SolidWorks 2010 Overview of SolidWorks Products

SolidWorks helps over a million users to design, validate, share and control their engineering product data and has developed a suite of software to help design product from the most simple to the highly complex.

The majority of functionality is provided in the base product, which is SolidWorks Standard, but it is possible to scale up with different productivity tools in SolidWorks Professional, or even SolidWorks Premium which includes functionality to help validate your designs as a natural part of the design process.

SolidWorks Design Software has three products for purchase:

SolidWorks Standard

SolidWorks Professional

SolidWorks Premium

SolidWorks Simulation Products

SolidWorks Simulation Software helps designers to validate and test their designs as a natural part of the design process.

SolidWorks Simulation Software has four products for purchase:

SolidWorks Simulation (Part of SolidWorks Premium)

SolidWorks Simulation Professional

SolidWorks Simulation Premium

SolidWorks Flow Simulation

SolidWorks Data Management Products

SolidWorks Data Management software helps design teams to control the data being created by SolidWorks.

SolidWorks Data Management Software has two products for purchase:

Workgroup PDM (Part of SolidWorks Professional and SolidWorks Premium)

Enterprise PDM

3D VIA

3D VIA helps to produce the technical documentation required to support the release of a new product into manufacture or to a customer.

One product is available for purchase:

3D VIA Composer