We value your opinion, and to make it easier than ever for you to share your ideas, we’ve added a new Feedback button directly in xDesign. That’s just one of many great enhancements in the Spring update: R2025x functional delivery (FD) 02. You can also visualize and interact with your designs in virtual or real-world settings, drive changes to subdivision models with the ability to link to curves or lines, include bend information in your sheet metal exports, and much more. Let’s have a look at what’s new in SOLIDWORKS xDesign.
USER EXPERIENCE
New Feedback Button – quickly submit ideas or provide feedback.
Help shape the future of the xDesign by quickly sharing your ideas and providing input on features directly from the user interface with a new Feedback button. Easily access the Feedback button through the Action Bar under the Help menu to provide any feedback, whether it’s a rating of your overall experience using the app or feedback on a particular command.
In addition, feel free to make requests for future functionality you would like to see in the software, and be sure to include your contact information for follow-up. The input goes directly to the product management team. It’s that simple.
That is a glimpse of what’s new, in addition to the following enhancements:
- xDesign will block the selection of geometry that would create circular references, ensuring fewer errors in the design process
- Ability to select sketches from different components when creating features in xDesign, with external references automatically created for easier operations like adding holes
- Ability to offset external sketch geometry chains, including geometry from inactive sketches or other components
- The standard materials library now installs automatically upon first use of xDesign, eliminating the need for manual installation
- Auto-scrolling behavior in the Design Manager is improved for enhanced ease of use
- Mate solver calculations are now executed on the client side to provide better performance when dragging components in an assembly
- Improvements for maintaining sketch relations to endpoints that exist on features such as the helix, through-point-curve, and projected curve
- Rebuild now stops at the rollback bar in the Design Manager, reducing rebuild times and making it easier to create design iterations
On another quick note, we are renaming the maker and student offers to be consistent with the commercial offer, SOLIDWORKS xDesign to SOLIDWORKS xDesign for Makers and SOLIDWORKS xDesign for Students. Stay tuned for my next blog on new student enhancements as well, coming soon!
To learn about other enhancements from this year, see the last blog on R2025x FD01.
To learn more about the xDesign tools in this blog, check out the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Offer.
