SW2018

SW2018 is a professional 3D design tool developed by Dassault Systèmes. Solidworks2018 has powerful functions that can help users easily carry out 3D CAD design, simulation design, electrical design, PDM data management, CAM processing, etc. Solidworks2018 software is convenient and easy to use. It is helpful to provide designers with more efficient and comprehensive design services.

Solidworks2018 new version features

1. Brand new solution

​ 1. From design to manufacturing

Complete solutions that turn your ideas into market-ready products For years, a company’s design and manufacturing departments have been separated, both by their organizational form and the tools they each used. SOLIDWORKS design-to-manufacturing process solutions provide everything you need to turn your ideas into market-ready products. From design to final assembly, all work can now take place in parallel in one seamlessly integrated and managed system.

​ ​ 2. Distributed data management

Right data, right time, for the right person Regardless of the format (from documents and spreadsheets, to metadata, process data and data from enterprise resource planning), electronic data in an organization needs to be easily accessible. SOLIDWORKS Distributed Data Management (DDM) process solutions organize all this data and make it easily accessible to users across many disciplines and departments. It also helps users easily access non-electronic data and complex electronic data, such as 3D shapes

3. From designer to analyst

​ ​ ​ Analysis tools for every design step Great design is born from inspiration, effort and hard work. SOLIDWORKS designer-to-analyst process solutions help you accelerate the complete design cycle. Your engineering and design teams can work in parallel to validate all changes while evolving product designs and reuse information from previous analyses.

4.Electrical and Internet of Things

​ ​ Connect your smart devices to your customers Products are becoming more complex every day. As everything from cars to sunglasses continues to add web and app capabilities, many companies are looking for smart tools that can collaborate to design and create the "smart" products today's market demands. With this in mind, one of the easiest and fastest ways to achieve a more efficient process when designing connected devices is to use a single unified environment

2. New functions

​ ​ 1. SOLIDWORKS CAM for CNC machining

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Users can now seamlessly integrate design and manufacturing with easy-to-use, world-class CAM technology. Powered by CAMWorks, SOLIDWORKS CAM is a production-proven CAM that integrates seamlessly with SOLIDWORKS, providing rule-based machining and automatic feature recognition capabilities to dramatically simplify and automate CNC manufacturing operations.

​ ​ 2. Directly process grid data

Processes mesh data in a manner similar to surfaces or solid geometry. Merge, intersect, split, move/copy, use surface cuts and check for interference. Additionally, surface solids can be quickly fitted to areas of a mesh model.

3.3D INTERCONNECT is more flexible

​​ Seamlessly compatible with more file formats, including ACIS, STEP and IGES, while automatically updating designs any time new files are received. In addition, 3DInterconnect now supports internal file information, including custom properties, material properties, and reference axes.

​ 4. A new and more intuitive user experience

SOLIDWORKS 2018 supports the creation of hand-drawn sketches using pen or touch on compatible devices. Mouse gesture enhancements and user interface customization can also help speed up product development.

5. Optimized sheet metal design tools

SOLIDWORKS 2018 includes a Tab and Notch feature for self-fastening welded parts, a Cut Normal feature to ensure fabrication gaps are included, and tools to easily create or flatten corners with three bends.

​​ 6. Provide more efficient collaboration for model-based enterprises

Speed ​​up detailing while importing 3D models with PMI from all major CAD formats, including STEP 242, to streamline and automate downstream manufacturing tasks such as CNC programming, inspection and more.

​ 7. Powerful usability enhancements for electrical wiring

With more detail than ever before, wiring can be done faster and easier. New features include drag-and-drop in-line connectors and support for shrink wrap and sheathing. With support for clips and disconnected routes, users can now flatten routing in drawings.

​ 8. Generative design that can improve part geometry

Use the SOLIDWORKS Simulation Topology Study tool to automatically optimize design shapes based on weight, functionality, and manufacturing conditions. Improve performance or reduce product weight based on simulation and manufacturing constraints. SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION WITH MBD SUPPORT With enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2018, you can now create inspection documents directly from 3D models (as well as 2D drawings, PDFs, and TIFFs) with manufacturing information. SOLIDWORKS Inspection is now integrated with SOLIDWORKS PDM and supports SOLIDWORKS part and assembly files (*.sldprt, *.sldasm) as well as non-native 3D CAD formats.

