Automotive and Transportation
Today’s automotive marketplace rewards innovative, efficient, and reliable vehicles with prestige and sales. The race is always on to bring breakthrough designs and technology to the showroom floor first.
SolidWorks® software provides the full range of integrated modeling, simulation, visualization, and communication tools that automotive manufacturers need to design better cars, vehicles, and transportation systems faster – and at lower cost.
Click on the links below to see how SolidWorks can help you meet your challenges at every stage of Automotive design.
- Work with customer data
- Produce design iterations in less time
- Reduce weight and costs
- Win new business
Work with customer data
Using Instant3D, you can accurately achieve your customers’ design visions by translating their 2D sketches and photos into 3D solids that you can use, manipulate, and modify in your automotive designs.
SolidWorks also offers:
- ScanTo3D. Scan and import physical part models into SolidWorks.
- FeatureWorks®. Edit and fine-tune imported designs in SolidWorks.
- The ability to import math models in Unigraphics®/NX™, I-DEAS®, Pro/E®, DWG, VDAFS, IGES, STEP, and other popular formats.
Produce design iterations in less time
More than ever, your teams need to quickly turn around precision designs. With SolidWorks, you can create, revise, and check your drawings faster than with 2D CAD systems. Plus, SolidWorks instantly and accurately translates your 2D work to your 3D models. You’ll also save time with these SolidWorks capabilities:
- SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology). Reduces the learning curve and allows beginners to design like experts.
- Heads-up Interface. Deliver innovative, accurate 3D models with fewer picks and clicks.
- FeatureXpert. Add fillets and draft features to your models with speed and ease, instead of trial-and-errorLarge Assembly capability.
- Model complete systems –even those with tens of thousands of parts – in their entirety within SolidWorks.
- Fully associative top-down and bottom-up design techniques. Make a change – and SolidWorks applies it across your entire model.
- Advanced surfacing tools for creating complex, aerodynamic shapes and composite surfaces. Create complex ergonomic shapes and surfaces by simply pushing and pulling on control points.
- Sheet-metal design tools with ready-made Smart Fasteners Technology.
- Mold development and analysis tools.
- Configuration Management for parts and assemblies.
- Specialized routed system design tools for developing piping, tubing, pneumatics, hydraulics, and electric cabling systems – and integrating them with mechanical designs.
- Seamless, single-button integration of an extensive selection of SolidWorks Partner Solutions.
Reduce weight and costs
Before you commit to costly physical prototypes, SolidWorks gives you tools to optimize your models for weight and materials. SolidWorks also offers:
- Fully integrated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software. Eliminate mechanism and structural design failure with stress, thermal, kinematics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis capabilities.
- DFMXpress. Test your models for manufacturing issues on screen, instead of on the production floor.
Win new business
SolidWorks gives you a competitive edge when it comes to winning new business. Using tools like SolidWorks product data management software and SolidWorks Search, you can quickly locate existing designs that prove your experience and competence to prospects – and quote projects faster. SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks eDrawings®, DWGviewer, and 3D Instant Website. Securely and effectively communicate your work 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.
