Includes 3D tools such as sheetmetal, weldments, mold tools, physical dynamics and a host of 2D drawing capabilities to get your design done faster, with less effort.

What does this do for you?

• Focuses your attention on the design ideas, not the details of the documents.
• Parametrically links all drawings, BOMS, cut lists to one idea. As the idea changes so does all of the supporting documentation.

Stand alone DWG file editor with an AutoCAD® -like interface

What does this do for you?

• Users familiar with the AutoCAD® environment, who need to maintain legacy DWG files, will find this a useful, stand alone software.
• Users can load the DWGeditor on up to 3 computers for each copy of SolidWorks on hand. This is an exceedingly cost effective way to maintain a 2D legacy data.

Included is the most robust import/export capabilities you'll find. Including: DWG, DXF, Inventor, PTC (Pro/e and Wildfire), CADKEY, SolidEdge, Unigraphics, Parosolid, ACIS, IGES, STEP

What does this do for you?

• Ensures you can communicate with just about anyone both in terms of using their files and sending them your files.

Provides finite element analysis capabilities to single parts.

What does this do for you?

• This is an introductory version of the Cosmos FEA product line. It provides the ability to test single parts for stress, strain and displacement given user defined loads and restraints.
• An excellent tool for designers trying to verify ideas prior to fabrication.

A tool that delivers basic computational fluid dynamic analysis for internal flow systems.

What does this do for you?

• The benefit of using this software is that it will validate your design ideas regarding flow through an internal system whether liquid or gas.

This is an introductory version of the DriveWorks product line. The easy to use design automation tool.

What does this do for you?

• It allows you to automate your most tedious and repetitive design tasks.
• It can automatically generate your parts, assemblies and drawings without the need for any programming.

An up front validation tool to check the manufacturability of your designs.

What does this do for you?

• Allows you to catch geometry that could be difficult, expensive or impossible to machine by conventional methods early in the design process.
  
  
• It can help you reduce time consuming calculations with manufacturing experts or running through tedious manufacturing check lists.

Fully dynamic, semi-photorealistic scenes in SolidWorks

What does this do for you?

• Gives realistic representations of parts and assemblies that are fully dynamic without the need to render.

Easy-to-use file management tool for SolidWorks. Free for anyone.SolidWorks Explorer is available to both SolidWorks and non-SolidWorks users.

What does this do for you?

• As intuitive as Windows® Explorer, it provides file management for SolidWorks, Autocad and other CAD files.
• Users manage relationships when copying or renaming SolidWorks files, perform searches for SolidWorks files on dozens of different criteria.

eDrawings is a free viewing and publishing application for sharing and archiving 2D and 3D product design data.

What does this do for you?

• You can now have the ability deliver interactive 3D models for review.
• Users can deliver 2D drawings that have all the 3D information built in as well.
• This provides the reader to start with the 2D drawing and then venture into reviewing the 3D model as well.

Upgrades your eDrawings to allow anyone to view, mark up, and measure your design ideas.

What does this do for you?

• Creates documents that can be redlined and reviewed, electronically and in 3D to anyone with a computer
• .Provides an excellent method for detailing ideas and generating interactive sales documents.

Finds differences between two versions of the same part quickly and easily.

What does this do for you?

• Identifies and highlights problematic geometry in a part.
• Can find, modify and suppress features within a model.

Automate assembly tasks with a library of standard parts. This includes fasteners, structural steel, bearings, Unistrut, cam development tools, and more.

What does this do for you?

• Provides a fast, simple method for adding the fasteners to your design.
• Improves product design time by generating many of the standard parts used in designs automatically.

Simplify the reuse of 3D CAD data created in varied file formats.

What does this do for you?

• Bring in 3D data from other systems and turns them into native SolidWorks parts that you can edit as if built in SolidWorks.
• Improves time necessary to bring in data from older systems into SolidWorks.

Create photorealistic images directly from your model.

What does this do for you?

• Provides you an opportunity to create photorealistic images, directly from your model that can be used for sales and marketing purposes.
• Gives you an opportunity to present ideas as if already built.

Enables you to schedule tasks, such as batch printing, running of analyses, and updating of project files.

What does this do for you?

• Provides opportunity to automatically print all your drawings at one time or automate back up processes.
• Streamlines your ability to do repetitive tasks associated with typical engineering production efforts.

This product manages electronic data and manages the revision cycle, life cycle, protects data in an electronic vault that resides on your computer.

What does this do for you?

• Provides the ability to track who did what, when did they do it and why.
• Provides security in avoiding overwriting or inadvertent deletion of data.

Analyzes drawings, per customizable rules, to verify if the drawings were done per the company standards.

What does this do for you?

• Enables you to verify drafting standards such as proper lines, fonts, drawing blocks, balloons are utilized.
• Highlights when items in bills of materials aren’t ballooned in the drawing.

Quickly and easily create and publish live Web pages with 3D interactive content, all hosted by SolidWorks.

What does this do for you?

• You can provide everyone from your staff to your customers with the visual information they need to give you important feedback without requiring them to install additional viewers.

Speed up the process of routing tubes, pipes and electrical cable as well as electrical harnesses. Streamline the design of machinery, equipment, or anything else that requires routing tubes, pipes along with electrical cables and harnesses using Routing.

What does this do for you?

• Provides ability to layout pipes, conduits and tubes associated with the hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical subassemblies as you design
• Enables you to verify the layouts, lengths and quantity of fittings in your design.

State of the art finite element analysis tool that includes analysis for linear stress, strain, displacement. It includes a comprehensive materials library, and much more.

What does this do for you?

• Provides you the opportunity to test your design before actually building it (e.g. verify whether a linkage will break under load, a pressure vessel can withstand designed pressures, test deflection of a weldment under load, etc….).
• Provides analysis reports on how your design reacts to design loads for further analysis and review.

A kinematics tool that enables engineers to size motors, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, and determine how contacting parts behave.

What does this do for you?

• Provides a quantitative reduction in physical prototyping costs and reduced product development time.
• Enhances your ability to consider more designs, risk reduction by reporting on how your design reacts to design loads for further analysis and review.

Bi-directional ECAD translator for SolidWorks. Read and write the industry standard IDF 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 format files produced by Electrical CAD (ECAD) systems used for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design. It can also read *.asc files from the Mentor PADS ECAD system.

What does this do for you?

• Integrate the electrical designs of the circuit boards directly into the mechanical design.
• Accurately provides designers true mechanical design properties.

Tolerance stack-up analysis and validation

What does this do for you?

• Quickly verify dimensioning and tolerancing schemes for proper fit and function.
• Eliminates the need for hand calcs and manual entry of tolerances.

A utility for converting scanned data into solid models

What does this do for you?

• Using ScanTo3D technology with the NextEngine® Desktop 3D scanner, you can open scanned data directly into SolidWorks
• Combined with the 3D desktop scanner, ScanTo3D provides an affordable, easy-to-use solution for capturing physical objects right from your desktop.