3DEXPERIENCE Canada & US

What is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

For 25 years, SolidXperts has been at the forefront of the evolving world of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. Additionally, our sister company Mecanica has been leading the way with CATIA in industrial design and engineering for over 40 years. We understand how essential efficient R&D and streamlined product design cycles are for your company, which is why we are excited to present the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The perfect tool for staying ahead of the competition and creating better products faster, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a cloud-based ecosystem that provides access to Dassault Systèmes’ software, including SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, SIMULIA, and PDM, along with PLM connectivity, 3D design, and simulation applications, and collaboration tools built specifically for the product design industry. It is customizable, allowing users to better manage their entire product development life cycle in one secure online platform, providing value to all departments, internal and external, from engineering to marketing and beyond.

START UPs

Streamline product development lifecycles: manage the entire product development lifecycle, from concept design to manufacturing, to reduce time-to-market and ensure successful product launches.

Accelerate product innovation: improve performance and reduce costs with powerful simulation capabilities to rapidly test and optimize product designs.

Improve collaboration: easily share data and collaborate with remote teams, customers, and suppliers.

Enhance customer experience: create engaging, personalized experiences for your customers.

Increase operational efficiency: gain better insights into your operations and performance with analytics and data visualization tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

SMEs

Design, develop, and innovate: deliver innovative products utilizing purpose-built integrated tools for product design, engineering, and manufacturing.

Improve manufacturing efficiency: streamline processes and enable real-time decision-making with one unified platform for product design, simulation, production planning, and more.

Enhance collaboration: stay connected with team members, better manage projects, and communicate more effectively in a secure collaborative environment.

Stay in-the-know: effortlessly keep up with industry trends and developments through social resources, news updates, and automatic notifications.

Make data-driven decisions: improve business agility with advanced analytics and real-time visibility for a holistic view of product data, market insights, and project progress.

LARGE ENTERPRISEs

Streamline development workflows: access and manage data in real-time from a single product data source of truth to optimize product lifecycles.

Enhance collaboration: ensure all stakeholders can access up-to-date product data, enabling more effective collaboration between teams.

Shorten iteration cycles: reduce time to market by leveraging powerful simulation tools to accurately test product performance before manufacturing or prototyping.

Improve product quality: unlock continuous improvement with advanced simulation capabilities paired with real-time collaboration, virtual testing, analytics, and process monitoring.

Leverage Big Data: improve market agility with valuable insights into products and markets to make better-informed decisions, faster.

MULTINATIONALs

Collaboration and integration: improve communication between teams or locations and foster innovation all on one unified, cloud-based platform.

Enhance product development: leverage comprehensive tools for product design, simulation, and manufacturing for faster time-to-market and improved product quality.

Efficient supply chain management: achieve end-to-end visibility and control over supply chains with integrated management tools to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.

Data-driven decisions: stay agile with advanced analytics and real-time insights to improve operational efficiency and strategic planning.

Global connectivity: accelerate global operations by collaborating across offices, time zones, or geographies on a secure cloud-based architecture for controlled anytime, anywhere access.

What solutions does the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provide?

The 3DEXPERIENCE is an innovative tool that has changed how businesses operate. It offers both cloud-based and on-premises software solutions that cater to the needs of every department, including Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and more. The platform empowers users to create, collaborate, and streamline their design and manufacturing processes from any location with an internet connection on any device.

Adaptable

Limitless Scalability

Easily add users or applications to accommodate the changing needs of your business.

Curated Toolkits

Enterprise-class tools including CATIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, & ENOVIA support your full design process.

Fully Customizable Structure

Tailor your role subscriptions to perfectly meet your unique business needs.

Connected

Cloud-Based Access

Foster collaboration by connecting the right data to the right people, from any internet-connected device anywhere in the world.

Foster Collaboration

Tools to efficiently move from concept to production, making sure everyone involved is always on the same page.

Automatic Updates

Stay up to date with regular new feature releases, without messy installations or costly downtime.

Secure

Centralized User Management

Manage and control user access and credentials in one place.

Multi-Layered Security

Authentication, access control, encryption, and intrusion detection.

User Data Privacy

Ensure user data remains private and secure with encryption and secure storage.

Streamlined

Unified Experience

Real-time data for digital continuity across stakeholders.

All-in-One Solution

A complete package offering (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), to bring together your entire product design lifecycle.

Xpert Support

A team of experts to craft your 3DEXPERIENCE with changing needs in mind.

What’s available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

Roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform are used to define user access and privileges to various features of the platform. The roles are created and configured to allow users to have the exact level of access to the system that is appropriate for their individual responsibilities. For instance, a user may be given the ability to view a certain set of objects or documents, but not the ability to create or modify them. Similarly, a user may be given access to only a certain set of areas of the platform, such as being able to view a product development project, but not allowed to make any changes.

When you partner with SolidXperts, our team of industry Xperts will customize your 3DEXPERIENCE offering to your unique business operations. This means that we will help you configure the roles to match the exact needs of your users and provide support along the way. Our team will provide guidance at any step in the process, from initial setup through ongoing maintenance.

Benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Reduce costs associated with product development

Working from a single source of truth empowers teams to boost productivity, streamline communication, and reduce their risk of errors. Eliminate data silos and redundant systems, on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform quickly identify and resolve design issues, reduce scrap and rework costs, and improve product quality.

