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SolidWorks provides the full range of integrated modeling, simulation, visualization, communication, and validation tools that consumer product designers need to develop better products faster – and at lower cost.

Faithfully turn creative concepts into 3D designs

Using Instant3D, you can accurately achieve your customers’ design visions by translating their 2D sketches and photos into 3D solids that you can use, manipulate, and modify in your consumer product designs. SolidWorks also offers:

• ScanTo3D. Scan and import physical part models (such as foam models) into SolidWorks
• The ability to import math models in I-DEAS® Unigraphics®/NX™, Pro/E®, DWG, VDAFS, IGES, STEP, and other popular formats
• SolidWorks 2D Editor (formerly known as DWGeditor) and other data translation tools that allow you to easily import and work with data from other CAD systems

Easily evaluate multiple design alternatives

Thanks to SWIFT (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology), our Heads-up Interface, and versioning tools, your design teams can create multiple variations of their 3D models with fewer picks and clicks. The SolidWorks learning curve is short, so beginners can design with expert-level skill. SolidWorks also offers:

• SolidWorks Workgroup PDM and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM solutions. Manage design versions, track changes, and prevent overwriting. 
  

Clearly communicate your design ideas

It’s easy to share 3D designs with your customers and suppliers – no matter which platform they run – and within your organization using tools like eDrawings® files, Adobe® 3D PDF, SolidWorks 2D Editor, and 3D Instant Website. SolidWorks also offers:

• PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks animation capabilities. Use photorealistic renderings and animations to clearly demonstrate how your products will look and perform.

Reduce prototyping time and costs

Before your designs reach the production floor, you can determine how well they’ll function with fully integrated design validation software, including stress, thermal, kinematics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities. SolidWorks also offers:

• DFMXpress. Test your models for manufacturing issues on screen, instead of on the production floor.

Render highly detailed 3D designs

With remarkable ease, your product designs in SolidWorks can reflect a painstaking level of detail. Working in 3D, you can fully define design elements such as materials, wall thicknesses, hole depths, inlays, and transitions between elements. You can even close hard-to-finish openings in SolidWorks models or imported geometry. SolidWorks also offers:

• Advanced surfacing tools, including sweep/loft, bending, stretching, twisting, and tapering. Create complex ergonomic shapes and surfaces by simply pushing and pulling on control points
• Fully associative top-down and bottom-up design techniques
• Sheet-metal design tools with ready-made Smart Fasteners Technology
• Mold development and analysis tools
• Configuration Management for parts and assemblies
• Seamless, single-button integration of an extensive selection of SolidWorks Partner Solutions

Publish complete, accurate documentation

When your products are ready for production and release, SolidWorks provides integrated bill of material (BOM) generation capabilities, plus publishing functionalities that let you create accurate, detailed assembly procedures, technical manuals, and consumer instructions.