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Despite the established naming convention implying that 2001 Plus may be an incremental upgrade, the latest release from SolidWorks is crammed full of new innovations and functionality.
In come curvature continuous fillets for the designers, large assembly performance for machine builders and component interaction mechanical dynamics for evaluation of mechanisms.
As if the new release were not enough, the innovative eDrawings technology has also been updated to incorporate direct viewing of parts and assemblies plus mark-up and measure tools.
SolidWorks are building a reputation for constant improvement, making existing functionality more powerful, productive and intuitive.
The already clean interface has been enhanced by the use of the property manager in more commands and third party Gold partner applications to avoid dialog boxes obscuring the model.
Navigation is improved by the ability to use a wheel mouse to zoom in to the cursor position and edge anti-aliasing improves the overall visual fidelity.
Being able to exit a sketch and abandon all edits will avoid the frustration of repairing damaged geometry and curvature inspection tools are available on the right click menu, remaining visible after closing the sketch if required.
In circumstances where a model is to be based on freehand concept illustrations, a scanned tif file can be imported into a sketch.
Although lines are not vectorised automatically nor sketch entities snapped to the bitmap, it can be helpful to work directly over an image.
Text for embossing or engraving can now follow curves rather than just being linear.