SolidWorks Standard

SolidWorks 3D Design – Transform your Ideas into Business Results

SolidWorks 3D CAD Design software offers three packages building in functionality and tiered to best suit the needs of your organization. All packages utilize the intuitive SolidWorks user interface to speed your design process and make you instantly productive.

A no-compromise solution for the engineer who wants it all. SolidWorks Premium combines the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional with powerful simulation and design validation toolsets, as well as advanced wire and pipe routing functionality. You will get designs right the first time with the SolidWorks flagship offering. Learn More	For maximum design productivity, SolidWorks Professional builds on the capabilities of SolidWorks Standard. It introduces data management, photo realistic rendering, and a sophisticated components and parts library. Efficiency and innovation increase with the solution that is used by millions of designers. Learn More	A powerful 3D design solution for rapid creation of parts, assemblies and 2D drawings with minimal training. Application-specific tools for sheet metal, weldments, surfacing, mold tool and die make it easy to deliver best-in-class designs. Unlock the benefits of 3D with SolidWorks Standard. Learn More

Datasheets

	What's New in SolidWorks 2012 Discover what's new in SolidWorks 2012 and learn how you can improve your 3D CAD designs.
	SolidWorks Standard 2012 Brochure SolidWorks® Standard 3d modeling software is the core design tool you need to cut design time, reduce production costs, and increase innovation. The software features a complete range of 3d design tools, a highly intuitive user interface, and the best customer support in the CAd industry—making it the premier design tool of choice for 3d professionals worldwide.
	SolidWorks 2012 Datasheet SolidWorks® Premium 2012 improves productivity and innovation with ease of use, powerful functionality, and world-class support in one package. Cut design time, improve collaboration across your entire team, and reduce manufacturing costs.

White Papers

	White Paper: 4 Tips for Successfully Implementing Your CAD System Congratulations! You have just purchased new 3D CAD software that promises to help your engineers design innovative products faster and with fewer errors. The steps outlined in this paper should help your company realize the benefits of your new toolset.
	White Paper: 9 Criteria for Choosing a 3D CAD System In the discrete manufacturing industries, between one-third and one-half of the CAD systems in use today are 3D. The rest are used for 2D computer-aided drafting.1 Although some tasks will always be done more efficiently with 2D CAD, these figures suggest many organizations have yet to employ 3D methods. The good news for potential second-half adopters is that they can benefit from the wisdom and experience of engineers who have been using 3D methods for 10 or 20 years. The following is a compilation of nine criteria that users of 2D CAD should consider when shopping for their first 3D system.
	White Paper: Bridging the Worlds of 2D and 3D CAD Design In this paper, we highlight the advantages of designing with SolidWorks® 3D CAD software as well as explaining how to leverage your existing 2D CAD data once you have decided to go 3D.
	White Paper: Proven Strategies to Fuel Your Design Team Continuous improvement separates great companies from mediocre ones. Innovative products, efficient manufacturing, and an energized staff are attributes of a company constantly looking at itself and asking, “How can we do this better?”
	White Paper: Squeeze Time and Money Out of Production Using Design for Manufacturability Product design does not occur in a vacuum and has a significant impact on manufacturing. In fact, 3D design carries even greater potential for streamlining production processes, especially when you take advantage of Design for Manufacturability tools and applications. With these technologies, you can avoid the manufacturing delays, cost overruns, and shop-floor retrofits that work against your company’s success and competitive position.
	White Paper: SolidWorks Software Swift Technology While most designers understand how powerful the capabilities of 3D CAD software can be, many of these same users may have felt they were forced to spend a significant amount of time mastering the system to recognize the inherent benefits. SWIFT™ is just one of the things that lets any SolidWorks® software user realize the benefits of 3D CAD without having to learn complicated techniques. In other words, SWIFT lets you focus less on the CAD tool and more on your design.
	White Paper: Using Design Automation to Reduce Costs, Increase Profitability By implementing design automation, engineer-to-order manufacturers can complete days of custom engineering in just minutes. Design automation also expedites and simplifies the creation of SolidWorks® software models, drawings, quote documents, manufacturing data—virtually any requirement of the custom sales process.
	White Paper: Recharge Electronics and High-Tech Product Development With SolidWorks Software The increasingly rapid pace of technology development—with an abundance of electronic products and new technologies hitting the global market at an unprecedented rate—creates many challenges for manufacturers. To succeed in this competitive environment, developing innovative products more quickly, more cost-effectively, and at higher levels of quality has become more important than ever. With integrated SolidWorks® software solutions, you can refine, consolidate, and improve your development processes—and deliver new technology applications and innovative electronic products faster than the competition.
	White Paper: 9 Criteria for Choosing a 3D CAD System In the discrete manufacturing industries, between one-third and one-half of the CAD systems in use today are 3D. The rest are used for 2D computer-aided drafting. Although some tasks will always be done more efficiently with 2D CAD, these figures suggest many organizations have yet to employ 3D methods.
	White Paper: How SolidWorks Software Speeds Consumer Product Design SolidWorks® Premium bridges the gap between industrial design and engineering by providing powerful surfacing capabilities, the ability to easily import geometry from dedicated industrial design tools, and the industry’s top mechanical engineering environment—all rolled into one package. In this paper, you will learn how SolidWorks software provides a complete modeling environment for taking designs from concept to manufacturing.
	Implementation Guide: Modeling in 3D with SolidWorks SolidWorks® helps you move through the design cycle smarter. We live in a 3D world, so by designing in a 3D environment, your team can create real solutions faster, more accurately, and more creatively.
	Implementation Guide: Sketching with SolidWorks SolidWorks® helps you move through the design cycle clearer. With intuitive sketching tools, your team can automatically dimension their sketches as they draw, for more accurate designs.
	Implementation Guide: Navigating the SolidWorks User Interface SolidWorks® helps you move through the design cycle easily. With a customizable user interface, each team member team can create their own convenient and efficient SolidWorks environment.
	Technical Paper: Best Practices for Data Migration Success Although switching to 3D CAD software dramatically improves business performance, the investment raises questions about how to handle legacy data. How much, if any, should be converted to 3D models? When do you convert it? Which data do you convert? How can you avoid errors? What has proven successful for other companies?

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