I'm not sure of all the details, but it looks like Solid Works is allowing a
personal version of their software to be used for free as long as it's not
for commercial use.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/3DSkills.html

"Dave Lyon" wrote in message
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I'm not sure of all the details, but it looks like Solid Works is allowing
a
personal version of their software to be used for free as long as it's not
for commercial use.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/3DSkills.html



It looks like you have to renew every 90 days. Great stuff Maynard!

"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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"Dave Lyon" wrote in message
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I'm not sure of all the details, but it looks like Solid Works is
allowing
a
personal version of their software to be used for free as long as it's
not
for commercial use.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/3DSkills.html



It looks like you have to renew every 90 days. Great stuff Maynard!



Changing tack a little............

I spent 20 minutes googling today to try and find a price on a single
licence commercial Solidworks package without any luck. Anyone bought it
lately? I just need a ballpark price to submit for next years budget........

We don't need piping or other extras, just the basic 3D model -- flat
drawing package.

thanks
rob

We don't need piping or other extras, just the basic 3D model -- flat
drawing package.

thanks
rob



It's about $4,000. Add about another grand if you want the sorry "free"
upgrades.

Dave Lyon wrote:

I'm not sure of all the details, but it looks like Solid Works is allowing a
personal version of their software to be used for free as long as it's not
for commercial use.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/3DSkills.html

In my opinion, a somewhat lame response to Alibre's
free Design Xpress.

http://www.alibre.com/xpress/

"Rob" wrote in message
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"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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"Dave Lyon" wrote in message
news:mBe%f.892395$x96.774977@attbi_s72...
I'm not sure of all the details, but it looks like Solid Works is
allowing
a
personal version of their software to be used for free as long as it's
not
for commercial use.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/3DSkills.html



It looks like you have to renew every 90 days. Great stuff Maynard!



Changing tack a little............

I spent 20 minutes googling today to try and find a price on a single
licence commercial Solidworks package without any luck. Anyone bought it
lately? I just need a ballpark price to submit for next years
budget........

We don't need piping or other extras, just the basic 3D model -- flat
drawing package.

thanks
rob



A place I know of just spent $5500 a seat for the basic package.

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