​ 9. Design branching and merging

With the new features in SolidWorks PDM, users can study different design strategies without affecting the approved files. The software can also help streamline collaboration processes for external users.

10. Automatic PDF creation function for SOLIDWORKS drawings

SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard can automatically create PDFs from SOLIDWORKS drawings through workflow transitions. The new feature eliminates the need for users to manually create PDFs, enabling better collaboration and helping users migrate from WorkgroupPDM.

11. Automatic update of revision table

SOLIDWORKS PDM can now manage and automatically update SOLIDWORKS revision tables, allowing users to reduce manual data entry and drawing updates, streamlining the engineering change process.

12. SOLIDWORKS connected to the cloud

Through online permission, let the desktop computer have a cloud experience. SOLIDWORKS Online Licensing allows you to easily use your license on multiple machines. SOLIDWORKS Login migrates custom content and settings to any machine where SOLIDWORKS is installed. SOLIDWORKS Management Portal makes it easier to manage SOLIDWORKS products and services

13. SOLIDWORKS MANAGE SOLIDWORKS Manage for project and process management

Provides data management, project management and process management capabilities in one familiar package. It adds powerful project, process and issue management capabilities to SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.

14. Smarter strategies

New features and enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2018 allow designers and engineering teams to work faster than ever. By putting 3D design data at the center of the process, SOLIDWORKS can automatically propagate design or manufacturing changes to all related CAD models, CAM programs, drawings, and documents. Managing changes has never been easier

3. Enhanced functions

​ 1. The user’s personal participation greatly awakens everyone’s touch experience

SOLIDWORKS 2018 supports a dedicated touchscreen mode, providing a powerful new productivity toolset for working with touchscreen devices. Sketch by hand with a stylus and automatically convert strokes into shapes to quickly capture design ideas in the office or on the go.

​​ 2. Use predictive working methods to optimize your design

Use new simulated topology studies to automatically optimize the shape of your design based on weight, functionality and manufacturing criteria. You can also improve product performance or reduce product weight based on functionality and manufacturing constraints.

3. What everyone expects, the intelligent CAM software and Inspection inspection tools are integrated into a whole

Through the support provided by CamWorks, SOLIDWORKS CAM provides "rule-based" processing methods and automatic feature recognition functions, which greatly simplifies the CNC programming process.

​ ​ Additionally, both SOLIDWORKS Inspection and SOLIDWORKS CAM support 3D dimensions and tolerances, simplifying design, manufacturing, and inspection without the need to create 2D drawings.

4. Provide more data flexibility

​​​​​Ability to seamlessly handle file formats including STL, OBJ, JT, ACIS, STEP and IGES. 3D Interconnect can automatically update your design when new files are received, now supporting internal file information such as custom properties, material properties and reference axes.

SOLIDWORKS 2018 also allows you to select faces from imported mesh data, convert them to SOLIDWORKS surfaces, and modify them with features and geometry.

5. The drawing function has been enhanced? Of course!

We can’t list them all, but here’s a case study: Inserting 3D model views, automatic advanced hole annotation, layer support for section lines, new trailing zero display options, section views and alternate position views for section views Supported, the partial section view supports section view and alternate position view, as well as supports the switching function of "all caps" for text in tables

​​ 6. Laminated and slotted features, perfect for your design and build environment

SOLIDWORKS2018 allows users to automatically create sheet and slot features, which can be used for positioning welding of self-fixing parts

        Other sheet metal plug-in enhancements include a new standard cut feature that ensures proper clearance is maintained for manufacturing operations, and a new bend feature that allows users to create and flatten triangular bends.

​ 7. Improved project and process management

SOLIDWORKS management functions provide data management, project management and process management, all integrated into a familiar software package

It adds powerful planning, process and project management capabilities to SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (SolidWorksPDM Professional Edition)

8. Convenience stands out

Online-based licensing makes it easier than ever to use licenses on multiple machines

Login to SOLIDWORKS will move these customized content and settings to any computer with SOLIDWORKS software installed. At the same time, the administrator portal allows for more convenient and faster management of SOLIDWORKS products and services.

solidworks2018 software features

1. User interface

★SolidWorks provides a complete set of dynamic interfaces and mouse drag controls. A "fully dynamic" user interface reduces design steps and redundant dialog boxes, thereby avoiding interface clutter.

