SolidWorks

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SolidWorks 3D MCAD Software

SolidWorks provides intuitive and straightforward 3D CAD tools to help design teams develop better products. SolidWorks offers unmatched performance and value, leadership in innovation, and the largest community of users. No other CAD system allows you to get product design work done as quickly and accurately.

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Core Product

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DWGeditor

DWGeditor functionality enables you to edit and create native DWG files in a familiar 3D CAD software user interface.

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Enable Markup
Enable Measure
Password Protection
Dynamic Cross Sectioning
Move Components and Explode Views
View Configurations
Share and View SolidWorks Animator Output
View Mass Properties

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COSMOSXpress

Gain insight into how your SolidWorks® design will function with COSMOSXpress™, the point-and-click stress wizard built into SolidWorks 3D modeling software. For designers with no previous virtual simulation experience, COSMOSXpress guides you step-by-step through the design validation process - allowing you to explore the benefits of first-pass design checks without any cost.

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Perform a first-pass design check on simple SolidWorks parts.
Determine the factor of safety of your parts.
Easily document and share your results with HTML reports and SolidWorks eDrawings.
Enjoy the benefits of design simulation and analysis free inside SolidWorks.
Easily upgrade to COSMOSWorks Designer if additional functionality is needed.

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DFMXpress

DFMXpress is an upfront validation tool that allows engineers and designers to catch geometry that could be difficult, expensive or impossible to machine by conventional methods early in the design process when mistakes can easily be fixed. DFMXpress can help you reduce time consuming consultations with manufacturing experts or running through tedious manufacturing check lists. DFMXpress is fully integrated inside SolidWorks meaning that you can run manufacturing checks at any point during the design process and incorporate changes early in your designs.

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Detection of common manufacturability issues for milling operations
Detection of common manufacturability issues for turning operations
Detection of common manufacturability issues for drilling operations
Detection of common manufacturability issues for manufacturing tolerances
Intuitive easy to use user interface
Direct feedback with respect to problems detected and suggestions as to possible solutions

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DriveWorksXpress

Today customers are demanding products at lower prices, higher quality, faster delivery and in many cases customized to meet their unique requirements. DriveWorksXpress allows you to automatically generate products or product variants by filling out a simple form. DriveWorksXpress can be set up to automate your repetitive design tasks and automatically generate your parts, assemblies and drawings without the need for any programming what so ever.

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Automatically generate parts, assemblies and drawings
Capture and reuse valuable engineering guidelines and rules
Generate SolidWorks models by filling out a simple form
Control dimensions, features, configurations, file names and custom properties
Reduce engineering time spent on tedious and repetitive design tasks
Eliminate costly design mistakes
Enable consistent adherence to design standards
Improve design quality
Reduce product design costs
Reduce product design time

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RealView Graphics

SolidWorks® incorporates state-of-the-art visualization by taking advantage of the latest capabilities of today's graphic cards. These capabilities give users realistic representations of their part models and assemblies that are fully dynamic without the need to render.

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eDrawings® Professional

eDrawings™ Professional software provides you the benefits of eDrawings Viewer, as well as other time-saving capabilities:

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Enable Markup
Enable Measure
Password Protection
Dynamic Cross Sectioning
Move Components and Explode Views
View Configurations
Share and View SolidWorks Animator Output
View Mass Properties

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SolidWorks Utilities

SolidWorks Utilities finds differences between two versions of the same part quickly and easily, and identifies and highlights problematic geometry in a part. It can also find, modify, and suppress features within a model. SolidWorks Utilities features six categories of functionality, along with customized HTML reporting and full-integration with SolidWorks. All of which makes it a significant productivity tool. It can certainly give you the added capabilities you need to work efficiently in any environment that requires multiple design changes and revisions, including your company’s ECO process.

