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What's New: Highlights of SolidWorks 2011

SolidWorks® 2011 includes many enhancements and improvements, most in direct response to customer requests. This release focuses on the following themes:
  • Design faster and more efficiently
  • Improved collaboration and visualization
  • Enhanced support for manufacturing

Top Enhancements

The top enhancements for SolidWorks 2011 provide improvements to existing products and innovative new functionality. Throughout this guide, look for the symbol in these areas:

Assemblies
Fillets and Chamfers
Weld Bead Display
Defeature for Assemblies
Drawings and Detailing
Alignment Options for Dimension Palette
Auto Arrange Dimensions
Dual Unit Support
Weld Support in Drawings
Enterprise PDM
Enterprise PDM Menus
Model Display
DisplayManager
PhotoView 360
Parts and Features
Defeature for Parts
Sharing Equations Among Models
Suppression States of Features and Components
Surface Extrudes From a 2D or 3D Face
Simulation
New 2D Simplification Study (Professional)
Weldments
Weld Beads
Weld Bead Display
Fillets and Chamfers

For More Information

Use the following resources to learn about SolidWorks:

What's New in PDF and HTML
This guide is available in PDF and HTML formats. Click:
  • Help > What's New > PDF
  • Help > What's New > HTML
Interactive What's New
In SolidWorks, click the symbol to display the section of this manual that describes an enhancement. The symbol appears next to new menu items and the titles of new and changed PropertyManagers.

To enable Interactive What's New, click Help > What's New > Interactive.

What's New Examples
What's New Examples are updated at every major release to provide examples of how to use most top enhancements in the release.

To open What 's New Examples click Help > What's New > What's New Examples.

Online Help
Contains complete coverage of our products, including details about the user interface, samples, and examples.
Release Notes
Provides information about late changes to our products.


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