What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2021 Part 1: Core Enhancements

In this session of What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2021, we are taking a look at the core SOLIDWORKS enhancements, including; user experience improvements, parts, assemblies, and drawings.

During the next 20 minutes, Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert; Scott Ellery, will demonstrate the core SOLIDWORKS enhancements available in the 2021 release:

SOLIDWORKS 2021 core enhancements checklist:

User Experience:

• Quick access toolbar
• Collapsible command manager
• Search for commands in customize
• Improvements to colour options
• Redo support for part features

Parts:

• Sheet metal bend tables support Office 365
• Edge flanges along non-linear edges
• Colour picker for appearances
• Expanded 3MF file support
• Evaluate equations in custom properties
• Weldments: flush trims for miter joints
• Transfer part materials from parent part
• Graphical manipulator in structure system

Assemblies:

• Streamlined mates property manager
• Slot mate defaults and lock rotation
• Spacing options for chain patterns
• Syncronize component pattern configurations
• Flipping alignment of the edited mate
• Export interference detection results
• Assembly open performance
• Automatically resolve lightweight components
• Circular reference check

Drawings:

• Drawing performance
• Detailing mode enhancements
• Quick relations in drawings
• Transparent dimension preview
• VDA inspection balloons

More information about these SOLIDWORKS 2021 enhancements can be found in our SOLIDWORKS 2021 Top 10 Features blog article.

Scott Ellery, CSWE

The Presenter: Scott Ellery, CSWE

Scott Ellery is a CSWE and an avid contributor to the SOLIDWORKS Community, He is a ten time SOLIDWORKS/3DEXPERIENCE World Presenter and contributes regularly to SWUG meetings organized by four different user groups in Canada, Scott has worked with many CAD Software packages for over a decade in a multitude of different industries including Steel Fabrication, Injection Molding and Sheetmetal. With a background in Mechanical Engineering Technology and Design, Scott enjoys pushing SolidWorks to it’s limits and teaching users to be as fast and efficient with SolidWorks as humanly possible.