Dassault Systèmes has officially launched Solidworks 2025, adding enhanced collaboration and data management as well as more streamlined workflows to help users quickly design and develop their products.
In order to help develop products faster, the improved collaboration and data management capabilities top the list of new features in Solidworks 2025.
For elements like multi-approval timestamps that help enforce company rules on drawings, anyone who is part of the approval workflow can easily log in from a web browser, review the drawing, and approve it – anywhere and at any time. The approval timestamp appears automatically on the drawing, alleviating the need for manual work.
“We believe in empowering companies to deliver not only the best possible product but also an unforgettable customer experience,” said Solidworks CEO Manish Kumar. “That’s why we enhanced platform collaboration, enabling users to easily share models with industry peers, inside and outside your organisation, by accessing communities directly from Solidworks. No matter if you use 3DExperience Solidworks or Solidworks with Cloud Services, you will benefit from the seamless integration with the 3DExperience platform.”
Part modelling sees some interesting updates to selection tools, as the new release looks to create the exact geometry needed for a design more efficiently. Tools like the Chamfer command now help to rapidly select edges; there’s a new option to continuously blend fillet edges for smoother variable size fillets, and the automatic customisable bend notches on the flat pattern bend line of a sheet metal part.
As ever, there’s a move to boost design productivity through performance improvements – elements like using the Silhouette defeature method to create a highly simplified part and make it associative to the parent part. Equally, adding a SpeedPak configuration at the top level of an assembly without needing to modify subassemblies.
Faster assembly modelling adds new features, like the ability to copy assembly components along with their associated advanced and mechanical mates, while users can now detect interferences between surface bodies or surface and solid bodies, including in Large Design Review mode.
Rendering sees a boost from GPU technology with real-time interactive ray tracing in Solidworks Visualise, based on the open-standard Vulkan API for 3D graphics and computing.
Dassault has previously explained that annual releases are becoming less integral to Solidworks updates, with Service Packs for Solidworks with Cloud Services and Functional Deliveries for 3DExperience Solidworks. To access the latest enhancements, users need to update their Solidworks.
