SOLIDWORKS 2016 Tackles Design Minutia With Big Results

Mate Controller mimics a game controller to provide an intuitive way of creating and animating complicated assembly motions. Image Courtesy of SOLIDWORKS

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By Beth Stackpole

September 23, 2015

SOLIDWORKS 2016, officially unveiled this week, is intended to get the CAD system out of the way to increase user productivity.

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About Beth Stackpole

Beth Stackpole is a contributing editor to Digital Engineering. Send e-mail about this article to [email protected].

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