Top 10 What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2016

1. User Interface Redesign

   SOLIDWORKS 2016 provides an updated, clean, and modern user interface. The innovative styling incorporates the most useful user interface concepts from the portfolio of SOLIDWORKS products. Enhancements include selection breadcrumbs, a visualization tool for references, and a revamped triad.

2. Sketching

   Equal Curve Length Parametric Relations, improvements to midpoint selection, and the new ability to create B-Splines of 3°, 5°, or 7° with the Style Spline tool. You can adjust the smoothness of the curve by manipulating the degree of the curve, making it much easier to work with.

3. Parts and Features

   Curvature continuous edge fillets, bi-directional sweeps, custom thread wizard, improved options for modifying geometry with the intersect tool, and improved advanced surface flattening.

4. Assemblies

   Mate Controller, a component preview window, renaming components in the FeatureManager, and globally replacing failed mate references.

5. Drawings and Detailing

   Improvements to Foreshortening Linear Dimensions, Part and Assembly watermarks, Flag Notes, and Rearranging Stacked Balloons as well as a new Automatic Border tool and configuration-based Model Break Views make production ready 2D drawings a snap.

6. SOLIDWORKS Simulation

   An alternate curvature-based mesher is now available that uses improved algorithms that provide a high-quality surface mesh. You can now easily section the mesh for insight into internal mesh structure to ensure the desired mesh density at any location.

7. SOLIDWORKS Electrical

   You can now annotate documents, drawings, and schematics using eDrawings and new side panels display on the right side of the interface to help you find information faster and take actions with fewer clicks.

8. SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard

   A new offering based on the same architecture as SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (Enterprise PDM) to easily manage SOLIDWORKS data in a workgroup environment. Included with each license of SOLIDWORKS 2016 Professional and SOLIDWORKS 2016 Premium.

9. SOLIDWORKS Costing

   You can customize machining templates to more accurately reflect your manufacturing process for creating parts. The machining templates include customizable IF/THEN rules for handling special geometry cases such as large holes or stock body selection.

10. SOLIDWORKS Visualize (available January 2016)

    (Formerly known as Bunkspeed) SOLIDWORKS Visualize provides a suite of standalone software tools that combine industry-leading rendering capabilities with design-oriented features and workflows that enable easy and fast creation of visual content for designers, engineers, marketing, and other content creators.

October is finally here, and that means our SOLIDWORKS 2016 Launch events begin next week! Make sure you sign up for the Hawk Ridge Systems event near you and make great design happen with SOLIDWORKS 2016. Register Here.

Co-sponsored by HP and Intel® Core™ i7.