SolidWorks 3D Design Environment

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SolidWorks - Design Automation System (CAD) in three dimensions, works under Microsoft Windows. Developed by SolidWorks Corporation as an alternative to two-dimensional CAD. Gained popularity with a simple user interface. The system works on the basis of the geometric core Parasolid.

The program appeared in 1993 and competed with products such as AutoCAD and Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, SDRC I-DEAS and Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge.

The main task of the program is to provide the user with the power of a three-dimensional CAD system at the price of a two-dimensional CAD system.

2021

Custom enhancements in SolidWorks 2022 to accelerate product development

On October 19, 2021, Dassault Systèmes introduced the next version of its 3D design and design package SolidWorks 2022. The SolidWorks 2022 package includes many changes that take into account the wishes of users and help simplify and accelerate the product development process at all stages - from concept creation to production.

With customizable and flexible solutions, SolidWorks 2022 enhances and optimizes day-to-day design, documentation, data management, and validation workflows. When developing additional features and improving performance, the company relied on the wishes of the SolidWorks user community. The changes will allow inventors to optimize and accelerate their work, thereby creating better products in a shorter time frame. In addition, the SolidWorks 2022 package opens up the capabilities of the Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience platform for collaboration. In addition, SolidWorks 2022 helps users improve their competitiveness by accessing the 3DExperience Works portfolio .

The SolidWorks 2022 package includes:

• Optimized workflows and functions for part and assembly design, drawing detail, process modeling, and product data management
• Additional features for working with parts, including hybrid modeling and standardized external threads
• user interface enhancements - Quick Access toolbar, configuration management, geometric tolerance settings, etc.
• Improve quality and performance with large assemblies, import STEP, IFC, and DXF/DWG files, detail drawings, and manage product data
• Optimize the performance of automatic assembly without having to select modes or change settings
• fast enough graphics with improved response and image quality;
• Access to the 3DExperience collaborative digital environment
• Access the 3DExperience Works cloud portfolio of advanced applications for design, development, modeling, manufacturing, and management.

3Dexperience Solidworks for Makers and 3Dexperience Solidworks for Students

Dassault Systemes on February 19, 2021 introduced two solutions that open up additional ways to design, collaborate and exchange ideas: 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers and 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Students. They provide communities of inventors and students with cloud access to a powerful digital environment for designing, developing, and co-creating innovations.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers will help combine the ideas of inventors and mentors to increase the efficiency of the creative process, interaction and collaboration. Enthusiasts who actively use digital technologies will be able to develop with 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional, 3D Creator and 3D Sculptor. In addition, they will have the opportunity to share their personal projects with the global Madein3D community, which exists with the support of Dassault Systèmes. Its members are well-known developers, reputable experts and innovators. Participants will be able to get help from members of the community and be inspired by communication with like-minded people.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Students will help students prepare to find a job in a highly competitive market. The solution will contribute to the development of design, collaboration, project management and data analysis skills, which are extremely popular in the industry. The solution includes the ability to work with 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Student, 3D Designer Student and Collaborative Business and Industry Innovator applications from anywhere in the world, as well as access to a global online community of like-minded people and experts on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. In addition, students will be able to receive two certificates.

To support the launch of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Students, Dassault Systèmes held the World Virtual Job Fair. University students from North America, Europe and Japan got the opportunity to personally meet and talk with the international team Dassault Systèmes to attract talent, as well as with customers of SolidWorks Corporation.

From products to platform, from relationships to relationships... 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS is changing the processes of learning, working on joint projects and innovation for students and inventors, "says Jean Paolo Bassi, Chief Executive Officer of SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes. - Students will have access to the necessary tools in advance, which will allow them to develop the skills required in the industry and achieve success at work. Inventors will be able to join the community of like-minded people who share their passion for creativity and are ready to help with their experience and desire to cooperate. Both will acquire the knowledge and know-how needed to create products and user experiences. Thus, they will be able to change the rules of the game in the market. This is a revolutionary approach to using the SOLIDWORKS portfolio of applications connected to and managed by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The offer of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Students will be available in May 2021, and 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers in the second half of 2021, with the possibility of convenient online purchase on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

2020

Delivery to Russian universities of more than 30 thousand licenses SolidWorks Education Edition

In 2020, Softline provided more than 30 thousand licenses to Russian universities SolidWorks Education Edition. Students and faculty received a complete list of 3D design products that can be installed both on stationary computers in classrooms and on personal devices of users. This was announced on December 3, 2020 in Softline.