★ ★ The new attribute manager is used to efficiently manage the entire design process and steps. The property manager contains all design data and parameters, and is easy to operate and has an intuitive interface.

★ ★You can easily manage CAD files with SolidWorks Resource Manager. SolidWorks Explorer is the only CAD file manager similar to Windows Explorer

★Feature templates provide a good environment for standard parts and standard features. Users can call standard parts and features directly from feature templates and share them with colleagues

★The AutoCAD simulator provided by SolidWorks allows AutoCAD users to maintain their original drawing habits and smoothly switch from two-dimensional design to three-dimensional solid design

2. Configuration management

Configuration management is a very unique part of the SolidWorks software architecture, which involves part design, assembly design and engineering drawings. Configuration management allows you to derive different parts or assemblies in a CAD document by transforming and combining different parameters.

3. Collaborative work

★SolidWorks provides technologically advanced tools that allow you to work collaboratively over the Internet.

★ ★Conveniently share CAD files through eDrawings. eDrawings are extremely compressed, e-mailable, self-decompressing and browsing special files

★ ★Display vivid physical models through a 3D hosting website. The 3D hosting website is a service provided by SolidWorks. You can quickly view the product structure at any time and anywhere.

★SolidWorks supports Web directories, allowing you to store design data in folders on the Internet as conveniently as storing on a local hard drive

★ ★Work together in real time over the Internet with 3D Meeting. 3D Meeting is a collaborative working environment developed specifically for SolidWorks designers based on Microsoft NetMeeting technology.

4. Assembly design

​ ​ ★In SolidWorks, when creating new parts, you can directly reference other parts and maintain this reference relationship. In the assembly environment, components can be easily designed and modified. SolidWorks performance greatly improved for large assemblies with more than 10,000 parts

★SolidWorks can dynamically view all movements of the assembly, and can perform dynamic interference inspection and gap detection on moving parts.

★Use smart parts technology to automatically complete repetitive designs. Smart parts technology is a new technology that is used to complete tasks such as installing a standard bolt into a screw hole while completing the assembly of gaskets and nuts in the correct order.

★Mirror parts are a huge breakthrough in SolidWorks technology. Mirror components can generate new components based on existing components (including parts that have derived relationships or are associated with other parts)

★SolidWorks uses intelligent assembly technology that captures fit to speed up the overall assembly of the assembly. Intelligent assembly technology can automatically capture and define assembly relationships

5. Engineering drawings

★SolidWorks provides the tools to generate complete, shop-approved detailed drawings. Engineering drawings are fully relevant. When you modify the drawings, the 3D model, each view, and assembly will be automatically updated.

★ Automatically generate engineering drawings from 3D models, including views, dimensions and annotations

    ★Enhanced detailing operations and section views, including generation of in-section section views, layer support for components, familiar 2D sketching capabilities, and attribute managers in details

​ ★Using RapidDraft technology, engineering drawings can be detached from 3D parts and assemblies and operated separately to speed up the operation of engineering drawings, but maintain full correlation with 3D parts and assemblies.

★Using the Alternate Position Display view can easily display different positions of components to understand the sequence of motion. Alternate Position View is a unique drawing feature designed specifically for assemblies with kinematic relationships.

solidworks2018 update log

SOLIDWORKS 2018 offers many enhancements and improvements, most of which are made directly in response to customer requests.

This release provides four new end-to-end process solutions that simplify the interaction between disciplines throughout the product development process to improve your business results. Accelerate innovation and help grow your business with these new processes:

Design to manufacturing process. A complete solution for taking your ideas to market.

​ ​ Distributed data management process. Get the right data to the right person at the right time.

Designer to analyst flow. A wide range of analysis tools for every step in the design process.

Electrical design and Internet of Things (IoT) processes. Connect your smart devices to your customers