Join us as TriMech Solutions Consultant, Applications, Ryan Burgess walks through the performance evaluation tool in SOLIDWORKS 2025, which now includes several new results to help understand areas of your assemblies that may be causing degradation in performance. SOLIDWORKS has multiple ways to work with complex assemblies depending on your intended usage. Speedpak configurations being one of those option that creates a lightweight graphical presentation of your assembly. Speedpak is just one way users can increase performance when working complex assemblies. Large Design Review is another feature that has been around for a while, and in SOLIDWORKS 2025 sees some great new enhancements. Helping to improve your assembly workflow SOLIDWORKS now has a document group feature as well.

During this SOLIDWORKS assemblies webinar, you will learn:

• Performance evaluation tools
• Speedpack configurations
• Large Design review
• Document groups
• Copy with mates improvements & Z-up template

Join us as TriMech Solutions Consultant, Applications, Rachel Jackson covers other significant improvements like the ability to create linear and circular patterns of planes and axes, expanded functionality in the Move/Copy Body tool with support for equations, and the introduction of Continuous Edge Blends for creating smoother fillets. Whether you’re simplifying complex models, repairing sketches, or creating sophisticated patterns and curves, this release has something for everyone.

During this SOLIDWORKS webinar, you will learn:

• Repairing dangling sketch relations
• Enhanced defeaturing
• Enhanced plane and axis patterning
• Advanced move/copy body functionality
• Smooth, continuous blends with variable-size fillets

Join us as Mike Walloch, a Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert and Instructor, leads us through the process of creating a part from start to finish. Starting from a blank slate we’ll cover sketching 2D profiles, extruding 3D solid bodies, and creating cut-and-hole features. We’ll also look at some other useful and time-saving features like mirrors and shells.

But wait, there’s more! Mike will show you various tips and tricks along the way. Taking advantage of SOLIDWORKS extremely user-friendly interface you’ll see how to reduce picks and clicks, minimize mouse travel, and make your work seem almost effortless. This webinar will give you a good idea of what to expect from the part modeling lessons in the SOLIDWORKS Essentials class.

During this SOLIDWORKS Training webinar, you will learn:

• Creating 2D Sketches
• Extruding 3D Features
• Using the Hole Wizard
• Modifying Solid Bodies
• Tips and Tricks

We’re transitioning to a new Client Support System designed to make getting help faster, simpler, and more efficient. This means:

• Streamlined Communication: Easier ways to connect with our support/client success team via:
  • Email
    • Hardware Support printersupport@trimech.com
    • Software Support support@trimech.com
  • Phone
    • Canada – 877.219.6757
    • USA – 888.874.6324
    • Enterprise Software (USA & Canada) – 440.257.7460
  • Websites
    • https://javelin-tech.com/support/
    • https://trimech.com/support/
    • https://enterprise.trimech.com/support/
• Secure Portal (Phased launch in 2025)
• Faster Response Times: Enhanced tools to help us resolve your inquiries more quickly.
• Improved Self-Service: A new knowledge base FAQ within our portal with answers to common questions available 24/7.

What you need to know

• When is this happening? The new system will go live on the week of January 6, 2025.
• Our case logging system will be down on the weekend of January 3, 2025 from 8:30PM ET until January 6, 2025 6AM ET. During this time for critical support, please email support@trimech.com, all new cases will be created in our new system and confirmed by one of our agents on January 6, 2025.
• Will my experience change? Our team remains dedicated to delivering the exceptional support you’re used to. During the transition, you may notice some changes such as appearance, branding, forms etc. but rest assured, we’re here to guide you.

How does the new Client Support System benefit you?

This upgrade is about more than just technology—it’s about putting your needs first. With our new system, we aim to resolve issues quicker and provide you with even better service.

We’re excited to make this transition and look forward to continuing to support you. If you have any questions or need assistance during this period, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Thank you for trusting TriMech.

Warm regards,

Ted Lee

Chief Information Officer

Born in a research lab at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, Victoria Hand Project provides prosthetic arms to amputees who have limited or no access to prosthetic care. Through partnerships with healthcare providers around the world, the project team provides training and resources to community clinics so they can serve more people in less time.

Local 3D printing and fabrication centres produce the prosthetic arms directly where they’re needed. The flexibility of additive manufacturing technology allows broken parts or outgrown limb sockets to be reprinted and replaced quickly.

Since 2014, the project has trained more than 50 clinicians and fitted nearly 400 beneficiaries in 11 countries.

