Hirschtick used $1 million he had made while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team to set up the company. SolidWorks Corporation was founded in December 1993 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Jon Hirschtick.
According to the company, fiscal year 2011–12 revenue for SolidWorks totaled $483 million.
SolidWorks (stylized as SOLIDWORKS) is a solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) application published by Dassault Systèmes.Īccording to the publisher, over two million engineers and designers at more than 165,000 companies were using SolidWorks as of 2013.
