Do you want to be more productive and efficient in your daily use of SOLIDWORKS? myCADtools is a suite of 50 easy to use CAD utilities that are fully integrated in SOLIDWORKS, helping to streamline your daily tasks and enhance basic functionalities. myCADtools is a highly useful complement to your SOLIDWORKS software and available to all Invenio clients on subscription.

The Tools

Design Smarter and Faster

Search and select material in SOLIDWORKS libraries using properties filters

Automatic creation of 2D or 3D curves from cartesian or polar parametric equations

Automatic creation of 2D or 3D curves from one or more coordinate files

Simulating the behaviour of a mechanism or a part by varying dimensions

Apply a scale factor to the dimensions of your parts

Automatically unsew body faces

Automatically create sketch points on curves or surfaces

Create sections by cutting a 3D model by a set of planes

Apply colours from standard industrial colour charts

Automate the Drawing Process

Automatic creation of assembly component boards

Automatic translation of annotations of one or more drawings

Create and assign layers to annotations and assembly components in the drawing

Convert the fonts of the annotations on your drawings

Create advanced balloons in assembly drawings using custom properties

Easily and quickly print your SOLIDWORKS documents storing your own print options

Automatic creation of all definition drawings from all components referenced in an assembly

Create tolerance tables

Change the font of the edges of one or more faces in a drawing

Creating annotations for edges of undefined shape

Improve Project Management

A set of tools to more easily manage your data from the assembly tree

Quick creation of intelligent properties on SOLIDWORKS documents

Automatically apply a property list to a set of SOLIDWORKS files

Duplicate a SOLIDWORKS project with all its dependencies

Clean the contents of a folder to keep only the items referenced by one or more projects

Automatically standardise SOLIDWORKS documents based on your own work rules

Manage your assemblies in an Excel table

Managing the files structure of a project in Windows Explorer

Speed Up Production

Automatic extraction of coordinates tables from SOLIDWORKS drawing views

Automatically extracting XYZ annotations or coordinate files from SOLIDWORKS geometry

Extraction of a bill of materials with or without SOLIDWORKS from a document or folder

Automatically apply tolerances from tables

Automatically import and export a set of SOLIDWORKS documents

Automatically print a list of SOLIDWORKS documents to printers depending on format

Automatically insert and rename your own library components in an assembly

Integrate CADENAS components into your assemblies directly from the SOLIDWORKS interface

Optimise cutting length and supply length of your profiles, in order to minimise material waste

Perform automatic marking cutouts on the fold lines of sheet metal parts

Generate a DXF/DWG containing all the flat patterns of a sheet metal project

Apply SOLIDWORKS properties from measurement results

Administrate CAD Projects

Standardise a set of SOLIDWORKS documents by copying options from a reference document

Redefining a new location in the references of your SOLIDWORKS documents

Convert SOLIDWORKS documents by optimising their use

Display the history of your SOLIDWORKS files detailing every version and service pack

Search the where-used cases of a component (part or assembly)

Schedule the launch of myCADtools utilities

Find all the myCAD utilities on these two toolbars

Find all your utilities in a fully customisable toolbar

Integrate access to your own documentation directly into the SOLIDWORKS task panel

Integrate access to your own documentation directly into the SOLIDWORKS task panel

Accessing the myCAD collaboration suite