Costing Tool: SolidWorks® Costing automates manufacturing cost calculations for sheet metal and machined parts. Modify your design or switch part configurations and instantly see the new, updated manufacturing estimate. Default templates are customizable to simulate your specific manufacturing environment.
Large Design Review: Large Design Review is the fastest way to open and interrogate a large assembly. Capabilities include walkthrough, sectioning, and measuring, as well as the ability to open any assembly component.
Magnetic Lines and Balloon Enhancements: Magnetic Lines allow you to automatically and precisely arrange balloons on a drawing. Balloons will snap to Magnetic Lines and can be moved from one Magnetic Line to another.
Motion Optimization: Motion Optimization automatically uses motion study results to create sensors and refine machine aspects such as motor size, bearing loads, and range of travel. Dynamically adjust any input and immediately see changes to constraints or goals.
PhotoView 360 and Walk-through: PhotoView 360 is now fully integrated in SolidWorks®, making photorealistic image and animation creation simple for everyone, even the casual user. Walk-through enables a video game-like exploration of products, including structures and large machinery.
Welded Structure Improvements: The Smart Weld Selection Tool simplifies adding weld beads to complete the documentation and appearance of welded structures. Fillet and Groove weld types are supported, and Weld Tables on drawings compile all welds and weld properties, then automatically assign them reference numbers for easy management.
Multibody Support for Sheet-Metal Parts: SolidWorks 2012 simplifies the creation of complex sheetmetal designs. This new functionality lets you incorporate designs that include other sheet-metal or weldment parts.
SolidWorks Sustainability: Sustainability has a new, advanced user interface that allows you to more closely model processes, with parameters like recycled content and duration of use. You also have access to the latest Sustainability Extras materials as soon as they become available—without waiting for service packs or new releases.
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM: Integrated Search Enterprise PDM Integrated Search gives you the option of searching from within your current Explorer window— no separate dialogs needed. Access favorite searches or open the full search tool for all options.
Enhanced Lifelike Experience: Enhanced Lifelike Experience enables you to add part-to-part shadows, ambient occlusion, and shadows to 2D panels with precise control for a more 3D appearance. A glow effect can also be added to highlight specific areas of interest.
Costing Tool: SolidWorks® Costing automates manufacturing cost calculations for sheet metal and machined parts. Modify your design or switch part configurations and instantly see the new, updated manufacturing estimate. Default templates are customizable to simulate your specific manufacturing environment.
Large Design Review: Large Design Review is the fastest way to open and interrogate a large assembly. Capabilities include walkthrough, sectioning, and measuring, as well as the ability to open any assembly component.
Magnetic Lines and Balloon Enhancements: Magnetic Lines allow you to automatically and precisely arrange balloons on a drawing. Balloons will snap to Magnetic Lines and can be moved from one Magnetic Line to another.
Motion Optimization: Motion Optimization automatically uses motion study results to create sensors and refine machine aspects such as motor size, bearing loads, and range of travel. Dynamically adjust any input and immediately see changes to constraints or goals.
PhotoView 360 and Walk-through: PhotoView 360 is now fully integrated in SolidWorks®, making photorealistic image and animation creation simple for everyone, even the casual user. Walk-through enables a video game-like exploration of products, including structures and large machinery.
Fast Drawing Detailing: The Auto Arrange Dimensions tool provides quick and easy alignment, staggering, centering, and overlap prevention capabilities for dimensions. New tools in the Dimension Palette enable linear and radial spacing, collinear and staggered alignment, and top-bottom-leftright justification control of multiple dimensions.
Welded Structure Improvements: The Smart Weld Selection Tool simplifies adding weld beads to complete the documentation and appearance of welded structures. Fillet and Groove weld types are supported, and Weld Tables on drawings compile all welds and weld properties, then automatically assign them reference numbers for easy management.
SolidWorks Sustainability: Sustainability has a new, advanced user interface that allows you to more closely model processes, with parameters like recycled content and duration of use. You also have access to the latest Sustainability Extras materials as soon as they become available—without waiting for service packs or new releases.
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM: Integrated Search Enterprise PDM Integrated Search gives you the option of searching from within your current Explorer window— no separate dialogs needed. Access favorite searches or open the full search tool for all options.
Enhanced Lifelike Experience: Enhanced Lifelike Experience enables you to add part-to-part shadows, ambient occlusion, and shadows to 2D panels with precise control for a more 3D appearance. A glow effect can also be added to highlight specific areas of interest.
Costing Tool: SolidWorks® Costing automates manufacturing cost calculations for sheet metal and machined parts. Modify your design or switch part configurations and instantly see the new, updated manufacturing estimate. Default templates are customizable to simulate your specific manufacturing environment.
Large Design Review: Large Design Review is the fastest way to open and interrogate a large assembly. Capabilities include walkthrough, sectioning, and measuring, as well as the ability to open any assembly component.
Magnetic Lines and Balloon Enhancements: Magnetic Lines allow you to automatically and precisely arrange balloons on a drawing. Balloons will snap to Magnetic Lines and can be moved from one Magnetic Line to another.
Feature Freeze: Feature Freeze lets you control whether specific features will rebuild or not. Additional features can be added without having to rebuild earlier ones; at any point, features can be unfrozen.
Enhanced Equation Editor: The Equation Editor has been completely revamped for easier navigation and use. Syntax highlighting is especially useful for trouble-shooting equations. Multiple views include Variable and Equation View, Dimension View, and Solve Order View.
Command Search: Command Search allows you to quickly find commands that are either hard to access, or not on the standard toolbars. Launch commands, drag and drop commands, or
just highlight command locations in pull-down menus or toolbars directly from the search results.
Motion Optimization: Motion Optimization automatically uses motion study results to create sensors and refine machine aspects such as motor size, bearing loads, and range of travel. Dynamically adjust any input and immediately see changes to constraints or goals.
SolidWorks Sustainability: Sustainability has a new, advanced user interface that allows you to more closely model processes, with parameters like recycled content and duration of use. You also have access to the latest Sustainability Extras materials as soon as they become available—without waiting for service packs or new releases.
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM: Integrated Search Enterprise PDM Integrated Search gives you the option of searching from within your current Explorer window— no separate dialogs needed. Access favorite searches or open the full search tool for all options.
Enhanced Lifelike Experience: Enhanced Lifelike Experience enables you to add part-to-part shadows, ambient occlusion, and shadows to 2D panels with precise control for a more 3D appearance. A glow effect can also be added to highlight specific areas of interest.