

The SolidWorks interface, showing feature based history dependent modeling. SolidWorks competes directly with Autodesk Inventor.ġ History 2 Release history 3 Market 4 Modeling methodology 5 Products 5.1 3D mechanical design applications 5.2 Design validation tools 5.3 Product data management tools 5.4 Design communication and collaboration tools 5.5 CAD productivity tools 5.6 Specialty design tools 6 File format 7 See also 8 References 9 External links FY2011 revenue for SolidWorks was 483 million dollars.

SolidWorks is currently used by over 2 million engineers and designers at more than 165,000 companies worldwide. SolidWorks is a 3D mechanical CAD (computer-aided design) program that runs on Microsoft Windows and is being developed by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, S. SolidWorks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
