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

CAD Library Overview

SOLIDWORKS CAD library provides a place for every designer and engineer to easily access, locate, download, save, and share commonly reused CAD data.

The ability to share the information needed to make thousands of parts and components for your designs—from screws and bolts, to washers and bearings, and more—reduces redundancies, mistakes, and inconsistencies. It also eliminates duplication, and helps your company standardize its CAD data. Using SOLIDWORKS CAD, you can easily share components and CAD data with other designers companywide.

SOLIDWORKS provides the following CAD libraries and functionality:

• Over one million pre-built, standard machine components, such as screws, nuts, washers, and pins are included with SOLIDWORKS Toolbox
• Millions of 3D CAD models and other CAD data online directly from certified suppliers and other CAD users at 3D ContentCentral.com
• Libraries for sheet metal forming tools including ribs, flanges, lances, louvers, and embossed shapes
• Libraries for sheet metal punch tools, including tombstone, T-slot, star, triangles, D-cutouts, and many others
• Libraries for detailing drawings including annotations, symbols, and blocks
• Libraries of components for Routing of Electrical and Piping/Tubing Systems that include piping, tubing, electrical, conduit, and mounting hardware
• Smart Components and Smart Fastenerstechnology that provides automatic assembly of fasteners and component subassemblies
• Libraries of prebuilt features ready to add to your part models, including linear patterns, fluid power connection ports, keyways, retaining ring grooves and slots
• Library content management with SOLIDWORKS File Management

SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Overview

SOLIDWORKS Toolbox is a vast component library containing over a million standard hardware items. These components can be used “as is” or can be customized to meet your specific company standards. Hardware items can be easily dragged and dropped into your assembly, speeding your design work and helping complete your bill of materials (BOM).

SOLIDWORKS Toolbox includes:

• Over one million machine components and hardware—bolts, screws, washers, nuts, bearings, jig bushings, keys, O-rings, pings, power transmission components, retaining rings, and structural members
• Components corresponding to a wide range of international standards—ANSI, AS, BSI, CISC, DIN, GB, IS, ISO, JS, KS, US MIL
• Ball, roller, and needle bearings from SKF® Torrington (inch and metric sizes)
• Specialty fasteners from PEM® Fasteners (inch and metric sizes)
• Retaining rings from Truarc®
• Structural profiles from Unistrut®