Connect your 3D CAD, Data, and Processes all in one place
The 3DEXPERIENCE® SOLIDWORKS® Offers connect the industry-leading SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Desktop solution to the 3DEXPERIENCE Works platform, a cloud-based product development environment.
A Complete Solution for 3D Design and Project Management
Take advantage of the intuitive parametric and subdivision modeling, photo rendering and structural simulation capabilities, as well as the robust collaboration and data and product lifecycle management tools. Our offers come with online training courses, access to a vibrant online community and support.
With all data saved securely on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, your design and engineering teams can access, share and manage your product information at any time, from anywhere and on any device. Collaborate in real time across disciplines, departments and your entire business ecosystem, including customers, partners and suppliers.
Add new roles that work together seamlessly, and have a consistent user experience so you can design, simulate and manufacture your products in one place, on the platform. Simplify license management with the ability to monitor usage, manage users and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative dashboard.
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Available 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Roles
An intuitive set of desktop 3D design tools matched with cloud data management and conceptual subdivision modeling
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard
Desktop-based intuitive, robust SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD solution connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform featuring part and assembly modeling, 2D drawings and productivity and automation tools
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional
All capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard plus photorealistic rendering, automated cost estimation, reverse engineering, automated design and drawing checking, and tolerance analysis*
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Premium
All capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional plus piping, tubing, electrical cable and harness routing design, and advanced surface flattening capabilities
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Simulation Designer
Desktop-based simulation role connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, providing linear static structural and time-based motion analysis capabilities for parts and assemblies
* Note: SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard is not included as this is replaced with Collaborative Industry Innovator
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3D Creator
Browser-based 3D parametric modeling role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that lets teams create conceptual and detailed designs easily.
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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
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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
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3DSwymer
Browser-based role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for centralized team collaboration offering secure data storage and sharing, tailored dashboards, social communities and more.
Choose your 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Package
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. | ● |
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Features
Design on your desktop and collaborate in the cloud
Organized Data on the cloud
Secure data and product lifecycle management on a collaborative cloud platform
- Store all your product data in a centralized, secure location and access it from any device without any installation.
- Manage the lifecycle of CAD data, simulation models and documentation across disciplines and CAD applications.
- Track issues, changes and routes, and reduce conflicting edits from multiple contributors with revision control.
Flexible Modeling in the Cloud
Parametric and subdivision (sub-d) modeling 3DEXPERIENCE Apps
- Understand structural requirements such as support loads and constraints before creating geometry, through an easy exploration of optimal material with Design Guidance.
- Automate tasks never before possible, from sketching to feature selection and much more with Design Assistant, the artificial intelligence engine on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
- Create complex surfaces quickly using intuitive push-pull interaction to shape your design and automatically convert subdivision surfaces to geometry when finished.
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.
Buy 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS
Purchase a license of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS from the official DS Store
Package
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard
Desktop-based intuitive, robust SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD solution connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform featuring part and assembly modeling, 2D drawings and productivity and automation tools.
Package
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional
All the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard plus photorealistic rendering, automated cost estimation, reverse engineering, automated design and drawing checking, and tolerance analysis.
Package
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Premium
All the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional plus pipe routing, tube routing, electrical cable and harness routing design, plus advanced surface flattening capabilities.