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SOLIDWORKS design software is as simple as it is powerful ? enabling any company to bring its vision to life and capture global markets.

SOLIDWORKS? solutions focus on the way you work every day, with an intuitive, integrated 3D design environment that covers all aspects of product development and helps maximize your design and engineering productivity. Over 2 million designers and engineers worldwide use SOLIDWORKS to bring designs to life?from the coolest gadgets to innovations for a better tomorrow.

With SOLIDWORKS 2018, you can:

DEVELOP a great design from concept through delivered product using one system
FIND the right data, at the right time, for the right people
VALIDATE your ideas throughout the entire design provess
CONNECT your smart devices to your customers

What?s New in SOLIDWORKS 2018

SOLIDWORKS 2018 provides four new solutions to help you simplify interactions between product development teams and ultimately improve your business. Accelerate product innovation and grow your business with these new processes:

SOLIDWORKS 2018 Enhancements:

User Experience Gets Big Touch Ups

SOLIDWORKS 2018 supports a dedicated touch screen mode providing a powerful new set of productivity tools for working on touch screen devices. Freehand sketch with a pen and automatically convert pen strokes to shapes to quickly capture design ideas in the office or on the go.

Take the Guess Work Out of Optimizing Your Designs

Automatically optimize the shape of a design based on weight, function, and manufacturing criteria using the new simulation Topology Study. You can also improve product performance or reduce product weight based on function and manufacturing constraints.

Finally ? Integrated, Intelligent CAM and Inspection Tools

Powered by CAMWorks, SOLIDWORKS CAM provides ?rules-based? machining and automatic feature recognition to dramatically streamline NC programming. In addition, both SOLIDWORKS Inspection and SOLIDWORKS CAM support 3D dimensions and tolerances streamlining design, manufacturing and inspection without the need to create 2D drawings.
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