Industrial Machinery
Today’s industrial machinery customers demand products that will reliably perform increasingly complex tasks. To answer competitive challenges, manufacturers need them quickly – and delivered within budget.
SolidWorks® software provides the full range of integrated modeling, simulation, visualization, and communication tools that industrial machinery and heavy equipment manufacturers need to design better products faster – and at lower cost.
Click on the links below to see how SolidWorks can help you meet your challenges at every stage of Industrial Machinery design.
- Quickly produce conceptual designs or configurations
- Produce design iterations in less time
- Speed component selection
- Ensure your designs are manufacturable
- Publish complete, accurate documentation
Quickly produce conceptual designs or configurations.
Using Instant3D, you can easily put design ideas onscreen as workable conceptual machinery models by translating 2D sketches and photos into 3D solids. SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. Quickly locate existing similar designs by file name or attributes.
- SolidWorks Search. Find similar product designs and reuse data.
- DriveWorksXpress®. Automate repetitive design tasks and generation of parts, assemblies, and drawings.
- SolidWorks eDrawings® files, DWGviewer, and 3D Instant Website. Securely and effectively communicate your ideas in 3D to any firm, regardless of their CAD platform.
- PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks animation capabilities. Use photorealistic renderings and animations to clearly demonstrate how your products will look and perform.
Produce design iterations in less time.
More than ever, your teams need to quickly turn around precision designs. Thanks to SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology) and our Heads-up Interface, they can deliver innovative, accurate 3D models with fewer picks and clicks. The SolidWorks learning curve is short, so beginners can design with expert-level skill. SoldWorks also offers:
- Specialized weldments, mold, and sheet-metal design tools.
- DimXpert. Automate drawing views and dimensioning to speed design rendering.
- Interference checking in 3D before assembly.
- Hole alignment checking to ensure assembly fit.
- Fully integrated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software. Eliminate mechanism and structural design failure with stress, thermal, kinematics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and weldment analysis capabilities, as well as part analysis and optimization.
- SolidWorks Workgroup PDM and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM solutions. Securely manage design versions, track changes, prevent overwrites, and reduce errors.
- Fully associative top-down and bottom-up design techniques. Make a change – and SolidWorks applies it across your entire model.
Speed component selection.
By logging in to 3DContentCentral.com, you can quickly access thousands of pre-modeled 3D components. You’ll also find functionality and performance specification data, plus component costs for use in estimates. SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks Toolbox, an extensive, shared library of standard fasteners and other parts.
- Smart Fasteners Technology and Smart Components for automated assembly of often-used hardware and components.
Ensure your designs are manufacturable
Your team has designed a winning product, but can it be manufactured once the design gets to the production floor? You can get the answer – and save significant costs – with DFMXpress, which will test your design for manufacturing issues. SolidWorks also offers:
- Automatic bill of material (BOM) generation, ensuring accurate purchasing lists and allowing early ordering of parts and materials
- Certified CAM Partners for manufacturing.
- Automatic generation of final 3D database, 2D production drawings, and animated assembly instructions for manufacturer reference.
- SolidWorks product data management software. Track release levels and maintain revision history through the life of your product.
Publish complete, accurate documentation
When your products are ready for production and release, use 3DVIA Composer to create accurate, detailed technical manuals and consumer instructions. SolidWorks also offers:
- Design Checker. Ensure that drawings comply with company standards.
