SolidWorks Product Grid for Fit, Form & Function
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SolidWorks
Intelligent
Feature
Technology
(SWIFT) lets you spend time creating
products that work well, instead of trying to make your software work
for you. SWIFT automates time-consuming detail work and techniques,
diagnosing and resolving problems related to feature order, mates,
sketch relationships, and the application of dimensions. As a result,
users of any experience level can be more effective and innovative.
Get
up
to
speed
fast. SolidWorks CommandManager logically groups similar
functions for easy access. And integrated tutorials provide instructive
workflow demonstrations along with visual cues.
With
the
Heads-up
User
Interface, you get a complete, customizable set of
visual display and mouse-driven control capabilities that reduce design
steps, minimize the need for dialog boxes, and lessen visual clutter.
There’s
no
need
to
start from scratch when you want to transition a 2D drawing
to a 3D model. SolidWorks includes data translation tools along with
help documentation for AutoCAD users, so you can smoothly convert DWG
files into 3D models. Alternatively, use DWGeditor®—included with
SolidWorks software—to edit, manipulate and maintain existing AutoCAD®
DWG files in their native format.
Speed
product
development
from
concept to production with powerful and
easy-to-use 3D part modeling tools. Design parts as they will be
positioned in the assembly to manage relationships to other parts.
Sketch in 2D and then extrude, revolve, blend or sweep the section
along a path to create any 3D geometry. Edit by merely clicking and
dragging geometry, or by clicking and changing dimensions. Time saving
features such as holes, bosses, fillets, chamfers, slots, keyways,
o-ring grooves, louvers and ribs are also provided. Drag/drop, pattern,
copy and mirror features to eliminate repetitive modeling tasks.
Visualize
and
communicate
your
designs more clearly than ever. Without rendering,
you can quickly create nearly lifelike, fully dynamic representations
of your parts, assemblies, and completed products.
Improve
the
aesthetics,
ergonomics,
and usability of your product designs.
Using the Freeform feature, creating new geometry or importing and
manipulating new surfaces is easy and intuitive.
Create
sheet
metal
parts
from scratch using folds, bends, flanges, rips, tabs,
mitres, lofted bends, sketched bends, hems and more. Alternatively,
create a solid shape as starting point then use advanced capabilities
such as ‘convert solid-to-sheetmetal’ functionality to develop a
manufacturable sheet metal part.
Sketch
a
layout
for
your frame and select a weldment profile, then SolidWorks
will automatically generate a weldment design in 3D. Modify, validate,
reinforce your design then enhance it with standard parts that you can
drag & drop from the Design Library and/or 3D ContentCentral. Then,
generate precise manufacturing drawings with cut lengths for all
segments.
In
SolidWorks,
you
can
import any of the major CAD formats including IGES,
STEP, Parasolid and ACIS to begin your mold designs. Complete your mold
design using specialized mold design features such as parting lines and
surfaces, and core/cavity splitting as well as specialized plastic part
design features such as shrinkage, draft, ribs, fastening features and
lip and groove features.
SolidWorks
gives
you
the
tools to “get it right” on screen when you create
assemblies—saving the time and cost of physical prototypes and
remanufacturing. Mate components by picking individual surfaces, edges,
curves, and vertices. Create mechanical relationships between
components. Conduct interference, collision, and hole alignment checks.
Link motion of pulleys and sprockets. Automatically assemble fasteners
and accompanying hardware. Automate assembly of commonly used
components, appropriate hardware, and required features. Use MateXpert
to fix conflicts such as over-constraining a component.
Simply by clicking and dragging components, you can check an assembly
for proper motion and collisions. In addition, you can simulate
physical motion involving assembly mates, contact, springs, and
gravity, as well as create, edit and save video animations.
Use “Lightweight” mode to reduce time spent opening and working on
large assemblies. Speedpak technology enables simplified versions of
assemblies to be created that speeds assembly operations and drawing
creation. Use Quick View to select and open just the components you
need to work on. Analyze and improve your assembly’s performance using
the AssemblyXpert.
Develop production-ready engineering drawings that automatically
reference the 3D part so that drawing views and bills of materials
update each time that you modify the part or assembly design. In
addition, you can use DWGeditor to maintain and update all your
existing DWG drawing files.
