The 3DEXPERIENCE Roles

On cloud / On-premises / Collaboration & Intelligence 

A combination of the Business Innovation and Industry Innovation roles. 

• • Connect everyone to the innovation process. 
  • 3DDashboard delivers the real-time intelligence needed to monitor everything that matters to a business so you can make data-driven decisions. 
  • Share files securely on the cloud. 
  • Instantly collaborate and share ideas in 3D. 

• • Secure access to all product content. 
  • Collaborative IP management enables collaboration with shared content. 
  • Navigate data on any product development. 
  • Immersive business intelligence (B.I. Essentials) highlights KPIs directly on the 3D product view. 

On cloud / On-premises / Virtual Product Development

Optimize design work with tasks, issues, and change management integrated in SOLIDWORKS. 

• • Achieve real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams. 
  • Collaborate with all stakeholders in your company on multidiscipline and multi-CAD product definitions. 
  • Share SOLIDWORKS designs with your extended enterprise using web-based technologies, available on any device at any time. 
  • Enable downstream usage of the 3DEXPERIENCE portfolio of applications. 

On cloud / On-premises / Collaboration & Intelligence 

Reduce product development cycle times and maximize innovation across your value network. 

• Collaborate on structured industrial product development processes. 
• Work more effectively with streamlined and secured content access. 
• Enable real-time concurrent collaboration, enhance decision-making, and reach design maturity faster. 
• Always work with up-to-date information and related data to reduce errors. 
• Intuitively organize, view, and track individual and shared issues, tasks, and change actions from creation through completion. 
• Access content anywhere on any device with browser-based 3D visualization and geometric analysis tools for 3D comparison, measurements, and sectioning. 

On cloud / On-premises / Virtual Product Development 

Reduce the lead-time to complete and validate your product Engineering Definition. 

• Improve productivity through smart data organization. 

• Categorize IP & navigate on your Engineering Definition, leveraging category filtering capabilities to facilitate data access. 
• Foster multi-discipline collaboration and work more effectively. 
• Manage your Engineering Definition with flexible visualization, mass edition, and lifecycle operations. 
• Drive company part numbering convention adoption. 
• Accelerate cross-team collaboration and product development by assigning engineering responsibility across your value network. 

• Maximize carry over with an efficiently configured Engineering Definition. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

The easy-to-use, robust, mechanical design solution for everyone, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard is for designers and engineers who want an intuitive set of 3D designs to power their innovation. 

• Create complex 3D models and production-ready 2D drawings. 
• Tackle industry specific workflows for sheet metal, weldments, molds, plastic components, and tooling and dies. 
• Verify fit and function before heading to production. 

• Manage basic product lifecycle aspects directly within your design application. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Grow beyond mechanical design to multi-domain product development with the industry proven capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Premium. 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Premium builds on the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional with advanced surface flattening and electrical cable and piping routing functionalities to tackle design challenges across a wide range of industries.  

• Streamline your piping and tubing system design with drag-and-drop placement, automatic sizing of components, and auto-insertion of piping bends and elbows. 
• Design electrical cabling systems and harness routes. 

• Create engineering drawings with complete bills of materials (BOMs), cut lengths, and harness manufacturing documentation. 
• Route rectangular or round sections. 
• Determine the initial blank size of textile and metal components using advanced surface flattening capabilities to save time, material, and costly redesign work. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Meet all your drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, and laser cutting needs with a robust 2D drafting environment. 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight Premium enables you to create, edit, and manage professional grade DWG drawings within a familiar 2D drafting environment.  

• Get up to speed quickly with a familiar and streamlined user interface. 

• Migrate easily from other 2D CAD applications thanks to a familiar interface, workflows, and support for your existing DWG data and automations. 
• Create, edit, view, share, and print professional drawings for engineering, constructions, and manufacturing. 
• Leverage the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for secure collaboration and data management. 
• Manage both 2D and 3D DWG data with rich design libraries and productivity tools. 
• Organize multiple sheets and properties efficiently. 

• Easily collaborate, manage data, and streamline product lifecycles with intuitive design process tools. 
• Leverage full premium values like 3D DWG and 2D Constraints, as well as 3DEXPERIENCE platform data management capabilities. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS 

Create organic looking shapes and surfaces using subdivision modeling technology anywhere and anytime.  

• 3D Sculptor includes xShape, an easy-to-use and intuitive app which offers all the basic tools and features required to make organic looking shapes using subdivision modeling technology. 
• Enhanced interoperability allows 3D Sculptor to work with SOLIDWORKS and other CAD authoring apps on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. 

• Stop worrying about installing, configuring, or managing software. With a cloud-based solution you are always working with the latest version of 3D Sculptor on all your devices. 
• Ensure secure communication and collaboration with stakeholders, both internal and external. Ensure successful collaboration within your ecosystem through secure and safe communities, complete design, and file access control, sharing, light weight visualization, and product review

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Design manufacturable structures with 3D Structure Creator, a powerful, intuitive, browser-based solution that provides users with associative feature-based frame design tools for every stage in the design process, from conceptual design to generating manufacturing information. Get access to a parametric structure modeling application that runs completely in your web browser of choice, giving designers the freedom to design on their own terms.  

