What’s New with Your Favorite Design-to-Manufacturing Solutions
Exciting updates and powerful enhancements are here to help you work smarter, faster, and better. This is what you can expect to see in the SOLIDWORKS Suite of solutions, 3D printing, and 3D scanning. Let’s dig into what these updates mean for you.
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SOLIDWORKS 2026
If you’ve been waiting for new enhancements to make your life easier, your dreams just came true. This year’s updates of SOLIDWORKS 2026 were inspired by user input. It introduces a wealth of new innovative capabilities across design, data management, collaboration, and even AI.
Here’s a quick snapshot of what you can expect:
- AI-powered design and detailing
- Enhanced large assembly features
- Improved user experience
- More efficient part design
- More productive import/export
- And much more
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New in SOLIDWORKS PDM
SOLIDWORKS PDM sees updates that increase data efficiency, allowing you to protect your data and manage files, BOMs, and user access better than before.
Here are the 2026 updates
- Recover checked-out modified files from an automated backup
- Streamline workflow administration with archiving
- Control user access to subfolders without exposing parent folders
- View static image previews of third-party CAD files by default
- View and edit Named Bill of Materials (BOMs) within Web2
- Experience new collapsible variable panels
- Improve secure data transfer with AES-256 encryption
- Improve database upgrades with better progress tracking and clearer reporting
- Experience improved Conver Task options (such as Office-to-PDF conversion)
- Extend authentication support to include Kerberos, NTLM, and NTLMv2
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New in SOLIDWORKS Simulation
- New force options for beams (such as “Per Item” and “Total”)
- Detailed pin connector forces in random vibration
- Angular displacement plot options
- Identify incomplete material injection zones and predict short shots
- Automatically fill thin gaps in thermal analyses
- And much more
Curious About Previous Updates?
Review SOLIDWORKS Simulation releases through the years.
New in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
- Enhanced library management on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
- New role available to connect 3D CAD with Electrical Schematic Pro Augmented
- Improvements to update and replace data features when changes occur
- More flexibility to route selected wires in the property manager
- Dynamic connector insertion improvements, such as a new dialog with a detailed list of circuits and improved list layout, sorting, filtering, and limit controls
- And much more
Are You Using the Right Solutions for Your Industry?
Industries like aerospace, automotive, and high-tech use SOLIDWORKS, 3D printing, and 3D scanning in their design-to-manufacturing process. We have the solutions and expertise to help you design smarter, faster, and with more confidence
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Architecture, Engineering, & Construction
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Consumer Packaged Goods
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Energy & Materials
Our vast product portfolio and expert support help you design, customize, and manufacture.
High Tech
Accelerating high-tech innovation, from bold ideas to flawless execution.
Home & Lifestyle
Bringing style and function to life with design-to-manufacturing solutions that deliver.
Industrial Equipment
Engineering the future of smart machines with solutions that move manufacturing forward.
Life Sciences
Design medical products and devices with solutions for fit, performance, and compliance.
Transportation & Mobility
Discover next-gen engineering solutions and manufacturing technology for the modern day.