When using model files that were produced with the educational version of SolidWorks and one is using them in the professional version, is that legal?
Or do I violate some legal restrictions doing that?
Best regards,
Christoph
When using model files that were produced with the educational version of SolidWorks and one is using them in the professional version, is that legal?
Or do I violate some legal restrictions doing that?
Best regards,
Christoph
per the license agreement
Thanks for the clarification.
This also means that a model created in an educational environment with the educational version of SW can never make its way into a commercial entity, right?
This also means that a model created in an educational environment with the educational version of SW can never make its way into a commercial entity, right?
Yes. You may use the commercial model for education purpose but not the other way round.
I have heard that your VAR can convert educational files for you under certain circumstances though. Say, if you started out with an educational version and then bought a full version. I have also heard of people asking for the conversion when they use an educational version to learn and then get to a company with a legit copy, but I never heard if they actually did it. I would think the first scenario would be justifiable but not the second. Just my opinion though. It is kind of a bummer though because I would like to develop a library of parts & assemblies that would be mine to use for both learning and that would then make me more efficient at work.
Joe,
I worked for the VAR here in AZ many moons ago and we did get SW to convert........ BUT... It was because a student took some files home and modified the parts for work and then they became student\educational stamped. this was the only way because they could prove it from back ups.
SO a word of caution! inform your co-workers and interns of this, as well as what version of SW the files are in once save into newer version, SOL going back.
Hi,
I'm coming back again because I need still some clarification or advice how to proceed in the following situation:
A company has developed a product which uses Solidworks (plugins in SW). This is sold to an educational site. The educationial sit is using the student version
(or educational version, whatever it is named).
It is normal that software fails and for the purpose of debugging the software vendor needs the model file.
So what do do now? Is the software vendor violating the license agreement in the moment he reads in the student edition model file?
What would be the solution to this conflict?
Best regards,
Christoph
I think this a very tricky situation but this should not mean that vendor is violating the agreement until unless vendor is using those files for other commercial parties.
For e.g. most of the VAR deals with both commercial and educational sites. And some of them also do programming/projects/ etc. for their customers (both commercial and educational). This means they are dealing with both types of files but since they might not be using those (educational) files for their commercial customers they're not violating the agreement.
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Lenny Bucholz schrieb:
then why are you not using a commercial version, then there wouldn' be any issues
Excuse me, I don't quite understand. My question was, whether one was allowed to use files coming from a student version in a commercial version. That question had been answered already.
Since the company is a kind of VAR the situation has normalized and I advised them to talk to their contact person at SW to clear up this situation.
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Christoph
per the license agreement