WHAT’S NEW

IN SOLIDWORKS 2011
1
PhotoView 360 and Walk-through Benefits:
PhotoView 360 is now fully integrated in SolidWorks®, Provide detailed, lifelike images
making photorealistic image and animation creation simple and walk-through overviews
for everyone, even the casual user. Walk-through enables a for demonstrating designs to
video game-like exploration of products, including customers, partners, vendors,
structures and large machinery. and coworkers.

2
Defeature Tool Benefits:
Automatically strip important details out of models to Enable manufacturers and
control how much intellectual property is exposed to others to share smaller, easier-
vendors, customers, and partners. This also reduces the to-handle versions of their
file size of the model, which helps minimize the size of 3D models while protecting
assemblies that incorporate the defeatured model. proprietary design data.

3
Fast Drawing Detailing Benefits:
The Auto Arrange Dimensions tool provides quick Reduce time-consuming
and easy alignment, staggering, centering, and overlap tasks in the product detailing
prevention capabilities for dimensions. New tools in portion of the overall
the Dimension Palette enable linear and radial spacing, development process.
collinear and staggered alignment, and top-bottom-left-
right justification control of multiple dimensions.

4
Planar Simplification and Enhanced Beam Analysis Benefits:
Achieve faster analysis of parts with uniform sections Focus on analyzing and
through the use of planar simplification to represent the innovating by cutting
parts’ geometry, rather than analyzing the entire structure. redundant steps from the
Analyze beams more thoroughly by varying loads along development process.
their length to accurately simulate real-world conditions.

5
HVAC and Cooling Modules Benefits:
New SolidWorks Flow Simulation modules are tailored Optimize the thermal
specifically to meet the unique challenges of electronic performance of electronic
packaging and HVAC designers. Simulate the air and heat flows components and HVAC
through electronic components and HVAC systems without systems through quick,
leaving your SolidWorks CAD environment. simplified analysis.
 6
Routing Improvements Benefits:
Create faster pipe, tube, electrical cable/harness, and conduit Generate complete piping and
runs by referencing existing geometry. In-line components electrical routes more easily,
can now be moved and rotated graphically. Piping weld reducing errors and streamlining
gaps, cosmetic weld beads, groove and fillet welds and weld release to manufacturing.
summary tables that include all weld data can now
be created.

7
Welded Structure Improvements Benefits:
The Smart Weld Selection Tool simplifies adding weld beads Reduce development time for
to complete the documentation and appearance of welded designing and costing welded
structures. Fillet and Groove weld types are supported, structures, so they can be
and Weld Tables on drawings compile all welds and weld efficiently manufactured.
properties, then automatically assign them reference
numbers for easy management.

3DVIA Composer™ Interactive Storyboarding Benefits:

Use 3DVIA Composer’s unique drag-and-drop functionality to Reduce training time and
instantly create linked views to next and previous steps for communicate more effectively
sharing procedures. Simplifies how information is presented with employees and customers
and consumed in 3DVIA Composer Player. by sharing simple, interactive
storyboard experience.

9
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Benefits:
Integrated SolidWorks Design Checker automates Improve the product
checking of designs to company standards, and integration of development workflow
3DVIA Composer Player enables the visualization of 3DVIA by streamlining design,
Composer data inside SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. Further documentation, and release to
enhancements speed installation, improve file reference manufacturing.
management, and streamline data entry.

10
Enhanced Memory Management Benefits:
More efficient memory use improves performance, especially Work longer and with
when working on large parts and assemblies. Performance of larger designs, but without
memory-intensive tasks, such as photorealistic rendering, are performance degradation.
also improved.

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