What's New in 2021 ??

Drawing Detailing Mode Improvements

 

• Improved performance of Detailing Mode to speed up drawing creation even more
• Improvements in ability to add hole callouts, edit existing dimensions and annotations, and add Detail, Break and Crop views

Assembly Modeling Enhancements

• Interference-detection reports exported with images to Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet
• Option to automatically resolve lightweight components upon expanding Feature Tree node
• Chain pattern along path to use curve length, not chord length

Improved Assembly Simplification

 

• Defeatured models saved as Configuration
• Ease of toggling between full and simplified versions
• Operation mimics any other configuration

Performance Improvements

• Improved performance for occlusion culling, silhouette edges and drawings; quick configuration switches
• Significant performance improvements in Open, Save and Close of assemblies
• Detection and reporting of circular references
• Adding files to SOLIDWORKS PDM vault is significantly faster

More Flexibility for Part Design

• Redo available for over 60 features and commands in parts
• Sheet metal for edge flanges on non-planar tangent edges. Complex flanges can be flattened
• Ability to add and evaluate equations in file properties and cut list properties
• Part-level materials transferable when you insert or mirror part, derived component part, or mirrored component part

User Experience Delighters

• Color picker tool to pick color for appearances from external application
• Customize dialog box for searching for commands on Shortcut bars and Command tabs
• System option shows translated feature names in FeatureManager® design tree

More Robust Simulation

• Mesh diagnostics identify, isolate and prompt to fix poor quality elements
• Faster and more robust meshing due to improvements in bonding accuracy
• Improved convergence through contact stabilization

Improved Electrical Routing

• Multiple wires/cables can pass through and be arranged through clip
• Wires joined using splice component or spliced without component
• Support for end terminations in Connector Tables, Interconnects and Accessories Library

Streamlined Data Management

• More consistent Windows® Explorer integration, better thumbnail support
• Great flexibility in controlling custom column sets
• Reduced risk of mistakes and improved efficiency with support for BOM settings
• Icon selection available for workflow states; transitions improved to help determine status of files quickly

Design-to-Manufacturing Cloud Connection 

• Derived Formats Converter enables creation of derived outputs for broader consumption and exact geometry for use in downstream design, simulation and manufacturing applications
• Support for multiple sheets and markups on drawings, improved drawings quality
• Managing Open Modes offers similar options to SOLIDWORKS when opening data from 3DEXPERIENCE® platform
• Ability to control configurations to save in 3DEXPERIENCE platform