2015 VS. 2012 DIFFERENCES DOCUMENTS

1 IMPROVE DESIGN PROCESSES WITH NEW CAPABILITIES• SOLIDWORKS MBD: drawingless product detailing; 3D dimensions

and annotations; 3D PDF and eDrawings®

• SOLIDWORKS Electrical: automated 2D schematics and 3D electrical design• SOLIDWORKS Plastics: injection mold filling simulation and analysis• SOLIDWORKS Treehouse: assembly structure planning, creation,

editing, and viewing

Benefits Significantly speed up and improve product development processes.

2 INTEGRATE AND CONNECT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING • SOLIDWORKS Inspection: balloon inspection drawings, first article

inspection reports, and measurements• SOLIDWORKS Costing: milling, turning, drilling, weldments, plastic/cast

parts, and 3D-printed parts • 3D printing: print directly to 3D printers; AMF/3MF formats• Flatten surface: advanced flattening to reduce fit issues

Benefits Streamline downstream manufacturing by integrating design and manufacturing functions.

3 SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE• File size: reduced by about 50% • Assemblies: Speedpak at top level assembly; faster component patterning

and hide/show • Simulation: Intel® Solver and multi-core contact detection• Rendering: Define specific graphic regions to render in PhotoView 360;

Network Rendering

Benefits Faster modeling, analysis, and rendering capabilities leaves more time to improve designs.

4 PART AND ADVANCED MODELING• Splines: Style Spline; Fixed length 2D splines; Conics in Sketcher;

Conic and Asymmetric Fillets • Features: Slot Feature in Hole Wizard; Intersect Feature• Pattern Improvements: Fill, Linear, Circular and Variable • Sketch: Replace Sketch entity; Sketch Plane normal to view;

Path Length dimension

Benefits Less time needed to create part geometry including a specific focus on advanced geometry.

5 SHEET METAL AND WELDMENTS• Sheet Metal Gusset feature; improved control of corner treatments;

multi-body library features• Improved Sheet Metal Lofted-Bend; Swept Flange supports conical

and cylindrical shapes• Weldment Profiles support for Configurations;

save body Cutlist Properties to new part

Benefits Reduced effort for modeling sheet metal and improved data output for downstream manufacturing.

6 ASSEMBLIES • Mates: Center components on faces; select geometry

to limit Width Mate; Slot Mate • Mates: Simulate roller/energy chain motion• Routing: Route rectangular sections, e.g. HVAC, chutes and cable trays• Exploded View: Radial/Cylindrical explode; space components on drag;

add rotation in Explode Steps

Benefits Quicker and more intuitive creation of assemblies, routes and exploded views.

7 DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS • Section View tool automates creation of section views;

view location tracking • Automatic limits for rows in tables; Omit layers from printing;

splines as leaders• Magnetic Lines for detailing; Angular running dimensions;

decimal rounding• Convert part drawing to assembly drawing

Benefits More automated drawing detailing as well as the ability to find drawing views faster.

8 DESIGN SIMULATION • SOLIDWORKS Simulation: Product durability under Dynamic loading;

Simulation Bolt Connectors; View nonlinear results during the solve; Refine meshes in critical components without remeshing the entire assembly; Create submodeling studies for more accurate results on specific areas

• SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: enhanced simulation of rotating machinery; Import of Thermal properties and PCB definition from electrical components

• SOLIDWORKS Plastics: improved plastic part design with up-front Venting Analysis; export of In-mold residual stress and temperature data to SOLIDWORKS Simulation for structural analysis

Benefits Streamline simulation and eliminate duplication of effort to enable concurrent engineering.

9 USER EXPERIENCE• Graphical view of relationships between features in FeatureManager®

• In-context, pop-up toolbars for faster mating and sketch constraints• Check workstation performance, versions, memory/disk usage,

and settings with CAD Admin Dashboard• Selection Sets save selections for reuse

Benefits Work more efficiently, monitor performance, and better understand/visualize the design intent of your models.

10 EXPANDED COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION • MySOLIDWORKS: online learning and certification; share/view designs

online; global manufacturing network • Collaborative Sharing: community-based connectivity to SOLIDWORKS,

eDrawings®, and DraftSight®

• SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM Web2 client: connect browser-ready devices to a vault

• eDrawings: view results from SOLIDWORKS Simulation, Plastics, and Electrical

Benefits Expand the reach of your design tools with faster, easier data connections and better social collaboration - anytime, anywhere.

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