The system won first place in the Global Microcomputer Platform CAD System Competition in 1995-1999, and has won seventeen international awards from 1995 to the present, including the prestigious American CAD magazine CADENCE's Best Editor Award for four consecutive years, starting in 1999.
In recognition of SolidWorks' innovation, dynamism, and simplicity. By now, the three principles of ease-of-use, stability, and innovation that SolidWorks follows have been fully implemented and proven. Using it, designers have been able to dramatically reduce design time and bring products to market quickly and efficiently.
Because of SolidWorks outstanding technology and market performance, not only become a shining star in the CAD industry, but also become the object of Wall Street's favor. Finally, in 1997, Dassault Systèmes acquired SolidWorks for a wholly owned subsidiary with a market capitalization of $310 million.
The company's original venture capitalists and shareholders made a high return on their $13 million venture capital investment, setting a world record for the CAD industry. SolidWorks continues to operate independently under its original brand name and management team, becoming a highly specialized company in the CAD industry, and SolidWorks 3D mechanical design software has become the most competitive CAD product in the Dassault enterprise.
SolidWorks is the world's most installed and best-used software due to its use of Windows OLE technology, intuitive design technology, advanced parasolid kernel (supplied by Cambridge), and good integration with third-party software.
According to the data, there are currently about 280,000 SolidWorks software licenses issued globally, involving about 31,000 companies in more than 100 countries around the world in aerospace, locomotive, food, machinery, defense, transportation, tooling, electronics and communications, medical devices, entertainment industry, daily necessities/consumer goods, discrete manufacturing, etc.
The SolidWorks software licenses are used in more than 100 countries around the world.
In the education market, nearly 145,000 students from 4,300 educational institutions around the world go through SolidWorks training programs each year.
According to the world's leading talent website search, compared with other 3D CAD systems, SolidWorks-related job advertisements are more than other software combined, which objectively indicates that more and more engineers are using SolidWorks, more and more companies are hiring SolidWorks talent. According to statistics, users around the world use SolidWorks time has reached 55 million hours per year.
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