SOLIDWORKS
Design 2026 brings you enhancements
across the portfolio.
In this video,
we'll focus on the new functionality
coming to SolidWorks for collaboration.
Aura is your AI companion.
Quickly summarize community posts,
wikis, questions,
and ideas
to capture key takeaways at a glance.
Inside SolidWorks
Design Aura enables you to start natural
language conversations that pull contexts
from posts, wikis, ideas, and even what's
new documentation.
With SolidWorks design 2026,
you can save configurations
as a new individual
physical product.
This allows
for greater flexibility
in how you structure your designs,
and provides full control over
managing the associated references.
When saved.
This SolidWorks
community is the best in the industry,
and the user forums have always been
a rich source of information and help.
Now you can access the forums directly
from the SolidWorks Design Task pane,
making it easier than ever to access
the knowledge of the user community.
SolidWorks design makes it
easy to seamlessly share your designs
right from the file menu.
Choose from an extensive list
of standard formats such as PDF.
STEP, STL and IGES and ensure security
by controlling
who can access your shared designs.
Usernames,
approval dates, and maturity status
are all important parts of the change
process with SolidWorks design, drawing,
stamping now happens automatically
as each change action task is completed,
providing a final drawing
that's complete and accurate.
SolidWorks design
now provides support for saving weld
cut lists to the 3D experience platform.
As you save your design.
Simply indicate that you want the cut list
items published.
Weld mounts that contain structural
sheet metal and plates are also supported.
Once saved, the cut list
items are reflected in the task pane
and accessible on the 3D experience
platform,
allowing you to build a more accurate
engineering build material.
Design tables have always
been a powerful way
to create multiple configurations,
and linking to an external design
table provides convenient access
to automating those configurations
outside of SolidWorks.
Now, when you save your components
to the 3D experience platform,
the external design
table relationship is recognized.
In addition to being stored with the part,
you have full visibility to the reference
relationships between the two items,
ensuring complete design management.
Purchased
components are a key part of any design.
These components, such as this gasket
seal, are bought in bulk,
assigned a part number, and then can be
deformed into the installed state.
In SolidWorks design, you can now identify
a component as deformable
to ensure proper traceability.
You can associate the installed state
component with the purchase component
by searching for the part number
and selecting from a filtered list
of deformable components
matching your search.
Once associated, the two share a part
number,
ensuring full traceability when searched.
SolidWorks
design now provides the ability
for file locations
that reference bookmarks
to automatically update, ensuring
you always have access
to the latest content.
3D swim
communities are a powerful tool
for collaborating with colleagues.
Now you can extend that collaboration
to include
projects, issues, bookmarks, and more,
making it easier than ever
to have all of your project information
easily accessible
in one place.
Ensuring the right people
in your organization review and approve
a document is an important part
of the release process.
Now, you can automate the start of a route
to ensure the right people
get notified for review.
Once the approvals are complete,
the document is automatically transitioned
to release.
Bookmarks are a unique way
of organizing your content
without duplicating it
in multiple locations.
Now, it's easier than ever to see
all of the bookmarks
that are referencing a design and choose
which bookmark to open,
making accessing your
content easy and efficient.
Chat is
the modern way that we communicate.
It's quick, convenient, and timely.
Now you can create custom groups
to clearly organize
your chats, making them easier to access.
In SolidWorks design 2026.
You can create iterations and provide
comments describing what changed.
Simply indicate
that you want to create a new iteration
during the save of your design,
and add a comment
to provide additional clarity
to the iteration.
These iterations can be accessed
at any time, providing you
a convenient way
to get back to an earlier state
of your design.
Smart
components have long been a powerful way
to standardize and automate
the creation of features
associated with a part
in SolidWorks design 2026.
The components can be fully stored
on the 3D experience platform,
making them conveniently accessible
to your whole team.
Associated features are
added, saving you time
and ensuring consistent accuracy.
Every time the component is used.
Together with our TriMech Group partners,
we're showcasing the latest
and greatest enhancements
across the SolidWorks 2026 portfolio
on our dedicated What's New web page.
There, you can dive
deep into our blogs and videos
that outline everything you need to know
about the new release,
and you'll also be able to get in touch
with our experienced engineers.
For a tailored look at how SolidWorks
design 2026 could boost your business.
