Dassault Systèmes announced the general availability of SOLIDWORKS 2026, its portfolio of AI-powered 3D design, collaboration and data management applications, enabling millions of SOLIDWORKS users to transform how they innovate for the generative economy.
SOLIDWORKS 2026 features hundreds of enhancements across design, simulation, electrical and product data management solutions that respond to user requests for improved efficiency and productivity. The portfolio builds on 30 years of research and development know-how, integrating technologies throughout the year and connecting to Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform. SOLIDWORKS 2026 users can address complexity, time to market, workforce shortages, knowledge search and generation, and other challenges in the creation of products that align sustainability and experience.
Key SOLIDWORKS 2026 enhancements include:
- Generative AI that speeds up drawing creation and detailing, and streamlines assembly creation by automatically recognizing and assembling components that look like fasteners—such as nuts and bolts—to save time and improve accuracy.
- Integrated AI-powered virtual companion, to quickly extract knowledge from information by summarizing community posts, wikis, questions and ideas, capturing key takeaways, and generating increasingly relevant answers, to boost productivity and collaboration.
- Enhanced large assembly features such as selective loading, to work smarter with more streamlined, production-ready workflows.
- Enhanced user experience to stay on track even during internet disruptions, boosts productivity by highlighting commonly used commands, and gets users up to speed quickly with enhanced command search.
- Improved part features, including streamlined physical product creation, faster sketching, and simpler flange start and end point definition in sheet metal, to speed up parts creation.
- Drawing stamping with newly added user attributes, to ensure accurate and seamless change management while improving traceability and communication.
- Managed cut lists on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform integrating both engineering and manufacturing bills of materials, to align design and production effortlessly.
- Improved view of recent files showing only files relevant to the active tenant, to reduce clutter and prevent duplicates.
