Best Practices for Sharing Designs Between Desktop SOLIDWORKS and the SOLIDWORKS Browser-Based Design Apps

What's Covered?

1. Desktop SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Browser-Based Design Interoperability Fundamentals
2. Setting Up Your SOLIDWORKS Environment
3. Interoperability Use Case Examples
   • Adding a Component Created in xDesign to Your SOLIDWORKS Assembly
   • Designing in the Context of a SOLIDWORKS Assembly Using xShape
   • Adding Features in SOLIDWORKS to a Component Created in xShape
4.  Frequently Asked Questions

Applies to the following offers/roles:

• 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard, Professional, and Premium
• Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS
• SOLIDWORKS Cloud
• 3D Creator
• 3D Sculptor

Summary:

SOLIDWORKS and the SOLIDWORKS browser-based design apps together with the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform provide designers with a powerful set of design and collaboration capabilities. SOLIDWORKS is a traditional file-based parametric 3D design tool provided as a platform connected desktop application (SOLIDWORKS with Cloud Services), or a fully integrated platform application (3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS). SOLIDWORKS browser-based design apps are available through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Both solutions are designed to complement each other’s capabilities, whilst enabling greater flexibility for designers to work from anywhere on any device.

This guide examines the interoperability between SOLIDWORKS and the SOLIDWORKS browser-based design apps, explaining how to optimize SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE platform to facilitate design workflows between the two applications. 

Prerequisites:

The target audience of this guide is designers and engineers currently using both SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS browser-based design apps on a regular basis.

Administrators for the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will also benefit from the information, however the majority of the information is aimed at a designers and engineers using both SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS browser-based design content on a regular basis.

Knowledge of saving and organising SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS browser-based design content on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a prerequisite for this guide.

Before studying this guide its recommended that you are familiar with the following topics:

• Creating SOLIDWORKS parts and assembly models
• Saving and opening SOLIDWORKS parts and assemblies from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Creating and saving designs in the xDesign and xShape browser-based design apps
• Storing and organising design content in 3DEXPERIENCE collaborative spaces and bookmarks