributors, a product configurator will let you create custom designs and a custom response quickly and professionally.

eDrawings

Rod Mackay — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:22:16 +0000

Software

eDrawings

Communicate and collaborate using 3D design data

What is eDrawings?

eDrawings is a viewing and publishing application for sharing and archiving 2D and 3D product design data

Collaborate more effectively with everyone involved in your product development by using eDrawings software, the first email-enabled communication tool that dramatically eases sharing of product design information.

Fast, reliable, and convenient, eDrawings files supply accurate representations of 3D models and 2D drawings created with the most widely used CAD systems on the market. Offering unique capabilities like point-and-click animations that make it easy for anyone to interpret and understand 2D and 3D design data.

Eliminate Communication Barriers

eDrawings eliminates the communication barriers that designers and engineers deal with daily. eDrawings gives you and your extended design team the tools necessary to visualize, interpret and collaborate with 2D and 3D product design data.

Share product design with review-enabled eDrawings that enable an unlimited number of recipients to provide feedback and collaborate on your product design data
Create highly compressed 2D and 3D eDrawings files that are viewable with the free eDrawings Viewer
Eliminate errors due to misinterpretation of data
Examine internal details of your parts and assemblies with dynamic cross sectioning
Manage, track and merge comments from different team members
Provide anyone access to design data with self-extracting eDrawings
Protect sensitive data by selective disabling measurement or password protect the SOLIDWORKS eDrawing

Overview Demo

Get to know eDrawings

eDrawings Capabilities

Embrace AR & VR design reviews and customer interactions with eDrawings Professional. Accelerate the entire design process throughout your entire supply chain.

Save In Many File Formats

Enables easy communication for rapid prototyping and presentation purposes by saving model files in STL, TIFF, JPEG, or BMP formats.

Markup

Create, edit, and save reviews by redlining 2D or 3D data and adding written comments.

Measure

Measure geometry in part, assembly, and drawing files when dimensions are omitted from an eDrawings file. To protect sensitive design data, simply disable the measurement feature.

Password Protection

Password-protect your eDrawings files, encouraging users to more fully share design data.

View & Save Configurations

View SOLIDWORKS configurations, multiple design variations of a part or assembly model displayed within a single document. Choose which configurations will be stored in the SOLIDWORKS eDrawing.

Share and View SOLIDWORKS Motion Manager Output

View animations created with SOLIDWORKS Motion Manager and observe in real time how moving parts interact as true solids.

View Mass Properties

View physical attributes of mechanical parts, such as weight and volume.

Drawing Layout

Create layouts by selecting drawing views and dragging and dropping them into the layout.

Ultra Compact Files

Reduce bandwidth requirements more than 95% by publishing and emailing eDrawings files instead of CAD files.

Augmented Reality

By placing a marker, an eDrawings mobile user can open their model in AR mode to ‘see’ the design in the real world.

Dynamic Cross Sectioning

Visualize designs more effectively by moving a dynamic cross-sectioning plane through parts and assemblies to see design details typically hidden from view.

Move Components and Explode Views

Understand assembly structure more quickly – simply drag and drop components with your cursor to view an exploded assembly. Return components to their normal position by double-clicking on the component.

Point-and-Click Animation

Quickly interpret and understand any SOLIDWORKS drawing by dynamically viewing the 3D model as it automatically rotates through each drawing view

View Design Analysis Results

In SOLIDWORKS Simulation, all plots are output to a single eDrawings file for viewing simulation results.

Hyperlinking

Hyperlinking views is supported in drawing files. Section line and detail circle annotations in drawing files hyperlink to the associated section or detail view. When the pointer is moved over a section line or detail circle, the annotation for the related view is highlighted.

"Evolve Design Solutions appreciates the excellent customer service, product knowledge and technical support provided by TriMech, our SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR).”

Aldo Balatti

Principal, Evolve Design Solutions

Ray Minator

Owner, Inertia Engineering + Design

eDrawings Features

eDrawings enables anyone to view native 2D drawings for design reviews and collaboration

View CAD Files in AR/VR

The Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities of eDrawings extends its use into virtual product evaluations by design teams and customers.

VR capabilities are available in windows desktop professional and AR/VR capabilities are available in mobile versions of eDrawings.

Viewing your designs in AR or VR takes your design reviews to the next level, allowing you to view your designs and concepts in the context of the real world.

Share with your Supply chain

eDrawings enables companies to share product information with suppliers and external contractors while protecting your IP.

Providing unambiguous information ensures that suppliers can give the best quote without the need for changes later in the process, which results in additional costs and possible delays in manufacturing.

The rapid pace of product development means that companies can no longer afford to wait until all project stakeholders are in one location to gain project approval. eDrawings enables teams to share, collaborate and mark up designs where ever they are.

