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
+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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Feature Ratings
3D Modeling
Technical Drawings
Parts and Assembly Mode
Simulation
Plant Design
Raster Graphics
Collaboration
Digital Architecture
Laser Scanning
Analytics and Reporting
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Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Data Integration
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Ease of IT Administration
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SOLIDWORKS Reviews
Susan G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2021
Excellent design of small and large-scale parts
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
If we have little time to deliver a project, let's not worry, because designing with SolidWorks is an easy task, since the training is very fast, the part modeling is comparable with other high-ranking software, we can also share our projects Through the cloud and the results in 3D printing is how we designed it in the beginning.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like the interface, because it is reliable when I have a team project, we share it, each member contributes something and the design from beginning to end comes out as we think. The ability to make digital designs and then turn them into real is awesome, excellent CAD / CAM, it's very professional for us and we use it on every project in mind.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I'd like it to automatically save when I'm making a design, because it's frustrating to get delayed if something goes wrong with the computer.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It does not matter if your company is large or small, because the service package is inexpensive and very easy to use for the entire work team.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Angella W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Machinery
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2021
I have fun designing with SolidWorks
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
The main benefit of SolidWorks is its price, it is accessible and very profitable, it cost us very little to learn how to use it, and the parts are designed from scratch very easily, we have fun designing because all the functions are visible and understandable.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
SolidWorks has a good capacity to design mechanical parts and of any type, the integrity of the product to be made is of high quality, good presentation and great capacity to create and edit my designs.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I love SolidWorks because it is a program that makes design easy for us.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is important to have SolidWorks, because it is one of the best design software on the market so far.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Andrew C.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2021
Excellent design software. Lots of capabilities.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
More design capabilities than other parametric modeling programs.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Simulation
What do you dislike most about this product?
Occasional crashing
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take formal learning courses to learn all about solidworks.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity