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SolidWorks Corporation delivers SolidWorks 2008

Newest version of leading 3D CAD software focuses users on designing better products

CONCORD, Mass., June 18, 2007 – SolidWorks Corporation today unveiled SolidWorks® 2008, the newest version of its leading 3D CAD software. SolidWorks 2008 delivers a new intuitive, time-saving user interface (UI) as well as impressive 3D graphics, builds on the company's breakthrough SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology (SWIFT), accelerates better product design, and includes more advanced design analysis capabilities than any other CAD software.

With more than 250 user-requested enhancements, SolidWorks 2008 lets users concentrate on solving design challenges, not on using the software, and leverages existing designs to save time and ensure accuracy. It also helps users improve their designs by providing feedback about quality and manufacturability up front.

"The SolidWorks 2008 UI is very slick with an even more intuitive feel," said beta user Josh A. Mings, interior engineer of Executive Aircraft Completions, Tulsa, Okla. "You're more efficient because you have more opportunities to work on, in, and around the model in addition to the menu options. Switching between documents is more efficient, too, because you can see what you're switching to before you actually do. The more you experience it, the better SolidWorks 2008 gets."

Focus on design, not CAD

SolidWorks 2008 introduces a host of new capabilities that lets users immerse themselves in their designs.

First is the new user experience. The intuitive workflow predicts which tools users will need in the context of the specific task they are undertaking and makes them readily available. The interface increases useful window real estate, reduces mouse travel, provides innovative customization options, and provides task-based command selection. These attributes help establish SolidWorks as the easiest to use 3D CAD system, focusing users on their designs and minimizing distractions.

SWIFT Instant3D, one of several unique new features built on the SWIFT framework, lets users create and modify 3D model features simply by manipulating drag handles directly on the model. Users don't need to deal with esoteric commands, dialog boxes, and extensive data input other CAD systems require. "Live cross-sections" enable users to make edits by dragging edges while looking at a slice of the model.

SWIFT DimXpert automatically sets geometric dimensions and tolerances on parts, saving time and providing expert information every design team needs. It provides visual feedback on whether the model has been properly described and is ready for manufacturing. DimXpert adheres to the ASME Y14.41-2003 3D specification and automatically creates views, dimensions, and tolerances in 2D drawings for complete design documentation.

"SolidWorks is on the right track with SWIFT," said Gisela Wilson, director of industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC)'s Product, Project, and Portfolio Management program. "With this new release, it is again deepening design capabilities but without burdening users with lots of additional hard-to-learn complexities. SWIFT and SolidWorks 2008 can make a substantial difference for design teams in time to market, cost containment, quality of user experience, and ultimately quality of result."

Reuse existing designs to save time

SolidWorks 2008 gives users unique new ways to design better products faster by repurposing portions of existing designs while enforcing best practices.

The Design Clipart capability lets users search their file systems for sketches, tables, images, features, views, or DWG blocks that are inside existing designs. Once the item is located, Design Clipart dissects target files, allowing users to simply drag the item to incorporate it in new designs. The Design Clipart feature helps engineers recoup the hours they spend every day looking for already finished designs. Design Clipart also extends SolidWorks' leadership in the reuse of AutoCAD® data by allowing quick access to any portion of a DWG file without the need for translation.

In addition to supporting native DWG blocks, SolidWorks 2008 alerts users when a referenced DWG block has been changed. Users can also natively edit these DWG blocks in the DWGeditor by simply right-clicking the block – a natural, efficient workflow for leveraging DWG data in new 3D designs.

Design teams for the first time can manage all of their 2D files from the SolidWorks desktop using a new capability called the DWGnavigator. The DWGnavigator lets users perform powerful DWG-specific searches, find references, view, and package up files for sharing. Users can also save their files in the format of any version of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT software for unmatched interoperability.

Another unique development, DriveWorksXpress, automatically creates custom parts, assemblies, and drawings based on pre-defined design rules, enabling companies to quickly and economically respond to the unique needs of every customer.

Improve your designs

SolidWorks 2008 gives design teams powerful new tools to help produce accurate designs that are complete, of high quality, and manufacturable the first time.

COSMOSWorks® Design Insight, for example, displays the portions of CAD models that carry applied loads, making it easy for designers to decide whether to add material for strength or subtract it to avoid costly over-engineering. DFMXpress, another unique SolidWorks feature, helps "design for manufacturability," preventing costly downstream design errors by automatically flagging elements that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to machine, such as 90-degree milled corners.

