Everything Included in a SOLIDWORKS Subscription

When you purchase a license of SOLIDWORKS, whether it be a Standalone License or a Network License, you have the option to purchase your license with Subscription Service. But what comes with my SOLIDWORKS Subscription?

Your SOLIDWORKS Subscription entitles you to the following:

• Helpful tech support from Certified SOLIDWORKS Application Engineers. We are here to help you, so feel free to call or email us with your SOLIDWORKS-related questions.
• Access to SOLIDWORKS Downloads and Updates. All service packs for the most recent releases are available for download. If you aren't using the most recent release of SOLIDWORKS for your production work, you can download and install the latest Service Pack of the version you’re using.
• Create and vote on SOLIDWORKS Enhancement Requests.
• Every new release of SOLIDWORKS includes features and enhancements that come from you, the SOLIDWORKS users. If you have ever said to yourself, “if only SOLIDWORKS could do ‘this’ in Sheet Metal" or "if the Trim command in the Sketch tool gave you this option," you can submit it as an Enhancement Request and it might just end up in a future release.
• If you find an existing Enhancement Request that best matches yours, you can add your name to the request, escalating it in the database.
• SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard
• All licenses of SOLIDWORKS on Subscription (Standard/Professional/Premium) come with SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard.
• SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard lets you quickly program individual milled parts and configurations within the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD environment with full access to rule definitions within SOLIDWORKS CAM to create and build to your company standards, as well as Tolerance-Based Machining.
  
  
  
  
• SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard
• Licenses of SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium on Subscription come with SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard.
• SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is the fastest and easiest way to produce photo-quality images of 3D data. Using Visualize will reduce costs and accelerate time-to-market.
  
  
  

• CSWP and CSWA Exams
• Your subscription entitles you to two free core certification exams and two Advanced exams per year for every seat of SOLIDWORKS.
• Set yourself apart from other designers and engineers by proving your skills as a Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) or specialize in Sheet Metal, Simulation, Weldments, Surfacing, Drawings or Mold Making.
• Once you have completed the CSWP and four (4) of the Advanced certifications, you can take the Expert certification (CSWE).
  
  
  
  
• MySolidWorks
• This is your one-stop location for all things SOLIDWORKS. From one website, you can search the SOLIDWORKS Forum, YouTube channel and a library of eLearning courses available from any device, 24/7.
• Your MySolidWorks login also takes you to your SOLIDWORKS Admin Portal, which is a cloud-based asset and service management system for managing online licenses that can be assigned to users.
• The Admin Portal makes it easy for administrators to monitor all their SOLIDWORKS licenses, invite members to an account, assign products and services to account members and create new administrators. Administrators can also remove users from licenses, even when users are in remote locations.
• Your Subscription entitles you to a MySolidWorks Standard account. The Professional account unlocks more content at an additional cost.

All of this is included with your annual maintenance fee, and I encourage you to make the most of it. 

• Call or email your VAR if you’re experiencing an issue with your SOLIDWORKS or if you have a question with the functionality of a certain feature. We are here to help!
• Create that Enhancement Request. If you say to yourself, “SOLIDWORKS would be great if it would let you do this or that,” there is a chance you might see that enhancement or new feature in a future release of SOLIDWORKS. 
• Download and test out the latest version and Service Pack of SOLIDWORKS to try out those new features you heard about at your VAR's launch event.
• Create those photo-realistic renderings of your new product, generating content for your sales and marketing teams in time for press releases and technical publications.
• Generate machining code to output to your CNC machines from within your SOLIDWORKS session.

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