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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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- Design
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- PDM / PLM
- Simulation
- Technical Communication
Compare SOLIDWORKS Versions
Standard, Professional, Premium, or Ultimate offering
| Capabilities | Standard | Professional | Premium | Ultimate |
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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
SOLIDWORKS Ultimate FAQs
Get answers to your questions
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.