Part of the institutions issued a complete list of products for 3D design as part of a memorandum - a special program that allows Softline to provide customers with 2020 Education Edition licenses for free by the end of SolidWorks year. In total, more than 120 thousand students and teachers of the largest universities in Russia, the CIS countries and Europe took part in the program.

Softline experts identify several popular solutions included in the SolidWorks Education Edition. With SolidWorks Simulation, you can perform a finite element analysis. SolidWorks Flow Simulation is used to evaluate the flow of liquid and gas. SolidWorks Electrical is optimally suited for power design and SolidWorks Visualize is capable of creating visual content. But the most popular among students and teachers was the software SolidWorks 3D CAD, necessary for creating 3D models. All products can be installed on stationary computers in audiences or on personal devices of users, which is especially important in conditions of restrictions caused by the spread of coronavirus.

SolidWorks 2021

On October 29, 2020, Dassault Systèmes introduced the next version of its 3D design and design package SolidWorks 2021. The SolidWorks 2021 package improves the workflow and capabilities for designing, documenting, managing, and validating data. In addition, SolidWorks 2021 users will be able to connect to the 3DExperience.Works. This allows you to solve an even wider range of tasks - from design to production - and with the help of cloud technologies accelerate joint innovations, the company said.

The SolidWorks 2021 package has increased performance and includes a number of innovations. Among them are 10 functions implemented in response to requests from users of SolidWorks. Increased performance in part and assembly design, product loading, drawing, graphics, and data management to accelerate file operations and workflows.

SolidWorks 2021 also has enhanced functionality. In particular, the package further simplifies the operation of assemblies, offers opportunities for even more flexible design of parts and increased reliability of simulation modeling. In addition, it has become more convenient to work with and provides users with SolidWorks optimized functionality for modeling assemblies, noted in Dassault Systèmes.

A special version of the SolidWorks connected to the 3DExperience portfolio is now available in three packages: 3DExperience SolidWorks Standard, Professional and Premium, which correspond in functionality to desktop versions. Customers can SolidWorks use familiar SolidWorks applications, as well as cloud services of the 3DExperience platform. The latter will make work on joint projects more convenient and will provide users with increased mobility. This version of the SolidWorks has built-in data management features that allow you to delete obsolete or corrupted files, and provides automatic software and data updates. At the same time, all users work with the same version of data and can launch any application from the extended 3DExperience Works platform in one click.

The 3DExperience SolidWorks suite includes cloud-based industrial and mechanical engineering tools optimized for mobile devices to automate and collaborate offsite.

2019

SolidWorks 2020

On October 16, 2019, Dassault Systèmes introduced SOLIDWORKS 2020, which includes a number of improvements that are designed to help users speed up and improve the development process - from the conceptual design stage to the manufacture of final products - and get value added for their enterprises.

According to the developer, integration 3DEXPERIENCE the SOLIDWORKS 2020 package, which is close to the platform, meets emerging industry trends and business needs in the global market, forcing competing organizations to find new ways to collaborate and become more flexible in order to create new categories of user experience for their customers more quickly and economically. In the updated SOLIDWORKS 2020 package, users have a wide range of options and capabilities to improve system performance in daily operations, optimize workflows, and extend the engineering ecosystem from desktop to desktop computers to cloud through close integration with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Additions and changes to SOLIDWORKS 2020 noted by the developer:

• Artwork with Graphic Acceleration for Drawings mode: This mode allows you to open drawings in seconds, while still allowing you to add and edit comments and notes in the drawing. The Appearance mode will be useful for users who need to make minor adjustments to large assembly drawings or drawings on multiple sheets, configurations, or resource-intensive projections.
• Make Part Flexible is a function that allows you to display the same part in the same assembly under different conditions. For example, the same spring in the same assembly can be represented in two states - compressed and uncompressed. The Make Part Flexible feature is useful for working with a variety of drawing parts - springs, bellows, hinges, O-rings, and virtually any other part that can move or change its state.
• Enhancements in, SOLIDWORKS PDM SOLIDWORKS Electrical Connector and SOLIDWORKS PCB Connector provide a comprehensive solution for designing electronic devices and, data management including the ability to secure, storages index and manage versions of all user-defined products, data as well as supporting closer collaboration with teams working with systems for CAD electricians and mechanical products.

