First, there are tools to help you with data recovery. Since data is crucial to the company, you can mass-harmonize property names across all your documents, standardize title blocks, and validate that you have unique part numbers to ensure smooth integration into a PDM or PLM system, for example.Once your data is harmonized, you can, when creating new SOLIDWORKS documents, fill in properties through a property input mask and automatically generate unique part numbers that will name your documents according to the project. This secures data entry and ensures that the data can be used throughout the manufacturing process.You can also duplicate assemblies while keeping your naming conventions and property management rules according to your business standards.The third pillar focuses on automatic drawing creation, using different templates depending on document types and properties. For example, you can generate different drawings depending on whether a part is to be purchased or manufactured, or if it is a welded structure and you want to include overall dimensions for each profile.Next, you'll find specific industry-oriented tools that are particularly useful for optimizing manufacturing if you design sheet metal or welded structures. You can generate cutting plans from an assembly and create sheet metal flat patterns by thickness and material, also allowing 3D export to laser cutting machines that support these formats.Finally, you can easily create a complete manufacturing folder, with BOMs filtered by defined properties, neutral-format 3D files, and PDF drawings. For instance, you can generate a folder for the purchasing department containing only the parts to be bought, and another for production with only the relevant manufacturing parts.From the moment a pillar meets your needs, you're already a winner!
