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Efficient engineering is built on a foundation of collaboration, version control, and the ability to manage data seamlessly across teams and tools. SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management (PDM) stands out as a comprehensive solution that helps overcome common challenges, such as misplaced files, outdated versions, or workflow bottlenecks. As engineering teams face increasingly complex projects, adopting robust systems like SOLIDWORKS PDM becomes essential for maintaining high performance. Below, we’ll walk through key benefits, use cases, and features of SOLIDWORKS PDM.
2026 is a big year for CAM. We’re seeing not just enhancements to our existing partners, SOLIDWORKS, CAMWorks, and DELMIA, but a recent partner we brought into the fold: SWOOD. Let’s take a look at what's new.
The Massachusetts Workforce Training Express Program provides businesses with 100 or fewer Massachusetts employees the chance to increase their employees’ SOLIDWORKS skills with fast, simple access to grant-funded training – up to $20,000 per company each calendar year.
Pennsylvania’s WEDnetPA Program gives companies the chance to improve the SOLIDWORKS skill level of their employees for free with available grant funds. Businesses in the program are reimbursed up to $2,000 per employee to cover the cost of eligible training courses, such as GoEngineer SOLIDWORKS Training.
If you've ever used an automatic entrance button when walking into a building, you've experienced the kind of product Wikk Industries creates. Based just outside Milwaukee, this family-owned manufacturer designs and produces code-compliant accessibility solutions that help bridge the accessibility gap. In 2025, Wikk launched panoptikk, a 3D product configurator powered by DriveWorks Pro, to change how customers interact with their products.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers a powerful way to set up a company-specific dashboard with analytics tools that will bring your engineering, design, and business data together in one place. This blog will walk you through creating a dashboard in 3DEXPERIENCE and integrating analytics, so you can start making data-backed decisions without leaving your collaborative workspace.
What happens when your product (or parts within it) collide with each other, with the ground, with a flying object? It’s a huge deal for quality and safety alike, so virtual testing (i.e., impact finite element analysis (FEA)) is an extremely important step of the engineering process. To do this kind of sophisticated analysis, you need an FEA software tool that matches both your product complexity and your budget. This article will review the spectrum of FEA tools in the SOLIDWORKS ecosystem with a focus on the impact simulation use case, so that you can better understand your options and make the right choice.
Material data sheets for elastomers provide a shore value as a metric to describe a material’s hardness. This value is an important tool for starting the discussion on selecting an appropriate elastomer for your application. However, having access to actual stress-strain data will provide a much higher level of accuracy. Some material suppliers are starting to conduct and supply extensive testing data with their products, which is an excellent trend in the industry.
The latest enhancements to Routing for SOLIDWORKS 2026 are here! See what's new, including improved coverings for pipes and tubes, sketch-guided auto route, and the flexibility to automatically rescale drawing views for electrical routes.