Take it to the next level with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Professional.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Professional includes libraries of standard parts and fasteners, tools to automatically estimate manufacturing costs and help convert imported geometry, and utilities that search designs for errors.
Realistically render your designs with PhotoView 360 and Visualize software and then share them with others using eDrawings Professional.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Professional also gives you integrated file management tools that securely store all project information and track all design changes. Streamline your design process and increase design productivity with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Professional.
Video: Why you should upgrade to SOLIDWORKS Professional.
Powerful and complete
SOLIDWORKS 3D Design software
gets the job done.
Get productive
With additional features like
toolbox, task scheduler and costing.
Stay organised
PDM Standard is included for
improved file management.
Product data management with PDM Standard.
Safe and secure
Efficiently manage all your SOLIDWORKS design data in the secure vault powered by SQL Server Express
Efficient data retrieval
Fast search and retrieval of information
Reliable
Ensure all design data is up to date and available to the right people at the right time
Effectively communicate your designs with non-CAD users.
Visualize
Create incredibly lifelike, photorealistic images for marketing campaigns and more using SOLIDWORKS Visualize. With easy mode, you don’t even need to be a designer to create stunning images.
Photoview360
Used by engineers looking to get a quick approximation of what the product will look like pre-production. Cut down on prototypes and save money.
eDrawings Professional
Save and share your SOLIDWORKS models using eDrawings Professional. It runs on mobile and desktop devices and fully interactive designs can even be shared via email!
Get the parts you need in the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox.
More than 1 million parts
Get access to a huge library of standard components, such as nuts, bolts, bearings, circlips etc. Automatically select and assemble.
Support for various industry standards
SOLIDWORKS Toolbox supports all major standards such as ISO, DIN, BSI and ANSI. What’s more, you can define your own corporate standards.
Smart components
All toolbox parts can be placed directly into your designs. SOLIDWORKS automatically selects the right part for the job with the correct dimension requirements.
Productivity tools that inspire innovation.
Design checker
Makes it easy to make sure your drawings conform to company standards.
Task scheduler
Automate commonly used design processes to save you time to do what really matters – creating innovative products.
Reverse engineering
Import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point cloud and mesh data
Tolerance analysis
TolAnalyst checks the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and verifies tolerancing schemes
Electrical CAD to Mechanical CAD Interchange with CircuitWorks.
Always up to date
Enables users to share, compare, update and track electrical design data so users can more quickly resolve electrical-mechanical integration problems
Flexibility
Import/export of PCB data – Two-way data exchange (ECAD-MCAD)
Accurate design information
Specify PCB outlines, keep out areas, maximum heights and compare board designs. Make sure your design is ready to be passed on to an electrical designer
Stay on budget with SOLIDWORKS costing features.
Reduce costs while you design
Get real-time total and itemised costs and adjust your product accordingly. Take control of final costs while you design.
Cost determination
Determine the true cost of your product designs before you start production. Simply set up the conditions, such as processing operations, materials and final manufacturing and SOLIDWORKS Costing does the rest!
Report creation
Automatically create company standard costing reports for your jobs. This can then be shared with the rest of your organisation for review.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard now included in SOLIDWORKS Professional*
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is created for anyone who needs to create professional photo-quality images, animations, and other 3D content in the fastest and easiest way possible.
SOLIDWORKS Visualise is hardware agnostic, which means designers, engineers, and content creators who use SOLIDWORKS or other CAD creation tools (such as Rhino®, Autodesk Alias®, 3dsMax®) for product, architectural, yacht, mechanical, and other designs can produce an enhanced 3D decision making experience in a fast, easy, and fun way.
* Active SOLIDWORKS subscription required.
Visualize animation courtesy of customer, D Cube Design Ltd
SOLIDWORKS CAM also included in SOLIDWORKS Professional*
SOLIDWORKS CAM is an add-on to all versions of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that lets you prepare your designs for manufacturing much earlier in the development cycle. In fact, manufacturing tasks that traditionally had to wait until completion of your design can now be performed concurrently with your design process.
* Active SOLIDWORKS subscription required.
Which package is right for you?
It depends on what type of products you design, what type of functionality you need and the skills and experience you already have.
Use this SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD product matrix to compare features.
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+2D Drawings
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+Design reuse & automation
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+Animation & Visualisation
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+Interference check
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+Collaborate & share CAD data
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+Advanced CAD file import
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+Basic analysis tools
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+Productivity tools
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+Design for manufacturing
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+SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard*
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+SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard*
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+CAD libraries
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+Auto task schedules & batch processing
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+Design for cost & cost estimation
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+ECAD/MCAD collaboration (CircuitWorks)
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+Photoview 360
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+CAD standards checking
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+Automated tolerence stack-up analysis
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+File management
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+Reverse engineering (ScanTo3D)
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+Structural part & assembly analysis
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+Environmental impact lifecycle assessment
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+Routing: Pipes and tubes
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+Routing: Rectangular sections & more
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+Advanced surface flattening
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Undecided? Take a closer look at Standard and Premium.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software delivers powerful design functionality with an intuitive easy-to-use user interface to speed up your design process allowing you to be instantly more productive.
Subject your designs to “real world” stresses and strains. SOLIDWORKS Simulation is seamlessly integrated into the design software. Raise quality whilst reducing prototypes and testing costs.