According to the developer, in combination with SOLIDWORKS 2020 and the 3DEXPERIENCE.WORKS portfolio, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers a wide range of cloud solutions, the collaboration of which allows you to manage all aspects of concept creation, product design, and their production and manufacture. Solutions such as 3D Sculptor, which includes the xShape application (for modeling free-form surfaces), 3D Creator with the xDesign application (for parametric modeling), 3D Component Designer (for data management), Project Planner, and Structural Professional Engineer (advanced process modeling) make it easier for users to work in product design and production preparation. As of October 2019, all of the above cloud solutions will be included in the 3DEXPERIENCE.WORKS portfolio, combining the high power and scale of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with the simplicity and usability of SOLIDWORKS.

SolidWorks Standard и Professional

As of March 2019, SolidWorks Standard is a simple and productive application for creating drawings and 3D models. The solution contains tools for automating structures, performing stress tests and determining the impact of components on the environment.

The extended version of the SolidWorks Professional product has higher performance and accuracy, has many libraries of standard fasteners and parts, features for automatic assessment of production costs.

elecworks software products will form the basis of SolidWorks Electrical applications

On February 21, 2019, Dassault Systèmes announced the signing of an agreement to acquire a line of software products for the development of automation and power supply projects for electworks from Trace Software, a developer of software solutions and services in the field of industrial design. The acquisition of elecworks assets will allow Dassault Systèmes to simplify and accelerate the development of an integrated mechatronics solution based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The elecworks software products offer the capabilities of schematic design, design of electrical control boards, wiring, cable systems and connections, which will form the basis of the Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS Electrical applications. More details here.

2018: SolidWorks 2019

On October 2, 2018, Dassault Systèmes announced the launch of SOLIDWORKS 2019, an updated version of the 3D design and design application package. SOLIDWORKS 2019 includes a number of enhancements and features that help improve the product development process, launch products into production faster, and create user experience categories for consumer categories in today's industrial renaissance.

Built on the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, SOLIDWORKS 2019 supports the entire process of working on the product, from development to production, and includes digital functions for solving complex design tasks and for working out parts. Updated features allow engineering teams to better manage large amounts of data and get a more complete digital view of the project. In addition, SOLIDWORKS 2019 offers technologies and workflows that optimize collaboration and enable you to create immersive and interactive experiences in product design and development.

Among the added features in SOLIDWORKS 2019 is the improved Large Design Review, which provides additional flexibility when working on a project and allows you to quickly explore or make changes to the model. Also, this feature allows you to dramatically improve performance when working with views, allowing you to scale the image by using modern hardware graphics accelerators. In addition, SOLIDWORKS 2019 allows teams to communicate outside the developer community by adding comments and markups directly to parts and assemblies using touch devices, saving these comments to the model, and then exporting as a PDF file.

Another key feature of SOLIDWORKS 2019 was the support of SOLIDWORKS Extended Reality (XR) advanced reality technologies, which is implemented as a publishing application CAD data created in SOLIDWORKS, including lighting settings, cameras, materials, labels and animations for motion study animations, with the ability to familiarize themselves with this data virtual augmented reality through web browsing and tools. With devices increasingly available to create immersive experiences and their contribution to a growing ecosystem of technologies and interactive experiences, designers and engineers can use SOLIDWORKS XR to improve design collaboration both internally as well as with external partners, to increase sales efficiency, when training users to build and interact with products, and to increase project confidence throughout the product process.

2017: End-to-end integration with Altium Designer

On November 29, 2017, the SWR Group announced the development of end-to-end integration technology between SolidWorks and Altium Designer as part of the PLM concept in accordance with the terms of the contract concluded with Altium Limited.

The solution provides end-to-end product development management in a single enterprise information space that implements component identification when working in the context of MCAD-ECAD. The SWR Group is starting to deliver an updated set of library parameterized three-dimensional models of ERI (electrical radio elements), which includes most versions of surface mounting enclosures (SMD), as well as the necessary connectors. These components, coordinated with the Altium Designer library, are optimized for work with various CAD systems (including SolidWorks) within the SWR AWS software complex.

SWR also provides tools for managing and automating ERI libraries in accordance with the rules adopted in the corporate LRI management system. For example, templates in a SWE-PDM delivery allow you to create models on the fly with real geometric dimensions, which meets the modern requirements in the Generative Design area.

