Solid enhancements to design software

Dassault Systèmes has introduced its latest version of Solidworks for 3D design and engineering applications, including new enhancements and capabilities.

The manufacturing software specialist says Solidworks 2020 features enhancements, new capabilities and workflows that enable more than six million users to accelerate and improve product development, from conceptual design to manufactured products, and create value for their organisations.

Dassault Systèmes’ research and development team has delivered its latest version of Solidworks in response to thousands of enhancement requests from the design software user’s community. By seamlessly connecting to the its 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Solidworks 2020 also addresses the emerging trends and business needs in the global marketplace that require competitive organisations to seek new levels of collaboration and agility.

With Solidworks 2020’s hundreds of new enhancements, users can benefit from an array of choices and opportunities to improve system performance in their daily design operations, streamline workflows and extend their design to manufacturing ecosystem from the desktop to the cloud with seamless connection to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Some of the new enhancements to Solidworks include:

• New Detailing mode and graphics acceleration for drawings: The new Detailing mode lets users open their drawing in a matter of seconds while maintaining the ability to add and edit annotations within the drawing. Detailing mode is especially useful if users need to make minor edits to drawings of large assemblies or drawings with many sheets, configurations, or resource-intensive views.


• Make Part Flexible is a new capability that allows users to display the same part in different conditions in the same assembly. For example, the same spring exists twice in the same assembly, but in two different conditions – compressed and not compressed. Make Part Flexible is useful in a variety of design applications such as springs, bellows, hinges, O-rings and just about any part that can flex or change condition.


• Improvements to Solidworks PDM, the Solidworks Electrical connector and a new Solidworks PCB connector allow for complete electronics design and data management – including the secure storage, indexing and versioning of all user data - while enabling tighter collaboration between ECAD and MCAD teams.

With Solidworks 2020, and the 3DEXPERIENCE.WORKS portfolio of solutions, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a growing set of cloud-based solutions that work together to help manage every aspect of developing concepts, designing products, and manufacturing and delivering them. Solutions like 3D Sculptor, which includes the xShape (sub division modelling) application, 3D Creator featuring the xDesign (parametric modelling) application, 3D Component Designer (data management), Project Planner, and Structural Professional Engineer (advanced simulation), enable users to reduce friction in their design to manufacturing process.

“We aren’t just bringing powerful new capabilities to the Solidworks portfolio everybody knows and loves, but also extending it to the cloud through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the only holistic digital experience platform in the world. We’ve built a bridge to our platform-based portfolio, empowering our users to take advantage of 3DEXPERIENCE.WORKS offerings,” says Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, Solidworks, Dassault Systèmes. “This gives organisations the environment and the applications to truly embrace the industry renaissance and its spirit of discovery for new ways of inventing, innovating, collaborating and producing.”

A video of how waterjet cutting machine manufacturer Omax uses Solidworks can be seen here:

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