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Compare Geometry--Enables you to quickly determine what geometry is different between two designs using Face Comparison, Geometry Comparison, or View Synchronization.
Compare Features--Highlights what model features are different between two designs and color-codes them from easy identification. A list of differences can be generated.
Feature Paint--Allows you to apply existing feature parameters and attributes from one feature to another.
Format Paint--Allows you to quickly apply existing dimension and annotation formatting properties to dimensions and annotations in the current document or another document.
Geometry Analysis--Helps you identify and highlight problematic imported geometry in a part based on user-specified parameters such as minimum fillet radius, minimum sliver face size, etc.
Thickness Checker--Checks the model for thick or thin regions that may influence part integrity or manufacturing.
Document Compare--Allows you to easily compare the properties of 2 SolidWorks documents.
Power Select--Lets you select edges, loops, faces, and features based on geometric criteria.
Power Editing--Lets you find, modify, and suppress features within a model based on their parameters. Power editing also lets you create simplified versions of parts and assemblies by locating and suppressing small features.
Find/Replace Annotations--Quickly find and replace annotations anywhere in parts, assemblies and drawings.

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SolidWorks® Toolbox

Here's a simple, affordable way to be more productive every day. It's SolidWorks Toolbox. No more thumbing through parts catalogs to check values and specifications. No more fiddling to make pieces fit into your model. No more stacking one-washer-one-bolt-one-nut at a time. With SolidWorks Toolbox you have instant access to an entire encyclopedia of standard components. Now you can select and place the right part in the right hole in seconds. Just indicate your hole or thread size and click — there’s your part. Now just drag and drop it into place. Since Toolbox is fully integrated with SolidWorks 3D CAD software, you can utilize Smart Part Technology to automate your entire assembly process -- bolts, washers, and nuts, one stack or a hundred, properly assembled in a few clicks.

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Supported standards include:
ANSI, BSI, CISC, DIN, ISO, JIS, GB
Customize per your company standards
Hardware:
Bearings and bearing-life calculator
Bolts and screws
Jig bushings
Nuts
O-rings
Keys
Pins
Washers
PEM® inserts
Retaining rings
Miscellaneous drag-and-drop hardware
Structural shapes
Aluminum sections
Steel sections
Beam calculator
Unistrut®
Power transmission:
Cams
Sprockets
Timing belt pulleys
Gears

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FeatureWorks®

With FeatureWorks®, sharing data between different CAD systems is easy. The first parametric feature recognition software for SolidWorks 3D CAD users, FeatureWorks enables more productive sharing of 3D models between SolidWorks and other CAD systems. When importing files into SolidWorks, FeatureWorks applies intelligence to static geometric data, recognizes it, and then readies it for use in SolidWorks. Fine-tuning imported designs is simple with the functionality of SolidWorks. Imported features like holes, cuts, ribs and chamfers are fully editable, associative, and parametric. If you would rather just convert a few features on the part, FeatureWorks providing instant editing capability. Just click to edit the geometry, for example a fillet or chamfer, and the feature is automatically recognized and converted to a parametric SolidWorks feature. FeatureWorks captures all imported data and recognizes features from files produced by standard translators such as STEP, IGES®, SAT (ACIS®), VDA-FS, and Parasolid® files. FeatureWorks recognizes all these features:

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Extrusion features such as bosses and cuts of the following sketch entities: lines, circles, and circular arcs
Revolved features that are conical or cylindrical
Any standard hole types, such as simple, tapered, and counterbored
Hole pattern recognition--linear, rectangular and circular
Sheet metal features including edge flange, sketch and bend, and base features
Random sketch patterns of features on a plane
Shell features such as uniform wall and shell inward only
Ribs and draft features
Constant and variable-radius fillets
Applied features such as chamfers and fillets

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PhotoWorks™

PhotoWorks software enables SolidWorks® users to quickly and predictably create photorealistic images that rival those of studio-based photography.

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SolidWorks Task Scheduler

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3D Instant Website

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SolidWorks Design Cheker

Streamline your organization's design release process with SolidWorks Design Checker, a productivity tool that automatically identifies elements that may be inconsistent with your organization's design standards. The SolidWorks Design Checker is integrated into the SolidWorks software interface, making it easy for you to spot and fix potential errors before releasing designs.