Easily import and use existing data, as well as data from external
sources. SolidWorks includes translators that support DWG, DXF™,
Pro/ENGINEER®, IPT (Autodesk Inventor®), Mechanical Desktop®,
Unigraphics®, PAR (Solid Edge™), CADKEY®, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, SAT
(ACIS), VDA-FS, VRML, STL, TIFF, JPG, Adobe® Illustrator®, Rhino®, IDF,
and HSF (Hoops) formats.
Leverage
your
successful
designs
to create compelling proposals for new ones.
Quickly search for pre-existing components in your own custom design
library, then simply drag and drop them into your new designs.
Significant time savings result when you use SolidWorks to
automatically generate a complete Bill of Materials (BOM) from your
design. Your BOM is associative: When you change your design, the BOM
updates automatically, and vice versa. Plus, you can export the BOM
data to Excel, ERP, and other applications.
SolidWorks Simulation tools help both new users and experts to ensure
your design is durable, safe, and manufacturable. In addition, you can
use SolidWorks FloXpress to optimize your designs for water and air
flow effects.
Save time with SolidWorks Smart Component technology to automate the
selection and insertion of standard components and DriveWorksXpress to
automate repetitive design tasks and provide configurability of your
design, allowing the quick creation of several variants from a single
design.
With SolidWorks, you’ll have numerous capabilities for accurately
communicating design ideas and data to collaborators, upstream and
downstream partners, and customers. Formats include PDF, TIF, JPEG,
DWG, DXF, IGES, STEP, STL, AVI, Parasolid, Pro/ENGINEER, eDrawings as
well as many others.
Collaborate more effectively by creating eDrawings files that can be
reviewed and marked-up. Let an unlimited number of recipients mark-up
and provide feedback on product designs.
When people you collaborate with use other CAD systems, FeatureWorks
helps you share imported data by allowing conversion directly to a
SolidWorks 3D model. You can elect to rebuild the entire imported model
with SolidWorks features, or select individual features to convert.
With SolidWorks Toolbox, you have instant access to thousands of
pre-built SolidWorks models of standard hardware such as bolts and
screws, bearings, o-rings, gears, etc. Just drag and drop them into
your design, or use the SmartFasteners capability to automatically
assemble and size fasteners.
Use PhotoWorks and PhotoView 360 to leverage your SolidWorks 3D models
for presentations, proposals, and virtual and material studies—before
creating any parts. Save time and eliminate the high costs of
prototyping and photography.
Raise your quality level with SolidWorks Design Checker. With thorough,
automated checks and autocorrect capability, you can ensure full
compliance with your company standards before you release your designs
for manufacture.
SolidWorks Utilities enables the designer to do many things including
compare parts or drawings to find differences between two similar
designs or similar drawings. FeatureWorks streamlines use of data from
different CAD systems to work together.
Import digital scans of handcrafted models into SolidWorks using
ScanTo3D. You can also import design concepts created in Rhino®
software or sketches developed in Adobe® Illustrator®
Automate and accelerate the process of routing tubes, pipes, electrical
cables, cable harnesses, and electrical conduits with SolidWorks
Routing.
Use CircuitWorks, a bi-directional ECAD translator, to ensure the fit
and function of printed circuit boards (PCBs) into electrical and
mechanical products.
Protect your product design data with secure, managed access to
authorized individuals, over a network or via the web. In addition to
internal users, you can also permit access to partners, customers and
your supply chain.
Help your design team avoid overwriting files and help purchasing and
manufacturing order and produce the correct parts, every time.
Quickly and easily find SolidWorks files by searching on metadata
(Custom Properties).
TolAnalyst
allows
tolerance
stack-up
analysis directly inside SolidWorks, and
analyzes designs based on the order and manner in which parts are
assembled, as well as DimXpert-applied dimensions and tolerances.
Determine if your design meets fit and function requirements without
tedious and error-prone hand calculations.
Study the interactions of assembly components onscreen, before
incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Accurately simulate static
or dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress,
strain, and displacement.
Apply a wide variety of physics-based models to simulate real-world
operating conditions for your design. Check for colliding parts. Output
numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of
your tests.
Ensure your welded structures perform at peak operating conditions.
Apply pressure, forces, and bearing loads. Then use powerful
visualization tools like sections plots, iso-clipping, and animation to
review the response of either the full assembly or only certain parts.