Now, more than ever, the ability to design, create, and collaborate anywhere in the world and on any device is paramount. SOLIDWORKS Cloud allows users to create complex designs on any web-connected device- the tools continue to evolve rapidly. That’s right- your MAC can run SOLIDWORKS Cloud, as the web nature is at the center of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Join us as TriMech 3DEXPERIENCE and Cloud experts Matt Kokoski and Wayne White work through an electro-mechanical product design taking turns in designing parts, assemblies, and working through a production drawing. Additionally, they will cover collaboration in the platform, lifecycle management, subdivision modeling, and sheet metal design, and render marketing images all in a web browser.

During this SOLIDWORKS Cloud webinar, you will learn:

• What is SOLIDWORKS Cloud, and what are the benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Part, Assembly, and Production detailing in the web
• Lifecycle Management
• Rendering Capabilities

• Create a Project Plan to govern tasks and responsibilities
• Design a 3D part and prepare for manufacture
• Finish building the Rescue Arm Spreader
• Create a technical illustration and exploded view
• Release the product for manufacture

Every new SOLIDWORKS License purchased comes with complimentary access to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform by way of SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services. Most people are aware of the three main pillars: Share and Markup, Store and Revise, and Manage and Control.

However, there is a lot of deep and rich functionality embedded in these tools that you might have overlooked. These tools can be useful for single users, small teams, or even large organizations to take advantage of, especially since they may already have access.

5 Key Takeaways from this SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services Guide: 

This video guide covers the key functionality of Cloud Services alongside considerations for adopting the toolset. Our team has years of experience utilizing the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and have a whole host of information to pass on to you. If you currently use or plan to use SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services, you should learn the following incredible productivity and usability tips:

• Viewing Files on any Device
• Securely Managing your SOLIDWORKS Data
• Tracking Change Actions and Revisions
• Administering SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services
• Keys to Success for Utilizing Cloud Services

Join us as Matt Kokoski, a TriMech Technical Manager, and Wayne White, a TriMech 3DEXPERIENCE Solutions Consultant, cover the basics of how SOLIDWORKS Cloud works, some of the tools in SOLIDWORKS Cloud, and how to collaborate on a design using the tools. Learn about basic part and assembly creation with xDesign, creating manufacturing drawings with xDrawing, modeling complex shapes with xShape. We will also cover sheet metal and weldment design. Don’t miss this informative session.

During this SOLIDWORKS Cloud 2024 On-Demand Webinar, you will learn:

• Designing parts and assemblies with xDesign
• Creating drawings with xDrawing
• Create complex shapes with xShape
• Design collaboration through the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

NOTE: Once you’ve activated the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you can begin using the Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS role as well as access the Cloud Data Management and Share & Markup tools that are part of the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services.

How to Activate the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

After your order is confirmed, your company’s Platform Administrator will receive an email. This contains the terms and conditions that they’ll need to read and agree to before using the platform.

3DEXPERIENCE Activation Welcome Email

The Administrator must then click the ‘Make Me Administrator’ link in the email and log in with their 3DEXPERIENCE ID to activate your licenses and invite other members to the platform.

Check out this article to learn how to invite other users and assign them roles.

What is a 3DEXPERIENCE ID?

Your 3DEXPERIENCE ID is your login to the entire 3DEXPERIENCE platform. You’ll have just the one 3DEXPERIENCE ID per email address, so you can use the same one to log into any tenant and view files that you are granted access to.

3DEXPERIENCE Log In Screen

3DEXPERIENCE IDs are free to create and give you access to the Dassault Systèmes communities.

These have replaced SOLIDWORKS IDs that were previously used to log into your SOLIDWORKS accounts and legacy portals and forums. Effectively, your SOLIDWORKS ID has been upgraded to a 3DEXPERIENCE ID and all of your account information will have been transferred.

What if I don’t have the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Activation Email?

If you haven’t received the email, or have misplaced it, then please contact your Account Manager or local support team, and we’ll be happy to assist.

You can find the details of your local Technical Support team at the bottom of this post.

With 3DEXPERIENCE, your teams have access to powerful capabilities for design (SOLIDWORKS cloud apps), Simulation, Manufacturing and Product Data and Lifecycle Management. The portfolio enables you to extend your product development capabilities and solve problems faster.

Join us for one of our upcoming live online demo sessions, at a date that is convenient for you, as TriMech technical experts take you through some of the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE Works. We will cover common use-case scenarios and be available for you to ask questions that apply to your specific project or company needs.

Covered in the 3DEXPERIENCE Works demo webinar

During this live demo, you will learn:

• Manage CAD and non-CAD data on the cloud
• Connect disjointed team members with no servers and only an internet connection
• Integrate within SOLIDWORKS for a seamless connection
• Create mark-ups, engineering change orders and collaborative tasks

Complete the form and select a live demo session date that suits you.

Watch as Solutions Consultant for 3DEXPERIENCE, Wayne White, presents some of the key enhancements:

Covered in this 3DEXPERIENCE Platform 2022x FD03 on-demand webinar:

Discover new tools that allow collaboration both inside your design team and externally, the new Off-line mode for licensing, improvements to the user Interface, and functionality that has been added to the browser-based design roles. We will also highlight some usability tips to help organize and find data.

