
What is SOLIDWORKS?
SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio unite your entire ecosystem, allowing you to connect the people, applications, and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased collaboration, and accelerated innovation. Adding DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP provides added visibility specifically for your factory’s environment.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SOLIDWORKS?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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SOLIDWORKS Reviews
idris e.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Affordable and Computerized Solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
SOLIDWORKS has excellent designs from the computer, where the project managers have the option of increasing the clarity and the beauty of the design.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
SOLIDWORKS validates the quantity of the product required or used, which is an attentive step in increasing the viability and success of the business operations.
What do you dislike most about this product?
SOLIDWORKS is comtent, well connected, and there are rational assistance from the app without missing the entire business aspect.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SOLIDWORKS is comprehensively assertive in matters drawing and advanced design, which is the credible part that increases business operations.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Yogesh J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
An Optimal and cost effective solution for CAD
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Ease of use and training Availability of features and robustness Technical support access
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy to use and deploy
What do you dislike most about this product?
Model updates can be time consuming.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it if cost is the main criteria over other competitive solutions
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Helps Innovate

Nidershan S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Excellent Engineering tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Highly intuitive, great tech support and have excellent programs to get user feedback and most of the feedbacks become features in next few releases.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
User friendliness, local support
What do you dislike most about this product?
No inbuilt collaboration option need to purchase separately. Surface features can be upgraded
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great engineering designing tool
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy