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SolidWorks Premium software integrates a broad range
of mechanical CAD, design validation, product data
management, design communication, and CAD
productivity tools in a single, affordable easy to
use package.
Go from concept to virtual prototype faster than you
ever thought possible with the desired quality using
a single easy to use application. SolidWorks Premium
is so complete, you can progress from a product
concept to a highly accurate virtual prototype
without employing any other software.
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Featured SolidWorks Premium
capabilities:
Mechanical CAD.
SolidWorks eliminates the need to learn how the
software thinks, and frees you to focus on designing
innovative products.
SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature
Technology). SWIFT lets you spend time creating
products that work well, instead of trying to make
your software work for you. It automates
time-consuming detail work and techniques,
diagnosing and resolving problems related to feature
order, mates, sketch relationships, and the
application of dimensions.
Working with DWG. SolidWorks includes data
translation tools for AutoCAD® users, along with
help documentation, so you can smoothly convert DWG
files into 3D models. Alternatively, you can use
DWGeditor®–included with SolidWorks software–to
edit, manipulate, and maintain existing AutoCAD DWG
files in their native format.
Part Modeling. With Instant3D, you have the
fastest, easiest way to create and modify 3D part
geometry. By simply clicking and dragging, you can
precisely create and resize features–even section
entities. As you ready your design for production,
use DimXpert to create accurate 2D drawings (or
“drawingless” data) to ensure your parts will fit
when manufactured.
Advanced Surfacing and Complex Shapes.
Improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of
your product designs. Using the Freeform feature,
creating new geometry, or importing and manipulating
new surfaces, is easy and intuitive.
Sheet Metal Design Tools. Create sheet metal
parts from scratch using folds, bends, flanges,
rips, tabs, and mitres, as well as lofted bends,
sketched bends, hems, and more. Alternatively, you
can create a solid shape as a starting point.
Advanced capabilities, such as the “convert solid to
sheetmetal” functionality, let you develop a
manufacturable sheet metal part.
Weldment Design. Sketch a layout for your
frame and select a weldment profile. SolidWorks will
automatically generate a weldment design in 3D.
Modify, validate, and reinforce your design, and
then enhance it with standard parts that you can
drag and drop from the Design Library or 3D
ContentCentral®. Then, generate precise
manufacturing drawings with cut lengths for all
segments.
Mold Design Tools. With SolidWorks, you can
import part geometry in IGES, STEP, Parasolid®, ACIS®,
and other formats to begin your mold designs.
Create, validate, and execute your mold designs–and
reduce manufacturing errors–with a complete range of
tools and checks, speeding the design of cores and
cavities, assembly features, and lip and groove
features.
Assembly Modeling. SolidWorks gives you the
tools to get it right on-screen when you create
assemblies, saving you the time and cost of physical
prototyping and remanufacturing. You can mate
components by picking individual surfaces, edges,
curves, and vertices; create mechanical
relationships between components; conduct
interference, collision, and hole alignment checks;
and link the motion of pulleys and sprockets. You
can also automatically assemble fasteners and
accompanying hardware; automate the assembly of
commonly used components, appropriate hardware, and
required features; and use MateXpert to fix
conflicts such as over-constraining a component.
Simulate Assembly Motion. Simply by clicking
and dragging components, you can check an assembly
for proper motion and collisions. In addition, you
can simulate physical motion involving assembly
mates, contact, springs, and gravity. SolidWorks
Motion also provides accurate measurements of
velocity, accelerations, and forces on components
due to motion – so you have a realistic
understanding of design decisions before producing
the prototype product.
Large Assembly Management Tools. Use
“Lightweight” mode to reduce the time spent opening
and working on large assemblies. SpeedPak technology
enables you to create simplified versions of
assemblies that speed assembly operations and
drawing creation. Use Quick View to select and open
just the component you need to work on, and use the
Assembly Xpert to analyze and improve your
assembly’s performance.
2D Drawing Creation. Use the familiar
interface of DWGeditor to draw in 2D, as well as
edit and maintain your existing DWG data files.
Design Reuse. Leverage your successful
designs to create compelling proposals for new ones.
Quickly search for already-created components in
SolidWorks Toolbox, 3D ContentCentral, and your own
custom Design Library. Then, simply drag and drop
those parts into your new designs.
