This year, you will find more than 250 new features and enhancements in CAD alone with a total of 520 new enhancements spread across all products. Beyond improving day-to-day productivity, approximately 20 percent of those involve new innovations. There are many core CAD enhancements such as variable Chamfer, super features that convert Chamfer to a Fillet for flexible modeling, advanced hole, enhancements to import mesh files, wrap feature, offset surface, better placement of components while mating that can deliver up to 5X in performance improvements over SOLIDWORKS 2016. https://softarchive.la/.../tomorrowland2/ Magnetic mates with speedpack enhancements makes it fast and easy to manage large modular assemblies. The list for CAD is long and it is best to take a look at what’s new or attend your reseller’s 2017 launch event for a deeper dive.

Like CAD, there are many innovations in simulation with advanced nonlinear (arc length control), better visualization of hot spots, etc. There are over 100 enhancements in SOLIDWORKS Electrical alone. Extending the ECAD ecosystem, we are introducing SOLIDWORKS PCB powered by Altium, and SOLIDWORKS 2017 is the first full major release for SOLIDWORKS PCB. Now, customers like Myomo can design its full system from PCB boards to electrical wiring, to mechanical and simulation of its connected device in a single environment. The best-in-class collaboration between mechanical, electrical and PCB engineers allows SOLIDWORKs customers to decrease development costs, significantly improve time to market and reduce the number of prototypes and errors.

New in SOLIDWORKS 2017 is Term Licensing in additional to perpetual licensing model. This allows SOLIDWORKS customers to scale on demand, purchase from OPEX budget and entrepreneurs and startups to design in SOLIDWORKS while getting a Term License. The customers will have full flexibility – they can purchase SOLIDWORKS as Perpetual or a quarterly/annual Term License options. With SOLIDWORKS 2017, CAD and Structural Simulation products are delivered as a Term License option with very attractive pricing options. The rest of the product line will be available as Term License sequentially in future releases.

New Features for SolidWorks 2017
- Bi-Directional Circular Pattern
- Multi-Distance and Variable Chamfer
- Combined Chamfer / Fillet Feature
- Transparent Section View
- Thread Feature Lead-in / Lead-out
- Treehouse Drawing Import
- Treehouse Structure Print
- Shaded Sketch Contours for Clarity
- Advanced Hole Wizard (multi-step holes)
- Smarter Mate Placement (avoid having to drag parts close first)
- Misaligned Mates
- Sub-Assy Saved as a Part Now Maintains All References
- SOLIDWORKS PDM Latest Version Overwrite for Small Changes
- BOM Tables Respect Template Lock
- Notes Can Reference BOM Table Cells
- Multi-Sheet Property Edits (drawings)
- Emphasize Section Outline (drawings)
- Jagged Outline for Detail Views (drawings)
- Mirror View (drawings)
- Manual Basic Dimensions of View (DimXpert/MBD)
- 3D Dimensions to Edges (DimXpert/MBD)
- Reorder 3D Views (MBD)
- Compare 3D Annotation Tool (MBD)
- Hide All Reference Item Types
- Offset Curve on Surface
- Wrap Sketches Onto ANY Surface or Multiple Surfaces
- Magnetic Mates
- Magnetic Mate Asset Publisher
- eDrawings Opens MANY More Formats (ProE, Catia, etc.)
- Reference Other CAD Data Formats WITHOUT Importing
- Maintain Features and Mates When Re-Importing

REQUIREMENTS
OS: Windows 7 SP1/8.1/10 x64

Homepage: https://www.solidworks.com/launch/