Solidworks Industrial Designer
Launched in 2014 and now called 3D Sculptor, this was the first SolidWorks app made specifically for industrial designers. To better serve this group, the team decided focus on stylus-friendly concept sketching and freeform 3D shape generation, in addition to improving our traditional mechanical design tools.
Industrial designers need the flexibility to explore organic shapes quickly and without the overhead that parametric CAD typically adds. In designing the product we tried to make the interface disappear as much as possible, allowing the designer to stay focused on their content.