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SOLIDWORKS

Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10
Category
SOLIDWORKS
8.6 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

SOLIDWORKS won the following awards in the Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing category

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SOLIDWORKS Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

0% Negative
7% Neutral
93% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 83

3D Modeling

91

Technical Drawings

88

Parts and Assembly Mode

87

Simulation

85

Plant Design

82

Raster Graphics

80

Collaboration

80

Digital Architecture

79

Laser Scanning

77

Analytics and Reporting

76

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Quality of Features

85

Breadth of Features

84

Ease of Implementation

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Business Value Created

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Ease of Data Integration

79

Vendor Support

77

Ease of IT Administration

76

Ease of Customization

76

SOLIDWORKS Reviews

James Michael W.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Versatile tool in part design

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?

SolidWorks is a must-have tool in solid, feature-based modeling design that takes advantage of the easy-to-learn graphical interface. It enables you to create fully associative 3D solid models with or without constraints while simultaneously using automatic or user-defined relationships to capture design intent. It provides all the tools you need to develop your designs quickly and efficiently.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

SolidWorks has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that allows seamless work between part design. It enables you to work with smart, easy-to-understand geometric features such as bosses, cuts, holes, ribs, fillets, chamfers, and draft angles. The layout manager not only shows the sequence in which the features were created, it also makes it easy for you to access all the underlying related information.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is a bit complex to handle its functions when the user is a beginner. Also, this software sometimes makes the computer run a little slow.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This software is a very innovative tool that every company in the engineering area needs to have, for the design of parts and prototypes. Its easy-to-use interface and its many advantages make it the best modeling software. I recommend it.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Caring

Darlene R.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2021

Excellent Major Industrial Engineering Tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?

Solidworks provides the Engineer with great designing experience to produce quality 3D designs.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Very easy for the designers to manipulate, Mechanical 3D parts management.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I can not underline even a single problem with Solidworks.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Solidworks offers the most comprehensive 3D modeling experience and amazing designing envinroment for great 3D quality generation.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Douglas g.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2021

Mechanical 3D design easy Tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?

Solidworks its a perfect easy major Mechanical 3D models design tool.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The Solidworks design functions are very easy and responsive.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No problem with the 3D designing tool.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Solidworks itself offers Mechanical 3D design capabilities and easy searching command options its effective.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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