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
On Premise
per year
Solidworks Standard
3,996
On Premise
per standalone license
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- 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.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 5.2.
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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February 16, 2023
A perfect software for 3D modeling and large assemblies
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Improved performance compared to the previous software
- Slightly reduced costs
- Added the chance of creating catalogue images on our own
September 16, 2022
A student's perspective on SOLIDWORKS
- Greater Cohesion of Design
- Easier Collaboration
- Can be finicky with lots of parts in an assembly.
- Average not much exciting result but yes it is a good product
- Improvement needed as competitor are doing pretty well.
March 09, 2022
SOLIDWORKS - Best Companion for Mechanical Engineers
- Instead of designing standard components, I can directly import it from design library, thus saving my simulation time and improves productivity.
- No manual weight calculation, SOLIDWORKS will do the same for us
- For complex components, the results are not very accurate, hence need to use different software for the same.
November 04, 2021
Solidworks is a good choice
- Improve design quality so spending on warranty reduced
- Improve documentation so existing parts and assemblies are easier to find
- Engineering time spend increased by implementing more 3D designing
July 30, 2021
Solidworks and Injection Molding Analysis Review
- SOLIDWORKS provides relative low cost of licensing, with respect to other CAD modeling software. Given that we only use it if needed, it provides the best tools for the price and for our usage frequency.
- Outside of my expertise as a design engineer
- Save time on drafting
- Time lost in yearly upgrades
- Costly network licences
- 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.
April 15, 2021
Solidworks is easy to use with great functions
- It has standardized our estimating department.
- It has decreased the time to create flat patterns.
- It has decreased the time to create in house drawings.
April 11, 2021
SOLIDWORKS for the future generations
- Saves time on reverse engineering a part from concept to prototype and into production.
- Ease of training new employees to use SOLIDWORKS.
April 10, 2021
Sketch feature should be like DraftSight
- Hard to answer directly. Given our customer's needs, we absolutely have to have SW to open their file types.
- Given the relatively limited use we need at our company, it would be useful to have a cheaper option that was more stripped down but still had some capabilities. Something in-between SW and eDrawings, for example. SW is very capable and expensive, eDrawings is free and super limited. Would be nice to have a middle option.
April 09, 2021
SOLIDWORKS and its Capabilities
- Helpful in creating assemblies for printing equipment
- Software used for years of machine development
- Long design times on assembly iterations
April 08, 2021
SOLIDWORKS Review
- Increased speed of manufacturing
- Increased customer clarity of what we are selling
April 07, 2021
Powerful tool for 3D design
- Design time has reduced
- Prototyping is more efficient
- Modification and issue resolution is much simpler
- They have a fair licensing model that requires yearly renewals but the costs are not terrible by comparison to other software.
- The upgrade process could be a little easier but it's not terrible and the available support is always there if needed.
November 05, 2020
Definitely not worth it. Very Slow and the program is a crash-maniac
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Made me lose interest in design engineering
July 02, 2020
SOLIDWORKS Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Especially useful when building complex sheet metal parts, such as hoppers and tanks - saves a lot of time!
- Allows you to view and build 3D parts that you can move to other view points to make construction and manipulation easier
- SOLIDWORKS is a bit expensive and doesn't come with a good way to manipulate the 2D files you can export from it.
June 16, 2020
Best 3D prototyping software
- This minimizes the number of actual cycles of prototyping to get final product.
- This reduces the timeline of project work.
- Easy getting professional drawings without doing additional work.
May 04, 2020
Easy to learn
- SOLIDWORKS is an integral piece of software for our company. It has allowed us to design, analyze, and test our product before we spend money building it physically.
- Massive increase in productivity from paper to 3D printed model in a few hours
- Workflow was painful before...now it's not...time is money!
March 14, 2020
SOLIDWORKS - great software for design!
- SOLIDWORKS has allowed us to design and iterate more quickly.
March 13, 2020
SOLIDWORKS! From a Solid User
- Part flow.
- Time management.
- Validation.
February 27, 2020
SOLIDWORKS for manufacturing ease
- Faster design iterations and fewer errors lead to quicker time to market.
- It took about two and a half months to learn versus four and a half months learning other CAD programs.
- Ramp up time to productivity in SOLIDWORKS improved by 50%.
February 10, 2020
Easy to use, easy to learn, does the job.
- Relatively easy to find experienced SOLIDWORKS engineers.
- Ease of use for rapid product modelling.