SOLIDWORKS Composer
Easily repurpose existing 3D models to rapidly create and update high-quality graphical assets that are fully associated with your 3D design.
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Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Composer?
Repurpose your 3D engineering models for creating graphical content to explain processes and procedures in technical communications, such as manufacturing assembly instructions, product manuals, installation instructions, service manuals, training guides, marketing brochures and sales bidding kits.
SOLIDWORKS Composer
SOLIDWORKS® Composer allows you to quickly create 2D and 3D graphical content to clearly explain and present your product or process. The tools let you work directly from 3D CAD data to create high-quality illustrations, photorealistic images, and interactive animations, and to import design data.
SOLIDWORKS Composer Player Professional
Interact with 3D content using SOLIDWORKS Composer Player Professional. It includes all the features of the SOLIDWORKS Composer Player, but also enables you to interrogate a model, adjust the viewing angle, and rotate/pan/zoom in real time. You can also use custom APIs to customize the Player.
SOLIDWORKS Composer Sync
SOLIDWORKS Composer Sync creates a batch conversion process from 3D CAD and other 3D formats into SOLIDWORKS Composer format. Changes in product data or manufacturing information can be automatically updated to SOLIDWORKS Composer deliverables. You can save batch job settings to XML for future use.
SOLIDWORKS Composer Enterprise Sync
SOLIDWORKS Composer Enterprise Sync is the enterprise version of SOLIDWORKS Composer Sync with additional features to update information for maintaining accurate product technical communication. Changes in product or manufacturing information can also be updated for SOLIDWORKS Composer deliverables.
SOLIDWORKS Composer Check
With SOLIDWORKS Composer Check, you can identify costly design errors by examining clearances and planning production paths before the products hit the shop floor, giving you instant validation for assembly procedures after a design change.
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SOLIDWORKS Composer is a powerful solution designed for CAD users who need to create high-quality technical documentation, animations, and visuals directly from 3D CAD models. Whether you’re preparing product manuals, assembly instructions, or marketing collateral, Composer helps you communicate complex designs with clarity and precision.
Key capabilities include:
- Seamless import of 3D assemblies for documentation use
- Creation of engaging animations, exploded views, and technical illustrations
- Export options to widely used formats like PDF, HTML, and Microsoft Word
- Streamlined workflows to reduce time and cost in content creation
- High-resolution outputs ideal for both digital and print applications
With SOLIDWORKS Composer, teams can produce professional documentation earlier in the design process—ensuring accuracy, consistency, and faster product communication.
Define 3D Annotations
SOLIDWORKS MBD helps you define feature-based annotations in Parts and assemblies (DimXpert), and import 3D annotations from common CAD formats for more efficient design.
Organize 3D Annotations
When the number of 3D annotations becomes too many, you can show and hide annotations automatically as a model rotates, capture comprehensive settings with 3D views similar to visual bookmarks, compare 3D annotation differences between revisions to capture subtle but critical differences, and reuse 3D views in 2D drawings when necessary.
Publish 3D Data with Annotations and Views
SOLIDWORKS MBD helps you communicate directly in 3D. If you like 3D PDF, the software can customize the templates, control accuracies and PDF sizes, publish BOM tables and notes, attach multiple files upon publishing, create and attach STEP242 files. SOLIDWORKS MBD can also output eDrawings or STEP 242 with software-readable annotations.
Minimize Scrap and Rework
Unlike miscommunications in 2D drawings and manufacturing based on dated 2D drawings, SOLIDWORKS MBD facilitates 3D engineering communication with integrated 3D specifications, greater clarity, reduced ambiguity, and a shorter update path.
Eliminate Time-to-market Delays
SOLIDWORKS MBD adds clarity in manufacturing communication with 3D integrated specifications, which can also drive downstream applications automatically, such as CAM and CMM programming. SOLIDWORKS MBD enables 3D annotations beyond geometry-based programming.
Reduce Service Costs
SOLIDWORKS MBD defines and organizes intuitive 3D specifications integrated with models, which shortens the learning curve. The output of high-quality STEP 242 and 3D PDF complies with the Long Term Archival and Retrieval (LOTAR) standard.
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SOLIDWORKS MBD | TRADITIONAL SOLIDWORKS |
3D PRODUCT MANUFACTURING INFORMATION (PMI) DEFINITION |
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| Intelligent Dimensioning, Tolerancing, and Annotation (DimXpert) Freestyle Dimensioning, Tolerancing, and Annotation (Reference Dimensions) Comprehensive Bill of Materials (BOM) |  |
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Automatic Show and Hide Annotations as a Model Rotates |
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3D Views capturing Annotation Views, Configurations, Display States, Section View, and other View Settings |
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3D Model Break Views |
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3D Radial Explode Views |
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3D OUTPUT |
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Publish to eDrawings |
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3D Output Template Customization |
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Rich Predefined 3D Output Templates |
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3D PDF with 3D PMI, Views, and Meta Properties |
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