SolidWorks® Premium bridges the gap between industrial design and engineering by providing powerful surfacing capabilities, the ability to easily import geometry from dedicated industrial design tools, and the industry’s top mechanical engineering environment—all rolled into one package. In this paper, you will learn how SolidWorks software provides a complete modeling environment for taking designs from concept to manufacturing.

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Streamlining the Design of Packaging Machinery

To succeed as a designer of packaging machinery today, you must create highly innovative products and get them to market faster than your competitors. SolidWorks® software offers unique capabilities that can help you meet the challenge, enabling you to explore and test more design alternatives, improve quality, and streamline your entire development process.

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Incorporating Mechatronics into Your Design Process

Designers of mechatronics products must create highly complex mecha- tronics systems that successfully integrate electrical, mechanical, and information-processing components. SolidWorks® Premium, integrated with our partners’ products, can help you meet the unique challenges of mechatronics design, enabling you to use digital modeling to reduce physical prototypes, improve product quality, and streamline your entire development process.

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Efficient Design for the Oil and Gas Industry.

Meeting the product development, equipment design, and systems engineer- ing needs of manufacturers serving the oil and gas industry presents distinct challenges in today’s ever-evolving and increasingly multifaceted global energy marketplace. A range of factors—including the higher cost of energy, the greater focus on safety and environmental concerns, and the increasing viability of new energy sources—have combined to create a new set of competitive pressures on designers and engineers who develop oil and gas equipment and systems.

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Streamlining the Design of Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment

In today’s increasingly competitive global market, manufacturers of industrial machinery or heavy equipment face daunting development challenges. The need to accelerate product time-to-market, control costs, and improve product complexity requires that you modernize your product development systems and implement 3D-based design technologies. Taking advantage of a 3D CAD environment enables you to outpace competitors by developing and producing better machines in a shorter time—and at a lower cost.

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Bridging the Worlds of 2D and 3D CAD Design SUMMARY

As manufacturers rapidly transition from 2D to 3D CAD in today’s digital world, designers are demanding 3D to enhance their designs and improve communication. From websites to rapid prototyping, customers, designers, and engineers now depend on the latest 3D modeling tools.

In this paper, we highlight the advantages of designing with SolidWorks® 3D CAD software as well as explaining how to leverage your existing 2D CAD data once you have decided to go 3D.

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Using Design Automation to Reduce Costs, Increase Profitability

By implementing design automation, engineer-to-order manufacturers can complete days of custom engineering in just minutes. Design automation also expedites and simplifies the creation of SolidWorks® models, drawings, quote documents, manufacturing data—virtually any requirement of the custom sales process.

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How SolidWorks Speeds Consumer Product Design

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10 Reasons Why SolidWorks Premium is the Best Choice for Consumer Product Designers

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. continues to further its mission to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in the product development process. The SolidWorks® Premium suite of design and analysis tools helps bridge the gap between product designers and other disciplines, eliminating the inefficiencies of differing design systems and revolutionizing the design process.

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Designing better products with SolidWorks Premium

SolidWorks® Premium CAD software provides the advanced capabilities you need to design better products–from design, automation, and simulation to validation, collaboration, and data management–all in one comprehensive package.

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PDM Made Easy for the Mainstream Enterprise

SolidWorks® Enterprise PDM software helps today’s information-rich, 3D product development organizations control, manage, and share the growing volume of diverse product design data they generate through the use of better, more automated CAD tools. This effective product data management (PDM) solution was specifically designed to be easy to implement, simple to use, and affordable for small and midsize manufacturers. With SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, mainstream companies can better meet their product development goals.

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