Bill of Materials. Save significant time when
you use SolidWorks to automatically generate a
complete bill of materials (BOM) from your design.
Your BOM is associative: When you change your
design, the BOM updates automatically, and vice
versa. Plus, you can export the BOM data to Excel,
Intuitive ERP®, and other applications.
Part Validation. SolidWorks Simulation tools
help both new users and experts ensure their designs
are durable, safe, and manufacturable. In addition,
you can use SolidWorks FloXpress™ to optimize your
designs for water- and air-flow effects.
Design Automation of Repetitive Tasks. Save
time with SolidWorks Smart Component technology to
automate the selection and insertion of standard
components. Use DriveWorksXpress to automate
repetitive design tasks that can be used in
product/sales configurators.
Design Communication. With SolidWorks, you
have numerous capabilities for accurately
communicating design ideas and data to
collaborators, upstream and downstream partners, and
customers:
eDrawings® Files. Provide accurate – even
animated – 2D and 3D models that anyone can
understand.
PDF Files. Generate 2D or 3D PDF files directly from
your SolidWorks designs.
3D Instant Website. Create and publish live webpages
to communicate visual information with customers or
staff, and then receive immediate feedback.
Feature Recognition. When collaborators or
partners use other CAD systems, FeatureWorks® helps
you share and use 2D and 3D models more
productively.
Standard Hardware Libraries. With SolidWorks
Toolbox, SolidWorks Design ClipArt, and 3D
ContentCentral, you have instant access to virtual
encyclopedias comprising thousands of standard
components.
Photorealistic Rendering. Use PhotoWorks™ and
PhotoView 360 to leverage your SolidWorks 3D models
for presentations, proposals, or virtual and
material studies –before creating any parts. You’ll
save time, while eliminating the high costs of
prototyping and photography.
Design Standards Checking. Raise your quality
level with SolidWorks Design Checker. With thorough,
automated checks and autocorrect capability, you can
ensure full compliance with your company standards –
before you release your designs for manufacture.
Productivity Tools. SolidWorks Utilities
enables designers to compare parts or drawings to
find the differences between two similar designs or
similar drawings. FeatureWorks streamlines the use
of data from different CAD systems to work together.
Simplify Parts and Assemblies. Copy the
visual properties of a selected annotation to
another annotation. In addition to checking
spelling, you can schedule a range of
project-related tasks.
Leverage Scanned Data. Import digital scans
of handcrafted models into SolidWorks using
ScanTo3D. You can also import design concepts
created in Rhinocerous software or sketches
developed in Adobe Illustrator.
Routed Systems. Automate and accelerate the
process of routing tubes, pipes, electrical cables,
cable harnesses, and electrical conduits with
SolidWorks Routing.
ECAD to MCAD Translation. CircuitWorks
is designed to bridge the gap between SolidWorks and
Electrical Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) systems by
providing an intuitive tool that allows users to
import and export Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
designs between SolidWorks and ECAD systems.
Design Validation.
With SolidWorks Simulation, you can test your
designs in real-world conditions on screen
minimizing cost and time spent in physical samples.
Tolerance
Stack-up Validation. TolAnalyst analyzes a
design based on the order and manner in which parts
are assembled, as well as DimXpert-applied
dimensions and tolerances.
Assembly Simulation. Study the interactions
of assembly components on-screen, before incurring
the costs of physical prototypes. Simulate static or
dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance
under stress, strain, and displacement.
Mechanism Simulation. Apply a wide variety of
physics-based models to simulate real-world
operating conditions for your design. Check for
colliding parts. Output numerical and graphic data
of the results, as well as animations of your tests.
Simulate Welded Structures. Ensure your
welded structures perform at peak operating
conditions. Apply pressure, forces, and bearing
loads. Then use visualization tools like section
plots, ISO clipping, and animation to review the
response.
Workgroup Product Data
Management. SolidWorks Workgroup PDM
helps small engineering workgroups minimize errors
and duplicated effort by capturing file revision
histories automatically and managing data access and
use.
Secure access. Protect your product design
data with secure managed access to authorized
individuals, over a network or via the web. In
addition to internal users, you also can permit
access to partners, customers, and your supply
chain.
Revision control. Help your design team avoid
overwriting files, and assist purchasing and
manufacturing in ordering and producing the correct
parts, every time.
Find files. Quickly and easily find
SolidWorks files by searching on metadata (Custom
Properties).
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