SOLIDWORKS MECHANICAL CAD
SolidWorks® 3D CAD software is intuitive and enables you to develop better products by allowing your design team to work smarter and faster. Like every other release of the software, SolidWorks 2008 delivers leadership innovations and hundreds of customer-requested enhancements, giving your organization a competitive edge.
SolidWorks®
Office Premium
SolidWorks Office Premium provides your product design team with all
the mechanical CAD, design validation, and data management tools that
they need in one package.
SolidWorks
Office Professional
SolidWorks Office Professional
includes a full range of mechanical CAD, design validation, and data management tools. (See matrix below.)
SolidWorks mechanical CAD software
SolidWorks offers best-in-class mechanical CAD capabilities. (See matrix below.)
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SolidWorks Office Premium
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SolidWorks Office Professional
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SolidWorks mechanical CAD software
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Part & assembly modeling and 2D drawings |
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DWG data editing |
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Part validation |
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| Manufacturability checking | |
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| Design automation | |
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| Realistic viewing of 3D models* | |
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| Online parts directory | |
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Review and markup tool (eDrawings Professional) |
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Design comparison |
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Parts library |
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Feature recognition |
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Photorealistic rendering |
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Task Scheduling |
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Web publishing |
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Drawing checking |
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Workgroup PDM |
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| Motion simulation (COSMOSWorks Motion) | |
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| Design validation (COSMOSWorks Designer) | |
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| Routing | |
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| Tolerance stack-up analysis | |
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| Importing 3D scanned data | |
= included, * = With qualifying graphics card
Solidworks Snapshots
AUTOCAD 2008
Make efficiency a daily part of the job with AutoCAD® 2008 software.The drafting, detailing, and conceptual design leader is showing the way once again. Meticulously refined with the drafter in mind, AutoCAD 2008 propels day-to-day drafting forward with features that increase speed and accuracy while saving time. Annotation scaling and layer properties per viewport minimise workarounds, while text and table enhancements and multiple leaders help deliver an unmatched level of aesthetic precision and professionalism. Always innovative, the existing AutoCAD tools for conceptual design and visualisation work with a new toolset to deliver virtually instant productivity, making efficiency a daily part of the job.
What's New in AutoCAD 2008
- AutoCAD 2008 software adds features to help make everyday tasks easier. Annotation scaling and control of layers by viewport minimise workarounds, while text enhancements, multiple leaders, and improved tables help deliver an unmatched level of aesthetic precision and professionalism.
- Annotation Scaling - AutoCAD 2008 software introduces the concept of annotation scale as an object property. Designers can set the current scale of a viewport or model space view, and then apply that scale to each object and specify its size, placement, and appearance based on the scale set for the viewport. In other words, annotation scale is now automated.
- Layers per Viewport - In AutoCAD 2008 the layer manager has been enhanced to allow users to specify color, line weight, linetype, or plot style as an override for an individual viewport. These overrides can be easily turned on or off as viewports are added or removed.
- Enhanced Tables - Enhanced tables now give users the option to combine AutoCAD and Excel tabular information into a single AutoCAD table. This table can be dynamically linked so that notifications appear in both AutoCAD and Excel as data is updated. Users can then select these notifications, allowing instant updating of information in either source document.
- Text & Table Enhancements - The enhanced MTEXT editor now provides the ability to specify the number of columns required and flows new text between those columns as users make edits. The space set between each column of text and the edge of the paper is also customisable. All of these variables can be adjusted to specific values in the dialog box, or adjusted interactively using the new multicolumn text grips.
- Multiple Leaders - The new multiple leader panel on the dashboard has enhanced tools that automate the creation of multiple leaders and the orientation of the leaders (tail or content first) with the notes.