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SolidWorks Ultimate

Modern designers and engineers encounter challenges that reach far beyond just creating designs. SOLIDWORKS® Ultimate offers a comprehensive solution that supports every aspect of product development. Building on its 3D design foundation, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate integrates simulation, manufacturing, marketing, and management tools, breaking down silos and speeding up your entire development process. 

Creating great designs is just the beginning.

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What’s Included with SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Designers and engineers often juggle multiple responsibilities, and SOLIDWORKS Ultimate offers everything needed to take a project from concept to manufacturing. With cloud-based connectivity, all tools, stakeholders, and processes stay aligned with a single source of truth. Here’s what’s included: 

How You Benefit from SOLIDWORKS Ultimate

Scalable Solutions

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate supports businesses at every stage, from startups to established enterprises. As your company grows, the suite provides the tools needed to meet evolving product development challenges.

Single Source of Truth

With SOLIDWORKS Ultimate, all data is connected within a single platform. No more exporting or importing files—this improves accuracy, prevents data duplication, and ensures your information remains secure while being accessible to trusted stakeholders.

Set Up for Success

Expanding into new disciplines is made easier with SOLIDWORKS Ultimate. Access thousands of training modules to quickly learn new tools, boost productivity, and enhance your skillset.

Frequently Asked Questions

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is an end-to-end software package from SOLIDWORKS that builds on the tools and functionalities included with SOLIDWORKS Premium. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate adds specialized design tools in the cloud, product release and structure management, cloud-immersive tools for documentation and marketing content, and on-demand learning experiences enabling and accelerating seamless collaboration for any product development workflow. By unifying design, engineering, simulation, manufacturing, and go-to-market activities, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate eliminates siloed processes, allowing rapid iteration and exceptional product delivery.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is available3DEXPERIENCE® SOLIDWORKS and will be available with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD at a later date.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is for today’s engineer or designer who needs the freedom to move between different tools and processes. Power users who need to connect with different team members and look into different phases of the product development workflow will benefit from the solutions found in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate.
SOLIDWORKS Ultimate supports all industries, such as industrial equipment, medical devices, high tech, home and lifestyle, and more. 
SOLIDWORKS Standard is the basic SOLIDWORKS CAD package that comes with industry-standard 3D design software, production-ready 2D documentation tools, advanced CAD file import/export, cloud-based share and markup capabilities, and more. SOLIDWORKS Professional builds on the design tools in the Standard package with SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, a library of hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard models and commonly reused CAD data, a design for cost feature, ECAD/MCAD collaboration, and beyond. SOLIDWORKS Premium expands your design tools to include specialty tools like wire and tube routing, circuit board import, photo rendering, kinematics, linear static stress, and more. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes SOLIDWORKS Premium, and expands your capabilities well beyond design, into simulation, collaboration, management, marketing, and manufacturing.
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SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes all of the features and functionalities in SOLIDWORKS Premium packages. In addition, SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes cloud-based solutions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. These features are completely interoperable with existing SOLIDWORKS CAD and 3DEXPERIENCE platform solutions. 
SOLIDWORKS Ultimate is available with quarterly or yearly licenses.

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes locally installed software and web-browser apps. All of the product development solutions in SOLIDWORK Ultimate are interoperable. 

SOLIDWORKS Ultimate includes access to Learning Experience training content. This includes over 200 learning modules comprising of thousands of lessons for design/engineering, simulation, manufacturing/production, and more. Additional training resources, including in-person classes, are offered by your local reseller partner. 

The cloud-based product development tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate are based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a business and innovation platform that scales with users. SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with SOLIDWORKS 3D CADconnects to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, while SOLIDWORKS Ultimate with3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS deploys directly from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. All of the tools in SOLIDWORKS Ultimate, whether installed locally or in the cloud, are interoperable and connect with one another.

Yes, you can upgrade from SOLIDWORKS Premium to SOLIDWORKS Ultimate. to learn more.
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