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Kohanbash:
The solid works educational just has some little red letters that show on start up as well as a message in its title bar that says academic version can only be used in the united states. From my experience i have never run into limitations with solidworks or cosmos (the attached program for mechanical analysis)

Admin:

--- Quote ---If you have a "school-issued email address" or *cough* knows someone who does. You can download the student version of Autodesk inventor for FREE. I downloaded it a few months back, did some tutorials and it seems nice. Other postgrads here have tried it more extensively and say it's the full version, the only limitation being that when you print out drawings it has a border around it saying STUDENT VERSION. Not much to put up with if you A) Don't print it out, B) Own a scissors Smiley

The link is here:
http://students6.autodesk.com/

--- End quote ---
Hmmm I started downloading it . . . its 2.7GB . . . Ill report my findings after playing with it . . . but Im sure it will be way better than Google Sketchup, hands down ;D

dcole07:
I started learning Auto CAD when I was in the 3rd grade. The company my dad works for bought Auto CAD Lt, it's only like $700, but can only do 2D drawing, but but can do 3rd drawings with limited filling.

My dad worked at home after he had to move offices a few times, so that's how I got hooked on it.

So I've been uses Auto CAD LT for about 10 years.

Well since I can get full versions as a student, I will do that. I wanted to get full versions of some of these programs, but was wondering if they came with the college class or what... I see now how it works now.

Admin:
I looked into SolidWorks Student Edition . . .

FYI it only works for 2 years:
"Software ceases to function 24 months after registration."
http://solidworks.com/pages/products/edu/studenteditionsoftware.html

That means you pay $100 to use software that only works for 2 years then you lose everything. Or $200 if you get COSMOS . . .


Now reporting for AutoCAD 2008.
Summary: WORST SOFTWARE EVER

Now to be more specific. Moving from v7 to 2008, they fixed only one minor but annoying bug after 4 years, despite their claim of bugless software. In exchange, they made the software incredibly laggy, especially the drop down menus. The animation feature is incredibly confusing and crashes. They have very vague non-useful tutorials. The options have check buttons but dont actually explain what they do.

Now for the serious problems . . . 2008 is not backwards compatible with any version before v10, despite the claim of having the best compatibility in the market. Good thing I kept a backup of my old files!!!

Better yet, 2008 isnt compatible with my very expensive EdgeCAM software, meaning I can no longer use my CNC with this software. They suggested I purchase a newer EdgeCAM version . . .

Now for tech support . . . its great! For $125 'per incident' they might help you with your problem! (sarcasm :P)
Its like Microsoft charging you $125 for reporting a bug in their software, with no promise of correcting it. Seriously, they dont offer a free way to report bugs! And the FAQ and 'help' section is just marketing hype with little substance . . .

With zero improvement and all these problems, you would think they would give me more than $4 to trade in my old software. >:(

But the 2008 version does have ONE good feature, and that is the built-in FEA (stress analysis stuff). But its just a plugin for ANSYS, so if you want FEA just buy ANSYS.

End of my longest rant ever :P

Im downgrading. sigh.

Ro-Bot-X:
No wonder people get it for free...

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