SolidWorksReviews of solidworks.com

So many bugs and impossible to report. Trash customer service on that end. At our university, we use CMC.CA for the licenses. My account logins to use cmc.ca don't let me log in to Solidworks platform to give feedback, like they're not valid. So I'm not able to give feedback or report bugs even though I have an active license through cmc.ca. My main feedback is that Solidworks got worse through the years. Now even basic symmetry function adds artefacts that aren't deletable so you just have to reproduce the functions manually. I feel like only 1/2 the symmetries work property without adding glitches and I'm talking about symmetry on Cut extrudes. There's no other fix than doing it manually. And you can't report bugs properly. For such a big company worth millions, it's pretty damn ridiculous to not get the basics.

I've een using Solidworks professionally since 2006 - so 20 years. In recent years it seems to have got worse & worse. I was forced to update to 2026 SP 2 as one of my clients was using it - and sorely regret it. There are so many small but annoying bugs & glitches that just shouldn't occur in software I'm paying £2k per year for. Unfortunately Dassault seemingly don't care. There are bugs which have existed for years if not decades. By SP 5 many of the problems will have been fixed - but why do they come back in the first release of the next version? Other CAD software has it's problems too - but it feels like SW is losing ground to them more & more as time goes by. I use OnShape personally (I can't use cloud software professionally due to ITAR etc) and it's amazing by comparison. It feels like they do care about the users.

Dont get me wrong the simulation side is awesome but its about as intuitive as trying to bowl a semitruck down a mountain and trying to get it to fly. the user interface is terrible and it always does the opposite of what you want

Hanno un furbissimo sistema commerciale truffaldino, omettono informazioni importanti sulla frequenza dei pagamenti, sul fatto che i pagamenti sono anticipati anche se per tutta la fase di contrattazione sono sempre espressi annualmente. Difficile credere che sia un caso, è un sistema collaudato che da più di un decennio ci riserva sorprese OGNI volta che abbiamo a che fare con loro. Le offerte vengono mandate via testo mail e le info più delicate vengono comunicate telefonicamente, in modo che non ci sia nessuna documentazione ufficiale e che possano disattendere la parola data. I contratti inviati lasciano spazio a libere interpretazioni quindi la delusione è assicurata! Sul loro sito non c'è modo di mandare una recensione e la chat permette solo di aprire ticket! In tutto questo il software ha molti bugs e va in conflitto con la maggior parte degli altri software, richiedendo l'utilizzo di una macchina dedicata! Una macchina per soldi niente male!! Consiglio di tornare al tecnigrafo

SolidWorks is powerful but frustarting, frequent crashes, slow performance on big projects, high licensing costs, and weak customer support drag down the experience.

Solidworks is so buggy and slow, you will waste 1/3 of time on rebooting your software

Great in principle but as reliable as a brexit agreemen, updates make reliability worse, just use 2016 version as nothing has improved since SP05 of that varient