What is 3DEXPERIENCE^® Works?

SOLIDWORKS helps to bring your ideas to market, providing the flexibility to work in any environment –– desktop, cloudconnected,
or pure cloud. Its expanded 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio unites your entire ecosystem, allowing you to
connect the people, applications and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased
collaboration, and accelerated innovation. The portfolio provides best-in-class 3D modeling, simulation, data management
and manufacturing solutions in one, connected universe on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
The 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio allows organizations to:

• • Aggregate and organize product and business data into actionable information
  • Benefit from integrated cloud-based product data and lifecycle management Securely share real-time information and
    collaborate to drive sustainable innovation
  • Leverage best-of-breed 3D modeling, simulation, and manufacturing applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
  • Augment and enhance your existing SOLIDWORKS investment with advanced design and simulation tools

3DEXPERIENCE^® Works User Roles

The 3DEXPERIENCE^® Works portfolio is based on user roles. Users buy a role that contains essential applications that enable them to complete their tasks.

Base Roles (Governance)

Collaborative Business Innovator

The fundamental solution for centralised team collaboration on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

• Securely store and share SOLIDWORKS and other files from any device
• Mark up SOLIDWORKS and other files in the web browser
• Create social communities and assign tasks for easy collaboration
• Easy retrieval of indexed and tagged data
• Create configurable, real-time dashboards to monitor your business and projects
• Easily provide feedback to your team with threaded discussions
• Automated, centralised alerts

Collaborative Industry Innovator

The fundamental solution for product lifecycle management on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

• Manage your product design, multi-physics simulation and manufacturing process planning in a traceable and flexible environment
• Concurrent design across disciplines and CAD applications
• Manage the creation, review, release and obsolescence of CAD data, simulation models and documents
• Create, assign and manage tasks
• Enables collaborative reviews with markups on 2D and 3D models
• Easy browser-based content visualisation and sharing
• Secure and global access to your content

Governance

Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS

Enable real time collaboration on product designs and leverage the expertise of your whole business ecosystem

• Connect your SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD data to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and allow all cloud based solutios to leverage your CAD data
• Downstream usage of the range of 3DEXPERIENCE apps
• Review tasks and design data on the platform without leaving SOLIDWORKS
• Allow stakeholders to work with your data on the cloud while you continue to work in SOLIDWORKS
• Perform lifecycle operations such as revise, release and luck/unlock within the browser
• Share SOLIDWORKS designs with stakeholders on any device at any time

Project Planner

Connect your SOLIDWORKS design data with project stakeholders, tasks and deliverables

• Collaborate with a task-specific file repository and stay on schedule with real-time summary charts
• Automatically optimise a project schedule to satisfy project and resource constraints
• Real time notifications of schedule changes shared with your team
• Flexible access rights management enabling the project owner to control who can view and edit tasks and data
• Easily track the status of deliverables with notifications
• Graphical views such as Gantt charts allow you to monitor tasks, milestones and dependencies

Project Manager

Enables deliverables-based project management by linking product development data to a project, allowing real-time monitoring of project status

• Free up Project Managers’ time for crucial project management activities such as monitoring progress, evaluating risks and aligning resources
• Deliver projects within business and time constraints by coordinating scope, resources and schedules
• Efficient yet ‘invisible’ project governance
• Evaluate and manage risks with real-time information
• Employ a phase-gate management process with historical traceability of each review’s meeting details
• Use business templates to initiate a project using prior knowledge, ensuring full compliance with business processes Free up Project Managers’ time for crucial project management activities such as monitoring progress, evaluating risks and aligning resources
• Deliver projects within business and time constraints by coordinating scope, resources and schedules
• Efficient yet ‘invisible’ project governance
• Evaluate and manage risks with real-time information
• Employ a phase-gate management process with historical traceability of each review’s meeting details
• Use business templates to initiate a project using prior knowledge, ensuring full compliance with business processes

Social Business Analyst

Improve decision making for product management, marketing and sales using real-time data insights

• A browser-based solution that collates information from across the internet with enterprise data
• Automate information alerts and actions to identify opportunities and risks earlier
• Create your own tailored content library or use Dassault Systèmes’ industry libraries
• Keep your team aligned with automated content distribution via email, newsletters, feeds and communities
• Easily, track, monitor and filter for content relevant to your business
• Conduct sentiment analysis to discover how the market is responding to your brand and products

Collaborative Designer for CATIA V5

Co-design wherever you are by connecting CATIA V5 to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

