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A student's perspective on SOLIDWORKS
September 16, 2022

A student's perspective on SOLIDWORKS

Prey Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS is used at my institution in order to help 3d model complex objects or new designs that are being conceptualized. For example, my formula hybrid team has used SOLIDWORKS for the past 7 years in order to design entire race cars from scratch and model every single part that is used on the car.
  • User Interface
  • Accessibility
  • Creating Drawings
  • Ease of Use
  • Battery Consumption
  • Time taken to Start
  • File Sharing
  • Organization
  • Ease of Use
  • Great amount of Features
  • Greater Cohesion of Design
  • Easier Collaboration
  • Can be finicky with lots of parts in an assembly.
SOLIDWORKS is actually used by major corporations to design and create products for wide release, whereas Autodesk Inventor is usually only seen as an instructional tool to teach students the basics of 3d modeling so that they can adapt to more complex software with less effort later on. This is why SOLIDWORKS is better.

Do you think SOLIDWORKS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SOLIDWORKS's feature set?

Yes

Did SOLIDWORKS live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of SOLIDWORKS go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy SOLIDWORKS again?

Yes

SOLIDWORKS is really well suited for engineering design work and making sure that different parts work well together and don't interfere with one another. SOLIDWORKS does not like working with very small and repeated parts that require very minute changes, such as a meshes or microchips. It is very much suited to working on larger designs composed of smaller parts.