2016: Solidworks 2017

On November 16, 2016, Dassault Systèmes announced the launch of Solidworks 2017. The application provides a range of capabilities for creating a multi-touch view through innovative design in 3D design and development, available at any time, anywhere, and on any device.

Solidworks 2017 is built on the 3DExperience platform and helps professionals design, conduct validation processes, collaborate, build and manage product development using integrated applications. This version of the product is equipped with more capabilities, it improves performance, features for paperless production by supporting the Model Based Definition concept and PCB design tools.

Solidworks 2017 3D Interconnect View, (2016)

Version tools help you work with any 3D model to better interact with manufacturers and customers. You can dynamically manage product data management from PDM product concept development to product production. The support of specialists working at different sites, remote groups of employees has been upgraded.

Solidworks 2017 simplifies the design and development process by providing optimal user experience and new capabilities for working with innovative technologies, as well as improved functionality for the most convenient interaction with various teams and teams. Every year, feedback from our Solidworks user community advances our research and development, enabling us to offer a flexible product portfolio that meets a variety of business requirements, designers, and engineers. With the introduction of Solidworks 2017, we are pleased to provide our users with even more powerful and productive design tools.

A number of the most popular features, capabilities and improvements in Solidworks 2017

• in PCB design:
  • Solidworks PCB - provides comprehensive synchronization of design of electronic and mechanical components.
  • convenient interface - a single environment with tools for working on schematics and markup with the ability to choose the most optimal routing options taking into account schematic constraints using the functions of automatic, interactive, paired routing, and multi-tracking. It also includes the ability to find and select new components for weighted decision-making based on real-time data from suppliers, the ability to use Solidworks models in the PCB design environment, and the validation of the design design of electromechanical components in the complex.

Accelerate the design process

• Advanced modeling capabilities help accelerate the development process with Chamfer, Fillet, and Advanced Hole Specification tools.
• Working with surfaces helps you escape constraints when creating complex 3D geometry, save time, and avoid complexity by adding surface functions such as Wrap, Drag and Drop, Emboss, Deboss, and 3D Curve.
• Magnetic Mates-Allows you to work with large and complex assemblies, helping to organize equipment and space, publish parts and assemblies as objects with the necessary connection points to easily blend with other objects by dragging and changing the location of models.

Validation of design ideas through simulation

• Static model research supports logical decision making.
• Critical Point Research - Instantly identify problem points for closer investigation, model realignment, and validation.
• One-click conversion helps you convert your research results from a linear static representation to a nonlinear or dynamic representation.
• RealView helps visualize simulation results to accurately understand and share analysis results.

Optimize project collaboration with simplified workflow and third-party data support

• 3D Interconnect-Supports working with neutral and source CAD data formats, such as updating part or assembly files when you make changes to a project using the Update Model feature, opening and working with imported files as Base Parts, or using workflows in different formats when interacting with customers and suppliers.
• eDrawings - visualization of any type of product data for simple and accurate interaction, through any formats - from source CAD data to 3D reality models in Google Cardboard. Access to product data is possible anywhere from mobile devices - on Android and on iOS.

Create projects that support data integration

• Solidworks PDM supports project collaboration by managing project data and providing access to the most up-to-date versions of this data. Support for the Solidworks MBD (model based definition) methodology has been enhanced by automatically creating 3D PDF files, placing the source CAD files in the structured Solidworks PDM Vault, monitoring changes to these files, and maintaining the most up-to-date versions.
• Solidworks MBD - Delivers important product information throughout the chain of further production operations through basic dimension functions and fully automated Polar Dimensioning Schemes, publishing 3D PDF with different levels of detail to achieve optimal file size and document quality.

2015

Released by SolidWorks Composer

On May 29, 2015, SolidWorks announced the launch of the SolidWorks Composer system, which is part of the SolidWorks software complex. The product provides full coverage of enterprise tasks throughout the entire product lifecycle^[1].

Instructions for working with SolidWorks Composer, 2013

When creating SolidWorks Composer, developers tried to make 3D technologies more accessible to the consumer market, new multimedia technologies and non-engineering specialists, primarily due to the possibility of reusing existing CAD geometry.

SolidWorks Composer helps you create a wide range of online documentation and electronic content:

• bitmap images
• vector images for marketing materials and printed repair and maintenance instructions
• electronic catalogs of interactive training programs for technical personnel and manuals on the product in the assembly plant, organized on the basis of the "clean" workshop.

