Accelerate the development process and save time by designing piping and tubing in 3D during system design with SOLIDWORKS Premium. By integrating piping and tubing during the design process, designers can help ensure efficient assembly, operation, and serviceability, avoiding rework, delays, and extra cost.

Piping and Tubing Design Overview

Use the wide range of tools in SOLIDWORKS Premium to simplify design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping. With SOLIDWORKS Premium, designers can:

• Create piping system designs with butt welded, socket welded, threaded, and other connections
• Create flexible or rigid tubing lines
• Automate placement of supports and hangers for all lines
• Generate bend tables for tube routes to support manufacturing
• Calculate cut lengths for all pipe and tube runs
• Auto-route pipe/tube paths through the design that can be easily edited according to assembly and service needs
• Ensure minimum bend radii in flexible tube systems
• Output PCF files for use with ISOGEN® piping software
• Export tubing/piping bend tables to CNC benders
• Automatically generate piping/tubing manufacturing drawings from your 3D models
• Import logical connection information design from SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner products
• Automatically create bill of material (BOM), cut lists, bend tables, and other manufacturing documentation
• Access a CAD library of piping and tubing components
• Use the Routing Library Manager (RLM) wizard to guide creation of custom piping/tubing components

Accelerate your design process, save time and development costs, and increase productivity by quickly optimizing designs for cost, function, and environmental impact while you design with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software.

Design Optimization Overview

SOLIDWORKS enables you to immediately evaluate your product design based on cost, function, and environmental impact while you design. You can quickly identify concerns and evaluate alternatives to achieve design optimization. SOLIDWORKS enables you to:

• Change material choices—Assess overall product cost impact with SOLIDWORKS Costing, test new materials using design analysis , and perform an environmental assessment using SOLIDWORKS Sustainability
• Change the manufacturing processes for a part (for example, milling vs. water jet cutting) and see the cost and environmental impacts
• Reduce weight while optimizing performance, and then check the cost and environmental impacts
• Simulate environmental impacts of your design using SOLIDWORKS Sustainability
• Perform all refinements and simulation in SOLIDWORKS

Smart Components and Smart Fasteners in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software bring focused automation to the individual part level for designers and engineers, accelerating your design process, saving time and development costs, and increasing productivity.

Smart Components and Smart Fasteners Overview
SOLIDWORKS Smart Components and Smart Fasteners have built-in intelligence that enables fasteners and various components to do some of the design work for you automatically. Store Smart Content in the CAD Library and then use it to speed your designs. Intelligent SOLIDWORKS content items include:

• Smart Fasteners—Includes fasteners that automatically assemble and adjust length appropriately for part thickness, washers, and nut stack up
• Smart Components—Parts or assemblies that automatically create necessary clearance holes or cuts, and assemble necessary associated components when added to a design (snap rings that cut their own mounting grooves, for example).
• Custom Content—Create your own Smart Content to meet specialized design needs