SWX 2023 -- Whats New

Have they fixed their PDFs export routine yet?
or eDrawings export routine with UNICODE filenames broken every two releases?
Routing and piping?

Kernel/Code > is still the same as it was, in many ways, for the past 20 years. Patterns, large amounts of sketch entities, etc slow the program down tremendously. There have been some improvements to help optimize but nothing really amazing that shows that they’ve gone back into making those features better. But it’s clear that DDS is aiming to wean themselves off of the Siemens Parasolid Kernel hence the major push of 3DXP and away from SW.

Solidworks 3D kernel, sketcher, thermal simulation and other basic part of the architecture are licensed from Siemens(owner of the parasolid kernel which is a top level kernel btw used in NX), other parts were derived from other companies they bought like mechanical simulation (cosmos) and PDM (conisio) and probably many others half implemented.


SW is built on the foundations made by other companies and so they should be able to allocate enough development resource to fix and actually improve their product, instead every release is like a joke.
To be clear, you lucky guys in english speaking countries are at least spared from the clown show of SW not able to even output unicode characters because they forgot to compile the release for “our poor asian needs”.
(It is like the 3rd time it happen and they won’t fix it until the following major release…so no edrawings till then ;; )
Or even translating legacy variables instead of their labels in the UI breaking our weldments. (an existing SPR wrongly categorized as a translation issue escalating from LOW up to CRITICAL impact =) )

Solidworks 2023 what’s new?

Not much.

They could always spend some time and bring the surfacing up to top level. Not forgetting first surface knit and unknit into and out of solid models instead of the bizarre state of affairs that is currently used.