Small Teams Innovate with SOLIDWORKS

Your team needs rock-solid, trustworthy, market-proven tools that will never slow you down. That’s why millions of leading designers and engineers, like you, choose SOLIDWORKS. Tight-knit teams and smart, growing businesses know that choosing trusted, professional CAD early on sets you up for long-term success and avoids the inevitable pain of switching from limited, entry-level solutions.

As a startup speed is really what we need you need to get products out. It's not like we can delay a month or two months or three months when your Venture Capital backed, you only have a certain lifeline. You need to get things out of the door. I don't think without SOLIDWORKS that we would have gotten there.

Paul Vizzio

Director of Hardware | Proteus Motion

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Small Teams Innovate with Powerful, Proven Design Capabilities Trusted by Industry Leaders Like You

Trusted Capabilities

Parts, assemblies, large design review, robust modeling, and more give you design and performance capabilities that are easy to use and push the boundaries of your imagination. Avoid limitations with CAD built to handle everything from weldments and routing to mold design, sheet metal and more.

Professional Drawings

Fast, associative, and production-ready drawings give you the ability to manufacture any design. Whether you prefer 2D drawings or 3D annotations or you require CAM capabilities, SOLIDWORKS brings you from ideation to production with ease. Drawings are even easier with SOLIDWORKS generative AI capabilities.

Regular Enhancements

Get access to the latest design capabilities to meet your goals and stay ahead of the competition. Performance and capability enhancements are delivered five times each calendar year, so you’ll always have the latest and greatest tools on the market. Got a suggestion? SOLIDWORKS R&D specializes in delivering user-driven enhancement requests.

Out of the Box Collaboration

SOLIDWORKS licenses include cloud-based collaboration and data management with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and Cloud Services. Connect your partners, customers, and remote teams, and get real-time feedback and revision management to keep your projects on time, on budget, and on point.

User-Driven Approach

SOLIDWORKS is built by designers and engineers for designers and engineers. Feel confident you are using a solution built that anticipates future design requirements, understands how you want to work, and has been implementing user-driven enhancements for 30+ years.

Flexible Licensing and IT

SOLIDWORKS has options to fit every need. Numerous options are available for duration, and SOLIDWORKS offers licenses tied to individual users as well as single devices. This includes options for low IT overhead, simplified administration and updates.

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Small Team Success Stories

Small teams and businesses innovate with SOLIDWORKS Design and product development solutions. Hear SOLIDWORKS customers share their success stories and learn how integrated software has helped these companies bring ideas to life, increase productivity, and reduce costs.

Bowhead

Bowhead: Achieve the Amazing

Bowhead has evolved from a business into an adaptive mobility movement. As the company has grown, SOLIDWORKS has scaled with them – playing a role in every aspect of their business, from design and production to customer service and operations. Learn how Bowhead uses SOLIDWORKS to achieve the amazing.
“We have customer service, operations, engineering, and inventory management. SOLIDWORKS plays a role in every piece of our company. SOLIDWORKS cloud tools became a way to manage an engineering company, not just to engineer the parts.”
Christian Bagg
Co-Founder | Bowhead Corporation

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Proteus

Proteus: Strength Training Evolved

In less than a decade, Proteus grew from a startup to a leading athletics training company. As its business expanded, new challenges and complexities emerged in its product development process. Learn how SOLIDWORKS helped Proteus tackle these roadblocks and position the company for long-term success.
“The speed to market, really getting the product correct, and getting it done quickly. There is no other platform like SOLIDWORKS that could have done that for us.”
Paul Vizzio
Director of Hardware Engineering | Proteus Motion

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Best Tugs

Best Tugs: Reimagine Aircraft Movement

Driven by a “find the need and fill it” mentality, Best Tugs builds smarter, safer electric aircraft tugs. The Sierra line showcases their innovation—streamlined, reliable machines capable of towing 99,000 lbs. Learn how the company uses SOLIDWORKS to bring its innovative tugs from design concept to the tarmac.
“As a CEO, I look at it as time and money. When you can put something in a model and see that it's going to work or not going to work, you save so much time.”
Ranch Pratt
CEO | Best Tugs

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Go Beyond CAD with Modern Product Development Capabilities

Professional CAD capabilities are just the start. SOLIDWORKS Design includes AI and cloud functionality to reduce tedious tasks, simplify teamwork, and help you focus on great designs. Here’s a preview of the beyond CAD features included with SOLIDWORKS.

Artificial Intelligence

Screenshot of SOLIDWORKS 3D model showing AI fastener recognition

Use AI to automatically recognize and assemble components that look like fasteners, such as nuts, bolts, and washers, saving time, reducing manual effort, and improving assembly accuracy. Speed up drawing creation with AI-powered views and hole callouts, as well as automated dimensioning, detailing, sheet format selection, and scaling.

Sharing Made Easy

3D model of part with markup - SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

Getting real-time feedback on your design is as easy as sharing a secure link from your SOLIDWORKS interface. There’s no need to send a physical file or download special viewers. Watch the video to see how you can securely invite trusted collaborators to view and markup 3D designs on the cloud in real-time.

CAD-Aware Storage

3D model of a wheel - SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

Watch the video to see how you can take advantage of CAD aware cloud storage that's purpose built for SOLIDWORKS data. Secure storage, Managed references, and design collaboration - it's all available and ready to use with SOLIDWORKS Design licenses!

Complete Version Control

3D model of part - SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services

Revisions are a fundamental part of engineering. Watch the video to see how you can move beyond creative revision file names and instead leverage a seamless, modern solution for managing your revisions.

Reach Your Next Horizon

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With quarterly, yearly, and perpetual licensing, SOLIDWORKS has licensing options to fit your cost structure. If you need advice, contact us for help with product pricing, license options, product demonstrations, and training to best suit your needs. Already know what you need? Visit the online store and buy SOLIDWORKS now.

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