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The SolidWorks Design Checker ensures accuracy, completeness, and standards compliance for design elements such as:
- Title blocks
- Custom properties
- Layers
- Annotation and dimension fonts
- Standard units
- Materials
- Overridden dimensions
- Spelling
The SolidWorks Design Checker provides:
- The ability to define and save standard checks
- The ability to 'learn' standard checks from an existing SolidWorks document or DWG file
- The ability to 'autocorrect' errors identified when running a check
- The ability to run standard checks in batch mode

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PDMWorks ® Workgroup

Control CAD file revisions and manage all project data more efficiently with PDMWorks Workgroup product data management software (PDM software). Uniquely adapted to the requirements of SolidWorks® users and small engineering workgroups, PDMWorks Workgroup software supplies comprehensive controls to help your design team avoid the possibility of overwriting files or making other errors that could add time and cost to your schedule. PDMWorks Workgroup CAD data management lets you: protect project files with simple security; accelerate return on investment with easy setup; spend less time organizing and tracking design data; improve productivity through reuse of product design data; and enhance collaboration. Easy to set up and use, PDMWorks Workgroup CAD data management solutions capture file revision histories automatically and allows you and other members of your product design team to instantly access desired files, determine who has worked on them, and see exactly when changes were made.

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Provides secure access to engineering data
Facilitates design re-use
Enables a workgroup design environment
Automates revision control
Provides rapid ROI with limited IT required

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SolidWorks Routing

Perform routed system design tasks easily and automatically. Speed up the process of routing tubes, pipes, electrical cable and harnesses and electrical conduit. With SolidWorks Routing, you’ll enjoy greater design efficiency, better designs, improved BOM accuracy, faster time-to-market, and lower costs. Streamline the design of machinery, equipment, small facilities, or anything else that requires routing tubes, pipes along with electrical cables and harnesses and electrical conduit. All it takes is SolidWorks Routing, the powerful routed systems design application and fittings library that’s fully integrated with SolidWorks.

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Intuitive creation and modification of routed systems, including drag-and-drop placement, automatic sizing of components (parts or assemblies), copying and mirroring of routes, and auto-insertion of piping bends and elbows.
Fast, easy 3D parametric modeling of tubing, piping, and electrical cable and harness systems within complex product or equipment designs.
Auto-routing of tube, hose, and electrical cable and harness segments directly or through mounting clips and hangers.
Time-saving library of ready-made tubing, piping, and electrical cabling and harnessing components.
Automatic creation of engineering drawing and bills of materials with complete information, including cut lengths for pipe and tube routes.
Specialized capabilities including creation of bend data files for CNC tube- and pipebending machines and efficient creation of penetration cuts involving pipes and tubes.
Easy reuse of data created with electrical CAD software and other tools when creating new cable and harness route designs, importing data conveniently in the Microsoft® Excel format.

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TolAnalyst

With TolAnalyst, you’ll be able to quickly verify dimensioning and tolerancing schemes to ensure proper fit and function. TolAnalyst GD&T data is read directly from the SolidWorks models. TolAnalyst eliminates the need for hand calculations and manual entry of dimensions and tolerances. Maximum/minimum worst-case and RSS results are calculated and a "contributors" list is output to let you know which features and tolerances have the greatest impact on the stack-up. In this way you can loosen tolerances on dimensions that are not important to the stack-up, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.