Balancing creativity and affordability

Victoria Hand Project offers a variety of prosthetic arms, each tailored to fit different people’s needs. Design choices have to balance imaginative ideas for functionality with keeping costs low. There are no electronics in the designs – the hands are body-powered to keep them accessible. Despite these constraints, the hands do far more than open and close, and include these features:

• Rotatable thumb, to allow for different pinches and grasps
• Backlock mechanism, for a constant grip
• Rotatable wrist, to rotate the hand up to 360 degrees
• Adaptive grasp, to allow the fingers to conform one-by-one around oddly shaped objects

A history of relying on SOLIDWORKS

Chief Executive Officer Michael Peirone has been involved with the project since its early days, when he was an undergraduate student. That’s also when he began using SOLIDWORKS.

Having SOLIDWORKS and access to 3D-printed prototypes allowed for quick progress when design iterations were happening daily.

“Using an advanced CAD tool like SOLIDWORKS, being able to design to tight specifications, leads to better outcomes. If we were using a less refined tool, we wouldn’t be able to meet our standards for accuracy in the hand and fingers.”

SOLIDWORKS also allows Michael and his team to evaluate how different components fit together, and to see the motion of the hand.

“We can see, for example, how the index finger and thumb will connect before we print it. That saves time, resources, and material.”

Canadian designs are sent around the world

In Victoria, the main hand designs, including internal components like the harnessing for the cable, are created, tested, and validated using SOLIDWORKS.

The Canadian team sends the print files – complete with G-code to guide the 3D printing process – to the international partner. Even someone without an engineering background can easily program the printer in their clinic.

The customized parts that attach the prosthetic hand to the person are designed and printed locally. Each person is scanned using photogrammetry or a laser scanner, ensuring a fit to match their unique body.

Ongoing innovation

Victoria Hand Project engineers continue to refine their designs, using feedback from beneficiaries and care providers.

“We look at the base design and find ways to make it better,” Michael explained. “To give you an example, we’ve made the fingers stronger through benchtop testing. We load the fingers with weight and see where they break. Many engineering hours go into changing tolerances by something like half a millimeter, just so the hand assembles better or functions better.”

In one major development, the project team began offering a solution for people missing their arm between their elbow and shoulder. Michael noted that traditional above-the-elbow prosthetic technology is difficult to make and expensive, so this is an accessible alternative.

“Demand for this type of fitting is growing. In Ukraine, 80% of the people who have been fit with our prosthetic arms are missing their arm from above the elbow. This shows how important it is for us to keep evolving.”

Another design release added rotation in the elbow, so people can move the arm horizontally inward and outward, not just up and down.

“This makes it easier to eat and drink or carry a bag. We worked on the design for a few months behind the scenes, then got it out to people who asked for it. It’s nice to know that all that work you put into the design is truly helping someone.”

Software support makes a difference

Javelin, part of the TriMech Group, supplies and supports SOLIDWORKS across Canada. Michael said the assistance they receive from Javelin and SOLIDWORKS has helped them become recognized as a leader in prosthetic hand technology, with designs deployed around the world.

“Maybe we would have made it here at some point, but it would have taken a lot longer with a slower design and testing process.”

A bright future with a committed team

The project team is flooded with requests from people who want to work with them. Donations help them continue to build resources and expand their network.

“We see the potential in Africa, the Middle East, India, South America…” Michael said. “Being a small team, we always have to look at where we can work most effectively and make the most impact.”

Solid engineering remains at the centre of the operation; at the same time, everyone on the small team wears different hats, including outreach and marketing, and supporting partners around the world.

“We couldn’t do this without our team. They just work so hard and they’re so knowledgeable. And everyone sees the direct impact we have on people’s lives.”

Victoria Hand Project is online at victoriahandproject.com

To find out more about how research projects, startups, and charitable organizations can receive support from Javelin and SOLIDWORKS, email solidworks-startups@trimech.com or click here to learn more.

Join us as TriMech Applications Engineer Ray Morrogh walks you through the key steps to ensure a smooth transition with minimal downtime. Whether you’re an IT professional or a SOLIDWORKS administrator, this session will equip you with the tools and knowledge you need to manage this critical process confidently.

During the webinar, we’ll explore the reasons why moving your License Manager may be necessary, common challenges you may encounter, and best practices to overcome them. If you use SOLIDWORKS PDM, this webinar will also cover essential steps for updating PDM when the license server is moved. From deactivating your existing installation to successfully reactivating it on a new system, you’ll leave this session with a clear roadmap and helpful tips to ensure your organization stays up and running.

