I have the student version, but I can only use it for educational purposes. I looked at the price for a solidworks license and it's really expensive. Do you just have to use it at work or school? Does your company give you a code you can use to activate it at home for personal use?
Some places of work will, but you can only have one open at a time.
Contact your VAR for home license.
Eric, It depends on where you work. Each seat of Solidworks comes with a second license useable on another computer. Most smaller companies allow their employees to take that license and either use it on a home computer or laptop. Other companies such as ours which is smaller set up laptops with the second license for offsite projects. We use remote access to work from home when we have to. Primarily wind up using remote access when weather dictates I would rather stay home then try to cross the tundra.
So to answer your original question outside of a student version, which if you are a student you can get a yearly license to have on your own computer there is no "personal" license option for Solidworks. You have to pony up the 3-4K for the license to have your own "seat".
Speaking of remote access. I have a laptop that can almost run solidworks. It's painfully slow and has a lot of graphics errors. I also have a desktop, but it's obviously not portable.
Will using remote access on my laptop to use solidworks on my desktop work? Will that give me the portability of a laptop and the power of a desktop?
Just want to clear one thing:
In order to get a "home License", you need to own a network license. For individual license, you need to transfer the license between the computers
Will both allow me to make whatever I want, 3d print it and use it?
Yes - you get full access to all SW features with "home license"
Student version will allow you to print.
I set up a 3d printer for our tech college here in town several years ago.
On a student license you have the option of STL output which is what the printer at the college required.
(This all may have changed since then.2008-2009 time frame.)
If you are using the "home" license of Solidworks that was purchased by your workplace, it very much depends on the rules of your workplace and just exactly what/how you are using the software. If you are using it strictly for learning or work-related stuff, most companies are fine with it. If you are using it to profit "on the side", many companies frown on that. The "home" license of the software will have all the capabilities of the "work" license...no more, no less.
Unfortunately, if you have a combination of premium and professional seats it has been my experience that you can only get a pro seat at home.
FYI:
All HULs issued will match the lowest level licenses on the network OR be equal to the number of highest level licenses on the network
...when said licenses are network licenses.
I think that a company should permit their employees to "moonlight" with their SolidWorks license, provided this is not in competition with their employer.
There are a couple of benefits to the employer. The main benefit is that the employee is getting more experience with the software and perhaps maintaining design skills in areas not normally utilized by the employer. The second one comes into play if the employer starts to have less work to do. The employee is more likely to accept a period of reduced hours, rather than seek a new full-time job elsewhere.
-Joe
I tend to agree with your comments but I don't think it follows the legality of the license contract. I'm pretty sure that if the home use is for income purposes from a different company there could be legal problems. If there is no other income associated then it could be considered "practice".
Yes and no. Depending on the connection you use and how your remote is setup will dictate performance.
For your situation I would recommend chrome remote desktop app, you are not working on proprietary stuff and there are no certificates to be concerned with.
It should work pretty well and would let you know if there was an issue with your desktop to laptop connection.
It used to be that SolidWorks permitted each user to install a 2nd seat for home use. However, SW has rescinded the ability to do this easily. Now, you can have any number of installs, but you have to manually deactivate the active seat, and then activate the one you want to use.
This caught plenty of users by surprise, who had hoped to use their laptop at home for the weekend to do some work, or who were going off site and found that when they installed an update on the laptop, that it would not simply accept the prior authorization.
-Joe
Joseph,
I think this depends on whether the seat is for network use or not as mentioned above. We have network licenses and i am still able to use my home use license at home without having to transfer licenses.
My SW 2015 agreement says (emphasis mine):
In the past it used to restrict home use to "learning" or developing your skills on SW at home. (I can't remember the exact wording). I see now that they left that part off. I see no reason why you couldn't use SW at home for anything you wanted to do, including moonlighting. You have to fill out a one page home license, and send to VAR through a service ticket, they'll hook you up.
Dan
In addition to the student license there is a vary inexpensive version available to veterans who can prove they have an honorable discharge from the service. This is a very good deal.
Eric, It depends on where you work. Each seat of Solidworks comes with a second license useable on another computer. Most smaller companies allow their employees to take that license and either use it on a home computer or laptop. Other companies such as ours which is smaller set up laptops with the second license for offsite projects. We use remote access to work from home when we have to. Primarily wind up using remote access when weather dictates I would rather stay home then try to cross the tundra.
So to answer your original question outside of a student version, which if you are a student you can get a yearly license to have on your own computer there is no "personal" license option for Solidworks. You have to pony up the 3-4K for the license to have your own "seat".