By SOLIDWORKS 2025 is nearly here, and with it comes a huge number of improvements that have been chosen directly from user feedback.
Check out our highlights video or read our write-up below to discover our top 10 enhancements and learn how SOLIDWORKS 2025 will help accelerate your design process.
#1 – Greater Part Modelling Flexibility
For our top feature this year we’d like to highlight a number of part modeling enhancements that will help you model more efficiently, especially if you need to create smooth aesthetically pleasing designs.
Continuous Blending for Variable Fillets
Create highly specific rounded edges for your models with the new option for variable-size fillets. The continuous blend option uses an improved algorithm to create continuously blended edges that are extremely smooth.
Continuous Blending for Variable Fillets – SOLIDWORKS 2025
Pattern Reference Geometry
It’s now quicker than ever to set up reference geometry as you can use the linear and circular pattern commands to create multiple planes or axes.
Pattern Reference Geometry – SOLIDWORKS 2025
Customizable Bend Notches
A new Bend Notch command makes it faster than ever to generate customizable bend notches for the flat patterns of your sheet metal parts.
Rapid Edge Selection for Chamfers
The selection accelerators for fillets are now also available for chamfer command. Leveraging these dynamic options helps to rapidly select edges on your parts.
Rapid Edge Selection for Chamfers
#2 – More Effective Collaboration and Data Management
SOLIDWORKS 2025 brings several smart additions to help teams work together seamlessly on projects.
3DEXPERIENCE Communities Inside SOLIDWORKS
3DEXPERIENCE communities provide a straightforward place for team members to share updates, leave comments, provide feedback on designs, and much more. In SOLIDWORKS 2025, you can access communities directly from within SOLIDWORKS.
3DEXPERIENCE Communities Inside SOLIDWORKS 2025
Real-time Notifications
Keep your whole team up-to-date by using the new real-time notification options in SOLIDWORKS. This helps everyone to work with the latest file versions during collaborative design processes.
Real-time Notifications
SOLIDWORKS PDM for 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS
If you are using 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and would rather manage your files in SOLIDWORKS PDM than on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, this is now an option.
SOLIDWORKS PDM for 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS 2025
Both options provide robust file management for SOLIDWORKS data but there are some key differences. If you aren’t sure which is the best fit for your team, then we are more than happy to provide advice and discuss your options, so get in touch with us today.
#3 – Improved Performance
Every new release of SOLIDWORKS makes changes to improve performance offering faster speeds and better responsiveness.
Along with the usual under-the-hood improvements, SOLIDWORKS 2025 has made a few changes to help you handle large assemblies smoothly.
Associative Silhouette Defeature
The new options for the silhouette defeature method enable users to create highly simplified parts that remain associated with the parent part.
Associative Silhouette Defeature
Using the simplified versions of these models in assemblies can offer significant performance gains when working with parts and assemblies with large amounts of detail.
Easily Add SpeedPaks
SpeedPak configurations at the top level of your assemblies, without needing to modify any of the subassemblies that might be contained within it. The SpeedPak instance is saved in the top-level assembly.
Easily Add SpeedPaks
Faster Mass Properties
Mass Properties calculation time in assemblies has been improved as SOLIDWORKS now only needs to recalculate the mass of changed components.
Faster Mass Properties
#4 – Faster Assembly Modelling
There are also several upgrades to enhance your assembly modeling workflows in SOLIDWORKS 2025.
Improved Copying of Assembly Components
We’ve long been able to accelerate assembly design by copying assembly components along with their mates. In 2025, this has been improved by allowing us to copy components along with their associated advanced and mechanical mates.
Improved Copying of Assembly Components
New Interference Detection Options
SOLIDWORKS 2025 adds the option to detect interferences between solid and surface bodies and also allows for interference while in large design review mode.
New Interference Detection Options
These improvements will save valuable time when evaluating assemblies with large numbers of components.
#5 – Improved Detailing of Drawings
We’ll bundle a couple of great enhancements to technical drawing creation in SOLIDWORKS 2025 to make life a little easier for fabricators and approvers.
Improved Approval Process
Streamline drawing quality control and approvals by enforcing company rules with multi-approval stamps on drawings that can be used to make approval a mandatory and integrated part of your workflow.
Approvers can access drawings from any connected device to review and approve drawings thanks to SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services.
Improved Approval Process
BOM Improvements for Structural Members
When it comes to creating bills of materials on our drawings, we can now choose whether to display the quantity for structural members in the bond table as QUANTITY or LENGTH x QUANTITY.
BOM Improvements for Structural Members
This will be a huge time saver when it comes to providing accurate information for manufacturing.
#6 – More Flexible 3D Dimensioning and Tolerancing
With SOLIDWORKS 2025, the process of adding dimension and tolerance information to 3D models has become faster, easier, more flexible, and frankly, more enjoyable
Save time by creating DimXpert dimensions from sketch dimensions.
DimXpert is often under-utilized but can be a huge time saver when dealing with molded components that require geometric dimensioning and tolerances.
Generate DimXpert information for drafted geometry.
Options to include custom properties, split periodic faces and export face/edge properties have been added when exporting SOLIDWORKS geometry to Step 242 files.
Step 242 export settings have also been expanded in SOLIDWORKS 2025.
#7 – Streamlined ECAD/MCAD Collaboration and Design
CircuitWorks is now available to all SOLIDWORKS users, and it is now possible to import internal and external copy features, including vias traces and shapes from ECAD to SOLIDWORKS by using IDX files.
Streamlined ECAD/MCAD Collaboration and Design
This enables more accurate mass, thermal structural shock, and even electromagnetic analysis with access to more detailed copper trace information in the PCB giving a more complete PCB design and simulation workflow.
#8 – Render Efficiently with Automation and ‘Fast Mode’
Create compelling realistic marketing visuals faster than ever by automating the creation of SOLIDWORKS Visualize renders by using the SOLIDWORKS API. This API available through SOLIDWORKS Visualize allows you to either render SOLIDWORKS documents directly or convert them into Visualize project files.
Render Efficiently with Automation and ‘Fast Mode’
When working within SOLIDWORKS Visualize, you can now choose Fast Mode to render your project with the Stellar render engine.
This provides real-time, interactive raytraced rendering by taking advantage of the Vulkan ray-tracing API and Deep Learning AI technology to maximize the performance of next-generation video cards, especially when creating high-resolution renders.
#9 – Cut-List Property Editor Improvements
It’s now possible to quickly copy Cut-List items from one item to multiple others. This simple improvement will make it much more efficient to add information to models with a large number of cutlist items.
Cutlist Property Editor Improvements
#10 – Improved User Experience
SOLIDWORKS 2025 introduces a number of user interface tweaks to make it faster and more intuitive to perform common actions. Here are two of our favorites!
Easily Fix Broken Sketch Dimensions
Making changes in SOLIDWORKS can sometimes cause errors in sketches further down your feature tree because those sketches may have referenced a model edge, or vertex that no longer exists.
To fix this we need to reattach the dangling dimension to a new entity, but with SOLIDWORKS 2025 there is a new option to automatically fix all dangling dimensions after making a single selection, which has the potential to save a huge amount of time.
Easily Fix Broken Sketch Dimensions
Breadcrumbs in Large Design Review Mode
In SOLIDWORKS 2025, selecting an item in Large Design Review mode will show an improved breadcrumbs menu, allowing you to easily refine your selection.
Breadcrumbs in Large Design Review Mode
The above image shows the breadcrumb menu being used to pick between selecting the assembly, the sub-assembly, and the part.
Clicking the auto repair button will have SOLIDWORKS solve the issue for us.
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