From 1995 to 2025 and beyond, we’re celebrating our story and our customers around the world. Discover 30 years of customer success, history, and fun.
Discover 30 Years of SOLIDWORKS
Since November 1995, SOLIDWORKS® has been committed to making design and product development easy, accessible, intuitive, and fun. With an original mission to democratize design and put 3D CAD on every engineer’s desk, SOLIDWORKS continues to innovate the product development experience with industry-leading software.
Over the past three decades, millions of users around the world have used SOLIDWORKS to create and grow, both as individual designers and as businesses. SOLIDWORKS has been continually inspired by the creativity and innovation of our users, and we are grateful to have such an engaged, dedicated, and talented community to celebrate with us. What will the next 30 years hold? We can’t wait to find out.
The History of SOLIDWORKS
Relive 30 years of SOLIDWORKS and see the highlights from the past three decades with our interactive timeline.
How CAD Changed the World
How has CAD transformed the world and the job of an engineer?
1995 Rewind: Seek and Find
How much has the workplace changed since SOLIDWORKS was first released?
For three decades, SOLIDWORKS has helped millions of users around the world succeed. From startups to industry leaders, SOLIDWORKS has been the engineer’s choice for product development. Discover how international companies grew with SOLIDWORKS and continue to thrive.
Since 1948, Vermeer Corporation has been a leading manufacturer of industrial and agricultural equipment. When the company decided to move from 2D to 3D design in 1999, they chose SOLIDWORKS. Vermeer was the first SOLIDWORKS customer with over 100 seats of software, and today they use the SOLIDWORKS portfolio of solutions for all of their mechanical CAD needs.
Since their founding in 1981, Industrilås has revolutionized its various markets several times. When the company chose SOLIDWORKS as its partner in CAD, it also chose the tools that would revolutionize the way it designed products.
From its start twenty years ago, Trident embraced SOLIDWORKS, and today has become a leader in bespoke hydraulic system design and system integration. Since adopting SOLIDWORKS, the company has expanded its product line from building standard hydraulic power packs to delivering cutting-edge servo control systems.