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Key SOLIDWORKS Design 2027 Updates

• Design Assistants and Assembly Performance Monitoring: Contextual guidance for advanced operations, automated fastener assembly, and indicators to monitor assembly performance.

• Large Point Cloud Import: Support for color data to make details easier to identify and work with complex 3D scans.

• Installation of Multiple Versions: Ability to keep different versions of SOLIDWORKS Design in the same environment, making it easier to collaborate with partners using different versions.

• Design Variant Management: Define options and parameters for parts and assemblies to simplify the configuration of complex products and reduce manual updates.

• Background Editing of Large Assemblies: Edit components in Large Design Review (LDR) mode, import large files, and update drawings without interrupting ongoing work.

• Quick Access to Annotation Symbols: Group favorite dimensioning and annotation symbols for easier access when creating technical documentation.

• Texture and Rendering Control: UV unwrapping and editing tools to reduce distortion and achieve more realistic 3D representations.

• Enhanced Modeling Tools: Adjust fillets using chord width and benefit from improved tools for creating and modifying bent sheet metal parts, providing greater control over designed geometries.

• Automated Piping Coating: Apply coatings uniformly to pipes and different types of fittings, reducing the need for manual adjustments.

To discover all the new features, download the official What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2027 – Design document

Key SOLIDWORKS PDM 2027 Updates

• Centralized Authentication: Log in to PDM vault views using organizational credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA), enhancing security and simplifying access management.

• Optimized Task Management: Distribute tasks across available host machines to speed up the generation of PDFs and other output files.

• Targeted Archive Replication: Set a reference date to replicate only files modified since that date, reducing unnecessary transfers and associated costs.

• Customized Web2 Display: Access administrator-configured column sets in list view to find relevant file information more quickly.

• Workflow Tracking: Display the number of days a file has spent in its current state, making it easier to identify files held up in the approval process

To discover all the new features, download the official What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2027 – PDM document

Key SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2027 Update

• Preload in Bolted Assemblies: Account for changes in bolt preload over time in nonlinear simulations to more accurately assess their behavior under varying loads.

• Global Simulation Results Tracking: Create sensors that aggregate forces, pressures, or displacements across multiple entities, making it easier to monitor results without manual calculations.

• Advanced Spring Analysis: Include general springs in nonlinear studies, with the ability to reuse existing definitions and directly access force and moment results.

• Beam Shear Stress Evaluation: Access detailed stress results in different directions to facilitate comparison and analysis during post-processing.

• Stress Analysis at Bonded Interfaces: Evaluate normal and shear stresses on contacting surfaces, with automatic identification of the most highly stressed areas to better detect potential weak points.

To discover all the new features, download the official What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2027 – Simulation document

Key SOLIDWORKS AI 2027 Updates

• Assistance and Data Access: The LEO AI assistant supports users with modeling operations, material appearance management, and access to PLM information, all without leaving SOLIDWORKS.

• Intelligent Assembly Optimization: Performance analysis identifies slowdowns and suggests improvements, including the creation of SpeedPak configurations or the removal of unnecessary threads.

• Automated Documentation Generation: Create detailed assembly instructions with screenshots and generate drawings from simple descriptions, including views, dimensions, and annotations.

• Natural Language Task Automation: Create and modify macros without programming, as well as select components and entities directly using text-based commands.

• Working with Imported Geometry: Convert STEP and IGES files into native, editable SOLIDWORKS geometry, making it easier to reuse existing CAD data.

• Anticipating Design Impacts: Identify parts and subassemblies affected by a modification and detect potential fit issues before approval.

To discover all the new features, download the official What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2027 – AI document

What are the benefits of SOLIDWORKS for design and engineering ?

• Create all your designs quickly and accurately with 3D models and 2D drawings of complex parts and assemblies
• Model-based definition (MBD) for complete 3D design documentation
• Design for cost and manufacturability with cost estimating tools and manufacturability checks
• Interact with team members and control revisions using standardised data management tools

Discipline :

• Equipment Systems
• Mechanical

Desktop solutions offer flexible licensing and deployment options hosted in a customer-managed infrastructure. This ensures that a company’s intellectual property (IP) remains under its control and on its managed hardware.

What are the SOLIDWORKS benefits for management ? 

• Improve business productivity by unifying your entire ecosystem connecting people, applications and data in real time
• Connect your team across design, manufacturing, marketing, and service in an integrated, on-site system.
• Organise and consolidate product data
• Benefit from integrated data and product lifecycle management. 
• Securely share real-time information and collaborate to drive sustainable innovation.

Discipline :

• Collaboration
• Develop and launch

Engineering data is often exported and converted, which can create inconsistencies and errors during manufacturing. It is therefore essential to reuse the original engineering data, reduce steps and avoid the time-consuming process of exporting data.

What are the benefits of SOLIDWORKS for manufacturing and production ?

• Enable design and manufacturing teams to work simultaneously
• Reduce design errors between each phase
• Accelerate the time to manufacturing

Discipline :

• Machining
• Quality Control

Simulation during the product development phase aims to accelerate design cycles. SOLIDWORKS Simulation provides a suite of simulation tools integrated with the SOLIDWORKS CAD environment. Simulation enables the evaluation of multiple design alternatives using virtual tests to improve product performance, reliability and quality before committing to costly and time-consuming physical prototypes.

What are the benefits of SOLIDWORKS for simulation ?

• Access simulation tools integrated with the SOLIDWORKS CAD design environment
• Run multiple simulation scenarios to determine the best options
• Reduce design cycles while improving innovation

Discipline :

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Plastic injection
• Structure

Use the SOLIDWORKS platform to visualise product images, create animations, interactive 3D content, graphic resources and marketing and sales support content.

What are the benefits of SOLIDWORKS for marketing and sales ?

• Visualise products in real quality with photorealistic product photos
• Create immersive virtual reality content to enhance internal evaluations
• Real-time information sharing with marketing and sales teams
• Easily reuse existing 3D models to create content and support

Discipline :

• Marketing content creation

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