SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

First released in 1995, SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD is the foundation of the entire SOLIDWORKS software range. Today, SOLIDWORKS Desktop users can connect online to share, review and markup 3D Designs, access data storage and collaborate with colleagues on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

SOLIDWORKS prices start at just £191.25+VAT per month.

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Buy SOLIDWORKS Premium for the price of Standard!*

  • Claim your free upgrade to SOLIDWORKS Premium to unlock:

    🔑 A massive 37% discount!

    🔑 Virtual testing with SOLIDWORKS Simulation

    🔑 PDM Standard for data management

    🔑 Rendering with SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard

    🔑 A library of nuts, bolts, washers, fasteners + more, with Toolbox

    🔑 Piping/cabling routing functionality + more!

    *Legal Terms and Conditions: Offer valid from November 11th, 2024, until December 20th, 2024, in UK & Ireland. Offer expires December 20th, 2024, at 11:59 GMT and cannot be combined with any other discount or offer. Only newly acquired SOLIDWORKS perpetual licences ordered after 12:00pm GMT, 11th November, 2024, are eligible. Educational and research licenses do not qualify for this offer. Other restrictions may apply. Contact Visiativ for more information.

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  • The world’s #1 CAD Software!

    👉 SOLIDWORKS is the most powerful and complete 3D Design software for Mechanical designers. Now with added 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud functionality to further enhance your experience.

    👉 SOLIDWORKS helps you to shorten development time, reduce costs and improve product quality.

    👉 SOLIDWORKS is easy to use, fun to learn and quick to get up to speed – generating a fast return on your investment.

    👉 SOLIDWORKS has a huge community of users (more than 8 million worldwide!) who inspire and help to drive new functionality of future releases.

    👉 SOLIDWORKS is the most popular 3D CAD software learned at universities, so you’ll have the pick of the bunch when it comes to recruiting the best candidates for your business.

     

A few (more) reasons to buy SOLIDWORKS

  • Easy to use and learn

    The intuitive, yet advanced user interface helps you get up to speed quickly and easily. It’s fun to use too!

  • Simple or complex

    Easily create simple and complex geometry and use functionality to create product assemblies.

  • 2D drawings

    Create 2D drawings from your 3D models – that automatically update if changes are made!

  • Design reuse

    Quickly find existing 3D models and create new products by reusing them in your designs – saving time.

  • Animation and rendering

    Create compelling photo realistic images and animations of your ideas before manufacture.

  • Check interference

    Check all your holes line up and nothing else clashes – avoid errors before you manufacture.

  • Design testing

    Simulate if your design will serve its purposes by testing whilst the design is still virtual.

  • Welded fabrications

    Create welded fabrications with ease, add welding annotation and automatically create accurate cutting lists that update as changes are made.

  • Sheet metal parts

    For designing and unfolding simple or complex sheet metal parts – with full range of flanges, tabs, corner treatments, ripped edges, hems and joggles.

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Feature Premium Professional Standard
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
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
Full eCAD-MCAD data exchange
Piping/tubing design
Electrical cable/harness design
Flattened harness drawings
Tolerance stack-up analysis
Kinematic motion simulation
Structural validation
Import scanned data
  • How Bowhead use SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD with 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

    SOLIDWORKS users are focusing on engineering innovation by connecting with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to make better designs – and effectively communicate them – with customers and partners, all while growing a business.

    Check out this video to see how the team at Bowhead, creators of adaptive mobility technologies, pushes the design envelope with the help of SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE – Now available with all new licenses of SOLIDWORKS.

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👉Unparalleled industry knowledge

👉Software price match promise

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