We are excited to announce that SOLIDWORKS® 2024 Preview has a targeted go-live date of July 10th, 2023 and you can preview the upcoming enhancements!
As part of our commitment to customers, the SOLIDWORKS R&D team reviews and prioritizes user enhancement requests to ensure that we provide new capabilities as well as improved quality and performance with each release.
SOLIDWORKS 2024 contains user-driven enhancements that help streamline and accelerate your product development processes from concept to manufacturing.
The new release helps you improve your team’s productivity by working smarter and faster thanks to the latest enhancements in the industry-leading SOLIDWORKS 3D modeling tools and by working better together across product development disciplines. Key release highlights include:
>> Work Smarter – Reduce your workload in SOLIDWORKS with the ability to defeature models more efficiently, add part features to assemblies by first associatively inserting an assembly into a part, and include the unit of measure as a custom property in your notes and tables.
- Simplify very large assemblies faster with the Defeature Silhouette option which now supports user-defined rules based on custom properties such as volume, file name, and more.
- Employ new modeling workflows with the ability to associatively insert an assembly into a part. Because the assembly is now a part, you can apply all part features to it. You can also display a single part in a bill of materials in place of an assembly.
- Create a custom property that lets you automatically display not only the value but also the unit of measure such as length, mass, angle, and more, in your notes and tables.
- Accelerate the placement of Hole Wizard holes with the new option to select the end points of geometry where holes are placed automatically.
- Create bi-directional linear patterns with a single click using the new Symmetric option.
- Spend less time repairing missing references for linear and circular component patterns as SOLIDWORKS can now automatically find an appropriate substitute reference, if available.
- Gain more insight about which dimensions on a drawing are overridden, by showing overridden dimensions in a different color of your choice.