TolAnalyst is an automated tolerance stack-up tool that helps companies avoid the hidden potential fit and function problems that can result from variations in manufacturing tolerances in an assembly. TolAnalyst helps identify the most critical tolerances and lets users tighten or loosen any tolerance to avoid functional problems or costly over-engineering. TolAnalyst also reduces the need for tedious error-prone hand calculations, increasing users' confidence that their designs will yield properly functioning products the first time.

"Designers use SolidWorks to create products throughout the day, so the software must help them be efficient and effective," said John McEleney, SolidWorks CEO. "In addition to powerful, unique design capabilities, SolidWorks 2008 delivers a smart user experience that fits naturally with the designers' workflow, allowing them to focus on innovation – which is the number one goal for them and us."

Availability and pricing

SolidWorks 2008 is available now for purchase in 13 languages worldwide through Logicforce.

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SolidWorks® Office Professional combines the power of SolidWorks Office, the complete 3D CAD solution, with PDMWorks™ , easy-to-set-up-and-use product data management (PDM) software that is uniqued adapted to the requirements of SolidWorks workgroups.

SolidWorks 3D mechanical design software
Perform product design work more quickly and accurately with SolidWorks, the standard in 3D modeling software. SolidWorks offers the most time-saving capabilities of any product design software available.

PDMWorks data management software
Minimize errors and duplicated efforts by capturing file revision histories automatically. Access desired files, determine who has worked on them, and see exactly when changes were made.

Design Communication Tools
Demonstrate more effectively how products look and perform with SolidWorks Office Professional design presentation tools:

• eDrawings Professional-- Generate accurate representations of 2D and 3D models that anyone can view, mark up, and measure without having to purchase their own markup tools.
• SolidWorks Animator-- Create compelling AVI files from SolidWorks parts and assemblies.
• PhotoWorks™-- Create photorealistic images.
• 3D Instant Website-- Create and publish live web pages with 3D interactive content.

• SolidWorks Toolbox-- Automate assembly tasks with a library of standard parts.
• FeatureWorks™-- Simplify the reuse of 3D CAD data created in varied file formats.
• SolidWorks Utilities-- Find differences between two versions of the same part quickly and easily.
• NEW! Task Scheduler--Saves time by enabling you to schedule resource intensive tasks, such as batch printing, running of analyses, and updating of project files during periods when you will be away from your workstation

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PhotoWorks Product Overview

Photorealistic Rendering Software, Fully Integrated With SolidWorks

Photorealistic rendering software fully integrated with SolidWorks

CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE Using PhotoWorks release 2, you can create powerful photorealistic effects using materials, indirect illumination, scenes, environments, and shadows.

• Add visual impact to presentations and proposals

• Present design concepts quickly and more effectively

• Reduce prototyping costs

• Eliminate costly photo shoot sessions

• Bring products to market faster

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FeatureWorks Product Overview

Feature Recognition Software, Fully Integrated With SolidWorks

Leverage the value of legacy data

With FeatureWorks®, sharing data between different CAD systems is easy. The first parametric feature recognition software for SolidWorks 3D CAD users, FeatureWorks enables more productive sharing of 3D models between SolidWorks and other CAD systems.

When importing files into SolidWorks, FeatureWorks applies intelligence to static geometric data, recognizes it, and then readies it for use in SolidWorks. Fine-tuning imported designs is simple with the functionality of SolidWorks. Imported features like holes, cuts, and chamfers are fully editable, associative, and parametric. You can even create new features at any time.

FeatureWorks captures all imported data and recognizes features from files produced by standard translators such as STEP, IGES®, SAT (ACIS®), VDA-FS, and Parasolid® files. Ideal for geometrically regular parts, FeatureWorks recognizes all these features:

• Extrusion features such as bosses and cuts of the following sketch entities: lines, circles, and circular arcs
• Revolved features that are conical or cylindrical
• Any standard hole types, such as simple, tapered, and counterbored
• Sheet metal features including edge flange, sketch and bend, and base features
• Random sketch patterns of features on a plane
• Shell features such as uniform wall and shell inward only
• Ribs and draft features
• Constant and variable-radius fillets
• Applied features such as chamfers and fillets

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Animator Product Overview

Easy To Use Animation Software, Fully Integrated With SolidWorks

Animation Software for Design Communication

• Point-and-click Animation Wizard makes animation effortless.
• Capture assembly motion instantly to reveal how moving parts will interact.
• Explode or collapse an assembly to demonstrate how components will fit together.
• Fly around a model or revolve it 360° on a turntable to show every angle.
• Simplify creation of sophisticated animations with enhanced controls for explode, collapse, and pacing functions.
• Make product design changes fast and shorten development cycles by circulating design AVIs for review via email.
• Produce design AVIs for computer-based technical support documentation and training materials.
• Full integration with PhotoWorks™ rendering software to create photorealistic images in the animation, such as, special surface texture, lighting, or background.

