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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What is SOLIDWORKS?
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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Solidworks Annual Subscription
1,295
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per year
Solidworks Standard
3,996
On Premise
per standalone license
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- No setup fee
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- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| 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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We use SolidWorks as our primary CAD application throughout the organization including both our engineering and production (CNC programing) departments.
- Top of the line parametric solid modeling
- Intuitive interface
- Expansive feature set
- Excellent handling of both large and small design projects.
- Fantastic support network
- Stable and reliable
- Solidworks is continually improving its product, however, more focus could be put into traditional drawings as opposed to MBD.
- Crashes can at times happen without warning or symptoms.
- The newer focus on cloud-based applications is a bit late to the game and needs some work to bring it up to enterprise-class.
- The ROI of SolidWorks occurred for our company likely within the first 6-12 months of its adoption (13 years ago). These days, it's hard to imagine running our business without it as it is the foundation for all of the products we manufacture.
In many scenarios, SolidWorks and Inventor actually compare fairly evenly to each other. However, I believe that where SolidWorks really stands out is the fact that it was designed from the start as a 3D parametric solid modeling application whereas Inventor comes from a company that has a decade's worth of background in 2D CAD. This means that I feel that SolidWorks generally has a more naturally intuitive approach to 3D CAD in its interface. Onshape did initially offer a very attractive alternative being a cloud-based solution, however, upon deeper evaluation, it just hadn't quite reached the level of an enterprise-class solution that a company like mine needed. The new forays into cloud-based solutions from Dassault do have the potential to get there since they have SolidWorks at its core, but I still believe that a desktop-based CAD suite, and especially a localized server-based data management solution to be the best for most users today.
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Engineering & design, production management, and CNC programing.
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I support SolidWorks to all of our inhouse users.
- 3D CAD
- Data Management
- CNC Programing
- Expansion of data management solutions outside of the engineering department.
October 24, 2019
Easy to use CAD for smaller assemblies
SOLIDWORKS is used by the engineering team in the Cummins Electrified Power business unit for mechanical and electrical design.
- Quick 3D modeling.
- FEA analysis.
- Good for smaller assemblies.
- Weight and center of gravity analysis.
- Crashes constantly with large assemblies.
- It does not do well with imported files such as .step.
- 3D routing in SW Electrical is clumsy.
- Collaboration tools are behind the competition.
- The fast learning curve for engineering team is a positive ROI.
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Engineering
1
Basic PD admin.
- Mechanical design
- Electrical design
- Quick design/demos for sales activities.