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SOLIDWORKS Edition for Windows Vista delivers enhanced user experience plus advanced search, preview, and content distribution

Test enables teachers, potential employers to evaluate students' modeling skills as well as their grasp of engineering principles

Gasabo 3D Design, Ltd. to help companies around the world streamline product development, cut costs, reuse design data

SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner develops lifelike, detailed 3D models of human body used in biomedical research, entertainment

Students design real-world projects such as a moveable floor on a floating hospital in South America using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and COSMOS design analysis software

Cyclone Clean Air Engine burns cleaner, more efficiently to power cars, ships, etc.

Global workholding product supplier increases sales, reduces development time and costs, and designs better products with 3D CAD software

New 3D CAD software includes streamlined user interface, fluid analysis capabilities, and racing car curriculum for enriched learning experience

The present invention relates to a system, method, and apparatus that include a novel way of automatically assigning materials to 3D CAD models. A predefined material template specifies that a particular part or material name is assigned to a particular material such that all instances of the particular part name are assigned or modified automatically by the material template. By having a consistent naming convention for the parts in the CAD file, this material assignment can be performed automatically when the CAD file is imported or viewed.