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SolidWorks® 2009

3D CAD Software

Straightforward 3D CAD software, offering unmatched 3D design capabilities, performance, and ease-of-use. Evaluate more design alternatives, reduce errors, and enhance product quality. Create 3D models from existing 2D data with the best available transition tools. Enjoy unmatched design communication capabilities.

 

 

Products included with 3D Design Software

• SolidWorks SimulationXpress - Part design analysis.

• DriveWorksXpress - Design automation tool.

• DFMXpress - Check a design for manufacturability.

• DWGEditor - Alternative for AutoCAD to edit or maintain AutoCAD drawings in their native format.

• SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer - Design communication tool for viewing 2D and 3D product information.

• SolidWorks Explorer - Basic file management tool (with no PDM capabilities)

• SolidWorks Rx - Diagnostic and support tool.

 

Features & Benefits

Gain Speed and Flexibility in Managing Large Assemblies

Design and change components easily from within the assembly to ensure optimal fit. Gain unparalleled performance for designing large assemblies with tens of thousands of parts. Drag and drop parts and features into place. Speed assembly design with incomparable ease and performance.

Consumer product design tools and Complex Surfaces

Improve the aesthetics and ergonomics of your product designs by generating advanced shapes, complex surfaces, and patterns. Save time when creating new geometry or using imported surfaces with a variety of built-in tools such as drag handles that make surface manipulation easy and intuitive.

SWIFT™

SWIFT technology has mastered 3D CAD's most frustrating details, techniques and workarounds on behalf of all users, whether novices or experts. Now users can focus on what they want to accomplish, not on the rules of 3D CAD software. SWIFT powers a series of tools that diagnose and cure problems in feature order, mates, sketch relationships, and dimension application.

Built-in Stress Analysis Wizard

Gain basic insight into how parts will function under real-world conditions with SolidWorks SimulationXpress, a point-and-click stress analysis Wizard built into the system. SolidWorks SimulationXpress guides you step-by-step through the design analysis process to help improve the integrity of your designs.

Machine design tools

Make use of a full set of weldment design, analysis, and documentation tools. Get best-in-class, fully associative sheet-metal capabilities that allow you to move rapidly from the design phase to final manufacturing drawings. Save time with a library of machine design features.

Create Complete Drawings Automatically

Construct production-ready detailed drawings without drawing a single line or arc. the software does it for you, eliminating time-consuming drawing view creation, manipulation and maintenance. Show your design from multiple angles and enlarge details of specific components easily with a few selections.

DriveWorksXpress Automation

Automate repetitive design tasks by capturing valuable design rules inside SolidWorks allowing you to automatically generate design and manufacturing outputs required to create new and variant products. You will save time and be able to specify the products whilst maintaining your engineering controls.

Maintain Compatibility with Built-in Translators

Exchange CAD data using a wide variety of file formats including: CGR (CATIA® graphics), HCG (CATIA highly compressed graphics), Pro/ENGINEER®, IPT (Autodesk Inventor®), Mechanical Desktop®, Unigraphics®, PAR (Solid Edge), CADKEY®, IGES, STEP, Parasolid®, SAT (ACIS®), VDA-FS, VRML, STL, DWG, DXF, TIFF, JPG, Viewpoint, RealityWave, and HSF (Hoops).

Maintain AutoCAD Legacy Data

The DWGeditor is included with SolidWorks to enable customers who use AutoCAD® to edit or maintain existing DWG files and provides a low risk, low cost alternative for editing DWG files in their native format, using a familiar user interface

Share Product Designs with Innovative SolidWorks eDrawings Files

Supply accurate representations of 2D and 3D models that everyone can understand through the unique capabilities of SolidWorks eDrawings. Animate 2D drawings with exciting 3D effects. Share designs more effectively with your entire product design team, including product managers, marketing managers, manufacturing specialists, customers, and suppliers.

Upgrades, Technical Support & Value Added Resources

With Subscrition Service your design team will have access to new software releases and upgrades, enhancement request privileges, live technical support from Javelin, and comprehensive online resources. Learn more about Subscription Service.