SolidWorks Arvostelua 

Just Terrible software. I starting my engineer career and I cant understand this kind of software is some leader in the industry. This should be buried like more than decade ago

I used to use this for my job and I liked it. Now I'm trying to use the version for 'makers'. It's priced right, but it won't actually run. I start 3DExperience and it just disappears. I try starting the app and it says to update the 3DExperience putting me in an endless loop. Totally worthless product for me at this point.

They keep shipping buggy releases that tank productivity on large, complicated assemblies—crashes on startup or rebuild, lost mates, flat-pattern regressions, add-in clashes, lost virtual files, and Explorer freezes. Companies are shifting because of that poor reliability plus heavy hardware and driver dependencies; even their “certified” cards and workstations cause issues (HW cert program is a joke). VARs add little real value beyond the same workarounds everyone already finds online. Dassault is pushing everyone toward 3DEXPERIENCE cloud software anyway, where the desktop hardware and driver problems largely disappear.

Switching from Fusion360 to Solidworks (supposely much better) to meet new employer standards. 1 year into the software, dozens of training and tutorials.
I think this software is dying. Its probalby the worst soft I have ever used, extremly buggy, few times we lost whole projects that we invested 80+ hours in = assembly and its (checked) security copy stopped working without reason! Drawings are joke, templates are joke. Overcomplicated UI with options to turn on the option for turning on the option that let you turn something off + 10 configuration of this and 3 diferent states. For fk sake.

Solid(no)works. Requires a separate launcher which works catastrophically badly. During an update, the launcher uninstalled solidworks but could not reinstall it, leaving me without a CAD-program.

Their auto-renewing subscription is somewhat predatory. The money is deducted from your account 7 days before the actual date with no possibility of a refund making their "30 days notice" misleading at best. I have been in contact with their customer service who are neither helpful nor particularly good at english.
Lastly, their website is difficult to navigate and unnecessarily complicated just to download the software. Not recommended.

This is not an engineering application. It is totally an adequate in every facet. It crashes it doesn’t work as advertised and the functions that should work often don’t this program is a waste of money a waste of time and it is not an engineering tool
It is complete and useless garbage.

Le logiciel est dépassé pour les pièces complexes, car il fonctionne en grande partie en monothread, ce qui limite fortement les performances.

Très cher.

Il présente de nombreux bugs pour relativement peu d'avantages. Il peut être utile pour l'usinage, mais en dehors de cet usage spécifique, je ne le recommande pas.

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 paid for SOLIDWORKS xDesign for Makers, received the “Get started” email, and still cannot access the platform due to an “Access denied” error.

To make it worse, even the official support form does not work, so I cannot report the issue.

This has been a complete waste of money and valuable time. Very frustrating experience and a terrible start with a paid product.

I have been a user of SolidWorks for more than 25 years. It is excellent software that lets you be creative and design what you want. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, the useful features for the average mechanical engineer have remained the same, while the price has rocketed. At the same time, the user interface has become unstable, it crashes frequently (especially when using STEP or non-SW files), the online platform requires multiple updates every month, and it takes 10 clicks and many minutes to load. In short, it is the epitome of enshittification.

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.

fa assolutamente schifo, ogni singolo feature cad è meglio

The program is unusable way too often, every other week SW is out of service and I cant use it, the web verification is just a nightmare that works sometimes. When I get to actually use SW its amazing except for when it crashes and it didn't want to autosave. I've used SW for ~5 years and the first 3 years of SW student version worked flawlessly but now with maker I need to verify it to the internet every time I open it. This new year the program deleted itself but thankfully my models were ok. Just today I've had 8 attempt launches and I'm not able to use it yet, it wants me to use the link "solidworks_dot_com/support/downloads" and download the newer version but the thing is that the link on this support page doesn't work

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

This software is simply not worth the investment, especially when there are far superior alternatives available. It’s difficult to understand how it became the industry standard, given the frustration it causes. Businesses and universities should seriously reconsider their reliance on it. In most cases, Inventor, Catia, NX etc are a far better choice.

Solidworks Maker or Design. It´s a pain. Don´t save the documents even if you ask to. Forces you to update more than what you use the program. Fails all the time. Really bad application.

I've never seen such a bad paid interface in my entire life!
I could tolerate it if it were free, but no, I'm paying! I don't understand why they made such a terrible interface, because SolidWorks has immense capabilities.
The customer service is just as bad as the interface... I recommend it if you're looking for good CAD software, but you have to be able to keep your cool for several hours...

Bought a one year licence. Needs update to launch. Being denied access, I can only conclude one thing. Total shite! Now using Autodesk Inventor without any issues.

Solidworks, like other ££££ CAD software is capable, very capable however Dassault Systemes have made the user experience extremely complicated from download to design. The overall experience is so infuriating that I am warning prospective users to choose another provider. I can not express this clearly enough: DO NOT USE Dassault Systemes products if you just want to design things quickly and easily without too much complication. The HotFix for patch releases does not work very well at all. The offline version of Solidworks requires a login to 3D Experience for some unknown reason and the 3D Creator navigation is a mess for web app based CAD.
It is so bad.

I have purchased a one year subscription of Solidworks. However, the usability of the software is very poor. The whole SolidWorks environment is very messy and it appears like patch after patch has been added. So I requested a refund which I am entitled to as promised by Solidworks. This refund still hasn't been paid to me. This is after more than 10 days and several requests. I only get automatic replies. The customer support is not existent to the point that it ends up being like a scam. Stay away. There are much better solutions on the market, especially if you are not invested in this product yet. Don't waste your time learning it.