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SolidWorks 2013 Launch
New products and design tools, faster modeling, and enhanced collaboration simplify your product development and make you more productive.
SolidWorks 2013 - What's New - Download the Data Sheet
Powerful New Products and Design Tools
New products and tools bridge engineering and manufacturing with easier creation of complex models, more efficient simulation, and expanded environmental and cost analysis for more effective design decisions.
SolidWorks Electrical
- Enables quick design of electrical systems including system wiring and interconnections, and provides another bridge between mechanical and electrical engineering
- Database-driven schematics simplify overall system design, with parallel multiuser access
- Real-time link between electrical schematic and 3D model Automated documentation, including schematics, wiring reports, harness drawings
SolidWorks Electrical Data Sheet
SolidWorks Plastics
- Analyzes manufacturability of plastic parts, identifies potential defects early in design, and visualizes results in the 3D model to provide a bridge between plastic part design and mold-making
- Easy-to-use software for part designers, mold designers, and mold makers
- Guided analysis to optimize designs for injection molding
- Early error detection reduces costs and rework
SolidWorks Plastics Data Sheet
SolidWorks Costing
- Provides automatic manufacturing cost estimation to support more manufacturing processes and improves access to cost data for downstream manufacturing systems
- Machined part costing with increased capabilities for turning and mill/turn, improved process recognition, and multibody support
- New APIs to access cost data in the 3D model for downstream manufacturing
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Easily estimate the cost of designs to create more
accurate quotations and stay in budget
SolidWorks Sustainability
- Raw Material Financial Impact Tool quickly evaluates the financial and environmental impacts of a raw material change in real time to enable more informed design decisions
- Optimize designs for environmental impact and material cost
- Find the best design based on green initiatives, material requirements, and carbon footprint impact
SolidWorks Sustainability Data Sheet
SolidWorks Flow Simulation
- Visualize fluid flow around complex geometries so you can optimize your design
- Quickly access computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results as you design
- Observe flows for specific areas in detail
- Compare analysis results between multiple design configurations and studies
More Efficient 3D Models and 2D Drawings
New drawing tools help you create complex geometries faster and easier with true conic surfacing and intersect feature formation, plus enhanced documentation capabilities and automated outputs for manufacturing.
Conics in Sketcher
- Create smooth transitions between existing geometries using true conic surfacing
- Create complex or hybrid models faster using surfaces
- Make a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola tangent to existing geometry
- Use rho value for more precise control
- Easily create bridge curves between existing geometry without using splines
Intersect Feature
- Add or remove geometry quickly and easily by intersecting solids, surfaces, and/or planes
- Faster creation of complex or hybrid models using surfaces
- Simultaneously cut and patch model geometry using open surfaces without having to create an enclosed volume first
- Perform multiple solid geometry intersections simultaneously
- Create solid geometry from negative space
Varying Dimension Patterns
- Quickly create variations of pattern instances with expanded SolidWorks® patterning capabilities
- Save time and reduce the number of features Increment feature spacing or size in linear and circular patterns
- Select any feature dimension for variation
- Override individual instance dimensions
Weldment, Sheet Metal, and Multi-Body
- Quickly design weldments, sheet metal, and multi-body parts and increase standardization
- Save time and automate outputs for manufacturing
- For Weldments—Access overall dimensions of the part bounding box for BOM, cut list, or annotations
- For Sheet Metal—Set and view insertion points for forming tools to determine the precise location of the forming tool relative to the part
- Multi-Body Parts—Use library features on multi-body parts
Section View Assist
- Speed the creation of production drawings for faster and more consistent section views
- Quickly document the interface between internal components
- Use specialized functionality to quickly create section views, aligned section views, and half-section views
- Easily create section views in compliance with ASME, ISO, and other standards
Improved Performance and Productivity
New SolidWorks® online administration tools help you optimize the performance of your SolidWorks installation, while enhancements in simulation modeling and network rendering maximize design team productivity.
CAD Administration Dashboard
- Easily monitor all your SolidWorks user hardware and software performance to keep your design office running smoothly and at top efficiency
- See status, performance, and system options settings for each SolidWorks user at your company
- Quickly access the dashboard through the SolidWorks Customer Portal
Simulation Sub-Modeling
- Focus on and refine specific areas of a larger multi-body or multi-part structure while automatically applying loads from a larger model for fast, accurate analysis
- Quickly get detailed simulation results for specific areas of complex models
- Uses a finer mesh in critical areas for refined analysis
- Analyze larger problems using fewer computational resources
SolidWorks Simulation Data Sheet
Network Rendering for PhotoView 360
- Render complex scenes faster using the processing power of other computers on your network.
- Save time with faster rendering of photorealistic images
- Network multiple computers to share the computational load
- Adjust image aspects such as color saturation, brightness, and bloom in the Final Render window
Wider Sharing and Increased Connectivity
Expand and optimize collaboration with improved connectivity, enhanced viewing capabilities, and greater sharing of designs and data.
Previous Release Interoperability
- Work with parts and assemblies in SolidWorks® 2012 (SP5) that were designed or modified in SolidWorks 2013
- Reduce production delays and ease the transition to the latest release
- Collaborate and view designs with different SolidWorks versions
- Work more easily with outside customers, consultants, and manufacturers
Enhanced SolidWorks EPDM Workflow
- Route documents and contact users more efficiently with enhanced workflow and expanded SolidWorks Enterprise PDM user properties
- Reduce delays and accelerate your time-to-market Simplify process mapping requiring multiple approvers with parallel workflow transitions
- Automatically keep interested parties updated with Workflow Timers
- Display user’s current status with Presence Note
- Provide instant links to connect with user property pop-ups
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Data Sheet
3DVIA Composer
- Save time and increase productivity when you create graphical content for product documentation
- Quickly create content from your 3D CAD files
- Create and reuse library images to enrich the 3D model for clear and consistent documentation
- Create smarter and more appealing documentation using the Magnet Line feature