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SOLIDWORKS Premium with Cloud

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Premium empowers innovation with its comprehensive design and analysis capabilities tailored for the mechanical design engineer. Its suite of advanced features goes beyond mere CAD, offering a holistic solution that caters to the intricate needs of product development, from conceptualization to manufacturing. In addition to the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Standard and SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Professional, SOLIDWORKS Premium adds:
  • Advanced Surface Flattening: Complex geometries pose significant design challenges, especially those involving nondevelopable surfaces found in textiles and sheet metals. SOLIDWORKS Premium’s advanced surface flattening capabilities enable engineers to precisely calculate and optimize material requirements, ensuring accuracy and minimizing waste in manufacturing processes.
  • Pipe and Tube Routing: The design and documentation of piping and tubing systems are streamlined with intuitive tools tailored for many applications, from heavy machinery to process plant piping. This functionality simplifies routing through complex assemblies, ensuring efficiency and compliance with industry standards.
  • Electrical Cable and Wiring Harness Routing: In today’s interconnected world, integrating electrical systems into mechanical designs is inevitable. SOLIDWORKS Premium facilitates this integration seamlessly, allowing for the easy addition of cables, wires, and harnesses. The software generates detailed, flattened drawings, including wire lists and bills of materials, streamlining the design process and ensuring accurate documentation for manufacturing.
  • Custom Cross-Section Routing: The flexibility to design with custom cross-sectional shapes—such as ducts, cable trays, and material handling chutes—broadens the scope of what engineers can achieve with SOLIDWORKS Premium. This feature addresses the diverse needs of various industries, enabling the creation of more efficient and innovative designs.
  • Linear Static Analysis and Time-Based Motion Analysis: At the heart of mechanical engineering is the need to predict how designs will perform under real-world conditions. SOLIDWORKS Premium offers robust simulation tools, including linear static and time-based motion analysis, leveraging Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods. These tools allow engineers to visualize product movement, assess forces and stresses, and make informed decisions on material selection, component sizing, and overall design integrity.

Conclusion:

For the degreed mechanical engineer, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Premium is not just another tool but a strategic investment in future-proofing design and manufacturing workflows. It integrates seamlessly into existing processes, offering a single-window solution that updates design changes across all applications automatically. With the addition of the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform, collaboration and data management become effortless, allowing engineers to focus on innovation rather than administrative tasks. Moreover, the comprehensive simulation tools embedded within SOLIDWORKS Premium ensure that designs are not only imaginative but also practical, safe, and manufacturable. By facilitating a deep understanding of the mechanical behavior of designs under various conditions, SOLIDWORKS Premium empowers engineers to push the boundaries of innovation while ensuring product reliability and performance.
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Part and Assembly Modeling

Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models, regardless of design complexity and size. Leverage specialized tools for sheet metal, weldment, mold, and parametric surfacing.

2D Drawings

Create production-ready 2D drawings that are always current and communicate how to manufacture and assemble your designs.

Productivity Tools

Efficiently analyze, compare, check, and report on your designs.

Design Reuse and Automation

Search, automation, and configuration tools simplify the reuse of existing design data and help speed up the creation of new designs.

Interference and Clearance Check

Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit, assemble, and operate correctly.

Manufacturability Checks

Review your designs for Draft, Undercut, Thickness, and Hole Alignments early in development to ensure manufacturability.

Advanced CAD File Import/Export

Convert incoming CAD data into the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators. Share native data with users of older versions of SOLIDWORKS*. Leverage timesaving features such as 3D Interconnect.

Xtended Reality (XR) Exporter

Export CAD data for AR, VR, and web-viewing experiences while retaining geometry, appearance, motion studies, display states, and more.

Graphics Performance

Utilize the full power of your GPU hardware to speed up the viewing and manipulation of your largest designs.

CAM Programming

Leverage integrated 2.5-axis milling programming capabilities to improve communication, reduce errors and cycle times, and increase product quality.

Share and Markup in the Cloud

Invite anyone—inside or outside your organization—to view and mark up your 3D designs in the cloud. Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a link from within SOLIDWORKS, with no download required.

Store and Revise in the Cloud

Utilize secure, purpose-built cloud storage with CAD relationships and collaboration in mind. You save your data to the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS. If you need to work with other designers, you can lock designs to ensure no one overwrites your work, easily manage revisions, and create detailed markups with redlines, measurements, and annotations.

Manage and Control in the Cloud

Manage the life cycle of any type of content, such as CAD files, simulation models, and documentation, across disciplines and CAD solutions. Assign tasks, track issues, communicate and coordinate design changes, manage reviews and approvals, and capture decisions.

Collaboration in the Cloud

Collaborate in real-time using configurable dashboards; communicate on social communities through comment threads and persistent chat; track progress with Kanban-style task management. Easily search, visualize, and explore SOLIDWORKS and other files directly in your browser from any device.

Governance in the Cloud

Monitor license usage, manage members, and assign and remove licenses from a single dashboard, lowering administrative overhead.

Training and Support

You can quickly get up to speed using online training content, a vibrant community, and support from Design and Process.

CAD Libraries

Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard fastener models and commonly reused CAD data.

CAD Standards Checking

Establish design standards and check drawings (or models) against them to create uniform designs and documentation.

Automated Tolerance Stack-up Analysis

Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent component fit and verify tolerancing schemes before manufacturing your designs.

Design for Cost

Continuously check your designs against cost targets with automatic cost estimation tools fully integrated within SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

Reverse Engineering

You can recreate designs by importing, editing, evaluating, and creating solid geometry from scanned point cloud and mesh data.

ECAD/MCAD Collaboration

Share, compare, update, and track electrical design data so users can quickly resolve electrical-mechanical integration and collaboration issues.

SOLIDWORKS File Management

Manage project data, control design revisions, and control access to files with SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard.

Sharing of 2D Drawings and Models

Get the power to create, view, share, and control access to 3D models and 2D drawings in an email-ready format.

GPU Rendering

Accelerate the generation of lifelike renderings by harnessing the power of your GPU hardware.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Denoiser

Leverage artificial intelligence to eliminate noise from your renders with a single checkbox, dramatically boosting your render speed.

Advanced Surface Flattening

Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces are typically encountered in products made from textiles (like clothing) or sheet metal (like metal stampings).

Pipe and Tube Routing

Simplify the design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping.

Electrical Cable and Wiring Harness Routing

Quickly add cables, wires, and harnesses to your design. Create flattened drawing representations of your 3D cables and harnesses with wire lists, connection information, and bills of materials.

Routing of Custom Cross-Section Shapes

Route rectangular and round sections, including ducting, cable trays, conveyors, material-handling chutes, and other systems.

Linear Static Analysis for Parts and Assemblies

Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods and running linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.

Time-Based Motion Analysis

Visualize your product moving throughout its operational cycle, measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to correctly size motors and ensure product performance, quality, and safety.

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