Welcome to the SOLIDWORKS Corporate Academy! As a thank you to our Key Accounts for your continued business, each month we host live webinars full of SOLIDWORKS® best practices and tips & tricks. Our goals for these sessions are to drive end user proficiency, introduce you to new techniques and software capabilities, and increase the ROI of your SOLIDWORKS investment.

We hope you enjoy this library of our past and present sessions, and they help you to become a better SOLIDWORKS user.

	Managing Your SOLIDWORKS Electrical Design Data Watch now as we dive into the powerful PDM connector designed specifically for SOLIDWORKS Electrical. Watch session
	Shop Floor Machining: Bridge the gap between design and manufacturing! Bridge the gap between design and manufacturing and quickly create and verify 3D NC toolpaths while adhering to company standards with NC Shop Floor Programmer. With the SOLIDWORKS 2025 release, this tool is included with every license of SOLIDWORKS with cloud services. Watch session
	Corporate Academy: What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2025 SOLIDWORKS CAD solutions are the trusted, industry-standard for professional modeling capabilities, production-ready manufacturing documentation, and real-time cloud collaboration tools. Watch now as we go over the top SOLIDWORKS 2025 enhancements. Watch session
	Tools to Support Additive Manufacturing The Additive Manufacturing market is in rapid expansion, with a projected compound annual growth rate of over 20% for the next 10 years. With such a rapid growth, your design and manufacturing tools need to also adapt and change quickly so that you are not left behind the competition! Watch session
	Best Practices for Managing Large Assemblies – Part 1 As your assemblies grow larger, they will invariably consume more computer resources. Your system must load more geometry, solve more functions, and display more data. This can lead to slower performance within assembly and drawing documents. Watch session
	Best Practices for Managing Large Assemblies – Part 2 As your assemblies grow larger, they will invariably consume more computer resources. Your system must load more geometry, solve more functions, and display more data. This can lead to slower performance within assembly and drawing documents. Watch now as we go over how you can minimize the additional overhead by building your assemblies more efficiently and by using SOLIDWORKS features designed to optimize workflows within large data sets. Watch session
	Digital Factory – Manufacturing Digital Twin enhanced with EFS Simulation With this recording, we want to empower our Academic ecosystem on DELMIA Factory Simulation Engineer (EFS) Role solutions. This role can handle customer problems, cases on Market Demand, and much more. Watch session
	Corporate Academy: Mastering the Bill of Materials (BOM) – Proven Strategies for Success Whether you are a Product Architect, Design Engineer, Production Manager, or Service Manager, understanding and managing BOMs is essential. This on-demand webinar delves into the diverse interpretations and requirements of BOMs and demonstrates how the SOLIDWORKS Portfolio can streamline their creation and management. Watch session
	Corporate Academy: Sustainability in Today’s World Learn about Dassault Systèmes' sustainability solution and how to perform a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).  Watch session
	Corporate Academy: Using Simulation to Drive Innovation and Achieve Real Business Results As a current SOLIDWORKS customer, we appreciate your commitment to us and our tools as you create the newest and most innovative products in the industry.  A natural extension of the SOLIDWORKS design set is the ability to simulate and validate how your products will work in the real world.  Watch session
	Corporate Academy: What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2024 – Top 10 Check out the top 10 new capabilities in the SOLIDWORKS® 2024 product suite. Watch session
	Corporate Academy: Introduction to Cloud Services With every new SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service and SOLIDWORKS Term Licenses, we now include a set of apps called Cloud Services. Cloud Services are a set of tools that can help your team enhance 3D sharing, markup, data storage, design reviews, and collaboration, now available to new and existing SOLIDWORKS users. Watch session
	Introduction to Surfacing for Solid Modelers Has the Surfacing tab of the SOLIDWORKS Command Manager always intrigued you? But have you not been daring enough to try out any of the features? Surfacing can be an intimidating subject, but the features are a lot easier to use than you might think. There’s also a lot of everyday solid modeling scenarios where a Surfacing feature might be the most practical solution. Watch session
	SOLIDWORKS Tips & Tricks Watch as Industry Process Consultant and Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert − Michel Cloutier − shares his top 10 tips and tricks on sketching, features, assemblies, and shortcut keys. Michel also covers a few bonus best practices to help end users of SOLIDWORKS CAD take their skills to the next level. Watch session
	Sheetmetal, Weldments & Structure Systems Watch now as we show tips, tricks and best practices on these 3 categories: Sheetmetal, Weldments, and Structure Systems. Watch session
