Minimize repetitive tasks with a suite of tools designed to enhance your SOLIDWORKS experience by supporting design offices in their design.
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Developed by Visiativ, myCADtools is the best package of SOLIDWORKS add-ins that supports design offices.
This solution enables CAD designers to improve productivity by reducing repetitive, non-value-added tasks and adapt SOLIDWORKS to their industrial workflows.
Save time and increase reliability
Be more productive and drive innovation
Highlight your business specificities
Standardize properties, create your own item code with counters per project, and automatically name your new documents
myCADtools SmartProperties | SOLIDWORKS | |
Create a custom template to define properties in your SOLIDWORKS files | ||
Copy an existing part and its drawing in just two clicks | ||
Use a project-specific counter to generate part numbers | ||
Automatically name new documents based on a selected property | ||
Concatenate length properties to batch rename all weldment and sheet metal folders |
"We have set up a custom coding rule... Numbering is no longer done manually, which saves time and eliminates oversights and duplicates permanently."
One step creation of multiple BOMs filtered by type (manufacture, purchase) from an assembly or a Windows folder.
myCADtools SmartBom | SOLIDWORKS | |
Extract weldment components directly into assembly BOMs | ||
Generate multiple BOMs in a single operation using document property filters | ||
Export drawings as PDFs including quantity information | ||
Concatenate multiple properties into a single column | ||
Export to Excel with 3D previews and using your custom template | ||
Edit properties directly from the BOM | ||
Export all properties (document and configuration) from files in a folder into a single Excel file |
“Enables final formatting of components to pass on the right information to production and the various departments concerned”.
Standardize export files name and save time
Automatically convert a list of SOLIDWORKS documents – Parts, Assemblies or Drawings – into SOLIDWORKS compatible formats: DXF, TIFF, PDF, IGES.
myCADtools BatchConverter | SOLIDWORKS | |
Batch export SOLIDWORKS documents | ||
Automatically retrieve all drawings from an assembly and concatenate all generated PDF files | ||
Bulk import SOLIDWORKS documents | ||
Export a document per configuration | ||
Set naming rules based on file properties and choose destination directories | ||
Export in multiple formats simultaneously |
Perform customized processing on batch documents
Automatically standardise SOLIDWORKS documents via work rules. With a library of more than 50 conditions and 100 operations, now you can make mass changes to properties, materials, export, zoom, configurations, sheets, and more!
myCADtools Integration | SOLIDWORKS | |
Standardize property names, define values from an Excel table... | ||
Run a macro on SOLIDWORKS documents in bulk | ||
Generate a custom report on anomalies | ||
Manage SOLIDWORKS document options |
Save time, eliminate unnecessary tasks and focus on design
Automatically export all sheet-metal part layouts for a project to a single file.
myCADtools SheetMetal Manufacturing | SOLIDWORKS | |
Create a DWG or DXF file for each flat pattern | ||
Group flat patterns by sheet or file based on material and thickness | ||
Generate a modifiable SOLIDWORKS drawing before sending it to production | ||
Manage the naming of exported files |
Optimize profile cuts and save materials every year!
Save material by optimising weldment profile cuts based on your SOLIDWORKS assembly or parts.
myCADtools CuttingOptimization | SOLIDWORKS | |
Import profiles in 3D or 2D | ||
Calculate and optimize profile cuttings | ||
Calculate the cost of cuttings (time, material waste percentage, etc.) | ||
Manage cutting angles | ||
Handle different profiles within the same project | ||
Calculate the optimal bar length to be procured | ||
Generate a report with cut details for each profile |
Reuse your projects for new deals by recreating your item codes when duplicating.
Manage property values, set a new name using counters (like in SmartProperties) and manage folder structure by properties in a SOLIDWORKS ‘Pack and Go’ style interface.
myCADtools ProjectManager | SOLIDWORKS | |
Duplicate a project with all or part of its dependencies, renaming files with prefixes or suffixes | ||
Manage document properties during copying | ||
Rename documents based on user-defined filters and rules | ||
Redefine the location and structure of duplicated files based on user-defined filters and rules | ||
Locally configure search folders for referenced files and drawings |
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“When you need to modify a title block on all your plans, you use a Visiativ myCADtools. Changes are made automatically everywhere. It's time-consuming and tedious work if you don't have them.”
Rémy Morel
Project Designer
Dassault Systèmes Gold Product Certification
3DEXPERIENCE compatibility
Support and development driven by our customers’ needs and requirements
Visiativ myCADtools are compatible with all versions of SOLIDWORKS. Backward compatibility: the latest version of myCADtools is compatible up to SOLIDWORKS 2016.
Yes, with limitations for batch tools. You can find out more in the online help.
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