Simulation

In SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2024 the introduction of global simulation options brings convenience to users, allowing them to automatically save mesh and simulation progress after completion. This serves as a robust fail-safe measure, safeguarding against data loss during unexpected system crashes or power outages. Not only is it a time-saver, but it's also a significant step in ensuring uninterrupted workflow. Furthermore, users can now streamline their processes with the new option to exclude mesh and results when a study is copied, promoting efficiency and conserving disk space. This feature optimizes the copy command's speed and resource utilization, especially if re-meshing and re-running are required. In addition to these enhancements, SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2024 boasts faster solver performance, quicker model measurement, and mesh improvements, making simulations more efficient. The convergence spot feature helps monitor contact solving issues, addressing any challenges in surface-to-surface contact. Furthermore, this version allows for the decoupling of mixed-in free body modes, offering flexibility in resolving mixed motion. SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2024 brings a range of powerful and flexible tools to your fingertips, making it an exciting step forward in the field of simulation.

Plastics

SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2024 is the future of plastic injection molding simulation. New features that'll take your plastic part design to the next level include the injection location advisor. Imagine you're designing a thin plastic part. Efficiency is key, and you need multiple gate locations. SOLIDWORKS 2024 has you covered with the Injection location adviser, to automate suggestions and optimize placement to make your job easier. Also new for Plastics in 2024, an enhancement that simplifies the assignment of hot and cold runners to components with a straightforward right-click and select method. This makes it easier for users to fine-tune their simulations and achieve better control over their processes.

Flow Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 2024 introduces the ability to import and export component lists to and from Excel. This feature is particularly valuable for those dealing with thermal problems and managing solid materials volume heat sources. It also caters to electronics cooling module users by allowing them to manage user database items for PCBs and resistor components. The process is straightforward: export the component list to Excel, make necessary adjustments, and reimport the updated properties, making it easy to test new scenarios rapidly.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 2024 includes improvements in mesh generation scalability. Larger cell count meshes can now be generated notably faster. Another meshing enhancement involves the introduction of mesh "bullying" operations, which handle complex and problematic geometry more efficiently. This feature is useful when dealing with geometry issues like bad topology, missing entities, or self-intersecting faces that may have caused the solver to fail previously. These enhancements collectively contribute to an improved and more efficient SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation experience.

Advanced Simulation

SOLIDWORKS users can now access the powerful Abacus solver on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, offering industry-leading tools to address complex design challenges. Collaboration tools within the platform facilitate issue tracking and organization, keeping all stakeholders informed. The platform's multi-physics simulations simplify the process of answering intricate design questions. The assistant panel enables quick definition of materials, boundary conditions, and loads to replicate real-world scenarios. Results can be validated using factor of safety plots, and more complex design scenarios, like random vibrations, are easily set up. The Abacus solver delivers stress and displacement results, providing confidence in design decisions.

Visualize

Visualize Professional has received many new updates in the past year, but there are a few that really stand out with SOLIDWORKS 2024. Appearances get an overhaul with a new DSPBR format giving you the flexibility to create any appearance from this one super material. The manipulator gets updated with new keyboard shortcuts as well as combined with the scale tool. And finally, the render output window has been transformed into a wizard style dialog, helping you choose the right settings without wasting time. While these are just a few of our favorites, read about All the new enhancements on our Blog for What’s new in Visualize Professional 2024.

Drawings

SOLIDWORKS 2024 delivers great enhancements to help more clearly and efficiently create and navigate your drawings. From chain dimension enhancements, highlighting of reference elements, overridden dimension color change, keeping the link property box open, reattaching dangling dimensions, there's a lot to look forward to in Drawing in SOLIDWORKS 2024

Composer

Composer 2024 now supports SpeedPaks, so the conversion of large SOLIDWORKS assemblies that contain SpeedPaks now work going into composer. This is great for everyone, but will really benefit anyone running Composer Sync, Sync Enterprise, or any other custom automation to transfer data from SOLIDWORKS to Composer.

MBD

SOLIDWORKS 2024 introduces a host of valuable enhancements for DimXpert and Model Based Definition. It offers an improved display feature that ensures DimXpert dimensions always stay on top of 3D models, regardless of their orientation, eliminating confusion. The software also now supports the use of hole tables in 3D parts, simplifying the representation of multiple hole sizes and locations.

This release also brings dual dimensions to feature control frames, providing users with greater flexibility in dimensioning conical features. It introduces the ability to create thickness dimensions between curved surfaces, making it easier to specify the distance between such surfaces. Furthermore, SOLIDWORKS 2024 streamlines dimension management by allowing the reattachment of DimXpert dimensions to new reference entities, eliminating the need to recreate dimensions when references change. Lastly, the software enables the export of custom properties with the STEP 242 command, enhancing data management and sharing capabilities.