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SolidWorks Routing Product Overview

Piping Design Software and Fitting Library, Fully Integrated With SolidWorks

Routing Design Software and Fitting Library

Pump skid system designed using SolidWorks Routing Image courtesy of Halliburton Energy Services

Perform piping design tasks easily and automatically. Speed up the process of creating, editing, assembling, and routing pipes and piping components. With SolidWorks Piping, you'll enjoy greater design efficiency, better designs, faster time-to-market, and lower costs. Streamline the design of machinery, equipment, small facilities, or anything else that requires pipe routing. All it takes is SolidWorks Routing, the powerful piping design application and fittings library that's fully integrated with SolidWorks.

Some of the advantages of SolidWorks Routing include: Automatic insertion of elbows into sketches at bends Easy creation of parametric and associative relationships for pipe routes and fittings Time-saving library of ready-made, standard welded and threaded pipes and fittings Creation of custom elbows when bend angles deviate from standard angles Fast drag-and-drop insertion of fittings using snap-to-fit SmartMates Creation of pipe-to-pipe penetration cuts Easy click-and-drag modification of piping designs Automatic generation of accurate pipe cut lengths for BOM Generation of piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) in SolidWorks using fully integrated Microsoft Visio® Professional SolidWorks Routing uses the familiar SolidWorks 3D mechanical design environment, so it's quick and easy to use. Your piping design is done in the same integrated package as your equipment design .

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Toolbox Product Overview

Feature-Based Design Automation Tools for SolidWorks

A time-saving library of Smart Parts, fully integrated with SolidWorks

Here's a simple, affordable way to be more productive every day. It's SolidWorks Toolbox. No more thumbing through parts catalogs to check values and specifications. No more fiddling to make pieces fit into your model. No more stacking one-washer-one-bolt-one-nut at a time. With SolidWorks Toolbox you have instant access to an entire encyclopedia of standard components. Now you can select and place the right part in the right hole in seconds. Just indicate your hole or thread size and click. There's your part. Now just drag and drop it into place. Since Toolbox is fully integrated with SolidWorks 3D CAD software, you can utilize Smart Part Technology to automate your entire assembly process. Bolts, washers, nuts; one stack or a hundred; properly assembled in a few clicks.

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SolidWorks Moldbase Product Overview

Time Saving Catalogue of Standard Moldbase Assemblies, Fully Integrated with SolidWorks 3D CAD Solftware

Easy-to-use catalog of standard mold base assemblies

SolidWorks® MoldBase is a time-saving catalog of standard mold base assemblies and components, fully integrated with SolidWorks, the standard in 3D CAD. Only MoldBase allows you to generate a completely assembled mold base with just a few mouse clicks.

You can create a standard mold base assembly in minutes instead of hours. No more tedious time spent building a standard mold base from a catalog. Now you have instant access to the most commonly used catalogs in the industry, freeing you to concentrate on pure mold base design.

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SolidWorks Utilities Product Overview

A Suite of Time Saving Productivity Enhancements for SolidWorks 3D CAD Software

CAD productivity software for design comparison

Compare Geometry--Enables you to quickly determine what geometry is different between two designs using Face Comparison, Geometry Comparison, or View Synchronization.

Compare Features --highlights what model features are different between two designs and color-codes them from easy identification. A list of differences can be generated.

Feature Paint --Allows you to apply existing feature parameters and attributes from one feature to another.

Geometry Analysis--Helps you identify and highlight problematic imported geometry in a part based on user-specified parameters such as minimum fillet radius, minimum sliver face size, etc.

Power Select--Lets you select edges, loops, faces, and features based on geometric criteria.

Power Editing--Lets you find, modify, and suppress features within a model based on their parameters

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Generate accurate representations of 2D and 3D product designs that you an view, mark up, and measure

eDrawings Professional is an ideal tool for anyone that needs to share data and collaborate with their extended design team. eDrawings Professional eliminates the communication barriers that designers and engineers deal with daily. eDrawings Professional gives you and your extended design team the tools necessary to visualize, interpret and collaborate with 2D and 3D product design data.

