Cadalyst All-Star Awards Honor the Best and Brightest, Part 2
4 Jun, 2007Today's spotlight shines on SolidWorks 2007 Office Premium.

Cadalyst reviewer Jeffrey Rowe noted that with SolidWorks 2007, the company has added new and enhanced features and capabilities, and not just for the sake of adding them. In fact, this version seems more about improving the widely diverse workflows of the current and potential customer base than about tacking on additional raw functionality for specialized types of mechanical design. This development indicates the maturing of a product because it affects virtually all users -- regardless of their design niche and needs -- in a positive way. SolidWorks 2007 is as much about the design process as it is about designing a product.
New features and enhancements abound in SolidWorks 2007 Office Premium. An added search feature, the SolidWorks Explorer, incorporates an indexing search engine that enables users to search records or the Internet to display components used in any drawing and related objects and to display them in a manner similar to Google's.
Also notable are the SWIFT (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology) capabilities that are useful to both new and more experienced users because they automate a number of challenging tasks and aid in the design decision-making process.
- Link to Cadalyst All-Star Awards: The Best and Brightest for the full list of June 2007 software and hardware award recipients.
- Link to the full-length Cadalyst Labs review of SolidWorks 2007 Office Premium.