Introducing SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

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At SOLIDWORKS we understand that every company is unique, and we have different offerings for different business needs. With this in mind, we are excited to introduce SOLIDWORKS Ultimate. This all-in-one design-to-manufacturing offering provides enterprises with all the tools they need to design and deliver innovative, cutting-edge products at a fraction of the cost. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate helps you go beyond design and into all aspects of product development. It enables you to meet the most complex and pressing challenges in design, communication, collaboration and project management, data and product lifecycle management, simulation, manufacturing, and more.

Building on the tools and capabilities included with SOLIDWORKS Premium, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate adds specialized design tools in the cloud, product release and structure management, immersive tools in the cloud for documentation and marketing content, manufacturing, and on-demand learning experiences, helping you streamline workflows, accelerate time to market, and ensure successful product launches. To take advantage of all these capabilities in one solution, look no further than 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Ultimate or SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with Cloud Services.  Let’s take a deeper look.

Companies face increasing challenges amidst growing product complexity, heightened customer expectations and desire for memorable product experiences, and pressures to respond fast to dynamically shifting market needs and conditions. To be successful in today’s market, companies need more than a bunch of disconnected, specialized tools that serve a limited purpose. They need access to an intelligent, synchronized system that helps them design and deliver innovative, customer-focused, top-performing, and cost-effective products—fast.

Let’s take your marketing, manufacturing, and design teams who want to brainstorm product ideas before they start a new design. On-site and off-site team members need to communicate and collaborate on these ideas quickly and clearly. Web conferencing is great, but it doesn’t help you brainstorm ideas as a connected digital whiteboard does. Capturing product requirements, setting up product structure tree diagrams, assigning team members to tasks, and accessing all this information in one secure place requires an intelligent, dedicated product development platform.

Using email, disconnected data storage, and file-sharing platforms like external drives doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s hard to keep track of your communication threads and figure out who proposed what idea and why. Why did another team member make a change later? Who has the latest version of this part of the design? Who is responsible for the design of these particular components? Is this part ready to be released to manufacturing, or is this still in the prototype phase? Have you validated that the product meets performance requirements? Are we on schedule to deliver the product? Keeping track of all that can get messy without a dedicated, integrated product development platform.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate gives you access to the tremendous value of SOLIDWORKS connected to 3DEXPERIENCE, the cloud-based platform that combines all aspects of a business into a single environment for collaboration, innovation, and efficiency.

To learn more, check out the first-look video below, then read on to learn more.

Beyond SOLIDWORKS Premium, what does SOLIDWORKS Ultimate include? Here are some of the added capabilities.

CLOUD COLLABORATION

Project and Resource Management

Project and resource management tools help you shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.

Manage projects and assign tasks to ensure on-time product delivery.

 

Lean Teamwork

Apply lean principles, such as reducing inefficiencies, problem-solving, use of visual management, and other proven methodologies incorporated in a digitized format. Set up your meeting space quickly to include a digital whiteboard/sketch board, a PDF viewer to pull up a report or related documents, and a web page so you can pull up any URL. Say you want to see the comment thread on your project from a community. Or incorporate models from the 3DPlay app for online viewing and interrogation of your models. All you need to do is drag and drop your selections into the meeting space. From there you can type in the names of the people you’d like to invite, and they will be added to your team board.

With Lean Teamwork you can apply sticky notes to a digital white board to comment on or assign tasks, and more.

 

Release Management

This capability enables you to create release procedures early in the design process, so you can keep track of parts at various stages in the design process. For instance, if you need to track a part for prototyping only or testing out various design iterations. Or maybe it’s the part you are currently designing for this year or next year’s model or a part that’s ready for manufacturing.

Develop, assign, and manage release levels for products at all stages of product development.

 

Product Structure Management

Create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context. This enables you to set up the structure ahead of time and view it as a traditional engineering bill of materials (EBOM) or a tree structure. The tree structure graphically shows the hierarchy of the entire product using thumbnails and can be edited and interrogated.

Create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context.

 

CLOUD 3D DESIGN AND MODELING

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes cloud-native CAD tools for part and assembly design including applications for sheet metal, mold, and weldment design. With access to these tools from a web browser, you can work on parts from anywhere, anytime, on any connected device.

 

NC PROGRAMMING

Create and validate 2.5- and 3-axis NC machining programs including milling, drilling, laser, water jet, and wire EDM. Verify possible issues during production with machine simulation, reducing delays and errors. Quickly create new programs based on proven, previously used sequences of operations.

Create and validate 2.5- and 3-axis NC machining programs including milling, drilling, laser, water jet, and wire EDM.

 

IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES in the Cloud

Cloud-based immersive tools help you build not only products but experiences. You can show your colleagues or customers models and design iterations at any point in the design phase. Engage your customers with interactive visuals that you can access from anywhere, including photorealistic renderings, user guides, and virtual experiences.

Create impactful 3D experiences for commercial customer engagements from VR to web.

 

TRAINING

Expand your mind and skillset with quick access to more than 200 learning modules comprising thousands of on-demand lessons about most of the roles in the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio.

Is SOLIDWORKS Ultimate right for you?

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is great for enterprises and companies working with remote teams.

Connect with your local reseller for a full demo of capabilities.

For more information visit: https://www.solidworks.com/ultimate.

Craig Therrien

Craig Therrien

Craig Therrien is a 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS Senior Portfolio Manager with over 30 years of CAD and industry experience - engineer, consultant, CAD product manager, CAD company co-founder. Currently, serving as Senior Product Manager for SOLIDWORKS and 3D Mold Creator. Craig has a B.S.M.E. from WPI and is a Graduate of General Electric's Manufacturing Development Program.