During this SOLIDWORKS webinar, you will learn:

• Learn the step-by-step process for deactivating and reactivating the SOLIDWORKS License Manager.
• Discover best practices for preparing your new server and avoiding common pitfalls.
• Understand the impact on your SOLIDWORKS users and how to minimize disruption.
• Get insights into troubleshooting and resolving activation issues effectively.

In this session we will discuss:

• How the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program provides free access to essential design tools, enabling you to focus on innovation and getting your product to market faster!
• What the design to manufacturing process actually looks like. End-to-end product development, streamlining your design process from conception and design, to testing and manufacturing.
• Plus, design validation features allowing you to test designs in real-world conditions, and how to render high-quality images that are market-ready.

Why Attend? This session is ideal for founders, engineers, and anyone looking to leverage industry-leading CAD tools. Whether you are new to SOLIDWORKS or want to deepen your knowledge, you’ll gain insights into how these tools can streamline your product development and help bring your vision to life.

APPLICATION LINK TO STARTUP PROGRAM HERE

If this sounds like something you can benefit from, join us for this free session. The event will be live, and there will be a question-and-answer session with our panel following the webinar.

If you would like to join but are unavailable, go ahead and register and you will receive a link to the recording within 48 hours of the session concluding.

We look forward to meeting you at this webinar.

Join us as TriMech Solutions Consultant, Applications, Tony Bucchino takes you through the ins and outs of surfacing in the software. Starting with a simple task of taking surfaces and turning them into solid parts, while comparing a couple of different approaches. Next, we will show how to fix common issues when importing legacy data with bad geometry. Finally, we will take a look at general tips and shortcuts when creating models using the surfacing tools.

During this SOLIDWORKS Surfacing video, you will learn:

• Different approaches in taking surfaces and turning them into a solid part
• How to fix common issues when importing legacy data with bad geometry
• General tips to speed up your surfacing creations

From new 3D CAD tools and performance updates to SOLIDWORKS PDM and Simulation, users and businesses can start to take advantage of these enhancements all across the SOLIDWORKS portfolio.

Join our global SOLIDWORKS experts, TriMech Group Elite Applications Engineer, Sawyer Gara and Solutions Consultant Graham Stephenson, to see what improvements will be launched on the platform this year.

After the overview, our experts will be on hand to answer any questions you might have about the new features, the software and platform in general, or even your design workflow, so you can get the most from SOLIDWORKS 2025 and your subscription.

Join us as TriMech Elite Solutions Consultant, John Landis, explores some purpose-built and general functions in SOLIDWORKS that aid with 3D Printing.  Learning these techniques helps inform our design and printing decisions, resulting in higher quality and better parts.

During this SOLIDWORKS webinar, you will learn :

• 3D Print file types and options
• Using Thickness Analysis to design stronger parts
• SOLIDWORKS Costing to estimate and compare production expenses
• Preparing models with Print 3D function

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.

Traditional cold brew (different from iced coffee) takes 24 hours to make. With the press of a button, AstroBrew provides barista quality at home. It makes cold brew in only five minutes, and chills to 32° in 15 minutes.

The product inventor is Joe Damigella – thermal engineer, family man, and (beyond-the-norm!) coffee enthusiast. He knew from his experience working in the food and beverage appliance industry that there was a gap in the market – no one had created a cold brew maker that actively chills.

Joe’s own technical skills and entrepreneurial spirit, along with talented co-founders, committed investors, and a supportive group of family and friends, have since turned the vision of a one-of-a-kind cold brew appliance into reality.

SOLIDWORKS rendering

Free software thanks to SOLIDWORKS for Startups

Inside and out, AstroBrew’s functional and attractive design was born in SOLIDWORKS, the industry standard 3D computer-aided design (CAD) solution.

Joe has a long history of using SOLIDWORKS, going back to his college days. He understood that if he was going to fulfill his dream of making his own inventions, he needed access to the SOLIDWORKS product portfolio, but he didn’t have the budget to make the investment.

“I found out about the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program and when the time was right, I went straight to the signup page. I have always thought highly of the software and TriMech as a provider, and I couldn’t have made my dream a reality without that support.”

