Item: SOLIDWORKS
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SOLIDWORKS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Engineering department is using SOLIDWORKS. It is effortless to use, user-friendly and fast you can do a lot of things in it. Complex assemblies are easy to make, user-defined drawing paper, good quality rendering, realistic simulation, suitable for designing small parts, for 3D print, realistic-looking rendering, materials, scene, animation (motion) is good, and decent report of simulation.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Focus on ease of use allows the user to produce a 3D design in a fastest and easiest way.
Provides a seamless and integrated workflow
Create, validate, manage, and transform ideas to produce an excellent product design.

Cons

It can be slow, sometimes gets stuck while processing multiple parts.
Its time consuming to form an object from different parts.
File import from other software can be tricky and does not work very well.

Return on Investment

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%.