	Part 2 of 2: Best Practices for Managing Large Assemblies As your assemblies grow larger, they will invariably consume more computer resources. Your system must load more geometry, solve more functions, and display more data. This can lead to slower performance within assembly and drawing documents. Watch session
	Part 1 of 2: Corporate Academy – Tips & Tricks Managing Large Assemblies In this 2-part webinar series, we review how you can minimize the additional overhead by building your assemblies more efficiently and by using SOLIDWORKS features designed to optimize workflows within large data sets.. Watch session
	SOLIDWORKS Electrical Best Practices Find out how to streamline your design process by integrating electrical and mechanical design disciplines using the SOLIDWORKS Electrical platform. Minimize errors and get your products to market faster by having your electrical and mechanical teams working concurrently. Watch session
	SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks for PDM/ CAD Admin Being a CAD/PDM Administrator is not always as straightforward as one might think! Not only do you have to answer the typical SOLIDWORKS/PDM usage questions (that's usually the easy part)‚ but you also have to thinks about data backups‚ version upgrades‚ installation and deployment‚ hardware‚ and more. In this on-demand webinar, we explore some common Tips and Tricks but focus on the SOLIDWORKS and PDM Administrators. By the end of this recording‚ you will walk away with valuable information to help you plan and execute tasks that will administrators do their job more effectively! Watch session
	SOLIDWORKS Simulation Best Practices In the webinar, Senior Industry Process Consultant – Reza Tabatabai – will present capabilities in SOLIDWORKS Simulation with a focus on meshing, with some tips and tricks and best practices. This includes topics like solid/ shell/ beam elements, mesh algorithms, local mesh refinement, and adaptive meshing. We follow that with the variety of element types and formulations available in the structural roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and using ABAQUS technology. Watch session
	What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2023 As always, SOLIDWORKS brings hundreds of enhancements in every release, and the SOLIDWORKS 2023 release is no different! In this session, our Industry Process Consultant team will share the top enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2023, for various aspects of the software. Whether it’s in sketching, part or assembly design, drawings, simulation or other areas of functionality, you will find an improvement that WILL make you more productive with SOLIDWORKS 2023! Watch session
	Shape. Collaborate. Innovate. Design without limits In this session, Industry Process Consultants – Andrew Barnes and Jordan Tadic - will demonstrate how SOLIDWORKS designers can create visually exciting and ergonomic products faster with the extended power of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. These Shape & Style roles enable designers to craft 3D organic shapes and complex surfaces quickly and easily utilizing intuitive subdivision (Sub-D) modeling. Generative design tools allow you to explore and generate styling patterns and shapes inspired by nature. In addition Andrew and Jordan will showcase, how each of these tools interoperate directly with SOLIDWORKS desktop. Watch session
	SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks – Top 10 for the last 10 Releases In this 45 minute presentation, Industry Process Consultant and Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert – Michel Cloutier – will share his top 10 tips and tricks from the last 10 software releases. These include tips on sketching, features, assemblies, and shortcut keys. Michel will also cover a few bonus best practices to help end users of SOLIDWORKS CAD take their skills to the next level. Watch session
	What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2022 As always, SOLIDWORKS brings hundreds of enhancements in every release, and the SOLIDWORKS 2022 release is no different! In this session, our Industry Process Consultant – Brian Zias will share the top enhancements of SOLIDWORKS 2022 across SOLIDWORKS portfolio. Whether it's in sketching, part or assembly design, drawings, simulation or data management, you will find an improvement that WILL make you more productive with SOLIDWORKS 2022! Watch session
	SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks – 100+ Tips You May Never Have Noticed In this session, Industry Process Consultant – Jordan Tadic – reviews a 100+ tips across the core fundamentals of the SOLIDWORKS software including: User Interface, Sketching, Features, Assemblies, and Drawings. This fast paced presentation is a must watch for every new user and a great refresher for advanced SOLIDWORKS users. Watch session
	Top 10 Enhancements of SOLIDWORKS 2021! As always, SOLIDWORKS brings hundreds of enhancements in every release, and this release is no different! In this session, Juan Chapa and Andy Barnes will share their Top 10 Enhancements of SOLIDWORKS 2021 , for various aspects of the software. Whether it’s in sketching, part or assembly design, drawings, simulation or other areas of functionality, you will find an improvement that WILL make you more productive with SOLIDWORKS 2021. Watch session

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