Solidworks is a powerful 3D CAD package with a few holes
May 25, 2019

Solidworks is a powerful 3D CAD package with a few holes

Benjamin Reilly | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SOLIDWORKS

Solidworks is used for all design and verification of fixtures, tooling, brackets, and components in a production plant. Solidworks is our primary 3D CAD package for the development of tools.
  • Solidworks has simple modeling and sketching.
  • Solidworks has good conversion to drawings.
  • Solidworks has adequate assembly control and mates.
  • Solidworks could improve on collaboration tools.
  • Solidworks needs to fix bugs before releasing features.
  • Solidworks is a resource hog, and the resource monitor is constantly going off.
  • Solidworks could have better assembly controls.
  • Solidworks allows us to model and simulate tooling prior to purchasing, reducing waste.
  • Solidworks is not used in saleable products here, as our product is a process.
  • Solidworks has easy to adapt controls from other programs, reducing the learning curve.
Solidworks is easier to use than Creo, but not as usable as Inventor. It is superior to Onshape and Fusion, however, Onshape is better for collaboration.
Solidworks is a reasonable 3D CAD program, just under Inventor in my book, and above the "free" or other cloud-based services. It is easier than Creo.