Free SolidWorks Personal Edition

[mrainey]

Got this in the mail this morning, but haven't checked out the details yet.


http://www.solidworks.com/pages/prog...TOKEN=58110337

[Klox]

I followed up on this link. Received a letter this morning from Michel Gros, of Solidworks in Europe.....

Wow!!!!!

Klox

[HuFlungDung]

I followed up on it, too. I am now enjoying the tutorial. I could easily sucker in for this one, if only I could justify it.

I can see it has great strength in creating and manipulating assemblies.

I don't actually create assemblies very often though, most of my stuff is single part modelling which I can do in OneCNC.

What do you other experienced machinists do? Is Solidworks overkill, especially if your cadcam already allows you the basic solid and surface modelling functions?

[Mortek]

Hu,
The one thing your software won't do is automatically extrude a solid with a draft angle, at least I can't with mine, but in Solid works it does have this function.

[Rekd]

Originally posted by Mortek Hu, The one thing your software won't do is automatically extrude a solid with a draft angle, at least I can't with mine, but in Solid works it does have this function.

Mastercam will do this.

I believe many machinists/programmers would do sufficiently with the CAD portion of their CAD/CAM software. But agreed, the assemblies and motion available with SW is very nice.

'Rekd

[balsaman]

Is this a fully functional version od Solidworks?

Eric

[HuFlungDung]

Pretty much, Eric. For 90 days, that is. Drawings are apparently watermarked on output.

[balsaman]

You mean I filled out all those questions for a DEMO?



Eric