SOLIDWORKS 2020 What's New – Best New Features

The new release of SOLIDWORKS 2020 is now available and the Computer Aided Technology Tech Team is excited for this release and all its new features. At the beginning of September, we started documenting the best new features of SOLIDWORKS 2020 from Part, Assembly, and Drawing tools to the new features in the SOLIDWORKS family of tools like Simulation, EPDM, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, and SOLIDWORKS CAM. We have been sharing them with you and the SOLIDWORKS community thru the CATI Blog. We have since published over 80 different articles on SOLIDWORKS 2020 below is a complete list and links to the articles:

SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Blog Series
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Composer Import Enhancements
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Converting Between Baseline and Chain Dimensions
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Applying Torsional Continuity Relations
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – IES Light Profiles in Visualize Professional
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Installation Summary
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New: Simulation – Distributed Coupling for Pins and Bolts
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS CAM
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Rx
GrabCAD Print Version 1.33 Released
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Sketching Silhouette Entities
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Detailing Mode
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Opening Documents
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Draft and High Quality Mesh Definition
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Mesh Support for More Features
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Feature Manager Enhancements
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Logging out of PDM from Windows Explorer
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Creating Markups for Drawings
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Composer Animation Export Enhancements
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Create and Edit Component Patterns and Create Mates to Reference Geometry in Large Design Review
Reverse Engineering for the Pros
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Free Body Forces for Nonlinear Studies
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Using the Decimate Mesh Tool
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Drawings, Chain and Baseline Dimensions
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Performance Improvements: Assemblies, Drawings and the Render Pipeline
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Electrical: Report Enhancements
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Changes to System Options
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Quick Search and Re-Ordering Search Columns
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Auto-Space Components in Explode Views
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Plastics – Enhanced Solid Mesh (Auto) Workflow
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Sketch Power Modify
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Weldment Structural System Member and Corner Trim
Optimizing Support Material Usage for FDM
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Split Members
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Slicing Data for 3MF Export
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Repairing Missing References for Fillets and Chamfers
3D Scanner Basics: Reverse Engineering and Inspection
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Checking 3D Printer Size
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – New PDM Search Features
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Structure Systems – Point and Length Members
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Isolating Interference in Assemblies
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Assembly Envelope Publisher
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Selecting a SOLIDWORKS Simulation License with SolidNetWork License
GrabCAD Print version 1.34
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Adding Callouts for Non-Hole Wizard Holes
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Thermal Loads for Beam Elements
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Creating an Offset Surface Without Failed Faces
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – DimXpert and MBD updates
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Specifying the Up Axis for View Orientation
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Creating Alternate Position Views for Parts
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Defining Child Reference State Conditions
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Adding Hole Callouts in Section Views
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Applying All Uppercase to Dimensions and Hole Callouts
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Plastics Material Updates Summary and 3D Content Central
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Create Multiple Connection Points
Fabricate Release Notes – Version 1.16
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Flexible Components
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Visualize
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Body Compare
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Pattern and Mirror Support
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Assembly Mates
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Simulation Evaluator
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Warning Users When Transitioning Files
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Custom Scales for Drawing Sheets and Views
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – User Interface Markups Summary
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Adding Reference Axes and Reference Planes to Mesh Bodies
Desktop Metal Releases H13 Tool Steel Material
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Adding a Selection to a Selection Set
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Searching for Materials
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Geometry-Based Boundary Conditions
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Component Patterns with Variable Instances
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Defining Hole Depths
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – PCB Enhancements
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Mirror Components
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Reimport Electrical Data for Wires, Cables, and Harnesses
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Importing 2D DXF or DWG Files as Reference Sketches
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Creating Curved Beams and Merging Tangent Members in Weldments
Introduction to Stratasys Digital Anatomy Printer
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Electrical Leader Lines
SOLIDWORKS 2020 What’s New – Specifying the Thicken Direction

I hope this part of the What’s New series gives you a better understanding of the new features and functions of SOLIDWORKS 2020. Please check back to the CATI Blog as the CATI Application Engineers will continue to break down many of the new items in SOLIDWORKS 2020. All these articles will be stored in the category of “SOLIDWORKS What’s New.”

Kris Dubuque
Field Technical Services Manager
Computer Aided Technology, LLC