All in all SolidWorks 2018 is a handy application which will allow you to design various different mechanical parts easily. SolidWorks 2018 lets you to select faces from the imported mesh data. SolidWorks 2018 works seamlessly with STEP, ACIS, STL, OBJ and ICES. SolidWorks Inspection and SolidWorks CAM support 3D dimensions and tolerances streamlining design, inspection and manufacturing without creating 2D drawings. SolidWorks 2018 has got SolidWorks CAM which is powered by CAMWorks provides rules-based machining as well as automatic feature recognition to streamline NC programming. You can create freehand sketch with a pen and then convert the pen strokes to different shapes for quickly capturing the design ideas.

SolidWorks 2018 supports a touchscreen mode which will provide powerful set of productivity tools in order to work on touchscreen devices. SolidWorks 2018 has got various new features and improvements which will let you work in a very efficient manner with a much improved user interface.