• How to navigate the additions to the interface
• How to share drawing packages
• How to organize data using Bookmarks
• How to create a drawing in Manufacturing Definition Creator
• New additions to the browser-based design roles

Does the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Offer include SOLIDWORKS Desktop?

No, if you want SOLIDWORKS Desktop with some of these cloud apps then you should look at 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Offers.

What can be achieved with the SOLIDWORKS Cloud?

With intuitive, task-oriented apps, you can create mechanical, complex-shaped, frame structured, and sheet metal designs; 2D drawings; photo-realistic renderings; and product documentation and 3D annotations. Built-in data and product lifecycle management in the cloud means you can manage product information, hassle-free, from any device allowing you to focus on design through manufacture.

Collaborate in real time across disciplines, departments, and your entire business ecosystem, including customers, partners, and suppliers. As your business and needs grow, add new tools that work together seamlessly, and have a consistent user experience so you can design, validate, and manage the development of your products in one place, on the platform.

What’s included with SOLIDWORKS Cloud?

The following 3DEXPERIENCE Roles/Apps are included with the new SOLIDWORKS Cloud Offer:

1. 3D Creator: Browser-based 3D parametric modeling role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that lets teams create conceptual and detailed designs easily.
2. 3D Render: Easily create & share photo-realistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements. Using a fully scalable cloud infrastructure, 3D Render is the perfect rendering app for extending the value of CAD product design into marketing, sales, and after-sales.
3. 3D Sculptor: Browser-based subdivision modeling role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that lets teams create highly stylized, organically and ergonomically shaped products quickly and easily.
4. 3D Sheet Metal Creator: An intuitive, browser-based solution that offers associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities to build components, assemblies and enclosures.
5. 3D Structure Creator: Is a browser-based solution for engineers and designers to create feature-based frames and structures.
6. Manufacturing Definition Creator: A browser-based solution that organizes and communicates PMI and MBD information directly on 3D models.
7. Drafter: Reduces the time and cost of your design-to-manufacturing process by generating drawings of 3D parts and assemblies (note at this time SOLIDWORKS Drafter is a cloud-connected application and is installed on your desktop).
8. Collaborative Industry Innovator: Browser-based role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for product lifecycle management featuring issue, change and route management, 3D visualization and markup, Kanban-style task management and more.
9. 3DSwymer (formerly Collaborative Business Innovator): Browser-based role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for centralized team collaboration offering secure data storage and sharing, tailored dashboards, social communities and more.

What is the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Offer Key Capabilities?

• Powerful: Parametric and subdivision modeling in the cloud with next-generation 3D design
  • Easily create conceptual and detailed designs for components and assemblies of any complexity using flexible design workflows and built-in intelligence.
  • Create complex surfaces quickly using intuitive push-pull interaction to shape your design and automatically convert subdivision surfaces to geometry when finished.
  • Automate tasks as you never could before, from sketching to feature selection and much more, with Design Assistant, the artificial intelligence engine on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
  • Understand structural requirements due to defined loads and constraints before creating geometry, using Design Guidance to easily explore optimal material distribution.
  • Iterate rapidly and change design intent without the rework associated with traditional parametric modeling. With all your data on the platform, you don’t need to worry about the structure of parts and assemblies up front—it can be changed at any point of the process.
• Streamlined: Specialized design, photo-realistic rendering, and innovative product documentation
  • Build complex models for a broad range of industries with ease, using specialized capabilities for sheet metal, cast parts and weldments, surfacing, and more.
  • Design sheet metal components with automatically generated flat patterns and create fully detailed frames with accurate cut lists that are ready for fabrication.
  • Create photo-realistic product renders and 360 degree turntable animations directly from the design reference so you can highlight your product’s value, enable partners, and win more customers—all while manufacturing your product.
  • Avoid costly discrepancies between models and physical parts with the ability to quickly add product manufacturing information and share it with suppliers, reducing the risks when moving from design to production.
  • Quickly generate 2D drawings of parts and assemblies from your 3D models, reducing the time and cost of your design-to-manufacturing process.
• All SOLIDWORKS Cloud solutions work together seamlessly making data management, sharing and collaboration easy. The SOLIDWORKS Cloud can take advantage of the following platform capabilities:
  • View, share, annotate, discuss and manage designs from anywhere, at any time and on any device with a web browser.
  • Store all your product data in a centralized, secure location and access it from any device without having to install specialized software.
  • Manage the lifecycle of CAD data and documentation across disciplines and CAD applications.
  • Track issues, changes, and routes, and reduce conflicting edits from multiple contributors with built-in revision control. Create digital markups directly from the design data for use throughout the change process.
  • Easily visualize ideas and concepts and share with everyone, fostering innovation, with built-in collaboration tools such as communities and conversations.
  • Communicate among teams in one central location and conduct spontaneous and casual brainstorming sessions thanks to infinite virtual whiteboards.