The 20th release of SolidWorks is here. New functionality will make your designs go more smoothly with less work and powerful new tools give you insight on how design changes impact profitability. Now, you can focus on the aspects of design that drives your business.
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Costing Tool
SolidWorks Costing automates manufacturing cost calculations for sheet metal and machined parts. Modify your design or switch part configurations and instantly
see the new, updated manufacturing estimate. Default templates are customizable to simulate your specific manufacturing environment.
Key Benefits:
Designers can make more informed decisions based on cost throughout the design process, continually modeling different scenarios. Automate your quoting process to increase manufacturing sales opportunities.
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Large Design Review
Large Design Review is the fastest way to open and interrogate a large assembly. Capabilities include walkthrough, sectioning, and measuring, as well as the ability
to open any assembly component.
Key Benefits:
Instantly open and review massive assemblies for any purpose without the need for a high-powered computer or any special file preparation.
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Magnetic Lines and Balloon Enhancements
Magnetic Lines allow you to automatically and precisely arrange balloons on a drawing. Balloons will snap to Magnetic Lines and can be moved from one Magnetic
Line to another.
Key Benefits:
Create and place balloons precisely where they need to go, while spending less time detailing and aligning your drawings.
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Feature Freeze
Feature Freeze lets you control whether specific features will rebuild or not. Additional features can be added without having to rebuild earlier ones; at any point,
features can be unfrozen.
Key Benefits:
Dramatically speed the design of complex models where rebuilding of specific features is not desired. |
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Enhanced Equation Editor
The Equation Editor has been completely revamped for easier navigation and use. Syntax highlighting is especially useful for trouble-shooting equations. Multiple
views include Variable and Equation View, Dimension View, and Solve Order View.
Key Benefits:
Use the new capabilities to createequations faster and understand equation order more easily. |
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Command Search
Command Search allows you to quickly find commands that are either hard to access, or not on the standard toolbars. Launch commands, drag and drop commands, or
just highlight command locations in pull-down menus or toolbars directly from the search results.
Key Benefits:
Get up to speed faster with Command Search, and more easily customize the SolidWorks user interface to streamline your workflow.
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Motion Optimization
Motion Optimization automatically uses motion study results to create sensors and refine machine aspects such as motor size, bearing loads, and range of travel.
Dynamically adjust any input and immediately see changes to constraints or goals.
Key Benefits:
Optimize designs in a fraction of the time by refining the mechanism configuration to suit stock motors and actuators, ensuring range limits or bearing loads are not exceeded. |
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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Integrated Search
Enterprise PDM Integrated Search gives you the option of searching from within your current Explorer window—no separate dialogs needed. Access favorite searches or
open the full search tool for all options.
Key Benefits:
Reduce screen clutter by streamlining the number of open dialog boxes. |
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3DVIA Composer™ Enhanced Lifelike Experience
Enhanced Lifelike Experience enables you to add part-to-part shadows, ambient occlusion, and shadows to 2D panels with precise control for a more 3D appearance.
A glow effect can also be added to highlight specific areas of interest.
Key Benefits:
Take precise control over your 3DVIA Composer renderings and add a more lifelike appearance to your visualizations.
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SolidWorks Sustainability
Sustainability has a new, advanced user interface that allows you to more closely model processes, with parameters like recycled content and duration of use.
You also have access to the latest Sustainability Extras materials as soon as they become available—without waiting for service packs or new releases.
Key Benefits:
More accurately model your products with new “what if” scenarios and better support for unique and custom materials, beyond the standard SolidWorks material database. |