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Fast tolerance stack-up calculation of maximum and minimum “worst-case” and RSS for parts and assemblies
Intuitive and easy-to-use
Ability to create and display critical study dimensions directly on the 3D model
Automatic extraction of dimensions and tolerances necessary for the analysis directly from the 3D models
Automatic calculation and display of a contributors list of features and tolerances based on percent impact on the critical evaluation dimensions
Graphic display of maximum and minimum condition in the 3D model
Quickly evaluate diffrent tolerance schemes
Seamlessly integrated with SolidWorks DimXpert - automated part dimensioning and tolerancing
Ability to export all analysis results in Excel

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COSMOSWorks

COSMOSWorks provides simple, accurate design analysis that leads to better products by giving designers a safety net for catching errors. Designers are free to innovate, secure in the knowledge that they won't pass costly mistakes down the line. Complete integration with SolidWorks® 3D product design software means that COSMOSWorks users can perform design analysis, simulation and optimization directly from their SolidWorks user interface. COSMOSWorks enables faster, less costly, and more optimized product development, as well as more in-depth examination of product performance than would ever be possible using even the most detailed prototypes.

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Available in the following packages, COSMOSWorks can be expanded as your analysis needs grow and change:
- Designer - Fully embedded inside the SolidWorks interface, COSMOSWorks Designer utilizes the SolidWorks FeatureManager® and many of the same mouse and keyboard commands, so anyone who can design a part in SolidWorks can analyze it without having to learn a new interface. COSMOSWorks Designer contains the most
  frequently used design validation tools, offering stress, strain, and displacement analysis capabilities for both parts and assemblies at a very affordable price.
- Professional - COSMOSWorks Professional offers a wide spectrum of powerful tools to help engineers who are familiar with design validation concepts to perform virtual testing and analysis of parts and assemblies. Engineers who need more specific design analysis capabilities can use COSMOSWorks Professional to predict the physical behavior of practically any part or assembly under any loading condition.
- Advanced Professional - One of the most comprehensive and sophisticated finite element analysis packages available, COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional offers seasoned analysts a tremendous range of finite element analysis capabilities at a fraction of the cost of most high-end Finite Element Analysis (FEA) programs.

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COSMOSMotion

The most popular virtual prototyping tool for SolidWorks, COSMOSMotion™ motion simulator lets you make sure your designs will work before you build them. Included inside SolidWorks Office Premium, COSMOSWorks Professional, and COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional, COSMOSMotion is the standard virtual prototyping package for engineers and designers interested in understanding the performance of their assemblies. COSMOSMotion enables engineers to size motors/actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, and determine how contacting parts behave. The result is of motion simulation and analysis is a quantitative reduction in physical prototyping costs and reduced product development time. COSMOSMotion also provides qualitative benefits such as the ability to consider more designs, risk reduction, and the availability of valuable information early in the design process.

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Estimate peak motor torque when performing tasks like positioning antenna reflectors, opening and closing security gates, handling materials, and raising and lowering scissors-type lift tables. Also see how friction can increase power requirements and actuator size.
Understand robotics performance during operation, for example, installing windshields, pick and place electronic components on circuit boards in electronics plants.
Optimize or minimize the force imbalance of a rotating system in orbital sanders, sewing machines, shaker beds, drive-shafts, etc.
Change the design length of backhoe linkages to provide better digging performance.
Generate CAM curves (profiles) employed in automatic feed mechanisms and screw machines.
Represent interactions between various gears (spurs, work, helical, and rack-and- pinion) used in different kinds of power transmission or motion control.
Perform basic suspension tuning for racing applications.

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SolidWorks ScanTo3D

Have you ever wanted to capture a digital rendition of a physical part or concept in SolidWorks® software? ScanTo3D now makes this possible, reducing the time and resources required to build complex CAD models. Unlike using calipers or outsourcing, ScanTo3D allows you to quickly create 3D renderings from scanned data. And as part of SolidWorks Office Premium, ScanTo3D is completely integrated into your SolidWorks environment. ScanTo3D is an indispensable tool for any designer who needs to capture physical concept models, existing OEM parts, or anatomical objects and use these scanned renditions as references to build SolidWorks models. With ScanTo3D, you can convert extremely organic shapes to solid models for reference in your designs. Plus, ScanTo3D provides tools to recognize analytic shapes, such as machined parts and consumer products, and can decompose and fit analytic or non-analytic surface types to the mesh