Industry Applications of SolidWorks

Read about our customers' successes with SolidWorks and find out about how SolidWorks is used throughout your industry.

Electronics and High-tech

Today’s marketplace for high tech electronics—from consumer electronics to power and control instruments—demands smaller, lighter weight products with increased functionality and advanced features. SolidWorks delivers the full range of modelling, simulation, and communication tools.

Architectural Metalwork

SolidWorks solutions provide a common model to develop complete and accurate designs that can be leveraged across planning, equipment design, layout, fabrication, and construction. You can easily explore design alternatives using 3D parametric design and simulation to optimise your designs against customer and project objectives.

Transportation, Automotive and Aerospace

The automotive market rewards design innovation that combines efficiency, reliability, and style. The race is on to be first with breakthrough technology and design to win prestige and increase sales. SolidWorks integrates efficient 3D design with simulation to help you optimise size, weight, and performance.

Sheet Metal Products

The sheet metal functionality built into SolidWorks is a powerful aspect of the package that allows users to create the fully folded design and quickly generate the flattened form for manufacture. Sheet metal specific commands mean that creating sheet metal designs is easier thatn ever.

Medical Devices

Successful medical products—from drug delivery systems to diagnostic equipment and surgical devices—advance patient care. Manufacturers of these products must create innovative approaches while working in a stringent regulatory environment. SolidWorks helps designers in the medical field reduce design cycle time and costs, while still focusing on quality and reliability to increase patient safety and reduce liability.

Furniture Design

Furniture designers, from creators of high quality bespoke designs to hard-wearing mass-produced items, are using SolidWorks. Creating complex machined prototypes within tight timescales often demanded by their clients means that designers need to make workflows as efficient as possible. The range of SolidWorks software, from 3D design to simulation and validation tools makes SolidWorks the clear choice for many furniture companies.

Oil, Gas and Power

SolidWorks development solutions enable alternative energy providers to quickly create and verify new design concepts to speed up cycle time and reduce costs. In the oil and gas industry, piping, tubing, and weldment tools in SolidWorks 3D CAD software enable designers to efficiently manage demands.

Consumer Products

Consumers worldwide demand reliable, cutting-edge products that deliver outstanding value. Higher sales, market prestige, and brand loyalty are the rewards for companies that create those products. SolidWorks provides integrated product development solutions that cover the full range of modelling, simulation, and communication that consumer product designers need to develop better products faster – and at lower cost.

Mechanical Equipment

Manufacturers of industrial machinery or heavy equipment face formidable challenges in today's competitive global market. Clients look for more complex equipment customized to specific needs, higher reliability, and compressed delivery time. SolidWorks can help you quickly design complex assemblies and verify strength, durability, and performance to outpace your competitors by creating better machines at lower cost.

Point of Sale Displays

Companies who design point of sale displays in the current competitive market are seeing more accurate and timely designs through their implementation of SolidWorks. SolidWorks is an intuitive yet powerful 3D CAD software package that allows the user to quickly create designs that can be easily edited and shared.

Specialist and Miscellaneous

SolidWorks is used in a whole host of applications. Advanced modelling capabilities, automatic generation of drawings and compatibility with many different software packages means that no matter what industry you’re in, SolidWorks has the potential to revolutionise the way in which you design your products.

SolidWorks 2010 Industry Applications of SolidWorks

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