Electrical

New in 2024 SOLIDWORKS Electrical, Auto-ballooning and BOM report table placement is available on the 2D panel layout page. Manufacturer part information checkbox for removal of information from components properties when manufacturer part is deleted from the component. Ranges can be used in the report instead of listing all marks. Objects can be moved with arrow keys. Auxiliary and Accessory components can be filtered out the of 3D components tree. Multiple rails and/or duct lengths can be adjusted at once. 3D Align components command has been updated, and Active Location Routing can be selected when routing harnesses.

PDM

SOLIDWORKS PDM 2024 gives you are reason to fall in love with assembly visualization all over again! The ability to toggle the display of your files on and off while designing is going to be a nice time saver. Web2 users will love the new tile mode and the ability to download older versions of files. PDM 2024 is faster than ever before. Adding files, changing state and the copy tree commands are approximately two times faster than 2023. If you copy tree to a compressed archive file you will experience orders of magnitude of performance.

3DEXPERIENCE Cloud Services

Product design teams require secure and collaborative solutions for storing and revising their designs. 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud Services offers convenient tools, such as "Share a File," enabling easy sharing of designs both internally and externally. With this feature, users can select the file format, specify input requirements, and share files via a simple link, allowing partners to add sketches, dimensions, and annotations while keeping track of changes through comments. This integrated solution allows for streamlined revision management, as users can easily save designs and add comments indicating changes.

The maturity state of items can be updated, and sharing drawing files as PDFs is simplified. With files stored on the cloud, team members can access them from anywhere and utilize powerful capabilities for design comparison.

3DEXPERIENCE Cloud Services also offer efficient design issue tracking and resolution, ensuring organized feedback and assigning tasks to team members. The platform enhances collaboration and can be further bolstered with powerful simulation and intelligent manufacturing tools.

xShape

xShape enables us to swiftly and effortlessly create ergonomic designs, starting with basic reference images, we can easily scale and shape our design by adjusting the mesh with minimal effort. xShape simplifies the traditional design process by eliminating the need for complex sketches and surface features. It allows for precise placement of mesh points and offers tools for adding material, refining the mesh, and controlling the smoothness of our design. It even provides the flexibility to explore additional concepts, create mirrored versions, and perform draft analysis to ensure manufacturability.

xShape's seamless integration with SOLIDWORKS and its array of features, such as soft selection and common threads, make it a comprehensive solution for achieving our design goals efficiently.

xGenerative Design

xGenerative Design on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is an incredible tool that utilizes node scripting to create complex 3-dimensional patterns. These patterns can be applied to the most heavily contoured surfaces. If the underlying shape that the part is placed on is altered, pattern accommodates this modification with minimal effort from the user. Small and large changes to the pattern can be captured through design variance or revision history The script based approach to modeling combined with cloud computing opens a world of possibilities for you to quickly cycle through and iterate your most intricate patterning ideas.

Lattice Design

Infill patterns are a great way to lightweight a product while maintaining performance, and Lattice Design meets this structural challenge at the modeling stage. A list of options is available for the unit cell of the pattern, and the selection can be further customized with size and radius parameters As you would expect, the model can be fully interrogated in 3D space. Changes and revisions can further capture variations of your ideas for visual comparisons of the final mesh profile. With these tools, Lattice Design places you at the forefront of infill design optimization.

CAM

Numerous enhancements have been added to the latest version of SOLIDWORKS to simplify your CNC Machining setup in SOLIDWORKS CAM 2024. You can now add material to the tops of islands with a new Direction2 in the Island Creation, use Flute Length to control our depth of cut in operations, and normalize Contour Mill lead-ins with added linking functionality.

In SOLIDWORKS CAM 2024 you can also more easily select tools with a resized Tool Selection Filter window, have SOLIDWORKS CAM automatically use the Flute Length for Tool Selection in the TechDB, change the output of Undercut Tools based on the top or bottom of the Flute Length, and finally get quick access to Machining Features and Operations using Dynamic Highlighting of SOLIDWORKS 2024 Model geometry.

3DEXPERIENCE Smart Manufacturing

Leveraging Smart Manufacturing tools in 3DEXPERIENCE 2024 facilitates real-time communication between the shop floor and the engineering department, ensuring timely part production. This enhanced communication relies on having access to consistent data across the organization. The 3DEXPERIENCE Smart Manufacturing suite offers a comprehensive solution, including the NC shop floor programmer for creating and simulating NC programs. This tool reduces errors and programming time while maintaining associativity with the design. Additional functionalities like probing, programming, deburring, and more are seamlessly integrated.

The suite also includes manufacturability checks for validation in a virtual environment, streamlining part programming and allowing easy collaboration between engineers and manufacturers. It offers robot programming capabilities, enabling offline programming and simulation for various robotic applications. Moreover, the Factory Simulation Engineer helps optimize material flow and layout for efficient production. These tools, part of 3DEXPERIENCE Smart Manufacturing, foster real-time collaboration, speeding up production and ensuring on-time deliveries.