— Joe Damigella, Product Inventor for Astrobrew

TriMech supports startups and entrepreneurs with free SOLIDWORKS software to help conceive, design, test, manufacture, and launch their products. Eligible businesses get access to CAD software, as well as simulation, electrical, data management, product lifecycle management (PLM) tools, and more. The entrepreneurs are welcomed into a supportive community of TriMech experts and fellow SOLIDWORKS users.

To qualify for the program (also known as 3DEXPERIENCE Works for Startups), a company should be a new SOLIDWORKS customer; be designing a physical product; have less than $1 million in funding and revenue; and be in business less than five years.

SOLIDWORKS is more than CAD

For Joe, SOLIDWORKS has been an essential tool for concept development, prototyping, and collaboration, guiding him to a manufacturable, marketable design.

“I’ve been through seven iterations of the machine, and three of those were digital only, evaluated in SOLIDWORKS. I created four 3D-printed prototypes, and I could not have done that without using SOLIDWORKS to export my individual part files to my printer.”

To help bring together the groundbreaking inner workings of the appliance with a slick, consumer-friendly look, Joe worked with a design studio called Niche Industries, a team of two SOLIDWORKS superusers.

“I see SOLIDWORKS as a form of communication. It makes it easy to collaborate with my industrial design partners. If I hadn’t been organized in my data management and communication, AstroBrew wouldn’t be a reality. Part names, numbers, and associated details, all connected in a bill of materials, is very important to me. Writing macros to automate processes is also valuable.”

Reflecting on progress

Joe said he doesn’t take much time to reflect on his journey to date because he’s always looking ahead to what’s next.

“It is valuable to look back at where I started. In May of 2023, I was working hard to build my first working prototype because my first pitch event was on June 1. I’d never pitched to investors before. I didn’t yet have software inside the machine. It was just buttons and switches on the back of the machine and sometimes it got so cold that it would start making ice.”

He is proud of the progress he’s made since then and said sometimes it doesn’t even feel real.

“Today I’m a better presenter, and my latest prototype looks like it just came off the manufacturing line. And except for the stainless steel, it’s entirely 3D printed.”

Financial and moral support

As of August 2024, AstroBrew ended its initial Kickstarter campaign at 1,145% funded, translating to more than 600 appliances sold and making it to the top 1% of successful projects on the site.

As they approach mass production, Joe and his team feel strongly about choosing a North American manufacturer, not common for food and beverage appliances. They expect to ship to their first group of loyal fans in spring 2025.

“I’m excited to get AstroBrew out to kitchen counters in homes and in restaurants. It’s more than a product to me – I want AstroBrew to be a household name here and around the world.”

Joe is grateful that TriMech and the SOLIDWORKS for Startups program is part of AstroBrew’s story. He also credits the people closest to him for supporting his venture.

“My wife, family, and friends have believed in me from the beginning. So many people have reached out or helped in some way. I wear a lot of hats, and I couldn’t have made it to this point without loads of support.”

AstroBrew is online at astro-brew.com

To learn more about TriMech’s SOLIDWORKS (or 3DEXPERIENCE) for Startups, visit trimech.com/free-solidworks-for-startups

10. User Experience Delighters

We’ve all been there. You rebuild your SOLIDWORKS model only to find that you’ve got missing references and broken relations in your sketches. Well, now you can streamline the correction of these sketches with the ability to reattach broken sketch relations and dimensions. But also repeat these for all dangling dimensions.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 Sketch Broken Dimensions

9. Cut List Property Editor

Being able to edit the cut list property information of multi body parts has always been incredibly useful. However, copying these properties from one item to another has always been rather time consuming.

In 2025, we can simply choose specific properties to copy to either all items or just specific ones, potentially saving lots of time with those models with large amounts of cut list items. This release sees the ability to edit assemblies in large design review mode faster, with breadcrumb selections that make the selection hierarchy much clearer than in previous releases. A simple but effective improvement.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 Copy Cut List Property

8. Improved Output with Immersive Rendering

We can now create compelling, immersive content to inspire your customers by automating the creation of photo-realistic renderings, by leveraging SOLIDWORKS Visualize with the SOLIDWORKS API. Take advantage of the latest advancements in GPU technology with real time interactive ray tracing based on the open standard Vulcan API for 3D graphics and computing.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025 Realtime Raytracing

7. Streamlined ECAD to MCAD Collaboration and Design

In 2025 CircuitWorks is now available to all SOLIDWORKS users. Another nice addition is that we can now import internal and external copper features, including VRS traces and shapes from ECAD to SOLIDWORKS using IDX files.

