Dassault Systèmes announces the availability of SOLIDWORKS 2016

This latest version introduces a new user interface, new tools as well as new features for designing in the age of experience.

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, October 1, 2015 – Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: # 13065, DSY.PA), “The 3DEXPERIENCE Company”, world leader in 3D creation software, 3D digital models and product lifecycle management solutions (PLM – Product Lifecycle Management) announces the availability of SOLIDWORKS 2016, the latest version of its portfolio of 3D design and development applications. SOLIDWORKS 2016 is characterized by adding new tools and enhancing existing functionality that will help 2.7 million users innovate, design, validate, collaborate and build quickly and easily, from initial concept to final product.

Powered by Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, SOLIDWORKS 2016 is an integrated 3D design environment that covers all aspects of product development. User-requested improvements include the ability to flatten any surface, visualize and validate design performance, communicate more effectively with manufacturing, quickly create high-quality marketing images, and easy access to the controls. With these enhancements and hundreds of other new features, including an enriched user interface, designers and engineers can focus on their design projects, solve complex problems, streamline parallel design processes, and accelerate production release. these designs.

“Our design teams work on complex models and we really appreciate the new tools and enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2016, including the ease of selection with the ‘Selection Breadcrumbs’ tool and the ‘Purge Non-Feature’ feature. used ‘, which will help our designers to be even more efficient, ”says David Herlin, senior CAD Data Manager, Gaztransport & Technigaz.

“The SOLIDWORKS community creates great products, from small consumer electronics to industrial equipment that has hundreds of thousands of parts. All of these products incorporate the latest technical trends, resulting in improved form, function and innovation, ”said Gian Paolo Bassi, Managing Director of SOLIDWORKS at Dassault Systèmes. “Over 90% of the enhancements to SOLIDWORKS 2016 are a direct result of valuable feedback from our user community, including the need to work faster and easier. With the emergence of a new generation of products, the advanced features of SOLIDWORKS will help millions of professional designers, teachers, students and makers to effectively innovate in the areas of product design, simulation, technical communication and data management ”.

Main New Features of SOLIDWORKS 2016

Below are the features, tools and enhancements requested by users and included in SOLIDWORKS 2016:

Focus on the design, not the software

Speed ​​up the design process, reduce the time and effort required to achieve the desired geometry, improve modeling flexibility and easily access controls thanks to the following features:

Edge Fillets with Continuous Curvature – Create complex fittings and perfectly smooth fillets (“continuous curvature”) faster, regardless of type of fillet, including asymmetric and variable-sized fillets.

Sweep control— create complex sweeps faster than previous versions and with better results, both more reliable and predictable; automatic creation of circular swept profiles in sections, with bidirectional sweeps in one direction or the other.

Thread Support – High precision modeling of standard and custom threads with fast ordering and ease of use.

Breadcrumbs – quick and easy access to any model without displaying the function tree; reduction of mouse movements by using breadcrumbs with the cursor.

Solve complex problems quickly

The efficiency of scans is optimized to solve complex problems, visualize and verify functionality, and identify potential errors before they occur:

Innovative simulation and design tools – increased control and insight into the sequencing of operations, loads, movement of parts, forces required for operations, and mesh quality produce reliable performance data.

Flatten – quickly and easily flatten the most complex geometries for production, easily identify stresses induced when applying shapes to 3D surfaces, and integrate relief cuts in the unfolded state to reduce excessive deformations and compressions.

Streamline parallel design processes

Communicate, collaborate and work simultaneously with different teams, different disciplines, different customers and different suppliers through mechatronics design, simultaneous engineering and electrical / mechanical design rationalization.

Constraint Driver— Much like a joystick, the Constraint Driver makes it easy and intuitive to create and animate complex assembly movements with calculation, control, and visualization tools.

eDrawings – improve design collaboration and communication throughout the product development process, measuring designs consistently, navigating documents and visualizing models with increased accuracy.

Speed ​​up the production of designs

Create more detailed designs for release and reduce the product development cycle, while saving time and reducing errors.

SOLIDWORKS MBD Enhancements – Define, organize and publish manufacturing specifications directly in 3D to avoid ambiguity about downstream drawings and deviations, quickly and accurately.

SOLIDWORKS Visualize (formerly Bunkspeed) – generate high quality images to deliver designs to the end consumer and help designers make better decisions, using a sort of “camera” for SOLIDWORKS or other CAD data.

More information on SOLIDWORKS 2016, including product demos and a list of upcoming reseller events: www.solidworks.com/launch.