Publish HTML5 3D models

eDrawings enables users to publish models in an HTML 5 file, which can then be opened in any compatible browser. Models can be shared and viewed without the need for software installation.

eDrawings is a lightweight file format that can contain 3D models and or 2D drawings. This file can be created directly from SOLIDWORKS or by the use of eDrawing Publisher from Autodesk Inventor®, Pro/ENGINEER® CATIA® V5, SIEMENS NX®, Solid Edge®, PTC CREO software and SketchUp®.

eDrawings Packages

Three packages to choose from

Package

eDrawings Professional

Accelerate the design to manufacturing process with eDrawings Professional. From using Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities to sending a 3D model to a supplier for quoting or enabling the shop floor eDrawings Professional empowers companies and leverages the power for 3D design.

Package

eDrawings Viewer

For anyone involved in the product development process eDrawings Viewer enables you to communicate, share and collaborate in a easily shareable lightweight file without having to worry about design software compatibility.

Package

eDrawings Publisher

eDrawing Publisher supports the creation of eDrawings from SOLIDWORKS®, Autodesk Inventor®, Pro/ENGINEER® CATIA® V5, SIEMENS NX®, Solid Edge®, PTC CREO software and SketchUp®. In addition to CAD solutions, eDrawings RapidFire Lite supports the creation of eDrawings from IGES and STEP neutral file formats.

eDrawings Matrix

Compare the different versions of eDrawings software

Product	eDrawings Professional		eDrawings Viewer		eDrawings Publisher
	Desktop	Mobile	Desktop	Mobile	Desktop only
Ultra Compact Files	●	●	●	●	●
Drawing Layout	●	●	●	●	●
Hyperlinking	●	●	●	●	●
3D Pointer	●		●		●
Point-and-Click Animation	●	●	●	●	●
View Design Analysis Results	●	●	●	●	●
Save In Many File Formats	●		●		●
Markup Tool	●	●	●
Measure Tool	●	●	●
Dynamic Cross Sectioning	●	●	●
Move Components and Explode Views	●		●
View Configurations	●	●	●	●
Play SOLIDWORKS Animations	●	●	●	●
Augmented Reality	●	●		●
Rich eDrawings API	●
View Mass Properties	●

eDrawings Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

View designs on mobile

Available on iOS and Android, eDrawings mobile enables anyone to view native 2D drawings for design reviews and collaboration wherever or whenever they are. With its lightweight file format eDrawings is ideal for sharing and using mobile solutions outside the office.

Open/View DWG and DXF files

With its lightweight file format and rich tool set, eDrawings Viewer is the ideal tool for your supply chain to use during the quoting process. Using eDrawings to view and interrogate the design data minimizes any possible confusion and the need for multiple emails to clarify design requirements which slow down the quoting process.

Publish IP Secure Design Information

Your designs are valuable. With eDrawings you can create a lightweight secure file that enables collaboration without divulging critical company IP.

Supplier, Customer and Design Team Collaboration

Collaborate and communicate product design information and intent with clarity and precision. Reduce errors and miscommunication with eDrawings.

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to eDrawings for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

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SolidCAM

SolidCAM

Complete CAM Suite for CNC Programming in SOLIDWORKS

Complete CAM Solution

Streamline your CNC machine programming

Demo

What is SolidCAM?

Overview

Powerful Tools for CNC Programmers & Operators

Tools for CAM Programmers

CAM Programmer

SolidCAM Machining Capabilities

2.5D Milling

AFRM

HSS High-Speed Surfacing

Indexial 4/5-Axis Milling

HSR & HSM High Speed Machining

SolidCAM THSR and THSM

Simultaneous 5x Milling

Solid Probe

Turning

Mill-Turn Machining

Swiss Machining

70%

Time Savings

iMachining Technology Wizard

CAM Programmer

SolidCAM iMachining

Increase Your Profits - iMachining Benefits

Slash Your Tooling Costs

Reduce Your Machining Time

CAM Programmer

iMachining Modules

iMachining Tool Paths

iMachining 2D

iMachining 2D with feature recognition

iMachining Technology Wizard

iMachining 3D

iMachining 3D for Prismatic Parts

Tools for CNC Operators

CNC Operators

SolidCAM for Operators Tool Benefits

Editor Mode

Simulator Mode

CNC Operators

SolidCAM Matrix

SolidCAM Benefits

Connected to SOLIDWORKS

Supports all CNC machine types

Certified post-processors

Automated Features

Looking for a Cloud Alternative?

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

The ultimate end-to-end product development solution from SOLIDWORKS

Go Beyond Design with Ultimate

OVERVIEW

Take a First Look at SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Included Ultimate Tools

Project and Resource Management

Lean Teamwork

Release Management

Product Structure Management

Virtual Experiences & Renderings

Sheet Metal Design on the Cloud

Mold Design on the Cloud

Weldments Design on the Cloud

Structural Analysis for Cloud Design

Motion Analysis for Cloud Design

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate Features

Design and Simulate

Collaborate and Manage

Document and Market

Manufacture

Roles included with Ultimate

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Cloud Collaboration

Cloud Data Management

Cloud 3D Design and Modeling