The Top 10 List is Now Open

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SOLIDWORKS has always been a customer-driven product, which has earned it millions of passionate users. Enhancements to SOLIDWORKS products are driven from feedback obtained through direct customer research, analysis of our many internal databases of customer information, reviewing feedback from our user forums and, of course perhaps most importantly, direct customer request for enhancements – like the ideas submitted to our annual Top Ten List at 3DEXPERIENCE World every year. This is your annual opportunity to provide input into the new features and functionality you would like to be added to our software.

Earlier this year, EngineersRule.com, featured a blog post about this annual collection of user feedback. Below is a quote from that article:

“It is true that the Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS product definition team has many tools for asking users’ input throughout the year. But none are as simple, as straightforward and as successful as this event. As we reported in last year’s article, the implementation rate of the ideas voted in Top Ten is close to 70%.”

Here’s how it works: Once all the ideas are submitted, users can go to a special community on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to vote for their favorite new enhancement. Last year nearly 300 ideas were submitted with nearly 70 percent of those ideas actually implemented.

We are ready for your ideas

The Top Ten List – 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 is now open for idea submission and discussion. This is your chance to submit enhancement ideas for SOLIDWORKS products and vote on your favorite ideas.

We are gathering Top Ten List ideas for the following products:

  • SOLIDWORKS 3DCAD (The desktop version of SOLIDWORKS, which has been available for over 25 years!)

To access The Top Ten List – 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 use the following link: www.solidworks.com/top_ten

Once ideas are submitted, you will be given the opportunity to vote for your favorite ideas. All ideas are considered by 3DS SOLIDWORKS development and the ten highest ranked ideas will be presented at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 in Houston, TX, as well as virtually.

As with last year The Top Ten List will reside on the 3DSwym platform. So, if you are new or you didn’t submit an idea last year, please see the main SOLIDWORKS Forum “Getting Started” article and video to learn about using 3DSwym.

As always, we encourage friendly and professional comments and discussions that may help clarify or better communicate other user’s ideas. This assists others during the voting process and helps us better understand the ideas as well.

This year, the Top Ten List will be open for idea submission from November 13, 2024 until Friday, January 17, 2025. The voting phase will begin Friday, January 17, 2025 and will end on Friday, January 26, 2025.

If you are attending 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025, we look forward to seeing your ideas. You just may see your idea in a future release of SOLIDWORKS!

 

Marlon Banta

Marlon Banta has been with Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS since 2003. He has many years’ experience in the mechanical CAD industry as a user and has been a product definition engineer for two CAD companies (including SOLIDWORKS).