Leverage the power of the cloud to deliver product ideas faster

Virtual twin experiences on 3DEXPERIENCE enable testing and iterating, eliminating the gap between experimentation and innovation. Simulate real-world scenarios, test product performance before manufacturing, reduce prototyping, and leverage data from any device worldwide to make better business decisions.

Improve collaboration across the value chain

Connect stakeholders in real-time with access control for digital product development. Remote teams or new teams can easily contribute to idea sharing, planning, and work with a single source of truth.

Simulate, optimize, and validate product performance

The Simulia software suite offers powerful tools to test product performance, assess physical prototypes, simulate product performance, and optimize designs before production starts through detailed, data-connected product digital twins.

Shorten time-to-market

With a secure, internet-accessible environment for product design, development, and deployment, teams can leverage cloud-based tools that automate processes, reduce manual or redundant steps, and speed up communications all in one place to bring products to market quickly with greater accuracy.

Using the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform with SOLIDWORKS

Design your 3DEXPERIENCE to fit your unique 3D journey, connect your SOLIDWORKS solutions to the cloud for limitless collaboration and innovation.

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Installation

Local install

Simplified local install

Runs in browser on any device

User Interface

Same ol’ SOLIDWORKS!

SOLIDWORKS connected to added value

Browser-based apps

Licensing

Node-locked or networked licensing (for SW)

Named-user licensing

Storage

Store files locally or to the cloud

All data stored to the cloud

Multi-products

Add-ins & multi-products

3D Creator, 3D Sculptor, Visualize Pro

Endless 3DEXPERIENCE scalability

Upgrades

Ability to install multiple versions

Upgrade to latest version within 15 days

Automatically up-to-date

Key features

Secure and easy data management

Minimal IT, cloud apps, & cloud-first storage

No IT, 100% cloud

Who benefits from using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

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Product Designers

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers powerful tools and resources to help product designers create innovative products faster and more efficiently. Its intuitive user interface, 3D content library, and customizable toolkits facilitate advanced 3D modeling, accurate performance simulation, and streamlined design collaboration to minimize scrap and rework costs. Designers can reduce development time, cut costs, and bring ideas to life quickly and easily, enabling them to stand out in a growing marketplace.

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Industrial engineers

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The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers industrial engineers a comprehensive set of tools to create, visualize, and designs with unified visibility across the entire product lifecycle. Industrial engineers can create a complete digital model of complex assemblies and optimize them to meet their needs and those of their customers. From concept to optimization to fabrication and extended lifecycle management, the platform facilitates effortless collaboration and reveals actionable insights across your extended value network.

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Non-CAD users

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The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a range of cloud-based business and industry-specific applications, enabling non-CAD users to optimize their product development processes, collaborate with colleagues and customers, and access essential 3D data without having to master the fundamentals of CAD. Teams outside of engineering can better manage projects and gain valuable insights to identify risks, track progress, estimate costs and resources, and see the impact of decisions in real-time.

Start Your 3DEXPERIENCE Journey Today

Are you ready to take the next step in your product development digital transformation? Unlock the potential of your 3D design and engineering solutions by leveraging the full suite of integrated 3DEXPERIENCE platform tools.

Contact the Xperts today!

FAQ

What is the difference between SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

SOLIDWORKS is a 3D CAD/CAE/PLM software solution, while the 3DEXPERIENCE is a suite of enterprise-level software applications. SOLIDWORKS is designed to help product designers, engineers, and architects, create, and manage 3D models, while the 3DEXPERIENCE is designed to help companies create dynamic digital ecosystems that have the ability to connect people, ideas, and processes. SOLIDWORKS is more focused on design, while the 3DEXPERIENCE is more focused on collaboration, innovation, and product lifecycle management.

How does the 3DEXPERIENCE platform work?

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes is a cloud-based platform that empowers companies to work together on 3D designs and simulations in one unified workspace. It allows users to assign roles to individuals, groups, and external partners to better manage access to projects and resources. Additionally, the platform provides access to a range of industry-specific applications and services, allowing users to customize the platform to meet their specific needs.

Is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform a PLM software?

More than just a PLM option, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a comprehensive, cloud-based PLM solution which enables companies to centralize, organize, and manage their product data and processes, from conception to obsolescence. It provides a unified environment to capture product information such as requirements, design, testing, manufacturing, and marketing. It also offers a range of tools and features that help companies streamline product development, optimize product performance, and reduce time-to-market including a range of mobile and social media tools that enable companies to collaborate with their customers and partners in real-time.

How do you design with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

Set up your 3DEXPERIENCE environment: Before you can start designing, you need to create a project workspace, define your project structure, and configure user roles and access rights, so everyone can get the information they need, when they need it. It’s important to understand how to structure your platform to best support the type of project you’re working on, so you can make the most of the platform’s features and capabilities.

2. Create your design: Once the 3DEXPERIENCE environment is set up, you can begin creating your design. You can use 3DEXPERIENCE to create 3D models, 2D drawings, assembly diagrams, and more. Using the platform’s powerful calculation capabilities, simulate realistic scenarios to test your design’s performance and ensure that it meets the necessary requirements.

3. Manage and share the design: Finally, you can use the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to manage and share the design with other users. This includes creating documentation, setting up team collaboration, and sharing the design with outside

What is 3DEXPERIENCE Works?

3DEXPERIENCE Works is a suite of software tools built on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that combines 3D modeling and simulation technologies with a suite of collaborative tools, allowing users to create, collaborate, and share product designs in the cloud without sacrificing their familiar SOLIDWORKS CAD.