What’s New In SOLIDWORKS 2020-3D CAD

Large Assembly Drawings for Working Faster

• Detailing Mode: Open drawings in a matter of seconds
  while maintaining the ability to add and edit annotations.
  
• Graphics Acceleration for Drawings: Improve frame rates
  when panning and zooming within drawings with
  hardware-accelerated rendering.

Faster Assembly Design

• Envelope Publisher: Include components from a top-level
  assembly as envelopes in a sub-assembly.
  
• Large Design Review: Create mates to the reference
  geometry of components, create and edit linear and
  circular component patterns, edit pattern-driven and
  sketch-driven component patterns

Flexible Components

• Make Part Flexible: Display the same part in different
  conditions in the same assembly. For example, show a
  spring compressed and at full length in the same assembly

Faster Sketching

• Silhouette Entities: Create multiple sketch entities by
  projecting the outline of component bodies onto a parallel
  sketch plane.
  
• Torsion Continuity Relation: Achieve G3 curvature between
  sketched curves, thereby allowing a seamless transition.

Improved Design Experience

• 3D Printing Access an extensive list of commercially available 3D printer volumes and creates slices for 3D printing directly from SOLIDWORKS geometry.