• Share product design with review-enabled eDrawings that enable an unlimited number of recipients to provide feedback and collaborate on your product design data
• Create highly compressed 2D and 3D eDrawings files that are viewable with the free eDrawings Viewer
• Eliminate errors due to misinterpretation of data
• Examine internal details of your parts and assemblies with dynamic cross sectioning
• Manage, track and merge comments from different team members
• Provide anyone access to design data with self-extracting eDrawings
• Protect sensitive data by selective disabling measurement

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Publish interactive 3D content in a click

Now you can quickly and easily create and publish live Web pages with 3D interactive content. With 3D Instant Website, you can provide everyone from your staff to your customers with the visual information they need to give you important immediate feedback. In fact, you can share SolidWorks models or drawings without requiring recipients to manually install additional viewers or CAD software. 3D Instant Website is a huge step forward in 3D design communication via the web.

• Enables users to publish interactive 3D images with a single mouse click.
• Web pages can be published either to a SolidWorks-hosted Web site, or locally over a corporate Intranet.
• Publishing to a SolidWorks-hosted Web site eliminates the need for users to have any Web server infrastructure.
• Publish instantly and notify those who need to refer to your designs via email.
• SolidWorks 3D Instant Website provides the ability to review, delete and administer published web sites in a secure environment.

Use of XML & XSL standards enable users with limited programming and Web page design experience to easily create and modify templates to add new data fields and define how data is displayed on a Web site.

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Product Data Management Software for Workgroups

Control CAD file revisions and manage all project data more efficiently with PDMWorks product data management (PDM) software.

Uniquely adapted to the requirements of SolidWorks® engineering workgroups, PDMWorks software supplies comprehensive controls to help your design team avoid the possibility of overwriting files or making other errors than could add time and cost to your schedule. PDMWorks lets you: protect project files with simple and complete security; accelerate return on investment with easy setup; spend less time organizing and tracking all types of design data; improve productivity through reuse of product design data; and enhance collaboration.

Although enterprise PDM solutions can help you improve workflow across multiple sites and departments, such systems can require considerable planning effort to implement effectively. PDMWorks is different. Easy to set up and use, PDMWorks captures file revision histories automatically and allows you and other members of your product design team to instantly access desired files, determine who has worked on them, and see exactly when changes were made.

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Design analysis made simple

The original analysis solution for SolidWorks is better than ever! Fast, powerful, and accurate analysis within the same SolidWorks interface you already use every day...no wonder COSMOSWorks™ is number one.

COSMOSWorks offers a wide spectrum of specialized analysis tools to help engineers virtually test and analyze complicated parts and assemblies. Powered by one of the fastest solvers in the industry, COSMOSWorks solves for linear stress, strain, displacement, thermal, design optimization, nonlinear, and much more.

Whether used in the mechanical, electromechanical, aerospace, transportation, power, medical or construction industries, COSMOSWorks can help to shorten development time, reduce testing costs, improve product quality, increase profitability, and cut time to market.

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The only fluid flow analysis fully embedded inside SolidWorks

Unlike other computational fluid dynamics programs, COSMOSFloWorks™ combines a high level of functionality and accuracy with ease-of-use.

Fully embedded inside of SolidWorks, COSMOSFloWorks is perfect for the engineer who needs flow analysis, but is not necessarily an expert in the field of fluid simulation. A goal-oriented approach allows you to easily gain insight into the performance of your design under real word conditions.

COSMOSFloWorks can be used in a diverse array of applications and has been designed to be extremely flexible. Whether you are developing an automobile, the wing of an airplane, or an exhaust valve, using COSMOSFloWorks in the product development cycle can help you build a better product in less time.

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Powerful physics-based motion simulation

The most popular virtual prototyping tool for SolidWorks, COSMOSMotion™ lets you make sure your designs will work before you build them. COSMOSMotion is powered by ADAMS®, the most widely used mechanical simulation software in the world.

Fully embedded inside of SolidWorks, COSMOSMotion is the standard virtual prototyping package for engineers and designers interested in understanding the performance of their SolidWorks models.

COSMOSMotion enables engineers to size motors/actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, and determine how contacting parts behave.

The result is a quantitative reduction in physical prototyping costs and reduced product development time. COSMOSMotion also provides qualitative benefits such as the ability to consider more designs, risk reduction, and the availability of valuable information early in the design process.

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