{"id":58124,"date":"2025-07-15T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=58124"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:44:24","slug":"solidworks-2026-preview-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2025\/07\/solidworks-2026-preview-is-live.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS 2026 Preview is Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am excited to announce that the SOLIDWORKS 2026 Preview Program<\/a> is now live and invite you to join today!<\/p>\n

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Be the first to test-drive user-driven enhancements, new capabilities, and quality and performance improvements. Join now and begin exploring these key release highlights:<\/p>\n

SOLIDWORKS Design<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collaboration and Data Management<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Enhance flexibility and ease of use by enabling compatibility of multiple SOLIDWORKS versions for compliance, linking BOM data directly to PLM attributes on the\u00a03D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform for accuracy, and managing 3D markups seamlessly within SOLIDWORKS for streamlined collaboration.<\/p>\n

Drawings <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Accelerate drawing creation by automatically generating detailed 2D drawings with proper sheet formats, intelligently arranging views and hole callouts using AI, displaying configuration data via Family Tables, and improving clarity with automatic dimension line breaks\u2014reducing manual work and enhancing drawing accuracy and readability.<\/p>\n

Assemblies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Boost assembly performance and efficiency with AI-powered fastener recognition and auto-mating, smarter rebuild handling that skips cosmetic-only changes, and greater control over lightweight component loading\u2014saving time, reducing manual effort, and streamlining large assembly workflows.<\/p>\n

SOLIDWORKS PDM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enhance productivity, security, and administrative control with the ability to synchronize local vault views, provide user access to sub-folders without needing access to the parent folders, group unused workflows with the new Workflow archiving feature, and more.<\/p>\n

SOLIDWORKS Simulation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Achieve precision and flexibility in your structural simulations with the ability to apply distributed mass and force to beam elements per item or as a total, define the start and end times for bolt tightening, extract detailed Pin Connector forces in random vibration simulation, and more.<\/p>\n

Join the Preview Program and be among the first to experience SOLIDWORKS 2026! For more information, check out the resources on the SOLIDWORKS 2026 Preview website<\/a> and the SOLIDWORKS Preview Community<\/a>. Questions? Email us at preview@solidworks.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for SOLIDWORKS 2026? Preview the new release now, join the preview program today and be the first to experience SOLIDWORKS 2026.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":58123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2933,563,3,14,2783,18,2411,63,5002,4097],"tags":[5085,718,4634,5083,5084,2382,2078],"class_list":["post-58124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3dexperience","category-cloud-computing","category-community","category-design","category-product-designers-and-mechanical-engineers","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-pdm","category-solidworks-simulation","category-solidworks-simulation-solidworks","category-whats-new-general","tag-ai-powered-fastener-recognition","tag-beta","tag-collaboration-and-data-management","tag-solidworks-2026-preview","tag-solidworks-2026-preview-program","tag-solidworks-pdm","tag-solidworks-simulation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58124\/revisions\/58151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}