The Tools to Bring New Consumer Products to Life

Manufacturers of consumer products – ranging from home décor and appliances to sporting goods, baby gear and other consumer’s everyday lifestyle items – lead the evolution toward more sustainable, innovative, and personalized solutions. SOLIDWORKS® drives these advancements. SOLIDWORKS powerful design platform with tools like SOLIDWORKS 3DCAD, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, and SOLIDWORKS Visualize, give users the tools to bring new consumer products to life. Whether refining layouts with 3D design tools or streamlining product development, SOLIDWORKS empowers professionals and design enthusiasts to efficiently create functional, beautiful, and state-of-the-art products

Trends in Home & Lifestyle Design

With a shift toward robotic appliances, connected smart devices, and more eco-friendly furniture and home decor, the home and lifestyle sector will maintain its disruptive momentum. Cutting-edge products, developed to meet consumer demand, require science-based innovative solutions from 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS.

Smart Home Technology

Integrate IoT-enabled devices to everyday consumer products, powered by solutions such as SOLIDWORKS Extended Portfolio, for connected living.

Sustainable Products

Design eco-friendly consumer products by reducing waste, using renewable materials and using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation to improve energy efficiency.

Innovations for the Home

Develop functional, aesthetic bathroom fixtures, furniture, décor, and more through advanced 3D modeling.

Personalized Designs

Offer consumers the experience of customizable furniture and sporting goods using SOLIDWORKS Composer including customization tools.

DIY Accessibility for Design Enthusiasts

Experiment with prototyping and 2D drawings with SOLIDWORKS for Makers.

Who are SOLIDWORKS Stakeholders?

Experts and innovators rely on SOLIDWORKS solutions to bring their ideas to life. Whether an engineer at a global power tool company, a furniture maker, or a design enthusiast, anyone creating products in home and lifestyle segments benefit from such as:

Engineers and designers develop consumer products with advanced tools, such as SOLIDWORKS Simulation, or xDesign for product development via cloud 3DEXPERIENCE platform, to develop high quality products and shorten time to market.
Makers and DIY Enthusiasts using accessible resources to explore 3D modeling with ease with affordable 3D Creator for Parametric 3D design for mechanical engineering or 3D Sculptor for creating organic and highly stylized shapes.
Consumer Manufacturers developing energy efficient, connected, or personalized products can scale beyond CAD and access to high-end product development solutions with 3DEXPERIENCE Works.
Industrial Designers using tools like SOLIDWORKS Visualize and SOLIDWORKS 3DSculptor to create products in organic, complex shapes and share with colleagues or clients using photorealistic 3D renderings from CAD data.

Challenges in Consumer Product Design

Eco-Conscious Goals

Eco-Conscious Goals
Balancing sustainable practices and prioritizing sustainable materials, while maintaining design impact and cost efficiency, can be difficult. Leveraging tools like SOLIDWORKS Standard or SOLIDWORKS Premium allows you to select the best Eco-friendly materials for every product and test these materials virtually.
Technological Complexity

Technological Complexity
Ensuring that smart devices integrate smoothly, which the 3DEXPERIENCE platform of tools can integrate. IoT integration is no longer optional for consumer electronics and devices. SOLIDWORKS accelerates development with tools tailored for designing connected objects/systems.
Design Collaboration

Design Collaboration
Coordinating across teams and stakeholders, where SOLIDWORKS PDM or the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is used for easily managing design data. Making real-time data easily accessible to everyone on the design team. By connecting design work to the cloud, designers can continue to use SOLIDWORKS CAD, while collaborating in real time to instantly leverage the expertise of their team, resulting in faster, more accurate product development.
Custom Solutions

Custom Solutions
The SOLIDWORKS Extended Portfolio offers powerful capabilities for developing customized products by automating design processes and creating intuitive product configurators. Instead of manually redesigning each custom order, engineers can create a rules-based system that automatically generates new designs, saving significant time and reducing errors.

Why Choose SOLIDWORKS for Consumer Products?

Comprehensive Capabilities for 3D and 2D design, including advanced modeling and simulation tools tailored for product innovation.
Support for Sustainability via material selection libraries and lifecycle analyses.
Community Networks that connect users with industry professionals and other DIY enthusiasts.
Integration Across Disciplines with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for unmatched collaboration.