SOLIDWORKS Standard – 3 Month

Looking for an easy-to-use, no-frills 3D CAD design tool? SOLIDWORKS Standard 3D Modeling Software provides all the features you need to rapidly create production-level 3D product designs.

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SOLIDWORKS Standard Features

SOLIDWORKS Standard delivers robust and easy-to-use 3D design tools that empower you to create fully detailed parts, assemblies, and production-level drawings. Access all the tools required to generate complex surfaces, sheet metal flat patterns, and structural welded assemblies and more. Learn more about the key features of SOLIDWORKS Standard below.

SOLIDWORKS Package Feature	SOLIDWORKS Standard	SOLIDWORKS Professional	SOLIDWORKS Premium
Ease of Use	●	●	●
Part and Assembly Modeling	●	●	●
2D Drawings	●	●	●
Design Reuse and Automation	●	●	●
Animation and Visualization	●	●	●
Interference Check	●	●	●
Collaborate and Share CAD Data (3D Interconnect & eDrawings)	●	●	●
Advanced CAD File Import	●	●	●
Basic Analysis Tools (SimulationXpress & FloXpress)	●	●	●
Productivity Tools	●	●	●
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard	●	●	●
Design for Manufacturing	●	●	●
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard (Must be on Active Subscription)		●	●
CAD Libraries		●	●
Automatic Task Scheduling and Batch Processing		●	●
Design for Cost & Cost Estimation		●	●
ECAD/MCAD Collaboration (CircuitWorks™)		●	●
Advanced Photorealistic Rendering (PhotoView 360)		●	●
CAD Standards Checking		●	●
Automated Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis (TolAnalyst)		●	●
SOLIDWORKS File Management		●	●
Reverse Engineering (ScanTo3D)		●	●
eDrawings® Professional		●	●
Motion Analysis			●
Structural Part and Assembly Analysis			●
Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Environmental Impact: SOLIDWORKS Sustainability			●
Routing of Pipes and Tubes			●
Routing of Electrical Cabling and Wiring Harnesses			●
Routing of Rectangular and Other Sections			●
Advanced Surface Flattening			●
Assembly Level Cost Roll Up			●

Included with every new seat of SOLIDWORKS, the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services provide tools and applications to streamline your design workflow from directly inside SOLIDWORKS.

Share and Markup

Share your 3D designs with ANYONE – directly from SOLIDWORKS. Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a link. Cloud Services removes the friction associated with traditional design sharing and collaboration tools.

Store and Revise

Online storage that’s purpose-built with CAD relationships and collaboration in mind. You simply save your data to the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS. If you need to work with other designers, you can lock designs to ensure no one overwrites your work, easily manage revisions, and create detailed markups with redline, measurements, and annotations.

Manage and Control

Cloud Services gives you full access to a suite of tools to help manage data, work through formal change actions and approvals, and keep project tasks in check.

As your business grows, add new roles to gain access to advanced process, project, and file management for greater control over your data and workflows.

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When will my SOLIDWORKS licence term start?

How will I receive my SOLIDWORKS software?

You will receive an email with your new serial key by the end of the following working day.

In preparation of receiving your serial key, you will be able to download the SOLIDWORKS install files using a link in your order confirmation email. These are about 20GB in size, so it may take a while, depending on your internet speed.

Once the download is complete, start the install wizard, view the steps in our SOLIDWORKS installation guide. You will be asked for your serial key in order to activate the license, and you will require an internet connection for activation.

When you reach the end of the install wizard, that’s it! Fire up SOLIDWORKS and it’s time to get designing!

Can I upgrade my SOLIDWORKS licence?

Can I pause my SOLIDWORKS licence term?

I have a SOLIDWORKS rental licence, how do I renew?

Great news! You are reaching the end of your license and wish to extend your access.

To continue access please either purchase a new licence of SOLIDWORKS from our online store or get in touch about renewing your existing license.

Note our license processing only takes place on working days, so if your license expires at the weekend, you will have to order online in advance. If you require any assistance or have further questions beforehand, please contact our team.

Can I buy outside of the UK and Ireland?

Where can I get a VAT Invoice for my purchase?

What is the SOLIDWORKS returns policy?

Is this SOLIDWORKS software cloud based?

SOLIDWORKS licenses bought through the Solid People shop are desktop applications and run locally on your machine.

SOLIDWORKS has been a desktop application since creation in 1995. New products are being developed by Dassault Systèmes to provide cloud based modelling tools. These have been developed from scratch for optimum cloud performance, rather than translating the technology.

If you would like to discuss a cloud-based solution please contact our partners in the TriMech group.

Can I buy more than one SOLIDWORKS licence?

Can I get a SOLIDWORKS trial before I buy?

How can I buy a permanent licence?

Besides renting for either 3 months or 12 months, SOLIDWORKS is also available as a perpetual license. This has a one-off license cost, giving you unlimited access to the software and is accompanied by a subscription cost — which grants access to continual updates and support for the software.

A popular option for long term usage. Please contact us if a SOLIDWORKS perpetual license better suits your requirements.

Can I add a licence to a network?

There are two types of license - Standalone and Network. In order to network SOLIDWORKS licensing, you must have a SOLIDWORKS Network set up with the correct License Manager software.

Once you have a network in place, the SOLIDWORKS licenses must be network versions but can be either perpetual or term/rental.

Presently we only sell standalone rental licensing in our SOLIDWORKS Shop which cannot be added to a network. If you’d like pricing or purchase a network version, please contact us.

SOLIDWORKS Support and Upgrades

At Solid People we want you to find success with your purchase of SOLIDWORKS.

To support your CAD journey we offer technical support to everyone that rents a licence, access to the SOLIDWORKS customer portal, and free upgrades to new releases of SOLIDWORKS during your subscription period.

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About Solid People

The Solid People team have been dealing in SOLIDWORKS^® since it's release to market in 1998. As an authorised SOLIDWORKS Reseller our goal is to make the process of buying SOLIDWORKS easy, flexible and affordable.

Solid People used to offer tailored CAD recruitment services to connect UK businesses with talented engineers, since joining the TriMech Group in 2024 we now provide these services under the TriMech Staffing UK brand.

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