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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 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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Feature Ratings
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Technical Drawings
Simulation
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Visualization
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2D/3D Conversion
Libraries & Templates
Analytics and Reporting
Raster Data Manipulation
Digital Scanning
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Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
SOLIDWORKS Reviews
Shashikant s.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Feb 2026
Intuitive Mode with strong Engineering Depth
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Widly used across industries, making collaboration, hiring and file exchange easier. Especially strong for sheet metal, weldments, and complex assemblies.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to quickly update parts and assemblies through design changes while maintaining accuracy and design intent. Significantly productivity combined with strong tools for assemblies, configurations, and drawings it feels both powerful and engineer friendly even for large or evolving projects.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I dislike about SolidWorks is its performance limitation with very large or complex assemblies.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend evaluating your design complexity. SolidWorks is ideal for small to medium team and most mechanical assemblies, but for very large assemblies may need performance tuning.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Teddy P.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2026
Amazing and easy program to Use. Don't Doubt it!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Very intuitive and easy to use. Optimize a lot of time working in 3D CAD projects.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
That is very compatible with almost every program that i need to use my 3D DWG
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to be honest. I just recommend to include AI in the future.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommeded 100%. You will optimize a lot of time and headaches working with supplier in case of manufacturing.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Onisokumen I.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2025
Excellent simulation software
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
It has better simulation features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
3D simulation and modelling
What do you dislike most about this product?
Extruding 2D models
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take a detailed tutorial and practice often
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
