Highlights of SolidWorks 2012

SolidWorks® 2012 includes many enhancements and improvements, most in direct response to customer requests. This release focuses on the following themes:

Automated functionality that you use most often
Improvements in performance and quality that speed up software operation and create a more continuous workflow
New tools that greatly extend current SolidWorks design capabilities and enable fundamental changes in your product development process
Extensive support for collaboration and connectivity that allows your design teams to work on joint projects across the globe

Top Enhancements

The top enhancements for SolidWorks 2012 provide improvements to existing products and innovative new functionality. Throughout this guide, look for the symbol in these areas:

Assemblies: Large Design Review
Costing: Costing
Drawings and Detailing: Align Balloons with Magnetic Line; Ordering Balloons; Punch Tables; Reuse Letters from Deleted Views
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM: Customized Enterprise PDM Menus; Browse to Option; Searching Within File-based Dialog Boxes; Version Toggle on Where Used Tab
Motion Studies: Motion Optimization
Parts and Features: Feature Freeze; Exploded Views for Multibody Parts
Sheet Metal: Forming Tools; Swept Flanges
Simulation: Beams in Linear Dynamics; Beam Results; Motion Optimization
SolidWorks Fundamentals: Equations
Toolbox: Performance and Customization Enhancements
User Interface: Search Commands

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.

Legal Notices
User Interface
Enhancements to the SolidWorks user interface include a completely redesigned Equations dialog box, a powerful new Command Search feature, new windows management for dual displays, and several other changes that simplify or speed up your workflow.
SolidWorks Fundamentals
Installation
Enhancements for installation include the ability to perform a complete uninstall.
Assemblies
CircuitWorks
Configurations
Drawings and Detailing
eDrawings
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM
Flow Simulation
Import/Export
Motion Studies
Parts and Features
Routing
Enhancements include the ability to create spools, add splices to electrical routes, create custom routing templates, create BOMs with only routing components, and define dimensions in routing models to the end face of flanges.
Sheet Metal
Simulation
Sketching
Sustainability
Toolbox
Weldments
SolidWorks Workgroup PDM

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