In this
demo, you'll see how SolidWorks
2025 boosts
your productivity by improving cosmetic
thread performance,
for parts
with a large number of shaded threads,
gives you more flexibility,
allowing you to choose Y up or Z up
orientations, helps you quickly select
multiple edges when creating Chamfers,
and helps you quickly create
simplified representations of your parts
with silhouette D feature.
SolidWorks 2025 also helps
you improve your parts
performance by revealing
graphics, triangles and face count.
Create smooth, continuously blended
variable size fillets.
Delete complex or broken features
below the roll back bar.
Streamline difficult workflows
like measurement of a projected area
and repair dangling
sketch entries, lightning fast.
Let's discuss what's new in SolidWorks
2025 for part modeling.
Our goal with this assembly is to create
a simplified representation of it,
either
for replacing it in a parent assembly,
or maybe to send out for quoting
while protecting intellectual property.
However, there are some operations
that we need to do in the part
environment, so we'll need to create
a multi body part from this assembly.
First, in SolidWorks 2025, you'll see
a huge performance improvement
in components with many cosmetic threads
opening the file,
rebuilding, creating features,
editing features and more.
You'll notice
that this assembly is in the Y up
orientation,
but our vendor has asked for it in Z up.
Since we are converting this assembly
to a multi body part
which was introduced last year in 2024,
we are prompted to select a part template.
Now in SolidWorks 2025, you can select
either Y up or Z up orientations.
When creating both parts and assemblies,
let's quickly add a few Chamfers here.
SolidWorks 2025 makes adding Chamfers
a breeze with the Selection Accelerator
toolbar.
Similarly, to fill it, you can now select
multiple edges very quickly.
This part is missing
a groove bead weld SolidWorks
2025 introduces a new type of weld
that effortlessly fills the gap.
We'll discuss
this more in the weldments demo.
Our part is finalized
and ready to be simplified.
In the past,
we add a single D feature method,
but now we have a new option
for silhouette geometry,
where we can create simplified models
based on the outline of the bodies.
Each simplification
method adjusts the overall part detail,
cylindrical polygon
outline, tight fit outline,
and now an option to keep internal loops
such as holes, silhouette D
feature offers two output methods
to send our part to a vendor for quoting.
Save as a new document would be best,
and to replace the component
in an assembly as a simplified version,
create a new configuration would be best.
The next multi body part
needs some finishing touches in SolidWorks
2025.
Improving a part performance is easy.
Now that we have graphic triangle
count and face count
graphics, triangle count
effectively tells us
how complex the part is
and how difficult it is to render.
This count reports the number of faces,
which also affects performance
as well as file size.
This part has over 26,000 triangles,
which means that curved faces appear
very smooth, but also means that panning,
zooming, and rotating
could be slow
and therefore reduce our productivity.
We can easily reduce the impact
by adjusting this slider
in the document properties.
Notice
that we've reduced the triangle count
from about 26,000 to around 9000.
Faces with tight
curvature are a common culprit.
This variable fill it seems pinched.
No problem.
Solver works 2025 introduces
the continuous Edge
blend option for variable sized fillets.
This creates a smooth, continuously
blended face
which will reduce triangle and face count.
Before
finalizing our performance evaluation,
we can see that a sketch
pattern has a high rebuild percentage.
Sometimes moving the roll back
bar below these items will require
all of our computer resources,
but this cut sweep may give us a hint.
Someone has cut threads in the sheet
metal body, which is not a best practice.
Patterning these features
makes the computation problem much worse.
Fortunately, in SolidWorks
2025, deleting features
below the roll back
bar is as simple as a right mouse click.
This body is planned for injection molding
to roughly quote
accost a projection onto a plane.
Normal to the pull direction is needed.
SolidWorks 2025 makes this easy.
Simply select the body or face
and the projected plan
to find your area.
This part is almost complete,
however, moving
the roll back bar reveals a sketch error.
Editing the sketch, we can see that
this two millimeter
dimension has lost its reference
and is dangling.
Reattaching it to the new reference
is easy with this read drag handle.
However, SolidWorks 2025 makes this
even easier with an automatic repair tool,
it can be accessed in the right click menu
or by opening
the display Delete relations
property. Pin.
There are options to automatically
find a replacement
or simply click repair all dangling.
Very handy
if you have a lot of dangling relations.
Let's now discuss some of the enhancements
that we weren't able
to show
in the demonstration in SolidWorks 2025,
we can now automatically convert meshes
to standard Brite bodies,
a much more superior
and more compatible type.
SolidWorks can now import three beam
lattices as power solid lattices,
graphics, mesh, or wireframes.
SolidWorks 2025 can create linear
or circular patterns of reference
geometry on move copy bodies has now
been enhanced to allow equations configure
relations and dimension flipping,
and finally curve through x, y, z points.
Now gives us an option to start at a user
defined coordinate system.
We can convert entities as construction
geometry, saving multiple button clicks.
Now, there are always
many more enhancements
every year in the new release.
That's no different for parts.
So make sure you check out the
What's New documentation for a full list.