Overview: Mechanical engineers depend on integrated CAD, CAE, and CAM tools to design, evaluate, and refine complex systems.

Rick Chin, a 3D design expert who describes himself as a software inventor who believes in making “products that matter,” knows as well as anyone that seeing is believing. After all, the 3D design ...

TROY -- Fisher-Unitech, a product lifecycle management provider, Monday announced its acquisition of R&D Technologies Inc.'s SolidWorks software business, which operates in New England and the state ...

Keep in mind though, this is for 3DEXPERIENCE Solidworks for Makers, which is a cloud based version of Solidworks, not the "normal" Solidworks. Might not matter for everyone, but I for one don't like ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ...

No one will disagree that 3D modeling programs can be hard to use. To make matters worse, the software seems to be constantly changing. That means users may spend more time thinking about how to use ...

If you're working with the best 3D modeling software and CAD programs, you need the best laptop for SolidWorks for total reliability and performance. Solidworks was one of the very first companies to ...

It's time to retire my Technet copy of Visio 2013 in favor of something that can drag me kicking and screaming into the world of 3D. The only other CAD software I've used was AutoCAD several decades ...