SOLIDWORKS EAA discount?

I am an EAA member and would like to take advantage of the EAA discount for SOLIDWORKS, but I could not find a link or any info on the EAA SOLIDWORKS page, or in my EAA membership confirmation email showing how to purchase and install the discounted subscription? Where can I find the right info? I did watch the video webinar on the subject and it said I should have received a link in my confirmation email.

Thank you,
Dale

Solidworks ended the EAA deal a couple of years ago. They now have a deal for a web-based package; forget what it's called.

Edit:"Solid Edge". Look in the forum just above this one.

Solidworks still sells the educational version (what the EAA deal was for) to veterans for twenty bucks or so a year.

Ron Wanttaja

Thank you. Seems that the EAA should remove or edit the info here then?
https://www.eaa.org/eaa/eaa-membersh...esource-center

We still have a member discount for SOLIDWORKS, just the terms and package offered changed a couple of years ago. Go here and follow the steps - specifically, step 2:

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers | EAA

There is a huge difference between SolidWorks Desktop and SolidWorks 3DExperience. You SHOULD say 'you have a member discount for 3DExperience'.
I know the link says 3DEXPERIENCE, but saying just SOLIDWORKS implies Desktop, or at least you need to differentiate, because the 'cloud' version has a significantly lamer
interface for proper engineering. Removing the educational SolidWorks Desktop benefit for a completely different product was a HUGE downgrade and if you ask me, was
going along with Dassault's thrust to market their 'cloud' product.
IMHO.
-Christian

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Originally Posted by vondeliusc

There is a huge difference between SolidWorks Desktop and SolidWorks 3DExperience. You SHOULD say 'you have a member discount for 3DExperience'.
I know the link says 3DEXPERIENCE, but saying just SOLIDWORKS implies Desktop, or at least you need to differentiate, because the 'cloud' version has a significantly lamer
interface for proper engineering. Removing the educational SolidWorks Desktop benefit for a completely different product was a HUGE downgrade and if you ask me, was
going along with Dassault's thrust to market their 'cloud' product.
IMHO.

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You're probably right, but I'm betting it wasn't EAA's decision. They were probably told to take 3DExperience or leave it.

My main issue is that I don't believe the Solidworks files I built with the original education package are compatible with 3DExperience....

Ron Wanttaja

It seems to me (quite clearly) that SolidWorks is moving towards cloud based subscription products.
I don't like this because if you for any reason want to stop your subscription, you will end up in a situation where you don't have access to the software, and much more importantly you don't have access to your data - read "your intellectual property".
Completely unacceptable for me.

Jeffrey Meyer

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Meyer

It seems to me (quite clearly) that SolidWorks is moving towards cloud based subscription products.
I don't like this because if you for any reason want to stop your subscription, you will end up in a situation where you don't have access to the software, and much more importantly you don't have access to your data - read "your intellectual property".
Completely unacceptable for me.

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I picked up Alibre's Atom3D, seems like a reasonable alternative. Will load Solidworks files, though they're not editable.

Ron Wanttaja

Try FreeCAD. Download able 3d CAD program. It a pretty good program, plus, it's free. The only downside for me is not great documentation.

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Originally Posted by rwanttaja

My main issue is that I don't believe the Solidworks files I built with the original education package are compatible with 3DExperience....

Ron Wanttaja

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FWIW,
Titans of CNC offer a complete educational desktop SW through Dassault, not for commercial, for students for $50/yr.
ToCNC is an educational organization, 'like' EAA.
-Christian