SOLIDWORKS Standard

• • 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 modelling and transform your ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models.

• • 3D Solid Modelling

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

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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

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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

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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