What is SOLIDWORKS?
SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio unite your entire ecosystem, allowing you to connect the people, applications, and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased collaboration, and accelerated innovation. Adding DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP provides added visibility specifically for your factory’s environment.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SOLIDWORKS?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
3D Modeling
Technical Drawings
Simulation
Visualization
2D Drawing
Collaboration
Analytics and Reporting
Raster Data Manipulation
2D/3D Conversion
Digital Scanning
Libraries & Templates
Vendor Capability Ratings
Breadth of Features
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
SOLIDWORKS Reviews
James L.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2021
Brings your imagination to life.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Solidworks really aides the development of 3D products. There are other 3D design products, but I feel this product has made one of the bigger impacts among the competition.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Eae of use.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Need a decent computer to actually run it - it can load very slowly on unequipped PCs.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Follow the tutorials and watch YouTube videos
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Sam G.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Electronics
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2021
Happy to be a user
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Its scope of capabilities.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The robust array of dynamic features.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of integration support.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Weigh other options for your needs, but I recommend it highly.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Charles T.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2021
Effective 3D Parts Design Simulation Tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SOLIDWORKS from other similar products?
Quality of the 3D models for various industrial 3D designs and also Electrical designing, SOLIDWORKS is a great tool with full required capacities for the easy and quality designing functions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Clean interface loaded with all the 3D designing and 3D parts assembling features and very simple for any Engineer to start manipulation.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Zero problem from the SOLIDWORKS functionalities, easy and friendly interface to custom the designing functionalities.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SOLIDWORKS simulation power is good, easy Mechanical and Electrical parts or 3D models production and great drawing and other Engineering documents management.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
