SOLIDWORKS STUDENT

Check With Your School

If your school has SOLIDWORKS, you can install a free student license for your personal computer. These are provided for free to schools with 60 users or more. Downloads can be obtained through your instructor.

Register Your Competition Team

FIRST Robotics, ASME, Formula SAE, and many other design teams are eligible for SOLIDWORKS sponsorships. Complete a short application, and upon approval, your team will receive download instructions for personal SOLIDWORKS Student Licenses. 

Contact Us

Can’t gain access through your school or team? Contact us, we can work with your school and instructors to tap into available resources. SOLIDWORKS Student Edition Licenses can also be purchased online .

A Beginner’s Overview of SOLIDWORKS

How many times have you tried one of the built-in SOLIDWORKS tutorials and either got lost, interrupted, or just plain bored?   “These tutorials must be in a video somewhere!”

Well, now they are! These videos walk through the tutorials in a fraction of the time, so you will get a quick preview of how to use some of the basic tools and features of SOLIDWORKS.

INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDWORKS

My First Part

Get started by creating your first part!  Create a base, some bosses with the help of a circular pattern, a cut, and some fillets.

INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDWORKS

My First Drawing

Create your very first drawing! Add drawing views, centerlines, center marks, and dimensions in the drawing mode.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Mouse Gestures

In this SOLIDWORKS tutorial, you will learn techniques of how to use mouse gestures to start a sketch for a part, sketch a rectangle and a circle, save the sketch, dimension the sketch, extrude the sketch and change the view of an extruded part.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Lesson 1 – Parts

In this SOLIDWORKS tutorial, you will be introduced to the process of creating the base feature, adding a boss feature, creating a cut feature, adding fillets, and adding a shell feature.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Lesson 2 – Assemblies

This SOLIDWORKS tutorial includes an introduction to the basics of assemblies. You will insert components, create simple mates, and add a display state.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Lesson 3 – Drawings

This SOLIDWORKS tutorial includes an introduction to the basics of drawings. Opening a drawing template and editing a sheet format, inserting standard views of a part model, adding model and reference annotations, adding another drawing sheet, inserting a named view, and printing the drawing.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

3D Sketching

This SOLIDWORKS tutorial includes a brief introduction to the basics of 3D Sketching with SOLIDWORKS.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Weldment Parts

This SOLIDWORKS tutorial includes an introduction to the basics of Weldments: Structural members, cut list (before update), trim and extend features, end caps, gussets, and weld beads.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Sheet Metal

In this SOLIDWORKS tutorial, you will be introduced to the basics of Sheet Metal. This includes creating a base flange, adding a miter flange, mirroring the part and creating new bends, adding an edge flange and editing its sketch profile, mirroring a feature, adding and bending a tab, adding a cut across a bend, folding and unfolding bends, creating a closed corner, creating a sheet metal drawing, and adding bend line notes.

SOLIDWORKS TUTORIAL

Mold Design

In this SOLIDWORKS tutorial, y ou will be introduced to Mold Design tools such as  fastening, features, draft, and draft analysis scale, parting lines, shut-off, surface parting, surfaces, and tooling split.

SOLIDWORKS Education Edition is more than a CAD teaching tool, it is a complete engineering suite. Featuring student downloads, eBooks, curriculum, certification & more. Use SOLIDWORKS to teach 3D mechanical CAD, design validation, data management, and sustainability.

• Classroom or laboratory learning by students.

• Instruction and preparation of courses by instructors.

• Educational purposes do not include funded research, commercial or curriculum development.

EDUCATION EDITION

The SOLIDWORKS Research License gives researchers the latest in engineering design technology. Qualified research and educational institutions can purchase research licenses at special pricing.

• Enjoy full use without restriction for publications, industry-funded projects, IP transfer, and patent applications.

• No EDU watermarks are inserted that interfere with IP, license agreements, and spin-offs.

• Special pricing means substantial savings over commercial rates, preserving more of your grant award.

RESEARCH EDITION