Using SolidWorks Composer simplifies the process of creating technical documentation - the basis is the achievements of the design department. Based on them, various raster and vector graphics can be created with full support for Bezier curves, which does not lose its quality when scaling.

You can create intelligent, local, and projection views for models, sections with detail views that can reflect all the necessary dimensions, callouts, and notes, and schedule tables.

For models, events, various visual effects and complex animation are implemented, which includes assembly/disassembly processes, animation of kinematic links, creation of a "walk," the ability to add technological tooling and working tools to the model file, which can be created separately and used repeatedly in different projects. All this reduces the volume of text comments many times, which, in turn, reduces the risk of incorrect interpretation of the operation and simplifies the procedure for localizing documentation when translating it into foreign languages.

Process Map with Embedded Video (SWR-Technologiya), 2015

For graphic and text objects, you can create styles that, in turn, help create a uniform appearance of all documentation. SolidWorks Composer offers a number of pre-configured design styles that meet the requirements of domestic (P50.1.029-2001, P50/1.030-2001) and international (WebCGM, S1000D and ATA 2200) standards governing IETP development requirements.

An intuitive Russian-language interface helps you quickly develop the necessary online technical documentation, regardless of your CAD experience. SolidWorks Composer supports direct opening of both SolidWorks and most CAD systems with the ability to obtain metadata of the imported model, files in STEP, IGES and 3DXML formats and does not require an installed CAD system in the workplace.

In addition to the main tools, SolidWorks Composer has a number of additional utilities. With Solidworks Composer Check, a specialist can perform a control assembly of a product even if all of its components are modeled in different CAD systems. At that optimization of process of installation and use of technological tooling is achieved. SolidWorks Composer, in conjunction with Path Planning, calculates the optimal trajectory of conflict-free movement of product components with guaranteed absence of collisions, animates the process of assembly and maintenance of a complex product, taking into account the work area, necessary tools and equipment, anthropometric characteristics of the operator or assembler.

The workflow when creating technical documentation looks like this:

• the first step is to retrieve the source data from the CAD system.
• data is processed in the next step
• When completed, they are published according to the target audience and the needs of the enterprise.

Workflow Using SolidWorks Composer, 2015

The documentation created using SolidWorks Composer can be updated manually or automatically, which allows you to create technical documentation in parallel with a detailed design study. Automatic updates are performed using the SolidWorks Composer Sync module. If you want to automate this process according to the document lifecycle in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM and other information systems, you can use the SolidWorks Composer Enterprise Sync module, which combines API and task scheduler functions.

Finished documentation can be opened on any computer, without installing additional software (selfextractor packages are used), in addition, it can be embedded in any Microsoft Office document using ActiveX technology or published in PDF documents and HTML pages, using both supplied and unique user templates.

Open and implement the created content using the free SolidWorks Composer Player. SolidWorks Composer Player and SolidWorks Composer Player Pro (if you need more flexibility and customization through advanced functionality and user programming API tools) also provide access to navigation tools and changes in how the product is displayed (changing scene lighting, component transparency, etc.).

When implementing and publishing, it is possible to control access to the functionality of the created documentation, including in time, and protect copyright using a password and the function to protect against unauthorized copying of 3D geometry by reducing the quality of the model display.

Released SolidWorks 2016

On October 1, 2015, Dassault Systèmes announced the release of SolidWorks 2016^[2].

Presentation SolidWorks 2016 (2015)

The developer introduced the product as:

• Design: support for the effectiveness of the designer, less mouse movements and other movements, everything is made faster,
• Validate: validation, visualization, analysis, "find errors before they occur,"
• Collaborate: New Collaboration Capabilities
• Build: closer and more detailed association with CAM (with manufacturing).

And 27 additional additions in the product, which are referred to as:

