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Q: How often does SOLIDWORKS release enhancements?

SOLIDWORKS releases functional delivery (FD) and service pack (SP) enhancements five times each calendar year. These releases on this page cover SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS.

Q: Where do I learn about enhancements?

Join or log-in to the SOLIDWORKS News and Info Community on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to get the latest news, upcoming events, and connect with SOLIDWORKS brand experts (log-in required). You can also follow the SOLIDWORKS blog and this enhancements page to stay up to date.

Q: Can I make an enhancement request?

Yes! The SOLIDWORKS Enhancement Ideas Community is your destination for sharing your enhancement ideas and product suggestions directly with the SOLIDWORKS R&D team.

Q: What is an FD release?

Functional Deliver (FD) releases are functional delivery milestones for performance and quality enhancements delivered to SOLIDWORKS browser-based/cloud and 3DEXPERIENCE platform solutions. Being browser-based/cloud solutions, these enhancements are automatically delivered with no downloads or installs required.

Q: What is an SP release?

Service Pack (SP) releases are delivery milestones for performance and quality enhancements delivered to SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. SP releases now include functional enhancements meaning you now get CAD functionality enhancements throughout the year.

Q: What is a GA release?

General Availability (GA) is the first release of the annual FD release cycle. GA is followed by FD01, FD02, FD03, and FD04.

SOLIDWORKS CAD Enhancements Every Eight Weeks

You need the latest design tools to meet your goals and stay ahead of the competition. That’s why user-driven enhancements are at the core of SOLIDWORKS R&D. New features to improve functionality, remove repetition, and address emerging design trends put you in a position for success.

SOLIDWORKS hears your feedback and acts on it, delivering five major functional delivery (FD) and service pack (SP) releases full of new features, quality, and performance improvements every eight weeks throughout the year. Explore this page to learn about the latest enhancements to SOLIDWORKS design solutions.

Explore 2025 SOLIDWORKS CAD Enhancements

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS CAD: R2025x FD02, April 2025

Watch the video to learn more about enhancements, including:

Unplanned Offline Mode: Continue to be productive working in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS even if your internet connection is lost.
Disable Auto-Resolve for Lightweight: Disable auto-resolve for lightweight components when expanding the FeatureManager tree, improving performance and saving time when working with large assemblies.
Save Configuration Compatibility with 3DEXPERIENCE platform: Save a physical product as a new part on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform after a file has been updated for 3DEXPERIENCE compatibility with the new ConfigurationManager.

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS CAD: R2025x FD01, February 2025

Watch the video and read the blogs to learn more about enhancements, including:

Simplified User Interface: Focus more on design by reducing the displayed commands to those that are most commonly used.
Automatic Drawing Generation: New drawing capabilities for automatic drawing generation, flattened BOM, and configuration tables.
Support SOLIDWORKS Cutlists on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: Enhance design-to-manufacturing workflow efficiency with seamless Cut-List management, visualization, and EBOM/MBOM integration.

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Explore 2024 SOLIDWORKS CAD Enhancements

SOLIDWORKS releases new functionality throughout the year in Service Packs (SPs) and Functional Deliveries (FDs). These enhancements are in addition to the annual General Availability (GA) release. Explore the below tabs to learn about 2024 updates for design and modeling and collaboration and data management.

R2024x GA

R2024x GA

Discover top enhancements, including previous release compatibility, insert assembly into part, create bidirectional linear patterns, automatically propagate slots, filter unwanted components during STEP import, reattach dangling dimensions more efficiently, access bookmarks from inside SOLIDWORKS, view drawing symbols in 3DPlay, and much more.

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R2024x FD01

R2024x FD01

Explore featured enhancements, including copy cut list properties to cut list items, measure the angular rotation between coordinate systems, graphics triangle and face count, convert entities as construction geometry, automatically fix broken references, manage deleted configurations, set revision on first save, and much more.

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R2024x FD02

R2024x FD02

Learn about enhancements, including selection accelerators for chamfers to speed up selecting edges, the ability to delete items from below the Rollback bar in the FeatureManager Design Tree, share pack and go files to 3DDrive, guided tours for user assistance, manage drawing configurations, view drawing annotations, MySession reference view, electrical and mechanical design enhancements and much more.

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R2024x FD03

R2024x FD03

Review enhancements, including interference checking for surfaces, better capabilities for collaboration between electrical and mechanical designers, multi-level approval drawing stamps, history tracking, material exposition, the ability to use SOLIDWORKS PDM inside 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and more.

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SOLIDWORKS Users Discussing Enhancements

Share Your Enhancement Requests

SOLIDWORKS is built by designers and engineers for designers and engineers. 90% of product enhancements come directly from SOLIDWORKS CAD users. Simply put, we need your feedback to build the product development tools you need to get the job done. Share your ideas on the SOLIDWORKS Enhancement Ideas Community and let us know what would make your workflows smoother and more efficient.

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Catch Up with SOLIDWORKS

Every year SOLIDWORKS delivers hundreds of enhancements to each new release and beyond. In SOLIDWORKS 2025, we continue that trend of upgrading your software. From 2020 to 2025, watch the videos below to see what you may have missed from the last five years of SOLIDWORKS releases.

BLAH SOLIDWORKS Catch Up – User Experience

Parts, assemblies, drawings, user experience: SOLIDWORKS is always improving our design software. Catch up on the highlights from the last five years and see the best enhancements we’ve developed, including SOLIDWORKS 2025.