What is SOLIDWORKS?
SOLIDWORKS® and the 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio unite your entire ecosystem, allowing you to connect the people, applications, and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased collaboration, and accelerated innovation. Adding DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP provides added visibility specifically for your factory’s environment.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SOLIDWORKS?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
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Technical Drawings
Parts and Assembly Mode
Simulation
Plant Design
Raster Graphics
Collaboration
Digital Architecture
Laser Scanning
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Quality of Features
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Business Value Created
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Ease of Data Integration
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Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
SOLIDWORKS Reviews
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
Fantastic product for designers.
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Shaunak D.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
Best, intuitive 3D modeling with great features!!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
One of the most pleasurable software i have worked on for designing. As a mechanical engineer, I have worked with different modeling softwares. This one is quite intuitive and hence saves a lot of time. Implements real world physics and logic.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The drawings are so explanatory and easy to understand that I had a great time explaining in my final project. Doesn't require much thinking to understand. Hence a non technical person is also able to easily grasp the concepts.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Had some difficulty in learning simulation and assembly portion of modeling. So it would be great if some training material is provided by the company.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Will always be my first choice if I;m given an array of different modeling software. For complex and higher industry level application, a bit patience is required and you might experience some less degree of freedom. But for moderately complex products, this is a great option to go for.
Pros
- Unique Features
- Respectful
- Fair
- Helps Innovate
Anshuman S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2022
Detailed Review of Solidworks
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Solidworks provides us with the ease of creating 3D models and also helps in drafting the 2D drawing sheet as per the model. Solidworks also provides us with the parametric modelling features which helps us to bring changes to the 3D CAD model as per our convenience.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Solidworks helps us create 3D models and also helps us to bring changes to the 3D CAD model without affecting the entire CAD file by using the Parametric modelling feature.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some of the features which Solidworks can improve is implementing automatic constraints to the sketch and it can also add an option in the assembly feature to directly show whether the parts have been locked or proper constraints have been put in place.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend them to practice on Solidworks more in order to gain a good level of proficiency on the same.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation