SolidWorks and standards: a considerable delay

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Greetings SolidWorkers!

I'm opening this topic because there are questions that come up more and more often about SolidWorks and to which I am far too often (if not always) forced to answer in the negative.

These questions can be generalized with the following formula:

How can I annotate/score my plan according to current standards with SolidWorks?

It is clear that SolidWorks is clearly lagging behind on this point.
Between missing symbols (ex. ISO 25178, ISO 10135, ISO 13715, among others), non-compliant display options (ISO 124-24:2014), impossible annotation combinations (attaching a surface finish symbol to a geometric tolerance frame (ISO 1302-ISO 1101), missing ISO thread classes, toolbox components whose dimensions are not compliant (fortunately CAD BOOSTER is there)...

It took SolidWorks nearly 4 years and many complaints to implement the ISO 21920-1 available in version 2025.

We will slowly but surely use this point as a negotiating lever with our VAR during the next renewal in order to get him to assert our right to a compliant software given its price...

Do others (companies, users) suffer as much from these shortcomings and gaps in this software?

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" Solidworks and standards; the huge delay "

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I note that you didn't dare to talk about GPS standards. :grinning:
ISO 14638:2014 is a basic ISO GPS standard.

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If there is the 21920

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is too strong for you :slight_smile:

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And again: it took more than ten years and 3 or 4 SRs for them to correct pitch errors on metric threads that are not very common (including the M33 from memory): the pitch given by Solidworks was not in accordance with the ISO pitch.