SOLIDWORKS for Industrial Equipment and Machinery Design

SOLIDWORKS has provided designers and engineers with a continuous expanding range of features, functions and capabilities that enable them to bring their inspirations to life.

Creating designs is one part of the story, but creating manufacturable designs require a lot of knowledge on the manufacturing capabilities of various machineries. DFMXpress is an evaluation tool included with SOLIDWORKS that allows engineers and designers to check their designs for manufacturability by identifying areas that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to machine.

SOLIDWORKS provides a common collaborative space for better communication and integration to avoid miscommunication and design errors down the line.

SOLIDWORKS PCB — powered by Altium - is a mechatronics/electronics design solution that provides the best in PCB design technology with an SOLIDWORKS Integrated electro-mechanical collaboration solution

SOLIDWORKS Electrical packages provide standalone, easy-to-use, electrical design tools that enable you to efficiently define electrical interconnections for complex electrical systems. SOLIDWORKS Electrical helps you simplify the electrical design process through concurrent development of the electrical and mechanical aspects of designs, minimizing potential defects and avoiding costly design rework.

With powerful and intuitive SOLIDWORKS Simulation solutions, product engineers can virtually test new ideas, quickly and efficiently evaluate performance, improve quality, and get the knowledge for product innovation. Manufacturing companies across all industries have made SOLIDWORKS 3D virtual simulation a valuable engineering tool to synthesize and define their physical products.

Sometimes validating your product might require the capabilities of flow analysis. SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution embedded within SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that enables you to simulate liquid and gas flows quickly and easily through and around your designs to calculate product performance and capabilities.

We know that designing plastic injection molded components has its own set of variables and requirements. SOLIDWORKS Plastics has the capability to analyze how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects so you can quickly evaluate part manufacturability while you design.

SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model Based Definition) is an integrated drawingless manufacturing solution for SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS MBD guides the manufacturing process directly in 3D instead of using traditional 2D drawings, which helps streamline production, cut cycle time & reduce errors.

SOLIDWORKS MBD adds great clarity in manufacturing communication with 3D integrated specifications, which can also drive downstream applications automatically, such as CAM and CMM programming. SOLIDWORKS MBD enables 3D PMI based programming beyond geometry-based programming.

SOLIDWORKS CAM is a, parametric, knowledge-based suite of seamlessly integrated CNC programming software tools used to automate the creation of machine toolpaths based on a company’s best practices, thereby lowering manufacturing costs and accelerating time to market.

The integrated Tolerance Based Machining automatically reads the SolidWorks MBD captured Product Manufacturing Information (PMI). Machining strategies get applied after reading the tolerances from SOLIDWORKS MBD.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a First Article Inspection (FAI) and in-process inspection software that streamlines the creation of inspection documentation. SOLIDWORKS Inspection automates the ballooning of engineering drawings, 3D files with Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) and imports results from your Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and streamlines the creation of industry-standard inspection reports.

SOLIDWORKS Composer helps your organization, including nontechnical users, leverage 3D CAD data to create dynamic graphical content that clearly and effectively depicts even your most complex products.

The simple, intuitive interface can easily develop informative graphics for a broad range of technical communications; this includes assembly instructions, product manuals, training manuals and marketing collateral.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize provides a suite of standalone software tools that combine industry-leading rendering capabilities with design-oriented features and workflows that enable easy and fast creation of visual content for designers, engineers, marketing, and other content creators.

It helps users select, validate, improve, and sell the best and most robust design concepts before committing expensive engineering, prototyping, and marketing resources to the project.

SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management (PDM) solution helps you substantially improve the way your teams collaborate on product development with intelligent revision control, notification system and serial numbering.

SOLIDWORKS Manage is a unique set of advanced data management tools that leverages the file management capabilities of SOLIDWORKS PDM and adds powerful project, process and item management capabilities with interactive dashboards and reports.

SOLIDWORKS integrated product development solutions cover the full range of modeling, simulation, and communication that machine builders need to accelerate time-to-market, while reducing costs and ensuring greater safety and reliability.