A perfect software for 3D modeling and large assemblies
We use SolidWorks for 3D design of mechanical components and assemblies. We sometimes use SolidWorks also for rendering creating the …
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Dassault Systemes offers SOLIDWORKS, a computer-aided design (CAD) system for education and manufacturing supporting 2D or 3D design, electrical design, simulations, and product development with collaboration tools.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Dassault Systemes offers SOLIDWORKS, a computer-aided design (CAD) system for education and manufacturing supporting 2D or 3D design, electrical design, simulations, and product development with collaboration tools.
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The most common users of SOLIDWORKS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Users of Solidworks have made several recommendations based on their experiences with the software. The most common recommendations include evaluating other products to consider their benefits, especially for CAD software. Users also recommend utilizing Solidworks for 3D design work, highlighting its user-friendly interface and easy learning curve for new users. Additionally, users praise Solidworks for its active community and available support resources, which they recommend taking advantage of. Overall, these recommendations emphasize the importance of exploring different options, leveraging community support, and considering Solidworks for 3D design purposes.
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January 25, 2019
Solidworks is a program that can provide solutions for companies, allowing engineers to make products with ease.
SOLIDWORKS was a product we used within our division. The rest of the company used CREO. The program was used for new design and support of redesign. Parts, assemblies and drawings were made using SOLIDWORKS. In addition, SOLIDWORKS was used for FEA.
- SOLIDWORKS is a very intuitive program. The commands are very easy to understand and follow.
- It is easy to make drawings; views can be immediately populated in the manufacturing drawing.
- There are functions that help create basic features for common designs. Advanced features are relatively simple to create as well.
- Sometimes the program had bugs. It’s not clear that those bugs were systemic or were related to the individual seat.
- There are sometimes issues when making big assemblies; the program has to be optimized to show all parts.
- The FEA part of the program can be slow, and designs need to be optimized to run correctly.
January 24, 2019
Real World Solidworks Review
Solidworks is used as our primary design tool for the development of large articulating gangways, powered elevating safety cages, platforms, etc. The parametric capabilities give us a faster design cycle time and more accurate shop floor drawings. Previously, we were using AutoCAD LT and all work was done in 2D with the bill of materials counted by hand & any changes to a single part required a redraw of every instance of that part in a given drawing set.
- Ease of 3D modeling; in all honesty, no other modeling software is as easy to learn for basic 3D modeling.
- Once your users learn the basics the program offers extremely advanced parametric capability to design large complex systems & make changes to them quickly.
- My 2 favorite features are the use of configurations & design tables to customize an initial design to work in different scenarios.
- Make certain that you implement protection for parts & assemblies you don't want changed when breaking in new users. It's great to be able to quickly change the design of a single part and have every instance of it automatically changed. Just make sure everyone knows how not to do this when you don't want to do it.
- It will crash occasionally, especially when working with large assemblies, even when in large assembly mode. Save often and set up your autosave to protect your work. This problem is much better than in previous years.
- The required annual subscription is not something I am fond of on any software.
December 21, 2018
SOLIDWORKS is an invaluable 3D design tool
SOLIDWORKS is used for most of our engineering and designing needs. Having the ability to model and view our equipment in 3D is invaluable. To be able to see interactions with other equipment or to catch interferences visually provides that value. You can also save out to 2D to share layouts and designs with customers.
- The interface is very user friendly and simple. Very minimal clicks are necessary to perform each task.
- We primarily use weldments and sheetmetal features. They are extremely helpful designing within these realms.
- Going from 3D to 2D prints is a breeze with SOLIDWORKS. Creating views and dimensioning is intuitive and simple.
- SOLIDWORKS is great at listening to its users and doing its best to implement enhancement requests.
- The feature tree is so useful. Being able to rollback and quickly modify your design is incredible. It also helps to capture design intent.
- I wish that they would take a year off from all the new enhancements and just focus on fixing stability issues and other bug issues submitted. Although the software has been more and more stable as the years go by.
- All software has its quarks. SOLIDWORKS is not free from that but can't really complain for what it provides.
December 19, 2018
SOLIDWORKS, MECHANICAL QUALITY DESIGN
Since 2005, I have used SOLIDWORKS. We have used it in the design department of Eyemar Express, with 3D modeling, analysis, simulations, optimizations, production planning and product cost estimation.
- It makes 3D modeling very easy and intuitive
- Integrates multiple applications that serve to optimize the design.
- Solidworks has a special focus on the design, I think it can extend its scope oriented towards the product life cycle, although this would mean competing directly with CATIA another DS Product.
- I believe that being a platform for product design should have better features of integration with ERP systems.
December 18, 2018
SOLIDWORKS - A Solid CAD Package
SOLIDWORKS is used exclusively by the engineering group in my organization, and we use it in a variety of ways. During product conceptualization phase, we use it to generate models to use for feasibility assessments whether digitally or through 3-D printing for physical assessments. Once designs are finalized, we also use SOLIDWORKS to generate our final specifications and engineering drawings. We also use SOLIDWORKS' file management software as a respository for all of our models and drawings and use it in conjunction with our document control system to control revisions and track document history.
- SOLIDWORKS has a very graphically oriented user interface, which makes it generally intuitive to use - at least for a tool with very complex functions
- Capability-wise, SOLIDWORKS has been able to handle everything that we have required from it. While our organization does not require extroardinarily complex assemblies or models, there are some intricate and sophisticated features in our parts that we are about to design using SOLIDWORKS.
- There is a very large user base, which makes it easy to find help for specific items or issues. Even when the official SOLIDWORKS help doesn't provide enough information for a specific application, there are generally plenty of users that may have had the same issue or are willing to help from just a quick Google search.
- There are certain quirks that we run into with SOLIDWORKS such as graphical glitches, and despite contacting SOLIDWORKS technical support, we have been unable to find a solution. These are by no means major issues, but they force us to use workarounds that make our workflow less efficient. For example, under certain circumstances, we have had graphical views on our engineering drawings spontaneously disappear. The data is there, but they can no longer be seen and do not show up when printed. The only way to fix this is to remove the view and re-insert them, which takes extra time.
- SOLIDWORKS recently forced an upgrade to their file management system. They are no longer supporting the old software and are forcing an upgrade to a new software. While this is not completely unexpected, I felt that this transition was poorly executed from the supplier's end. There was insufficient communication about the details of how to transition, the options available, and the cost impacts. My concern is that this would occur in the future as well.
- When I run into problems or issues, I often find that other users are the best source of finding solutions. While the vast user base makes this possible, it would be really great if SOLIDWORKS had a better help system and could be the first and "go-to" source of assistance.