The Best 3D Cad For Hobbyists, Solidworks For Makers. 

Those costs seem reasonable for the potential value what is being offered with this software. Using your own hardware is one nice feature. $10 to try for a month is worth not having to deal with crashing and underpowered free programs and the other frustrations and headaches that come with them. I think I'll give it a try.

I'm very happy with the very solid and clear information in this video. Thanks a lot !

question, do you get the actual SolidWorks software as in its running of my own hardware and not the cloud? but get the benefit of having the 3d experience as well? I just don't want all the cloud crap.. took courses back in school and want to train on my own..

Been waiting for something like this. Thanks for sharing!

I read 9.99$ per month, which is 120$ per year while Fusion360 is free for hobbyist ... i think i will stay with Fusion. But thanks for the time and information shared

Thank you for the video. It helped tremendously with setup.

How accurate is this video? Other video State you cannot render with this version of SolidWorks. Has anyone confirm that you can do all the rendering as shown in this video?

I have heard of many people on reddit struggling to cancel the subscription, do you have any idea how to do this?

Just Downloaded SolidWorks 3DExperience. After three days of Studying the Software & Manual / Help files, I must agree with many users; This Program is a Convoluted Mess! If not for seeing your Video this morning, I was going to Remove SolidWorks 3DExperience from my computer. You showed me that not only is their 3D Design / 3D Creator, by also SolidWorks Professional Included (but hidden under layers). Seems Great so far (I'm a retired Mechanical Design Engineer). However, I've just discovered that my copy of SW Professional, can't Place Dimensions in either Part Files or Drawing Files. Maybe I'll be able to solve this problem. Ethereal Project 3D: Any suggestions? Thank you.

The Problem Solved! This was a Highly Unlikely Situation! Old computer dying, New computer loaded with SW 2011 and then SW 2018 (Can't be made to work). Later loaded 3DExperience and Tested. Uninstalled SW 2011/2018. Considering my Bad Experience with 3DExperience, was going to uninstall this also. But as stated below, your Video came to the Rescue this morning. After Testing 3DExperience and Discovering the below Dimensioning Problem, I set about Working the Problem. As it turned out, I suspected that when uninstalling SolidWorks some Important Files may have been Removed. So I Reinstalled SW 2011 then Opened 3DExperience again. Problem Solved! Doubtful that another of your Viewers will come across this problem, but there it is incase it can help in the future. Again Thank You so much for being there. Love you Man!

I haven't tried this been really wanting to get good at SW to take the cert exams. Would you recommend?

Thank you for responding immediately. To answer you -- Both; Part File's Open Sketch and Drawing File's 2D View. I'll send Comment if I can Solve Problem.

This is an exciting development. Ive been wanting to separate my personal design stuff from work hardware and software. I have a huge body of work that I'd have to translate into another CAD system. But it looks like this will let me keep using my files with no changes to my workflow. For $100/year, that's a no brainer.

No 3rd party add-ons? I couldn't live without Nifty Dogbones or MapBoards in my free version of Fusion 360. Does SolidWorks have the ability to automatically generate dogbone filets on bodies? And does it have an automatic nesting tool for laying out parts onto sheet goods for CAM? If so, I'd consider checking it out.

Thank you for finding and posting this. I personally think SolidWorks was the most elegant piece of software I have ever witnessed and used. Unfortunately I did not have time to learn the software, just tinkered with it but NOW? Wow what a deal! For all the salty guys that want to complain about the cost or try to trash you in favor of some other software package? Dudes seriously? The OP is just trying to show everyone a hell of a deal. If you think you can get a better deal or some other software is better? Go spend your own time and make your own video about that and get some haters of your own why don't ya? Thank you again and I will be subscribing since I just bought my own Sidewinder x2 so I will be paying attention to your upgrades. Appreciate ya brother! Have a beer for the haters!

Can you work and design offline? When no internet connection is available? Thanks

Question...? Can someone do the solidworks certification tests with this kind of subscription?

Can I use 3DExperience for Makers to prototype an idea and file a patent application, prior to then purchasing the Solidworks tools that I would need for commercialization? In other words, once I file the patents and I decide that I do want to go ahead and commercialize a version 2 of the idea. Could I then purchase a commercial license for Solidworks and import my files from the 3DExperience for Makers tool?

just try to log in

Ia a internet connection necessary for using SW ?

Can you transfer the files over to a professional license version? Or would i have to re design it?

Nice. Thanks for the tip.

That sounds like a good deal, but most of us don't have the required hardware to qualify. I attempted to purchase, but my 16Gb RAM computer doesn't meet their requirements. Need to get get a more powerful Workstation first.

thank you for this vid, subscribed a month ago but the link that was in the email to get started was broken, when they charged me for the second month they resent the link and it worked.

is it a Web only app though?

With VAT, it's about 12$/month. Still worth it, in my opinion. Thanks!

can you pull stp files in the makers software

It is also worth mentioning that Solid Edge is free for hobbyists

Thank you for a great video

no trial version?

God, their 3d experience platform is actual dogshit. WOW. I am actually impressed by how bad it is!! It's like nobody in their team attempted to use it! I spent 30 minutes already and I can't launch SW because my screen is different than what shows in your video (3:00)!!! What the hell!!

This suscription includes the solidworks online version or does not?

As of Jan 2023 the new "unified eco-system" merge with 3D experience makes the whole process extremely painful. I've never seen such an absurd level of convoluted fuckery. Even after subbing you are completely left in the dark and forced to navigate 4 websites just to MAYBE finally get to get a sense of how to get the product and even then good luck with that. I've never had such an obnoxious barrier to entry with ANY software ever.

He, can i use simulation features in this version?

6:35 …you just assumed that all of your viewers actually have friends. Lol Thanks for sharing such an informative Solidworks tutorial!

"This is SolidWorks Professional"?! What a laughable statement. I have 20 years working with SolidWorks on the job. This is lacking big time. No ability to cut with surfaces. No ability to have multiple files open simultaneously. Runs in the cloud, which is as slow and laggy as watching paint dry. Oh, did I mention that I paid my annual subscription to the 3DExperience site, waited three more weeks before getting access, and that only after I emailed and called numerous individuals with their company and threatened to turn them into my state attorney general for fraud?

Dont know what you really are talking about. I work since 2010 with SW Prof (so since over 12 years) and there are so many things missing in this "Maker" version. Then also to have to pay 10$ / month or 100$ / year is way too expensive (as all programms at 3DS of the brand SolidWorks especially) compared with what Fusion360 can offer and that for 0$.

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