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A fully supported SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD licensing program designed to help early stage startups and entrepreneurs. It's a reconsidered approach to our licensing model.

Historically there has been licensing for students, universities and research students, but there wasn't anything for postgraduates, entrepreneurs and startup businesses who couldn't quite afford the commercial pricing. This has now been addressed with the SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur Program.

The SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur program gives the qualifying startup or individual a suite of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and productivity tools for up to 12 months free of charge.

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Startup/Entrepreneurs have access to the full SOLIDWORKS portfolio of products, what we typically refer to as the add-ons or multi products. This includes testing and analysis with Simulation, automated documentation with Composer and stunning rendering capabilities with Visualize to name a few. So you're not just restricted one area. We quite often find that we've given these products to companies and they're not necessarily aware of what they can do. They have then used this program to actually introduce it and subsequently find real big business benefits off the back of it. See the full available products here.

Submit an online application form confirming your eligibility from the qualifying criteria.

After submitting an online application, your request will be automatically assessed and either granted or refused on grounds relating to the qualifying criteria. Prior to submitting an online application we would always advise contacting us to discuss your application briefly. If approved, you will receive a 30 day trial automatically to get started. We will then contact you to discuss what products you require and an order will then be placed.

Once entering the program through Solid Solutions, you will be enrolled into our customer development program, ensuring the best set-up, support and advice is available to you throughout.

At the end of the 12 months licensing we have a number of options available to assist startup businesses and individuals transitioning from the SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur Program. Throughout the program you will have access to our award winning support desk and be invited to free workshops designed to help you optimise you use of SOLIDWORKS and overall productivity. Typically a hardware startup company will budget 1-3 months to build functional prototypes and another 3-6 months to go from functional prototype to production.

Our account engineers can talk with you to discuss what you do and how SOLIDWORKS can help. We have over 15,000 customers and can give you examples of how businesses similar to your own have launched their product with SOLIDWORKS through Solid Solutions.

Very! If you go to any jobs board and use SOLIDWORKS as a keyword search you will see many more people offering and looking for our software compared to any other major CAD system. It is the number 1 taught 3D CAD software in UK Universities too, so if you are looking to recruit now or as your business grow, then SOLIDWORKS is the future proof CAD choice to use.