• Create structure members based on model edges, 2D sketch elements, or curves. 
• Choose profiles from a library of standard types and sizes. 
• Automatically trim members at endpoints and corners. 
• Automatically generate a cut list based on the design to use for manufacturing. 
• Increase productivity with streamlined structure design workflows and a dedicated design environment. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Access specialized mold design tools built to speed up your tooling design processes and reduce costs while maintaining high molded part quality, all available in your web browser. 3D Mold Creator provides dedicated mold tooling design functionality for faster, automated, and more robust mold core, cavity, and inserts geometry design. Reduce hardware costs and empower your mold designers to flexibility design and access their data from anywhere at any time. 

• Easily check for draft and undercut issues and make model edits as required. 
• Compensate for plastic part shrinkage with part scaling. 
• Automatically determine and create the parting line. 
• Create inserts to handle undercut geometry. 

• Automatically create shutoff and parting surfaces. 
• Automatically split mold tooling into core, cavity, and inserts. 
• Your mold geometries automatically update with any design model changes, so you’re always working with up-to-date information. 

On cloud / On-premises 

Perform fluid flow and heat transfer simulations, leading to better quality designs while avoiding manufacturing issues. 

• Efficiently explore fluid flow and thermal performance design alternatives to accelerate product innovation. 

• Leverage full integration with CAD and PLM for concurrent, simulation-driven product development. 
• Easily predict steady-state and long-transient flow and thermal behavior of products with the designer-centric guided interface. 
• Collaborate with project stakeholders around fluid flow simulation results for informed decisions. 
• Include local compute using up to 8 cores with additional compute capacity also available. 

On cloud / On-premises / Structures 

Accelerate product design with efficient evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency, and temperature in a user friendly, guided environment. 

• Intuitively assess the performance of products under linear static conditions and guide the overall design process. 
• Quickly evaluate the strength and stiffness of components for informed what-if design scenarios. 
• Use a unique guided workflow process that enables any designer to rapidly determine product performance. 

• Easily and efficiently test product designs with automated modeling and ability to control accuracy vs compute time. 
• Include local compute up to 4 cores. 

On cloud / On-premises / Structures 

Benefit from comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, implicit and explicit dynamics, and acoustics across a broad range of industrial applications. 

• Easily perform structural analyses including static or quasi-static, frequency, buckling, mode-based steady-state or transient dynamic, random response, and non-linear dynamic. 

• Perform thermal analyses or sequential thermal-stress analyses, in either transient or steady states. 
• Get advanced capabilities from meshing, with possible automated creation, model management, scenario definition, execution (tokens included), results visualization, and report generation. 
• Embedded tokens for running your analyses up to 8 cores. 

On cloud / On-premises / Structures 

Perform detailed simulations on different product and packaging designs to accelerate performance/cost trade-offs and reduce time to market. 

• Simulate how a new package design will behave at every stage of its lifecycle. 
• Ensure your packaging delivers the desired consumer experience that drives your consumers to place your product in their shopping cart. 
• Reduce development lead-time cost and improve quality and reliability. 

• Detect and resolve problems early in the design process. 
• Capture and share simulation IP for fast collaborative decisions. 

On cloud / On-premises / Structures 

Assess the structural performance and durability of your products during the design process, before committing to expensive prototyping or manufacturing. Powered by Abaqus technology, intuitively guide your design decisions by leveraging all the tools you need to perform sophisticated multistep structural simulations. 

• Use fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives and ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability. 

• Avoid late re-design, minimize physical tests, reduce warranty costs, and extend life in service. 
• Experience comprehensive what-if scenarios through seamless geometry associativity. 
• Leverage multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process. 
• Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies. 
• Enable high performance result visualization, particularly for very large models. 

On cloud / On-premises / Industrial Engineering 

Easily, quickly, and efficiently create any type of mechanical device along with its kinematics. 

• Create all the mechanical devices used in a manufacturing setting, from simple clamps to NC machine tools and 3D printers. 
• Enable programmers to define, optimize, and validate their programs. 
• Validate and optimize mechanical equipment designs to mitigate costly errors and accelerate start of production. 

On cloud / On-premises / Industrial Engineering 

Leverage full NC program validation based on NC Code (ISO Code/ G-Code) machine simulation for milling, turning, and riveting. 

• A complete milling solution for complex parts that includes cycles dedicated to hard material strategies specifically designed to reduce machining time. 
• Achieve digital continuity between your designers, process planners, and NC programmers. 
• Securely and confidently share up-to-date data across in a single environment. 

On cloud / On-premises / Industrial Engineering 

Create balanced process plans and optimize your workload balancing. 

• Optimize workload balancing. 
• Ensure balanced process plans.