SOLIDWORKS Managed CAD Administration Services

Streamline your CAD environment, reduce downtime, and keep your engineering team focused on what they do best — designing.

Managed CAD Admin Services (MCAS) is a collection of premium support services specially focused on eliminating or reducing a manufacturer's or engineering design firm's administration burden. With our SOLIDWORKS administration services, we properly deploy, utilize, and manage SOLIDWORKS CAD systems and processes.

Why MCAS?

Free Up Engineers

Let your engineers focus on design, while we manage the CAD environment behind the scenes.

Boost System Stability

We ensure seamless performance, fewer crashes, and optimized workflows.

Maximize ROI

Get the most out of your CAD investment by reducing inefficiencies and boosting productivity.

Ensure Consistency

We set up best practices and unified processes for your entire engineering team.

IT Alignment

We work closely with your IT team to keep CAD systems secure, connected, and always up to date.

How It Works

MCAS is a fully managed CAD administration service designed to optimize your engineering workflows from day one. Here’s how we do it:

CAD Environment Assessment

We evaluate your current CAD setup and identify performance bottlenecks.

Implementation & Optimization

We configure, streamline, and secure your CAD environment.

Continuous Monitoring

Proactive monitoring to prevent issues before they slow you down.

Annual PDM Upgrade

Let us handle your PDM upgrades to keep your team designing.

Core Services

System Monitoring

Annual PDM Upgrades

License Optimization

User Onboarding

Process Consulting

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How Much Time Do Your Engineers Spend On Admin Tasks?

At Converge, we believe engineers and designers lose precious design time to Admin tasks in scenarios such as:

  1. Lost engineering resources to SOLIDWORKS CAD administration
  2. Engineering and IT department and resource mis-alignment
  3. System deployment and configuration inconsistency
  4. A need for process training and workflow standardization
  5. Incomplete and/or improper utilization of existing licensing

Do you know exactly where your engineering team is losing time?

Boost System Stability

At Converge, we proactively monitor and maintain your CAD and PDM environments to ensure seamless performance, fewer crashes, and optimized workflows. Whether you're running SOLIDWORKS locally or in a hosted environment, our team identifies and addresses potential issues before they disrupt your work. From vault health checks to license usage analysis and workflow optimization, we fine-tune your system to keep engineers focused on designing—not troubleshooting. The result? A more stable, reliable, and productive engineering environment.

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What Is the ROI of Working With Converge as Your SOLIDWORKS CAD & PDM Admin?

As you can see from the two charts in this section, our Managed SOLIDWORKS CAD Admin Services can provide significant savings relative to utilizing an internal engineering resource as your admin. We can take on the role of becoming your Fractional CAD Administrator. In that role, we provide part-time or temporary support in managing computer-aided design (CAD) systems and related organizational processes. Let us reduce or even eliminate the cost burden from your firm and existing resources with our SOLIDWORKS PDM administrator services.

Ensure Consistency Across The Infrastructure

Converge helps engineering teams eliminate confusion and inefficiency by implementing best practices and unified processes across your entire CAD and PDM environment. From standardized file naming and structured workflows to controlled user permissions and approval paths, we bring order to your engineering operations. This ensures every team member is on the same page—no matter their role or location—reducing errors, streamlining collaboration, and maintaining data integrity from concept to release.

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IT and Engineering Alignment

We partner with your IT team to ensure your CAD systems are secure, connected, and consistently up to date. By bridging the gap between engineering needs and IT infrastructure, Converge helps align software, servers, and network configurations with SOLIDWORKS and PDM best practices. From user access controls to cloud-hosted environments and system updates, we make sure your tools run smoothly—without putting unnecessary strain on internal IT resources. The result is a more secure, supported, and scalable engineering environment.

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What Is Your Cost of Using Employees as a SOLIDWORKS CAD & PDM Admin?

Our research using salary.com shows that the administration cost can be high if you choose to allocate an engineering resource as your SOLIDWORKS administrator. Here’s what we found:

  • We reviewed the salary of nine of the most common job titles for engineering resources assigned to perform CAD amin duties.
  • We discovered that the median salary is $96,160. 
  • The amount of time spent on administration increases with the number of users in a company's CAD ecosystem.
  • The cost of administration for an engineering firm or manufacturing can be between 10%-25% of a full-time employee or $9,616 to $24,040.

What does it cost you to utilize an engineering resource as a SOLIDWORKS admin?

Are there Any Prerequisites for Working With Us as Your SOLIDWORKS Admin?

We prefer to start our SOLIDWORKS PDM administrator services engagement with an Engineer Systems and Process Review (ESPR). This resource is a collection of details that comprise the SOLIDWORKS CAD-related ecosystem and processes essential for creating, managing, and distributing engineering data to internal and external stakeholders. Our ESPR includes the following:

  • Detailed and illustrated Engineering and IT documentation
  • SOLIDWORKS CAD Administration manual/handbook
  • Valuable information that can be a resource for ongoing system support and process improvements
  • Documentation that typically has 5-6 sections of detail and comprehensive recommendations to remediate problems we uncover during the review

To see more about what we include in a review, click the link below to visit our service page.

Remove the SOLIDWORKS CAD Admin Burden From Your Business and Team

We bridge the gap between Engineering and IT teams helping you make the right choice for managing CAD in the Cloud efficiently while taking the ongoing burden off your IT department to manage the applications.

Contact Info

100 Main St SW #219, Gainesville, GA 30501

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