1. New Product Development Features
- Open proprietary 3D CAD data in SOLIDWORKS and retain associativity to
original file - SOLIDWORKS® MBD: drawingless product detailing with 3D PMI
annotations; output to eDrawings® or 3D PDF - SOLIDWORKS Visualize: media-ready images, movies, and immersive
content including support for VR
Benefits
Work seamlessly with anyone, reduce time to market, and comply with new standards.
2. Streamlined Assembly Development
- SOLIDWORKS Treehouse: visual assembly structure planning, creation, editing, and viewing
- Mate Controller, Magnetic Mates, center components on faces, copy multiple components and retain mates
- Routing for rectangular sections, e.g., HVAC ducts, cable trays, and chutes
- Exploded View: Radially and along axis; space components on drag
Benefits
Accelerate design of assemblies and layouts for machinery and equipment.
3. More Powerful Modelling Tools
- Sheet Metal allows cuts in swept flange bend area; edge flanges can now be longer than attachment edge plus support for three bend corners
- New Advanced Hole Wizard to create and reuse customized holes, plus Thread Wizard
- Wrap Feature now for any surface
- Fillet/chamfer conversion, many fillet and spline enhancements; Use face, curve, or edge as Sweep Profile plus bidirectional sweep
Benefits
Expanded modelling improves accuracy, speeds design with less effort.
4. SOLIDWORKS Performance
- File size reduced by ~50 percent
- Faster component patterning and hide/show of assemblies
- SOLIDWORKS Simulation supports Intel® Solver and multi-core contact detection
- Define specific graphic regions to render in PhotoView 360
- SOLIDWORKS PDM manages large data sets more efficiently
Benefits
Faster modelling, analysis, and rendering capabilities leaves more time to improve designs.
5. Faster 2 D Drawing Creation
- Parametrically mirror drawing views without need to mirror the model
- Automatic Border controls sheet format border
- Reference and link to BOM table cell elements in annotations
- Omit layers from printing and improved angle dimensioning and command of decimal rounding
Benefits
Simplified, faster drawing creation.
6. User Experience
- New “breadcrumbs” tracking/selection of items in model hierarchy
- Better support for high resolution monitors and expandable Property Manager input panels
- Dynamic Reference Visualization shows a graphical view of relationships between features
- Selection Sets let you select multiple entities and save them for reuse
Benefits
Work more efficiently and better understand / visualize the design intent of your models.
7. Electrifying Your Designs
- Electrical: Automatic creation of schematic from spreadsheet
- Electrical: Compound parts – accessories
- PCB: Stress free ECAD-MCAD integration and collaboration
- PCB: Seamless interface between schematic editing, board layout, and 3D layout
Benefits
Expanded capabilities mean improved productivity for electrical design.
8. Simplifying Design Validation
- Simulation: Find unconstrained degrees of freedom, turn constraints on / off, and perform mesh sectioning
- Simulation: Display simulation results in SOLIDWORKS Graphics Area
- Plastics: Enhanced Solver performance, improved indirect flow front tracking
- Flow: Multi parameter optimization added to Parametric Study to now conduct optimization study for more than one input variable
Benefits
Simulation expanded to handle more use cases – extended capabilities tackle more design scenarios.
9. Integrating Design and Manufacturing
- 3D Printing: 3D print directly from SOLIDWORKS, preview areas requiring supports, and import mesh data in SOLIDWORKS Standard
- Costing: Cost an entire assembly, nesting for sheet metal and get instant cost estimates from real manufacturers via the My.SolidWorks Manufacturing Network
- Inspection: Manual and selective ballooning, OCR Editor to customize and improve optical character recognition dictionaries and output horizontal inspection reports
Benefits
Extending SOLIDWORKS capabilities for the manufacturing ecosystem.
10. Improved Data Management and Collaboration
- eDrawings®: Augmented Reality (AR) for Android™; 3D Views and annotation views for assemblies; Component descriptions; Weld beads; Undo/redo
- SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard: New product offer based on SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM (now named SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional) designed for smaller workgroups to manage SOLIDWORKS data and provide an easy upgrade to SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional
- SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional – Database Vault Database Replication
- Import/Export: Export material properties to IFC 2×3, export IFC 4.0
Benefits
Collaborate at more levels and manage data more efficiently.