SOLIDWORKS 2026 has arrived—and Ahmedabad experienced the excitement firsthand at the SOLIDWORKS 2026 Launch Event hosted by BEACON India during SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day 2025 – Ahmedabad.
Held at Hotel Fairfield by Marriott, Ahmedabad, this full-day event marked 30 years of SOLIDWORKS innovation while unveiling SOLIDWORKS 2026, featuring over 420 new enhancements, AI-driven capabilities, and significant productivity improvements for design and manufacturing teams.
Event Highlights
- Opening address by Mr. Nainar Ramaswamy, CEO, BEACON India, sharing insights on digital transformation, customer usage trends (including data management challenges), and BEACON’s role as a trusted partner for CAD, PLM, simulation, additive manufacturing, and AI
- Industry perspective by SOLIDWORKS Partner Sales Manager, highlighting India’s industrial growth across EVs, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing—and how AI is empowering engineers, not replacing them
- Live demonstrations of AI-powered capabilities, including assistive sketch repair, predictive command suggestions, and generative tools such as image-to-sketch and auto-generated drawings with dimensions and tolerances
- What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2026: faster workflows, precision filtering, improved large assembly performance (up to 30% faster rebuilds), enhancements to sheet metal and structures, magnetic annotations in drawings, cloud rendering, GPU acceleration, and deeper 3DEXPERIENCE integration
- 3DEXPERIENCE platform spotlight, showcasing cloud collaboration, digital continuity, connected data, integrated simulation, and AI tools like AURA, the intelligent assistant
- Additive manufacturing session featuring Formlabs 3D printers, tightly integrated with SOLIDWORKS for rapid prototyping and cost-effective production
- Engaging customer stories, quizzes, networking sessions, and awards, making it an inspiring experience for Gujarat’s engineering community
For engineers and manufacturers in Ahmedabad and across Gujarat, this event clearly demonstrated how SOLIDWORKS 2026 combined with BEACON India’s expertise, can accelerate productivity, reduce rework, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions.
🎥 Watch the full event recording here:
A big thank you to the BEACON India team, Dassault Systèmes speakers, and everyone who attended and made the event a success.
Which SOLIDWORKS 2026 feature excites you the most—AI-driven tools, faster large assemblies, or cloud collaboration? Share your thoughts in the comments and tag a colleague from Ahmedabad or Gujarat who should watch this session.
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