SolidWorks Premium
About SolidWorks Premium
SolidWorks Premium is the leading 3D design solution in the industry. It seamlessly integrates powerful design tools-including industry-leading part, assembly, and drawing capabilities with built-in simulation, rendering, animation, product data management, and cost estimation.
SolidWorks will help you get work done faster and easier than before, using innovative phases of product creation to achieve a more productive 3D design experience.
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- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
The 3D CAd software
Reviewed on 2024/02/21
Pros
You will do more than the entry level 3D cad software. This is for professional
Cons
The learning curve is on the longer side.
Youtube tutorial are not as easy to find than the competition
- Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Solidworks Premium: Powerful Software with High Demands.
Reviewed on 2024/10/27
Pros
Solidworks Premium is extremely intuitive and easy to use. It has a well thought out and premium looking UI, and complex parts can be modeled and drawn to a very high standard.
Cons
Solidworks Premium does require a moderate to high end system to run efficiently and with good user experience. The average laptop with 8-16GB RAM does underperform, and the experience is noticeably degraded when even a browser tab or text document was open, a task I feel it should not struggle with. For an assembly with only 350 components, I would expect less than 8GB of system RAM usage.
- Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Industry standard software; headaches must also be industry standard
Reviewed on 2021/02/28
SolidWorks can be both the solution to and cause of many problems in my day-to-day engineering...
SolidWorks can be both the solution to and cause of many problems in my day-to-day engineering work. If the developers spent more of the thousands and thousands of dollars charged annually per seat on fixing existing issues and improving stability, rather than cramming in new features, maybe this software would be worth hanging onto. We are looking at switching to CAD package built with modern needs in mind (eg Siemens NX). This is a great software to learn CAD basics with, however, in part because there are lots of guides and tutorials online due to its popularity. Currently, we couldn't live without it, but we sure wish we could and will be hopefully moving to a different software package in the near future.
Pros
SolidWorks is a very powerful software for mechanical design. While FEA in Premium can be limited, it's very helpful for performing basic statics analysis of a component. If you take the time to set up component, weldment, fastener etc libraries and tweak several hidden settings, you can do a lot of complicated designs and large assemblies, then generate drawings and BOMs all in one software package.
-Hole wizard and similar tools are extremely useful
-FEA is helpful for validating designs
-Reference and parameter-driven components (when they work) within assemblies allows flexible and complex designs
-Convenient tools like sheet metal, weldments/structural members etc make industrial design easier
Cons
Unfortunately, SolidWorks' strength is also its weakness. Over the years it has become extremely bloated with features and truly needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
-Unstable. Crashes at least once a day unexpectedly and with little to no warning, with no hope of recovery, even on hardware built specifically for running SW.
-Unreliable and finicky at times, settings/references/converted entities/mates are notorious for somehow spontaneously changing or breaking between sessions.
-Solving mates, especially in large assemblies, can be extremely slow. Eg. adding and mating fasteners to an assembly with hundreds of parts is a nightmare.
-Drawings are convoluted and performance hurts with large assemblies. Chock full of features but hard to use.
-No great built-in way to create/export clean BOMs from assemblies without putting in a lot of work.
-SINGLE CORE? IN 2021?? COME ON! Not all operations have to be limited to one thread!
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Industry standard
Reviewed on 2024/10/17
Overall I have a positive experience with solidworks
Overall I have a positive experience with solidworks
Pros
Very capable software. The industry standard, so it makes it easy to collaborate with others.
Cons
Very closed ecosystem, so it makes getting support difficult. Also the lack of compatibility with older versions can make it difficult to collaborate to institutions that canot afford the latest model year.
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best in the market
Reviewed on 2023/05/22
There is a reason that SolidWorks Premium is one of the most used CAD software in the world. You...
There is a reason that SolidWorks Premium is one of the most used CAD software in the world. You can create everything from individual pieces to technical drawings of those pieces, all the way to enormous assembly projects with more than a thousand pieces. There is also room for fluid geeks and eletric experts. You can fit everthing you want into SolidWorks.
Pros
All in all, works as it is supposed to. It became so widely used because it had a much better user interface than the other software. Also, you can draw anything you want because it has a wide of tools and you don't need to be a brain surgeon or a nuclear scientist to understand how they work.
Cons
When I worked in big assembly projects, I experienced erratic behavior from the program. Sometimes it shutdowns, other times it breaks the relations I set up before.
SolidWorks Premium FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for SolidWorks Premium.Q. What type of pricing plans does SolidWorks Premium offer?
SolidWorks Premium offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Available
Contact SOLIDWORKS for pricing details or a local reseller. Free licenses available to qualifying start-ups and educational institutes/students.
Q. Who are the typical users of SolidWorks Premium?
SolidWorks Premium has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does SolidWorks Premium support?
SolidWorks Premium supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does SolidWorks Premium support mobile devices?
SolidWorks Premium supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does SolidWorks Premium integrate with?
SolidWorks Premium integrates with the following applications:
DriveWorks, SIMULIA, SWOOD, SigmaNEST, SolidCAM
Q. What level of support does SolidWorks Premium offer?
SolidWorks Premium offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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