SolidWorks Education Edition Offers Real-World Design

By DE Editors

September 4, 2007—To better prepare students for professional careers, SolidWorks Corporation (Concord, MA) released SolidWorks Education Edition 2007-2008, its 3D CAD software that includes links to a new 3D CAD curriculum portal plus all the major features in SolidWorks 2007 Office Premium.

SolidWorks Education Edition 2007-2008 now includes COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional and COSMOSFloWorks Professional Edition analysis software – enabling students from middle through graduate school for the first time to perform all of the analysis tasks undertaken by a typical engineer designing products.

“Design and analysis are increasingly integrated functions in professional engineering jobs, and this coupling is important for those intent on designing better products,” said Ashland O. Brown, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

Both COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional (a high-end finite element analysis (FEA) solution offering capabilities for nonlinear, dynamic, and composite material analysis) and COSMOSFloWorks Professional Edition (which includes advanced analysis capabilities for compressible flow (liquid), solar radiation, rotating frame of reference, and moving walls) will be useful for intermediate, advanced, and graduate-level students.

The new curriculum portal (http://www.solidworks.com/curriculum)—which complements the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) weblog (http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher) that SolidWorks launched last year—includes new resources for educators as well as expanded course-specific curricula for design analysis. Coursework is available in English, and 10 other languages.

Formerly on DVD, student guides are now available from the Design Library embedded in SolidWorks Education Edition 2007-2008. This convenience means students no longer have to find the disk and load guides onto their PCs.

SolidWorks Education Edition 2007-2008, which is available on Windows XP and Vista operating systems, includes an enhanced DWGeditor tool for editing existing 2D DWG/DXF drawings and learning 2D design techniques. SolidWorks Corporation will supply three DWGeditor licenses for every licensed version of SolidWorks Education Edition.

For further details, please visit SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systèmes S.A.  

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.