SOLIDWORKS is more than 3D CAD, it’s a complete product development platform

Your focus is delivering GREAT PRODUCTS THAT CREATE VALUE for your clients. You know INNOVATION IS KEY to differentiation and better market position. But how do you innovate and still DELIVER ON TIME AND ON BUDGET? The typical product development process is serial. You create a concept, design it, test it, document it, and manufacture it. If anything fails or changes, you may have to cycle back in your workflow, creating rework, costing you extra time and money.

Reduce your rework and costs by using SOLIDWORKS integrated, concurrent product development platform

With an integrated approach, you can run product development steps in a concurrent development workflow:

• Verify performance during design and reduce risk while you explore alternatives
• Manage and communicate design data efficiently with easy access to the most recent data
• Close the gap between design and operations so Manufacturing builds it right the first time

Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS® and Javelin provides the tools that help Canadian designers, engineers, and manufacturers create and deliver great products. Our integrated solutions help to eliminate barriers to speed and innovation so your team can work more efficiently. SOLIDWORKS solutions can help streamline your workflow, reduce development time and cost, and get you the information you need at exactly the right time to make better design decisions.

How to bring new ideas to market

Your customers need to understand how your concept will deliver value. With SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, Industrial Designer or Conceptual Designer, you can efficiently develop new concepts, leveraging similar designs that you quickly find in your database with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and evaluating design alternatives with SOLIDWORKS Simulation. You can save time and cost, using SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to track progress, manage design versions, and automatically route data to your whole team.

Your Marketing and Sales teams can work in parallel with Design. They can access the latest designs in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and use SOLIDWORKS Composer to create custom graphics directly from 3D CAD, without any handholding from Engineering. With SOLIDWORKS Visualize you can create photorealistic images for brochures, presentations, even 3D animations—updating changes automatically and showing model variations on demand.

Ensure your design is right the first time with SOLIDWORKS Inspection before handing it off to manufacturing. You can communicate the data to your shop floor with SOLIDWORKS MBD. Unlike traditional 2D drawings, SOLIDWORKS MBD guides the manufacturing process directly in 3D, which streamlines production, cuts cycle time, reduces errors, and helps with complying with industry standards.

How to innovate and manage risk

New ideas keep you competitive, but you have to meet your schedule. SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD simplifies complex modeling—from machined parts to the most complex shapes, even advanced surfacing and large assemblies. It can help you design faster and work more efficiently.

With SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, you can quickly search your files for similar designs and use standard parts and assemblies to save time. Then explore and test design options with SOLIDWORKS Simulation that’s integrated in the design environment. You can be confident in trying new ideas, because you can reduce the risk with the integrated solution.

Creating virtual prototypes while you design helps to ensure you don’t over engineer (adding time and cost) or under engineer (causing redesign or potential safety or liability issues). You can identify design issues earlier instead of finding problems at the end, where redesign would have a negative impact on cost and delivery. You can even compare design variations to make better decisions and create products with improved performance.

Deliver on time

New products are often variations of existing products, with current designs tweaked or reconfigured to meet customer needs. At other times, major sections of one or several designs get reused in other designs.

You can have better control of your design data with tools that easily find and repurpose files, parts, and drawings; share design information; automate workflows; and help ensure manufacturing always has the right version. SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional helps you create a framework to quickly locate and reuse or repurpose existing design data. Designers and engineers can also quickly find design data and documentation to create new designs with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

You can evaluate designs under real-world conditions with SOLIDWORKS Simulation. Or leverage design data and develop 3D visuals and animations with SOLIDWORKS Composer to clearly show how your product works and is assembled. Your integrated view of product development, along with process data from inside and outside your organization, can help you manage your investments and reduce risk.

Show customers how to use your products

Your assembly and operating instructions shape the user’s experience. SOLIDWORKS Composer helps you directly leverage your SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD data to create dynamic 3D illustrations, even 3D animations, for technical communications that help clearly explain even the most complex assembly.

With an intuitive user interface, SOLIDWORKS Composer works directly with popular software packages and helps reduce production time and cost for assembly instructions, operator guides, and manuals. Instead of written descriptions, you can show your instructions, helping you save money on technical writing and translation.

With SOLIDWORKS Composer, you can start documentation earlier. Developers can access design files through SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and work in parallel with design and manufacturing. When design changes occur, graphics can update automatically, so your documentation can be ready at product delivery.

The SOLIDWORKS Platform is geared to how you work every day

Quick to deploy, easy to use, simple to administer, they help increase your efficiency while helping you lower costs. SOLIDWORKS solutions are scalable. You choose what you need now and easily add capability without disrupting your workflow for a fast return on investment. Higher efficiency can help you capitalize on new opportunities and redeploy and focus your team on strategic and market-leading projects. You can have more time for innovation and be able to evaluate risks for better decisions.