What is SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD?
SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD is the choice for professionals around the world who need to take design innovation further, produce products faster, and reach the highest levels of efficiency in their day-to-day product development work. Decades of user-driven enhancements and a relentless R&D focus on user experience has made SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD not just powerful, but both easy to learn and fun to use.
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Trusted industry standard solution
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Powerful and proven 3D modeling capabilities
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Production-ready documentation and 2D drawing solutions
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Intuitive user interface designed by engineers, for engineers to use
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Built-in real-time collaboration tools for sharing and marking up designs
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Secure, CAD-aware cloud file and revision management
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Out-of-the-box ideation to manufacturing workflows
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Integrated simulation, rendering, and CAM tools
How You Benefit from SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
Professional 3D CAD
Choose the 3D CAD solution that the pros use. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD makes creating parts, assemblies, drawings, production-ready documentation, and robust 3D models fun, intuitive, and easy to use, bringing you from design to manufacturing faster than ever.
Intuitive UI Made for You
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is known for its intuitive, customizable interface built to maximize your everyday productivity. Take advantage of software that you can customize to meet your unique needs regardless of industry or company size.
Design Together
Cloud-based collaboration and file management is included with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. Connect your partners, customers, and remote teams, and get real-time feedback and revision management to keep all of your projects on time, on budget, and on point.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Capabilities
From complex design modeling, parts, and assemblies to simulation, rendering, and production-ready fast, associative, painless drawings and updates, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is the professional, industry standard choice to bring you from ideation to manufacturing faster and easier.
Everything You Need from Design to Manufacturing
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Parts, assemblies, large design review, robust modeling and more give you design and performance capabilities that push the boundaries of your imagination and can keep up with the most complex products and large assemblies.
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Professional drawings are fast, associative, and production-ready. Whether you prefer 2D drawings or 3D annotations or you require CAM capabilities, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD brings you from ideation to production with ease.
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New performance and capability enhancements are released throughout the year, ensuring you are always working with the latest professional product development tools on the market.
Supercharge Your Everyday Productivity
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Specialized functionality handles everything from weldments and routing to mold design, sheet metal, and more.
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SOLIDWORKS Toolbox covers your needs for creating holes and assembling hardware items, such as fasteners, washers, nuts, and bolts.
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Built by engineers, for engineers. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD has evolved by anticipating future design requirements, understanding how you want to work and implementing user-driven enhancements over 30+ years.
Turn Your Documentation Into a Conversation
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File sharing made easy. Share your design for review with secure links from SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD without sending a physical file and never lose control of your data.
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Markup in 3D. Get easy feedback from stakeholders. Models can be shared for review and marked up directly by multiple people in 3D, all in a browser.
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Remove friction for immediate feedback. Internal and external collaborators do not need to download any extra software or viewers to review your work—it is all done through SOLIDWORKS.
Built-in Cloud Data Management
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CAD-aware storage. Unlike standard cloud storage providers, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD comes with CAD-aware cloud storage that is made to handle relationships between CAD files.
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Complete version control ensures you are working on the latest revision and avoiding overwrites.
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Assistive and automated features cut repetitive tasks and streamline 3D CAD workflows for maximum productivity.
Community at Our Core
SOLIDWORKS has a passionate, engaged community of more than 8 million users from every corner of the world. From user groups to startups to students to makers, community has always been at our core. But it’s more than just bringing people together. It’s making them better at what they love to do. Through dedicated training, online learning, and certifications, SOLIDWORKS thrives on putting users in a position to succeed.
Succeed with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
Innovative designers, engineers, and businesses around the world push the limits of product development and 3D design with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. Explore their stories and learn how SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is the professional solution to bring your ideas from concept to manufacturing to life.
SOLIDWORKS Powered by the Cloud
Product development takes a full team, and SOLIDWORKS with the cloud helps your teams work together from any location, improving design efficiency and communication while streamlining product development to meet business goals. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD includes the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, a cloud-based business and innovation platform that scales with you. Here’s a preview of what the cloud can do for you on day one:
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Connect all stakeholders inside and outside of your organization with a single source of truth
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Easily share and markup designs with any stakeholder in 3D
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Store and revise models with secure, CAD-aware cloud storage