This enables more accurate mass, thermal structural shock, and even electromagnetic analysis with access to more detailed copper trace information in the PCB. Streamline the ECAD to MCAD collaboration process for a more complete PCB design and simulation workflow.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 CircuitWorks Available for All

6. More flexible 3D Dimensioning and Tolerancing

Now you can enjoy faster, more flexible 3D dimensioning and tolerance. In SOLIDWORKS 2025. It couldn’t be easier. Now that you can create DimXpert dimensions from sketch dimensions.

We also have the ability to get DimXpert dimension support for drafted geometry. A huge time saver when dealing with molded components requiring geometric dimensioning and tolerances. In 2025. We can communicate our product manufacturing information or PMI downstream with increased flexibility and control with the new and improved STEP242 export settings.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 PMI Step 242 Settings

5. Improved Detailing of Drawings

Reduce the need for manual workarounds and streamline your drawings approval by enforcing company rules with multi approval stamps on drawings.

Any time on any connected device. 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 BOM table as either quantity or length x quantity. This can be a huge time saver when it comes to accurate information for manufacturing.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 Detail Cut List BOM

4. Faster Assembly Modeling

We’ve long been able to accelerate assembly design by copying assembly components along with their mates. Well, now in 2025 this has been improved by allowing us to copy components along with their associated advanced and mechanical mates. This year there are improvements with the interference detection tools.

Now we’re able to highlight interference between surface bodies or surface and solid bodies, useful for designs that include a mix of geometries. We are also able to detect interference while in large design review mode, saving us valuable time when it comes to evaluating assemblies with large numbers of components.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 LDR Interference Detection

3. Improved Performance

Every year, SOLIDWORKS offers its users big improvements in performance, and this year is no exception. We can now create highly simplified parts and make them associative to the parent part by using the silhouette feature method. These tools can offer significant performance gains when working with parts and assemblies with large amounts of detail.

We can also boost productivity by adding SpeedPak configurations at the top level of your assemblies, without needing to modify any of the sub-assemblies that might be contained within it. Also, new in 2025 is the ability to accelerate the calculation of mass properties for assemblies with previously calculated values for parts and bodies.

For example, when a change of material is made to a part within an assembly, the mass properties calculation for that assembly is recalculated in an instant.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 Part Top Level Speedpak

2. More Effective Collaboration and Data Management

We can now deliver innovative products faster with improved collaboration and data management capabilities. Within SOLIDWORKS 2025. We can connect and collaborate easily with industry peers by accessing communities directly from SOLIDWORKS.

Stay up to date with real time notifications, ensuring that you are always working with the latest file versions during collaborative design processes. SOLIDWORKS PDM has been instrumental for years in allowing SOLIDWORKS users to safely and securely manage their data.

Well, new this year SOLIDWORKS PDM is now supported for SOLIDWORKS Connected users. This is a great enhancement for customers who value the licensing and deployment capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Connected, but want to leverage an existing SOLIDWORKS PDM environment.

And you can still benefit from secure collaboration by sharing your designs with others, allowing them to view and mock up your designs.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 Real Time Notifications

1. Greater Part Modeling Flexibility

Create the exact geometry needed for your design more efficiently with this year’s release. In 2025, we can boost efficiency by leveraging selection accelerators for the chamfer command to rapidly select multiple edges.

We can create smoother, variable size fillets with a new option to continuously blend fillets edges. This can save his time when trying to manage variable radius fillets. And finally, we can now also automatically create customizable bend notches on the flat patterned bend lines of a sheet metal part, perfect for those requiring that extra level of detail.

SOLIDWORKS 2025 Chamfer Selection Accelerator

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2025 Live Webinar

We’re hosting a live webinar on October 1, 2024, at 10 AM ET; where we’ll show you even more of the new features from across the SOLIDWORKS suite and help you learn how to get the best from them. Registration is free and easy. Our panel of SOLIDWORKS experts will be available to answer any questions you might have about your design workflow. Expand your network and experience the latest engineering technology in action. Register for our SOLIDWORKS 2025 Launch Webinar »

• Look at some of SOLIDWORKS’ Greatest Hits of past releases
• See when some of your favorite tools were added to the software
• Learn about tools all over the SOLIDWORKS Design Ecosystem
• Discuss the biggest changes to SOLIDWORKS over the years

• See keyboard shortcuts to speed up your modeling
• Learn lesser-known SOLIDWORKS Functionality
• Recognize Timesaving SOLIDWORKS Workflows
• Gain a wealth of information in just 60 minutes