SolidWorks Student Edition Software
With SolidWorks® skills, you’ll have a clear advantage in the engineering or industrial design job markets. The easy-to-use SolidWorks Student Edition lets you sharpen your skills outside the classroom as you learn to design better products.
SolidWorks Student Edition is available with or without COSMOS® design validation tools.
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SolidWorks Student Edition includes:
- SolidWorks Standard software
- Animation functionality
- Library of Standards
- Photorealistic rendering
- eDrawings®
- DWGeditor®
- Complete online documentation and tutorials
- 14 language options: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Korean, Czech, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Russian
- 12 or 24-month term-of-use license
SolidWorks Student Edition with COSMOS also includes:
- COSMOSWorks® finite element analysis tools (FEA)
- COSMOSMotion™ kinematic and motion simulation analysis tools
- COSMOSFloWorks™ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis tools
- 24-month term-of-use license
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SolidWorks Student Edition purchase eligibility
The SolidWorks Student Edition is available to degree-seeking students or full-time faculty members using the software for personal learning or academic purposes.
A “degree-seeking student” is defined as a student who can confirm enrollment in a degree-granting program, or who can confirm full-time enrollment in a certificate-granting program. Do not purchase this software if you're not a degree-seeking student or a full-time faculty member. Commercial and institutional use is prohibited.
Please note:
- Software ceases to function 24 months after registration (12 or 24 months for SolidWorks Student Edition with SolidWorks SimulationXpress)
- Subscription support service is not included
- Your license may not be upgraded
- Email support is available for installation and registration
- Registration requires Internet access
Special terms
Although SolidWorks Student Edition is functionally identical to the SolidWorks software used by professionals in the workplace, certain features make it unsuitable for commercial use.
Institutional use of SolidWorks Student Edition is prohibited. Schools interested in licensing use should contact an authorized SolidWorks reseller.
SolidWorks Student Edition software may not be resold, transferred, rented, modified, or copied. Any misuse of the terms of the software license agreement will terminate the right to use this software.
System Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional 32 Bit or Windows Vista™ 32 Bit (Windows Vista Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions only)
- Intel® Pentium®, Intel Xeon®, Intel Core™, AMD Athlon™, AMD Opteron™, or AMD Turion™ class processor
- 512 MB RAM or greater required (512 MB to 1 GB or greater recommended)
- 2.5 GB minimum available hard disk space
- Pointing device
- DVD drive
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
- Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, or 2003 required for Bills of Material (BOM) or design tables
- A tested OpenGL workstation graphics card and driver combination (See: System Requirements and Graphics Cards)