• Quickly show and hide model datum planes.
• Direct selection of midpoints of sketch features without access to context menus.
• Constant access to the sketch context menu.
• Defines the direction of patterns with planes and planar faces.
• Quickly selects cut contours in faces when you are working in a sketch.
• A spline with a variable degree of curvature in a sketch.
• New options in creating rounds to join faces to a second derivative.
• Quickly show and hide multi-body part bodies in the assembly style.
• Bidirectional trajectory feature-The section no longer has to be at one end of the trajectory.
• Dynamically adjusts fillets in assemblies with many degrees of freedom.
• SolidWorks Simulation-Displays the mesh in the model section with the results of the analysis.
• Unfold Undetectable Surfaces-Supports cuts and curves on the surface.
• New SWE-PDM configuration: SOLIDWORKS PDM STANDARD.
• Quick access to new fillet types when you bulk select objects in assemblies.
• Toolbox favorite fastener folders.
• Saves mates when you copy a group of components through the Windows clipboard.
• Copying Blend Components - Supports additional blend types.
• Change the type of Toolbox fastener.
• Renames the part file directly in the Assembly Tree.
• Quickly zoom the drawing sheet by selecting from the list.
• Sort group items, convert them to single items, and back.
• Improved model manipulation in eDrawings.
• One eDrawings window on several documents SolidWorks.
• PhotoView 360-Quickly compare the preview to different lighting settings, making it easier to select a final rendering option.
• Bringing the appearance of the user interface to a modern appearance, uniform for the entire product line SolidWorks.
• Automatically scales the dimensions and fonts of UI elements when you change Windows settings.
• Render arrows in the Construction Tree for references to children.

Presentation SolidWorks 2016 (2015)

SWR-Electrics 2016

On December 9, 2015, SolidWorks Russia announced the release of an upgraded version of the SWR-Electric 2016 module, designed to design wire bundles, their volumetric layout, automatically calculate the number of materials used and create an installation template within the framework of GOST requirements. The module is intended for use in the environment SolidWorks 2016^[3].

Major version changes:

• System performance has increased several times. Operations such as importing a link table or laying wires are accelerated by an order of magnitude or more, and operations like adding shells to an installation are accelerated by 2-3 orders. Performance gains are increasing with the volume of installation data.
• The user interface is aligned with the modern SolidWorks interface structure. The commands of the module are placed on the tabs CommandManager SolidWorks, the main menu is restructured, the context menu is expanded.
• An assistant for the organization of the product structure was created at the start of installation in accordance with GOST 2.413.
• The logic of analysis of data imported from third-party electrical CAD has been revised to facilitate installation changes.

The module of the SWR Electrician 2016 is delivered free of charge as a part of the basic SolidWorks Premium configuration and also as a part of modules of electrotechnical design SolidWorks Electrical 3D and SolidWorks Electrical Professional.

2012

SolidWorks Education Edition 2012-2013

Dassault Systèmes, 3DExperience Company introduced the June 2012 SolidWorks Education Edition 2012-2013. This version improves the tools for mechanical design, modeling, rational design and cost tracking, which allows students to solve real design problems and be more competitive in the modern global labor market.

In addition to the software that enhances the skills and thus the competitiveness of students, Dassault Systèmes provides a complete library of SolidWorks curricula, which includes more than 20 practical projects for students at all levels. The tasks of designing and manufacturing bridges, cars and medieval throwing machines will make the study of science, technology, design and mathematics more interesting. The latest version of the product also supports access to Facebook directly from the SolidWorks application, which makes it easier to interact with other users. Students can now show projects to friends by placing them on their personal pages, or to the entire SolidWorks community by placing the project on the Facebook SolidWorks page.

In addition, the new version, released this year, focuses on the capabilities of rational design. The updated "Instructor CAD Guide" includes a chapter on sound design that allows students to analyze the expected environmental impact of their developments. Educational institutions that have subscribed to the SolidWorks Education Edition can now conduct the Certified Sustainable Design Associate (CSDA) exam in addition to the Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) exam. During this new exam, fundamental life-cycle assessment skills and general knowledge of the environmental impact of products are tested. Certificates of SolidWorks are a great advantage in getting a job, as they confirm the professional competence of students.

Compared to SolidWorks Premium 2012 software, the new education edition includes the following enhancements:

• application for calculation of cooling of electronic equipment, which allows analyzing thermal effects in order to avoid melting of electronic components of articles;
• application for modeling air flow in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems;
• application for calculation of costs for design and manufacture, products.

The following additional products that support SolidWorks Education Edition are available through SolidWorks resellers:

• SolidWorks Simulation, software for modeling the operation of designed products in real conditions;
• Equation editor, a tool that helps students visualize their mathematical skills and theoretical ideas;
• DraftSight, free * two-dimensional drawing application containing a new curriculum for teachers, available by subscription.

Agreement with Trace Software to integrate its technologies into SolidWorks

In 2012, Dassault Systèmes partnered with Trace Software to integrate and sell its technologies as part of SOLIDWORKS Electrical applications.

Notes

Links

• Official site
• Official Russian-language website