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How SOLIDWORKS Electrical Reduces Manufacturing Costs [VIDEO]

In our latest on-demand webinar you will learn how SOLIDWORKS Electrical reduces manufacturing costs by combining the electrical schematic functionality with 3D modeling capabilities in one powerful, easy-to-use package. The new 2016 release of SOLIDWORKS Electrical: Enables faster and more accurate schematics and documentation. Reduces errors…

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Streamline Part Inspection and Improve Quality [WHITE PAPER]

Part Inspection

Improving quality is important to you, but it may be costing your company time and money. Inspection professionals spend hours manually creating ballooned inspection drawings and inspection reports. These tedious and repetitive tasks can lead to delays, data entry errors, and have a critical impact…

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Why are you using AutoCAD or Microsoft Visio for Electrical Design?

Using Electrical Design

The price of anything in monetary terms is what we typically believe the cost is as well. For the longest time we believed the cost of oil and gas to be what we paid for it; the cost of a cigarette is what you paid…

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Heat Transfer Analysis: What they didn’t teach you in engineering school

Heat Transfer Analysis

Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is no longer relegated to the realm of the specialist. A new class of CFD analysis software, ‘Concurrent CFD’, is proving to be highly effective at performing heat transfer analysis, enabling mechanical engineers to accelerate key decisions at their workstations…

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Download SOLIDWORKS 2016 Beta software and give your feedback

Download SOLIDWORKS 2016

Now is your chance to help impact the quality, performance and usability of SOLIDWORKS products. All SOLIDWORKS Subscription customers are invited to join in SOLIDWORKS 2016 Beta testing now. Why Participate in Beta Testing? Subscription customers get exclusive access to: Test-drive new and enhanced products Connect with the community…

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Eliminate Traditional 2D Processes with 3D Drawings

3D Drawings created with SOLIDWORKS MBD

Just as the move from 2D design tools to 3D CAD solutions revolutionized product development, the emergence of 3D model-based definition (MBD) integrated manufacturing technology, through 3D drawings, offers substantial productivity advantages over the use of traditional 2D engineering drawings to drive manufacturing. MBD drawingless…

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Pressure Drop Analysis using SOLIDWORKS [WHITE PAPER]

If you were taught to only rely on analysis “specialists” or physical prototypes on flow benches to verify designs, it’s time to learn more about testing with today’s Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is no longer a discipline reserved only…

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SOLIDWORKS Inspection GDT Font Installer

Are you having trouble reading some of the characters in your inspection reports generated by SOLIDWORKS Inspection? The inspection reports often include characters that are not supported by the regular Windows fonts installed on your machine; in this article we will provide a quick and easy solution for…

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5 Ways PDM can help you succeed through Design Reuse

Using SOLIDWORKS EPDM

How often do you find yourself spending valuable time searching for a model or a file? Have you ever had to recreate a model because you could not find the original? Have you ever spent time creating a design only to discover later that one…

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