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
Dawid K.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2023
Specific, but powerful once you'll get used to it
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Good ePDM environment; Easy rendering;
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy 3D model to 2D drawing transition; broad rendering options;
What do you dislike most about this product?
unique file format excluding integration; hard to manage STP files; link created between files - I do not understand references between copied files;
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Nice software for 3D modeling. Very intuitive. Unfortunately, does not seem to be the most popular in many markets (including India), so it is quite a challenge to find specialists experienced in this software. I would consider it a good solution if you are the designer and create your own models - otherwise, if you work with the customers' data, the integration is pretty tough.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Slower Product Innovation
Yasar P.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Amazing 3D Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
SolidWorks is an easy-to-learn software when it comes to mechanical design. It is also beneficial for beginner simulations and the various tutorials available for most of the stuff. The render engine is quite weird; it uses only the CPU, but it generates pretty good quality stuff for showing the model in good detail. Engineering drawings can be produced pretty much automatically, which is a huge plus. And it supports a large set of tools that include electrical work into a product, which is often underestimated in a product, but the integration holds excellent value.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As a mechanical engineer, and have been using Solidworks for the past 15 years. It is one of the top design tools that I use to create accurate and precise designs. It has all the necessary features that allow me to quickly create parts, which are ready for production. The software allows me to see different views in real time while designing so it helps me visualize my part better and understand its function more clearly than ever before. The software also offers many other useful functions such as drawing 2D or 3D drawings, creating parts from scratch with basic measurements or downloading them directly from the internet.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Solidworks is unable to handle large assemblies while on a low configuration. Renderings can be time-consuming and difficult to create with Solidworks software. It requires an advanced rendering system that would make it easier to render 3D models.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Simulation on the 3D model it feels realistic like animation. Also you can easily views inter part of the components by using hide and show command. And you can check interference test and its calculation. Cost estimate tools and manufacturability assessments are used to design for cost and manufacturing. Assist in detecting errors and allow the designer to make modifications to models and drawings before they are completed. Use standardized data management tools to interact with team members and regulate revisions. Design complicated components and assemblies quickly and accurately, incorporating 3D models and 2D drawings.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Christophe B.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Excellent software in the engineering sector
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Using this software, I finished my models more quickly than ever before. I've also created some models for a corporation, which helps them with two major issues: first, it eliminates the need for testing, which saves money; second, it makes it simple to update the model in the event that the design changes.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
When thinking of the CAM industry, everyone thinks of this program. As is common knowledge, SolidWorks products are incredibly user-friendly and beneficial for beginners. We'll have a tonne of tools, and everything will run really well. The availability of so many online resources is a tremendous benefit. When we get stuck, we can talk to anyone or view a video on it.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The software offers a large range of options, but it does not keep track of issues with the proper employment of those options based on user limitations, such as those related to time, quality, etc. Simply put, the software won't give us options based on our facilities.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
one of the top choices offered. I personally utilized the software and found it to be good. SolidCAM software offers a lot of assistance in the world of manufacturing. You should utilize this tool because it will help you accomplish all of your professional and organizational objectives with less expense and effort.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity