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Visiativ UK & Ireland · Official SOLIDWORKS reseller
Take your designs from first concept to production-ready parts, assemblies and drawings with SOLIDWORKS Design 3D CAD.
👉 Bring your engineering workflow together with powerful tools for 3D parts, assemblies and production-ready drawings, plus options for simulation, manufacturing and data management.
👉 Shorten development time, reduce costly errors and improve product quality by checking and refining your designs before manufacture.
👉 Get productive with an intuitive modelling environment, supported by official training and a wealth of learning resources.
👉 Benefit from decades of development shaped by user feedback, alongside an established community sharing knowledge, practical advice and ideas.
👉 Build your team around widely taught engineering software, helping you recruit designers and graduates already familiar with SOLIDWORKS.
Save design time by adapting existing parts and assemblies for your next project.
Create realistic images and animations to explain your ideas and support customer presentations before manufacture.
Check for interference and misaligned holes in your assemblies, helping you avoid costly rework.
Explore how your designs respond to loads and operating conditions, helping you refine performance before physical testing.
Create frames and welded structures, with weld annotations and cut lists that update as your design changes.
Design folded components and generate flat patterns, helping you prepare accurate information for manufacture.
SOLIDWORKS Design in action
Develop individual parts, bring them together in assemblies and create the drawings your manufacturing team needs. Explore your design in 3D as it takes shape, from the smallest component to the complete product.
Watch our package guides, explore the detailed feature comparison and choose the tools your business needs.
For engineers who need professional 3D modelling, assemblies and production-ready drawings.
For teams that want the capabilities of Standard, with additional tools for productivity, visualisation and data management.
For more complex products that need the capabilities of Professional, plus integrated analysis and routing tools.
Compare the tools included in each package. ✓ = Included. − = Not included in this package.
Swipe across the table to see all three packages. Feature names stay visible.
| SOLIDWORKS Standard, Professional and Premium features | Standard | Professional | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Solid Modelling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Large assembly design capabilities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced surfacing tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sheet metal & weldments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Direct model modification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic drawing view updates and creation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dimensioning & annotation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bills of Materials (BOM) and Cut Lists | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic hole tables, weld tables and pipe bending data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| International standards support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drawing comparison | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOLIDWORKS search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design automation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design library | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configurations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D models from suppliers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Assembly animation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fluid flow simulation (FloXpress) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manufacturability checks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Walk and fly through animations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Collision and interference detection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hole alignment checks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sustainability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Draft and undercut analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import/export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D for rapid prototyping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Utilise 2D DWG/DXF data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| eDrawings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Large design review | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full eCAD-MCAD data exchange | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Standards checking | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart Components and Smart Fasteners | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Standard component library | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Task Scheduler | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photorealistic rendering (SOLIDWORKS Visualize) | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cost estimation | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Read PCB data as 3D parts | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| eDrawings Professional | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature recognition | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Vaulting and revision control | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Piping/tubing design | − | − | ✓ |
| Electrical cable/harness design | − | − | ✓ |
| Flattened harness drawings | − | − | ✓ |
| Tolerance stack-up analysis | − | − | ✓ |
| Kinematic motion simulation | − | − | ✓ |
| Structural validation | − | − | ✓ |
| Import scanned data | − | − | ✓ |
Our SOLIDWORKS Design software prices start from £190.75/€261 a month*
| Licence type | SOLIDWORKS Standard Good: 3D modelling, assemblies, drawings & more | SOLIDWORKS Professional Better: Toolbox, rendering, data management & more | SOLIDWORKS Premium Best: Simulation, motion analysis, routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-month Term (rental) | £763 | £947 | £1,163 |
| 12-month Term (rental) | £2,544 | £3,156 | £3,876 |
| Perpetual (buy & own) | £4,995 + £1,545 annual subscription | £6,245 + £1,845 annual subscription | £7,495 + £2,145 annual subscription |
| Interested? | Enquire about Standard |
Enquire about Professional |
Enquire about Premium |
*Example: SOLIDWORKS Design Standard 3-month term with 4 x monthly payments of £190.75/€261. All prices are ex VAT. Contact us for deals, latest pricing and all other enquiries.
Choosing your CAD software is only the start. The right partner helps your team get productive, resolve problems and make more of its investment.
With Visiativ UK & Ireland, you get practical licence advice, expert technical support, official SOLIDWORKS training and exclusive productivity tools.
Expert care regardless of your investment. Our technical support has no tiered charging structure.
Build your skills with official courses, delivered online, in our classrooms or at your premises.
Save time on repetitive tasks with over 50 myCADtools productivity tools, included when you buy SOLIDWORKS from Visiativ.
Get help choosing your package and licence around your design requirements, team and budget.
As your needs grow, explore solutions for simulation, data management and manufacturing with the same partner.
Established in 1987, Visiativ UK & Ireland combines local expertise with the resources of Europe’s largest official SOLIDWORKS reseller.
“The team at Visiativ has been outstanding, offering timely assistance and practical solutions that keep our work moving without delay.”
“Highly professional technical support from the Visiativ team – thank you for your continual help and support!”
“His calm, friendly approach put me at ease and made a difficult situation much less stressful.”
“Quick and effective help, as an experienced user the help I need is very rarely straightforward and the help has always been spot on.”
“He took time to explain what happened on my pc/software and he suggested different actions to take to prevent future issues.”
For more than two decades, Gloucester-based Frangus Ltd has used SOLIDWORKS software, support and training from our team to design and manufacture rail and materials handling equipment.
We visited owner, David Thompson, to find out how they’re reducing development time, whilst continuing to deliver high-quality engineering solutions for various industries.
Watch the interview to find out more.
SOLIDWORKS is versatile with loads of tools that help you work in multiple materials using multiple manufacturing methods. Plus, the Visiativ sales team are highly skilled helping us to understand what SOLIDWORKS can do, demonstrating how it can benefit us in a very relaxed and non-pushy way.
Simon Kingston, Design & Engineering Director, HH Global
Free 30-day desktop trial
Explore SOLIDWORKS on your own desktop, using your own designs to see how it fits your engineering workflow.
You’ll have full technical support from Visiativ’s award-winning team throughout your 30-day trial.
Tell us what you’d like to achieve. We’ll discuss your requirements and suitability before arranging your free trial with Dassault Systèmes.
Request my free trialRequest a callback to arrange an online demonstration or a visit to your premises, focused on what you design and the workflows you’d like to explore.
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