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
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SOLIDWORKS Reviews
Annette S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Excellent Mechanical Designing Tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
SOLIDWORKS is very effective designing and 3D parts assembling solution and its annotation functions are excellent and very powerful simulation functionalities.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Through SOLIDWORKS is an easy job to import and export various 3D files across other CAD and 3D modeling platforms easily and quick saving project time.
What do you dislike most about this product?
No issues, SOLIDWORKS is easy functional and very stable modeling and Mechanical Engineering 2d drafting system and excellent on design collaboration.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Excellent Engineering design and coordination platform which allows effective integration with multiple project management and Industrial designing platforms.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Nidershan S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Excellent Engineering tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Highly intuitive, great tech support and have excellent programs to get user feedback and most of the feedbacks become features in next few releases.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
User friendliness, local support
What do you dislike most about this product?
No inbuilt collaboration option need to purchase separately. Surface features can be upgraded
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great engineering designing tool
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
shaikh a.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Best CAD software for 3D Modelling and Simulations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
The first thing that differentiates SolidWorks is the easy to use features and all the features are placed in a concise manner, that we don't need to spent time for searching them. Another thing is SolidWorks has a design tool library, which has a built collection of all standard parts like gears, nuts, bolts, washers, structural members, pins, locking elements, etc available for different design codes like ASME, ASTM, ISO, DIN, which helps us to save time rather than designing it again and again. Another thing is simulation package, which has all types of simulations we required and animation wizard to view our results in an animation mode.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best part SolidWorks is that, it is simple and not much prior training is required to use it. Using SolidWorks I can build different 3D models from 2D drawings, I can make different orthographic views based on either first or third angle projections, I can even make assemblies by combining different parts. SolidWorks database has a large collection of materials which we can use for our parts for smooth simulation procedures. Using SolidWorks we can do different analysis like Static, Thermal, fatigue, Flow, Mold, Drop test, Linear, Non-Linear, and many more.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The manual meshing feature is not available in SolidWorks, hence sometime gives unusual results when I wants local stress distribution on the components. The solving time of the analysis increases with the complexity of the part geometry, hence will reduce productivity. SolidWorks is a high end software, hence needs compatible system to run.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SolidWorks is one of the useful software for Mechanical Engineers, who wants to build different 3D parts, and analyze them by applying the real time boundary conditions in a simple way. SolidWorks has a lot of features and has a variety of simulations which we can choose from, hence I will recommend this software to all who are keen in designing and wants to build a career out of it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
