SOLIDWORKS Premium

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SOLIDWORKS Premium 2023

SOLIDWORKS Premium 2023 gives you powerful, easy-to-use functionality that automates tasks, streamlines workflows, and helps you quickly define and validate the form, fit, and function of your design. Part of the SOLIDWORKS product development solution — covering design, simulation, sustainability, technical communication, and data management — SOLIDWORKS Premium empowers innovative design with specific tools that help you work more efficiently so you can make better design decisions.

Discover what's new in SOLIDWORKS Premium:

Capabilities

Adds powerful simulation and design validation to the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Professional, plus reverse engineering, and advanced wire and pipe routing functionality.

BPG Shredder design with SOLIDWORKS Professional

All the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Professional software plus:

Time Based Motion Analysis

Easily evaluate how your product will perform and move throughout its operational cycle with motion analysis. Visualize your product moving as it would in the real world and measure the forces and loads on your design.

Linear Stress Analysis

Linear stress analysis enables designers and engineers to quickly and efficiently validate quality, performance, and safety—all while creating their design. Reduce the need for costly prototypes, eliminating rework, and save time and development costs.

Advanced Surface Flattening

Often products like leather goods, sports equipment, footwear, and products made from composite materials, like carbon fiber and fiberglass, have complex shapes, but are manufactured from materials that start out as flat stock, such as cow hides, nylon, cloth, and flat composite sheet.

With SOLIDWORKS Premium you can accurately determine or estimate the size and shape of surfaces in their flattened state in order to be able to cut the material from the flat sheet.

Piping and Tubing Design

Accelerate the development process and save time by designing piping and tubing in 3D during system design with SOLIDWORKS. By integrating piping and tubing during the design process, designers can help ensure efficient assembly, operation, and serviceability, avoiding rework, delays, and extra cost.

Electrical Cable Harness and Conduit Design

Quickly design and route electrical wiring, harnessing, cabling, and conduit assemblies of products in 3D using the SOLIDWORKS Premium package. Integrating these systems during product design rather than adding them later accelerates your development process, saves time and rework costs, and helps to ensure efficient product assembly and serviceability.

Routing of Rectangular and Other Sections

SOLIDWORKS Premium users can route rectangular and round sections to meet their design needs. Equipment designers, product designers, machine designers, facility designers and others all need rectangular section routing to complete their designs that include ducting, cable trays, conveyors, material handling chutes, and many other systems.

SOLIDWORKS Premium Features & Benefits

All the design and validation tools you need are included with the Premium version

Time based motion analysis

Motion analysis is solved using a time-based approach for rigid body kinematic and dynamic problems. SOLIDWORKS Motion takes the designer beyond the free drag movement available in a CAD environment and into a true physical calculation of the forces and motions of an assembly as it would move under environmental loads (external forces) and/or internal loads (motors, springs, and dampers).

SOLIDWORKS Motion simulation can calculate the effect of:

  • Forces
  • Springs
  • Dampers
  • Gravity
  • Contact between components
  • Bushings
SOLIDWORKS Motion Manager
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Linear Static

Linear Stress Analysis

SOLIDWORKS Simulation uses finite element analysis (FEA) methods to convert design components into solid, shell, or beam elements and uses linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies due to the effect of:

  • Forces
  • Pressures
  • Accelerations
  • Temperatures
  • Contact between components

Piping and Tubing

Use the wide range of tools in SOLIDWORKS Premium to simplify design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping. With SOLIDWORKS Premium, designers can:

  • Create piping system designs with butt welded, socket welded, threaded, and other connections
  • Create flexible or rigid tubing lines
  • Automate placement of supports and hangers for all lines
  • Generate bend tables for tube routes to support manufacturing
  • Output PCF files for use with ISOGEN® piping software
  • Export tubing/piping bend tables to CNC benders
  • Automatically generate piping/tubing manufacturing drawings from your 3D models
  • Automatically create bill of material (BOM), cut lists, bend tables, and other manufacturing documentation
  • Access a CAD library of piping and tubing components
  • Use the Routing Library Manager (RLM) wizard to guide creation of custom piping/tubing components
SOLIDWORKS Routing Assembly
SOLIDWORKS Cable Harness

Electrical Routing

Specific electrical cable harness and conduit design functionality includes the ability to:

  • Position all equipment and run electrical routes throughout the overall design
  • Route electrical cable, harness, and conduit systems through your product, including ribbon cable
  • Determine required lengths of all wires, cables, harness segments as you design
  • Flatten electrical cable harness for manufacturing documentation
  • Import “From-To” electrical connection information from schematic design tools
  • Generate complete bill of material (BOM) and wire cut lists for harnesses for manufacturing
  • Create cable harnesses as mechanical-only or with electrical data
  • Run rigid or flexible electrical conduit segments
  • Include additional components, such as mounting hardware, splices, connectors, insulation, looms, heat-shrink tubing, cable ties
  • Routing Library Manager (RLM) wizard to guide creation of custom electrical components

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Technical Support

With SOLIDWORKS Subscription Service, you have access to extensive help from our SOLIDWORKS experts. Which will enhance your software investment and guide you through development challenges.

Benefits
  • Live Technical Support from our certified support team.
  • Remote Support to solve your technical issue right on your machine.
  • Regular Communication of software updates and technical tips and tricks.
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Upgrades & Resources

Enjoy the latest version of your software and direct access to a comprehensive library of drawings, parts, assemblies, and features contributed by users around the globe.

Advantages
  • Automatic Upgrades to the most Up-to-date Version of your SOLIDWORKS software.
  • FREE access to the SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal for Macros, Documentation, and the ability to submit Enhancement Requests.
  • Full access to the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base for Articles, Tech Tips, and Best Practices.
SolidProfessor on-demand learning platform SOLIDWORKS Add-in

Online Training & Certification

A SolidProfessor and a MySolidWorks online account is included with your subscription service where you can get answers, stay current, and sharpen your design skills with online training:

Features
  • SolidProfessor includes 15K+ online tutorial videos.
  • FREE access to SOLIDWORKS testing and certification to help you become a Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) or Professional (CSWP).

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