• Streamline your entire end-to-end design process by enabling stakeholders to access design data from any device and location
• Conduct data and PLM activities from within your familiar CATIA V5 interface
• Share your CATIA V5 design data to other contributors, manage projects, assign tasks and collaborate more effectively
• Utilise extra, multi-discipline applications on the cloud for advanced design, simulation and manufacturing that directly leverage your CATIA V5 data without translating it
• Securely share, view, compare and explore in browser-based apps
• Create realistic visualisations and experience your design in virtual reality
• Search for components on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform without leaving CATIA V5 using 3DSearch

Design & Engineering

3D Creator

A browser-based 3D parametric modelling solution enabling you to easily create, review and evaluate 3D models

• Complement SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD with flexible workflows and smooth exchange of design data
• Easily model parametric solids and surfaces
• Optimise existing design using a generative design approach
• Understand structural requirements before creating design geometry
• Quick design iterations without the rework expected with traditional parametric modeling tools
• Remove the need to plan your assembly structure from the beginning by making model changes at any time

3D Sculptor

An intuitive, browser-based 3D subdivision modeling solution enabling you to design 3D organic shapes quickly and easily

• Smooth exchange of design data
• Use images and sketches as a guide for creating 3D surface geometry
• Quickly create complex surfaces using intuitive push-pull interaction
• Easily switch between conceptual and detailed modelling environments
• Automatically convert Subdivision surfaces to NURBS geometry when complete
• Changes to product shape at any stage of the design process sync to parts, assemblies, drawings, mold tooling and CAM data
• Remove the need to plan your assembly structure from the beginning by making model changes at any time

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard

An intuitive SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD solution connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform including part and assembly modeling, 2D drawings and productivity and automation tools

• For designer and engineers who want an intuitive and strong set of 3D design tools to power their innovation and daily work
• Create manufacturing-ready 2D drawings and complex 3D models
• Industry specific workflows for sheet metal, weldments, molds, plastic components, and tool and dies
• Basic PLM functions embedded directly within your design application
• Verify fit and function before moving to production
• Search for components on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform without leaving SOLIDWORKS using 3DSearch

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional

Builds on the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard with advanced productivity and rendering capabilites to design better products and speed up time to market

• Includes all features of the Standard offer, plus photorealistic rendering, automated cost estimation, reverse engineering, automated design and drawing checking, and tolerance analysis
• Analyse designs based on manufacturing cost estimations
• Check for design errors and detect part interference to eliminate manufacturing rework
• Quickly assess the manufacturability of your design with dimensions and tolerances analysis
• Reverse engineer from scanned mesh models
• Create photorealistic images and animations of your designs for marketing and sales material
• Search for components on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform without leaving SOLIDWORKS using 3DSearch

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Premium

Builds on the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional with multi-domain product development capabilities to help you tackle design challenges across a range of industries.  

• Includes all features of the professional offer, plus piping and tubing, electrical cable and harness routing design and advanced surface flattening capabilities
• Streamline piping and tubing system design with drag-and-drop placement, automatic sizing of components and auto-insertion of piping bends and elbows
• Design electrical cabling systems and harness routes
• Create engineering drawings with complete BOMs, cut lengths and harness manufacturing documentation
• Route rectangular or round sections
• Determine the initial blank size of textile and metal components using advanced surface flattening capabilities to save time and material
• Search for components on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform without leaving SOLIDWORKS using 3DSearch

Simulation

Structural Professional Engineer

Advanced simulation capabilities on the cloud for SOLIDWORKS users powered by SIMULIA Abaqus  

• Run simulations on your local hardware or on the cloud
• Conduct structural static, frequency, buckling, modal dynamic response, and structural-thermal analysis of parts and assemblies
• Speed up post-processing and the visualization of large models
• Capture a precise load history of multiple and sequential load cases
• Tightly integrated with SOLIDWORKS- access the SPE role from within SOLIDWORKS Simulation itself
• All design changes made to your CAD in SOLIDWORKS are synced to your simulation model in Structural Professional Engineer on the cloud
• Run complex simulations with access to more processing cores
• Enhance simulation accuracy with advanced meshing tools and simulate complex materials with Abaqus solver
• Easily create dashboards to review and share your latest data

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Simulation Designer

A simulation role connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, providing linear static structural and time-based motion analysis capabilities for parts and assemblies

• Reducing the number of physical prototypes by simulating virtual prototypes to understand real-world performance
• Perform linear static structural simulation on parts and assemblies
• Evaluate your designs for Factor of Safety (FOS) and deflections
• Evaluate your assembly operational cycle and calculate the forces and loads on your design
• Visualise your product’s real-world movement with motion analysis