The Complete 3D Design and Engineering Education Solution

CAD For Creativity

SolidWorks has been specifically created to give designers an intuitive and powerful tool to quickly get past learning how to use it, and onto the main task which is using it to design better products. Speak to any design professional or undergraduate and there is every chance they will know and respect SolidWorks as a global leader in 3D CAD – and there’s a pretty good chance that it is what they use in their day to day work.

Designed To Be Intuitive

It makes sense that students should be using such a relevant and credible product but (as many will have discovered with rival CAD systems), commercial credibility is not the same as educational suitability. SolidWorks is different. We believe that the designed-in advantages of SolidWorks make it by far the most appropriate system for education.

Grasping the Basics

3D CAD does require a new way of thinking and (whatever the package) you need to get the idea of planes, features and sketches clear in your mind, to be able to move on. SolidWorks makes these key concepts as clear and obvious as possible so, once grasped, learning builds on understanding rather than remembering which button to click. Help is always available to show you where tools are, what they do, and you can pause at any point to run through one of the many on-screen interactive tutorials if needed. In addition, SolidProfessor can be installed to work within SolidWorks and this takes you to another level of help and support as and when you need it. Each step of the modelling process is recorded in a history bar and, using this, you can go back to any point and edit the original work. Once the edit has been made all subsequent work will automatically update. Gone are the days of ‘bin it’ and start again!

Find Your Own Level

Alongside the main design area is a ‘Home’ tab which gives access to masses of on-line support, further tutorials and your own customer portal where case studies can be downloaded and viewed. Example videos range from entire millionaire yachts to jewellery and brakes for F1 cars - all modelled and tested in SolidWorks. Inspiring stuff that serves to demonstrate quite what a massive and powerful package this is. If it seems daunting then don’t worry. Very few users will be complete experts in every aspect of the software and most will be using the main features and tools that apply to their particular field. Education is no different. Most of the time students will be using SolidWorks to create straightforward parts that they can assemble, test, render and animate on-screen. If this seems like you’re only scratching the surface then that’s OK. As confidence grows, more advanced tools can be added to the repertoire and all have the same intuitive feel and built-in support.

Home Use

Any network license of the SolidWorks Education Edition, which is in subscription, provides students and teachers with a home use licence. If the licence is for <200 users an unlimited number of Student Design Kit (SDK) home use licences are available which provide the core 3D Design product SolidWorks. Network licences of 200 or greater are eligible for the Student Access Kit (SAK) which not only contains the core 3D Design product SolidWorks, but also Simulation, Toolbox, PhotoWorks, etc. One SAK licence is provided per user, eg., a 200 User Campus Licence also provides 200 licences (activations) for home use.

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