WHAT’S NEW

SOLIDWORKS 2020
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User Interface

• Updated Open Dialog

• Enhanced Tool Tips
• FeatureManager Folders
• Drag/Drop multiple features
• Material Search

Improved user interaction to

speed your daily use
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Markups

• Toolbar in Commandmanager
• Hover over preview
• Export multiple Markups
• Support for Drawings
• Mouse support

Improved usability
2D drawings – highly requested
No touch screen required
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Surface Offset

• Surface Offset
• Remove Failing Faces
• Create remaining surfaces
• Surface Thicken
• Thicken Both Sides
• Control the direction

Complex modelling
made simple
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Detailing Mode

• Open large drawings quickly

• Perfect for minor changes
• Add/Edit
• Annotations
• Dimension
• Symbols
• Notes

Rapidly open massive drawings

for Annotation editing
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Assembly Patterns

• Pattern Driven Patterns derive orientation

• Variable Linear & Circular Patterns
• Mirror by Origin
• Mirror Orientation Control

Fewer patterns
More powerful
More control
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Drawings

• Custom Scales for Drawing Sheets

• Chain Dimensions
• Convert to Baseline Dimension
• Alternate Position view for Parts

Continuous workflow
improvements to the drawing
environment
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Envelopes & External References

• Greater control over

external references
• Envelopes from top-level
assembly components

Work collaboratively in
large assemblies
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eDrawings VR (Beta in 2019)

• Full Virtual Reality support

• Now supports:
• Transparency
• Full Scene Anti-aliasing
• Ambient Occlusion
• Horizon Fading

Better visualization of models in

Virtual Reality
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Mesh – Direct Editing

• No conversion
• Additional Tools
• Repair Damage
• Delete and Fill

Powerful editing tools

Familiar workflows
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Sketching

• Support for slots

• Power Modify
• Gestures for various commands
• G3 continuity
• Redo

Powerful sketching tools

Predictable undo/redo
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SOLIDWORKS Visualize

• AxF Measured Materials

• glTF Export
• Instancing
• SOLIDWORKS PDM
Integration
• IES Light Profiles

Bring your designs to life

faster than ever!
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Workflow and Performance Improvements

• Browsing performance
• Defining Child Reference State
Conditions
• Search User Interface
• Logging Out from Windows
Explorer
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Browsing performance.

You can perform the following actions

faster:
• Logging into the vault when you set a
large number of files or folders for
automatic caching.
• Viewing the System History of a vault
that includes a large number of items.
• Opening a file from a folder that
includes a large number of files.
• Creating a new file or subfolder in a
folder that contains large number of
files.

Continue browsing while loading. Get to work faster

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Defining Child Reference State Conditions

Create workflows that are more precise, efficient and easier to use
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Search User Interface

• Search User Interface

• Customizable Variables (MAX 5)
• Using AND, OR, and NOT Operators in Search
=, !=, <, <=, >, >=.
• Searching in Multiple Variables

Find data, the simple way.

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Logging Out from Windows Explorer

Fast in, fast out ;-)

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Mesh – Decimation and Body Compare

• Simplify mesh bodies

• Tangent Select Facets
• Validate modeled geometry

Increased performance
Visual verification
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Flexible Components

• Define part as flexible

• Design part with external references
• Remap to current assembly with
• Make part Flexible

Optimized data management

Improved efficiency
Increased visualization and
validation
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SOLIDWORKS Composer

• Genbruge Appearence
• Genbruge Exploded og Named views
fra SOLIDWORKS
• Kan nu gemme I MP4, FLV og MKV
• 360 Graders Raster og Vector images
• Inlaid Text on Arrow

Eliminate waste creating

technical publications
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Assembly Mates

• Quick Mate Toolbar

• Limit Mates (Distance and Angle)
• Slot Mate with Position Constraint
• Width Mate Position Constraint
• Flip Alignment popup button
• Width Mate – Flip Alignment

More options on the Quick Mates

toolbar for rapid assembly
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MBD – Model Based Definition

• Muligt at organiserer PMI efter

Annotation- view eller type
• Hurtigere finde Annotations og hvilke
views de høre til
• Alle Dimentioner er nu kommet med
under Annotation views

Easy organization of
annotations in the model
space

Faster Adoption of MBD

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3D Interconnect

• Drag & Drop into SOLIDWORKS

• New file formats
• 3D DWG & DXF
• IFC

Easier to use, familiar

workflows
Collaborate with new
data sources
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CAM – Computer aided manufacturing

• Tab Cutting
• Probing Routine

Powerful Options to
improve
Manufacturing
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical

• Custom user rights profiles

• I 3D
• Mulighed for at at definer vægt på kabler og beskyttelse, så man kan få helt
præcis vægt, tyngdepunkt m.m. beregninger

• Schematic
• Flere options ved opsætning af rapporter
• Performance
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3DExperince

• Cloud base solution

• Collaboration Business Platform

Industry
Innovation
Business Innovation

3D
Component
Designer
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Repair Missing Fillet References

• Missing fillet / chamfer

references can be repaired
automatically

Speeding the design

change process
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Structure System

• Primary Member
- Point and Lenght
-> Sketch points
-> Up To Point
-> Up To Plane
• Secondary Member
- Between point Member
-> Split Member
• Corner management
- Simpel and Complex corners
• Pattern of Structure Systems

Easy to do, easy to modify. One feature to rule them all.

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Simulation – User interface

• Shift – C to colaps the feature tree

• Simulation Evaluator
• Delete Study without loading

Simulation Setup
made faster

Fast, easy, and accurate

simulation to speed validation of
your design
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Simulation – Beam Elements with Thermal Conditions

• Static Study with Temperature

• Thermal Studies with Beams
• Thermal Results in Static Study

Support for more real

world conditions
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Simulation – High Quality Results

• Mixed Draft and High Quality Mesh

• Distributed Connections
• Bolts
• Pins

High quality results

where you need
them
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Simulation – Distributed Connections Vs Rigid Connections
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