Product Collaboration Overview

• SOLIDWORKS product collaboration tools help members of your design team work closely with other project stakeholders. SOLIDWORKS software also provides ways to protect your designs before sharing them beyond your organization and to manage project data and control design revisions.
• SOLIDWORKS product collaboration tools include:
• 3D Interconnect – Allows the import and use of 3D CAD data from other systemsand maintains a “link” back to the original geometry so the imported part can be automatically updated. This allows changes that are made after import to the original CAD data, in the original CAD system, to ripple through to the imported model.
• Large Design Review—Quickly open, navigate, walk-through, measure, section, and create snapshot views with comments of massive assemblies to clearly communicate the design to your team
• eDrawings® file viewing—Review 2D drawing and 3D model data together using compact, email-friendly file viewing that supports SOLIDWORKS, DWG™, and numerous other CAD formats Defeature: Protect your intellectual property —Use SOLIDWORKS
• Defeature technology to hide selected aspects of your design before sharing models
• SOLIDWORKS file management —Use PDM Standard to manage project data with secure file vaulting, automated revision control, and user/group access control. For more advanced PDM capabilities (like multiple sites, product release workflow control, and access by large numbers of users), see SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM .
• Import/Export Over 30 CAD Formats - SOLIDWORKS provides more than 30 translators to convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format or to export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD products.
• 3D Models for CAD/CAM Integration with CAM Partners – Certified CAM partners provide seamlessly integrated CAM for SOLIDWORKS so you can eliminate data translation and maintain associativity between SOLIDWORKS and your favorite CAM system.
• 3D Dimensioning and Tolerancing – Dimension, tolerance, and detail your models in 3D if you are looking to eliminate the need for
• 2D drawings 2D DXF®/DWG® Data – Import and export 2D DXF®/DWG® data in order to reuse and maintain 2D designs, as well as export to manufacturing.
• Maintain and Update Existing 2D Drawings – edit and view DWG® files in DraftSight®
• 2D to 3D CAD Conversion Tools - Use your existing 2D design data to help create new designs in SOLIDWORKS 3D
• Convert 3D Solid Parts to Sheet Metal – Export 2D DXF®/DWG® data directly from 3D solid and sheet metal parts
• Print Directly to 3D printers: 3MF and AMF Formats - Print directly to 3D printers, similar to how you would print a document to your office printer
• MCAD to AEC: Prep and export to AEC applications – Quickly prepare a SOLIDWORKS model for import into AEC applications Get a Product Collaboration Demonstration SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Product Matrix 

2D and 3D Collision Detection Overview

SOLIDWORKS 2D and 3D Collision Detection enables you to check for interferences, collisions, and clearances between components in your design to ensure proper operation before manufacturing begins. Run 3D collision checks as needed, or continually as you design. Interferences are clearly displayed graphically.

Specific functionality includes:

• Interference Detection mode—Designed to find unintended clashes between parts or assemblies during operation
• Clearance Verification mode—Focused on ensuring clearance at all times
• Local or global checks within a design to find all interferences
• Interference or clearance checks in either 2D or 3D
• Stop with audible warning when collision occurs when dragging/moving a component
• Check for interferences caused by the mismatch of threads for holes and fasteners

Tour your virtual design in 3D by walking through at eye level or flying around it randomly.

With SOLIDWORKS 3D walk-through/fly-through, you can:

• Tour your design in either standard mode or super-fast large design review mode
• Control your travel using just your mouse or keyboard controls
• Follow a predefined path through your design—especially for constrained travel products like track-mounted equipment (amusement park rides, for example)
• Move randomly along the floor, ground, or surface
• Fly around your design to get an aerial view
• Save a chosen path to follow it again later—especially helpful for repetitive reviews
• Record a video of your path to share with others