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
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SOLIDWORKS Reviews
Tribhuvan s.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2024
3D design with room to grow
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Solidworks set itself apart with its feature rich feature set, easy to user interface and wide range of 2D and 3D modeling support. It offers a smooth integration of design, simulation and product data management within a sigle ecosystem, in contrast to many other CAD platforms, its popularity is further updates and compatibility with a variety of file formates.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
One notable feature is parametric modeling, which enbales us to produce dynamic design in which modification to one element instantly affect the rest of the model. This guarantees design coherence and saves a deal time . Without requiring additional software, the integrated simulation and rendering tools offer insightful information about performance and asthetics.
What do you dislike most about this product?
For large or complicated assemblies in particular, Solidworks can be resources intensive and requires powerful hardware to function properly . Additionally its licensing fees might be too expensive for individual users or smaller enterprises, furthermore even though it has a lot of sophisticated features, novices without any prior CAD experince may find the learning curve to be challenging.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
suggestions for anyone thinking about purchasing this product make sure,the hardware satisfies the suggested specification for optimum performance if we are thinking about using solidworks. To make it most of the software features devote time to learning it through official tutorials or training courses. I will highly recommend the product.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
Chetan S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2024
SOLIDWORKS Review
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
SOLIDWORKS is one of the most advanced CAD software used in 3D modelling, part design, surface creation and for creating the assemblies of big machinery. This software uses an additional feature called as constraint on its interface to verify the design of required product. The interface of this software is very easy to understand and easy to implement to design. In comparison to other 3D modelling software, this software is widely used in almost every mechanical industry as its cost is affordable to everyone.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
After creating the assemblies of machine, we can import this machine to other model based engineering software, This feature is applicable only in solidworks and that's why I like this software so much,
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not applicable
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This product is easy to use, easy to implement, as well as its cost is also affordable. So, if you are in mechanical engineering, please use once this product.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
Achille F.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2024
Friendly and Helpful App
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
The platform has extensive 3D designs that makes every process helpful
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The construction materials are analyzed by this software
What do you dislike most about this product?
The platform requires a free version
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The tool is effective in modeling and recommendable
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Cons
- Less Effective Service
- Less Caring
