DS Solidworks Corp. has sold over a million licenses of SolidWorks worldwide. The Sheffield Telegraph comments that Solidworks is the world's most popular CAD software. Its user base ranges from individuals to large companies, and covers a very wide cross-section of manufacturing market segments. Commercial sales are made through an indirect channel, which includes dealers and partners throughout the world.
SolidWorks 2011 and Windows XP
If you’re a Windows XP users or have 32 bit Vista or Windows 7 system, lend me your earholes. To get the best results out of SolidWorks 2011, you should start looking to upgrade your operating system to Windows7 (64 bit) very soon. There are two big reasons. First, SolidWorks has officially stated that support for Windows XP will end with the release of SolidWorks 2011. (This doesn’t mean it won’t work, it simply means you’ll see no support for graphics card testing and bug reports.) Second, the minimum system requirement recommendation is 6GB of RAM. 32-bit systems run 4GB max. This will only be possible with 64 bit systems.

Now, this doesn’t discount 32 bit Vista or 7. SolidWorks 2011 will run on those and be supported, so you have a little room to breathe. The entire SolidWorks product line is now supported on 64-bit with this release as well, from eDrawing to PhotoView 360 and Enterprise PDM. I beta tested SolidWorks 2011 on an XP machine with 2GB of RAM and an Nvidia Quadro FX1800 with no problems. It does work, just start prepping.

What You Won’t See in SolidWorks 2011
SolidWorks keeps bringing out features and 2011 has some great enhancements to existing tools, but there is some major functionality you may be wondering that continues to evade each release cycle. With SolidWorks 2011 there is still no backwards compatibility and you will still see a warning about converting files to the new version. This continues to be a major request from many users that work with customers on different versions.

You also won’t see import options for CATIA files. Even though SolidWorks and CATIA are under the same Dassault umbrella, you probably won’t see this until the Dassault V6 platform merges with SolidWorks. Yes, even though Autodesk Inventor, SpaceClaim and Adobe Acrobat 3D can import CATIA files. Another highly requested feature shown at SolidWorks World 2010 called Feature-lock, which allows a user to lock feature rebuilds wherever they like, will not make it into this release. Many people would have flipped sideways for this. Let’s hope they get the issues straightened out soon after the released.



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