Headquarters

Concord, Massachusetts, USA

Ownership

Acquired in 1997 by Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA; www.3DS.com) based in Suresnes, France, the leading global developer of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.

Mission

SolidWorks provides intuitive and straightforward 3D CAD tools
to help design teams develop better products.

Markets Served

SolidWorks serves customers in industrial, medical, scientific, consumer, educational, technology, and transportation markets.

Customers

SolidWorks software is used by over 1/2 million product designers and engineers worldwide to design better products.

Management Team

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Competitive Differentiation

SolidWorks software: 

...is the leading 3D CAD solution worldwide, providing all of the functionality needed to design world-class products with unmatched ease of use for the freedom to focus on product design, not software.

...has proven its adaptability to most engineering design needs. Customers have used it to design a broad range of products, including exploratory sub-sea, electric vehicles, Formula one race cars, and industrial machinery with tens of thousands of parts.

...has a larger and more active user community worldwide than any other mainstream 3D CAD software with 1/2 million designers and engineers designing products at more than 80,000 companies in more than 100 countries.

...has been endorsed and embraced by the world's top-ranked four and five-year engineering degree programs, worldwide. Over 14,000 academic institutions are using SolidWorks software to teach engineering technology and design.

...has evolved with more product innovations and enhancements than any other 3D CAD product in the industry. This means SolidWorks has kept abreast of evolving customer needs and enhanced the technology to constantly meet those needs.

Company Achievements

SolidWorks Corporation:

...introduced the first 3D CAD software available in a native Windows environment;

...delivered eDrawings, the first easy-to-use e-mail-enabled design communication tool, now a standard for collaboration;

...has released new major product lines every year since 1995, most recently SolidWorks 2007 software;

...received a U.S. patent for the SolidWorks FeatureManager®, now the standard CAD user interface found in every CAD application today;

...was acquired in 1997 by leading PLM software developer Dassault Systèmes for stock valued at $310 million;

...was ranked as one of the world’s 200 largest software companies by Software Magazine in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005;

...won the Design News Best Products of the Year Award in 2004 for SolidWorks and COSMOSWorks;

...won Product Design & Development Engineer’s Choice 2004 Honorable Mention Award for SolidWorks 2005;

...won 2004 Control Engineering Editor’s Choice Award and Engineers’ Choice Award for COSMOS 2005;

...was named by Start magazine as one of the “Hottest Companies for 2005”;

...was named in 2003, 2004, and 2005 as “One of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts ” by the Boston Business Journal;

...won CADALYST Magazine’s Editor’s Wow! Award for SolidWorks 3D Skills Program;

...was named by Start magazine as one of the “Hottest Companies for 2003”;

...won NASA Tech Briefs’ Product of the Year Award for SolidWorks 2003; and,

...won CADENCE Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for SolidWorks 2003.