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MySolidWorks is the official SOLIDWORKS community website. This resource is extremely valuable to SOLIDWORKS users and is available in three levels including Professional. Here's how to have a successful activation.
At Van Buren Technology Center in Lawrence, Michigan, instructor Josh Bridges teaches his 11th and 12th-grade students about the many facets of design. But Josh doesn’t just prepare his students to take a test, he prepares them for the workforce.
3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 has come to a close and what a week we had in Houston! Let’s recap some of the key messages and announcements we heard during this year’s event. 2025 is a significant year for SOLIDWORKS as it marks 30 years since its initial release. This milestone was a common theme throughout the week – celebrating SOLIDWORKS for where it has brought us and being excited about the growth and future of the CAD tool we know and love.
Every few years, it comes time to turn your trusty old computer out to pasture in favor of a sleek new laptop or workstation. Or, with the increase in home offices, you want to be able to use your SOLIDWORKS license at home. Here’s what you need to know when it comes to deactivating the SOLIDWORKS license on your computer.
SOLIDWORKS has made some big moves recently. One of those moves is the transition of customer Enhancement Ideas (formerly called Enhancement Requests) to the 3DEXPERIENCE Enhancement Ideas Community.
If you’ve added a new license of SOLIDWORKS since July 1st, 2023, you’ve probably noticed that your SOLIDWORKS license also contains Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS. This license connects your SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. A major benefit of the role is the ability to share SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings with other users without sharing the physical files or downloading large and complicated external software. The only requirement is a 3DEXPERIENCE ID login.
It is important to know what happens to SOLIDWORKS data when it is saved to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or when it is updated for compatibility with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as per the System Option > 3DEXPERIENCE Integration.
The foremost item to note about this migration is that the license software itself syncs with the SolidWorks Activation Server and directly checks the license out from the system. The process requires a transfer of the license off the old server back to the SolidWorks Activation Server before the new server will be able to be activated with the SolidWorks Activation Server and allowed to administer licenses to client machines.
SOLIDWORKS is an impressive 3D modeling software widely used in the engineering and design industry. While it excels in creating 3D models from scratch, there are times when you need to work with existing physical objects. In these cases, 3D scanning technology and software come to the rescue. In this article, we'll show how to 3D scan inside SOLIDWORKS using the Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS add-in.