• • Learn Fast: In-Context and Toolbar Menus, Command Search, Built-In Tutorials, Searchable Help Documentation

• • Work Fast: Hot Keys, Customisable Commands, and Equations

• • Get Help Fast: Local and Worldwide Support Services

Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform your ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models.

• 3D Solid Modeling
• Conceptual Design
• Direct Model Geometry Modification
• Large Assembly Design with over 100,000 components
• Advanced Surface Design
• Sheet Metal Design
• Welded Structure Design
• Plastic Part Design
• Mould Tool Design

Create production-ready 2D drawings that are always current and clearly communicate how to manufacture and assemble your designs, with tools including:

• Automatic Drawing View Creation
• Automatic Drawing View Updates
• Drafting Standards: ANSI, ISO, DIN, JIS, BSI, GOST, GB
• Manual and Automated Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Annotations and Symbols
• Automatic Bill of Materials (BOM), Exploded Views, Balloon Notes
• Hole Tables, Weld Tables, Pipe Bend Tables, Cut Lists
• Sheet Metal Bend Notes
• Automated Creation of Radial/Cylindrical Exploded Views

Simplify the reuse of existing design data with rapid searching, reusable features, and configuration tools that help you speed up the creation of new designs.

• Rapid Searching
• Part and Assembly Configurations
• Reuse 2D and 3D CAD Data
• 3D CAD Models from Industry Suppliers

Easily analyse, compare, check and report on your designs.

• Power Selection Tools
• Symmetry Check
• Copy Feature Info into Other Features (Feature Paint)
• Find and Replace in Drawing

Convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators.

• Interactive Feature Recognition and Conversion
• Automatic Feature Recognition and Conversion

Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data.

• Import, Edit, Evaluate, and Create Solid Geometry from Point Cloud and Mesh Data
• Import Adobe® Illustrator Files
• Import Image Files and Convert Raster to Vector Data

Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands of
prebuilt industry-standard fasteners that configure on the fly
and assemble automatically in your design.

Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces typically encountered in products made from materials such as textiles or sheet metal.

• Automated, Interactive Surface and Curve Flattening and Data Export

Develop your designs for plants, hydraulic systems, building services and more with native pipe & tube routing:

• Create Detailed Piping Systems
• Create Flexible or Rigid Tubing Lines
• Customisable Library of Piping Components
• Automatic Assembly of Hangers and Supports
• Output Tube Bend Data for Manufacturing
• Cut Length Calculations Automated for BOM
• Automatic Routing Option for Pipes and Tubes
• Minimum Bend Radius Check for Tubes
• Output of PCF files for ISOGEN® piping software

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.

• Create Detailed Electrical Cable and Wiring Harnesses
• Run Rigid or Flexible Electrical Conduit Segments
• Conduit
• Ribbon Cable
• Wire Lengths Automatically Calculated
• Automated Harness Flattening for Manufacturing
• BOM and Wire Cut Lists

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

• Automatic Routing Using Imported "From-To" Connection Data
• Mounting Hardware, Splices, Connectors, Insulation, Looms, Heat-Shrink Tubing, Cable Ties