SOLIDWORKS 2018 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Costing – #SW2018

SOLIDWORKS 2018 What’s New – SOLIDWORKS Costing – #SW2018

This year, SOLIDWORKS Costing has seen a few great new enhancements to help engineers and designers check the estimated manufacturing costs of their parts and assemblies, and avoid costly redesigns and production delays in the later stages of their product processes.

Material Class Dependent Custom Operations

You can now setup your templates with specific operations that can be automatically included in reports based on the class of material. In the example below, whenever a steel part is estimated, an additional custom painting operation will be added to the total cost rollup for machined parts.