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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Huh, I've been using the educational version of Solidworks for the past 10-ish years and have not had that experience.

It's always worked fine for me. Worked on my 7 or 8 year old desktop computer running Windows 7 and then 10. And works on my new Win 11 desktop.

I use it almost daily for designing 3D printed parts and stuff to cut on my CNC machine.

Here's a bird carrying case I designed last night in about 4 hours. I have more work to do, but I feel like I am over the hump on the design.

My only bitch is the newest version required Win 11. Other than that I have been happy with it. I am getting it for US$20/year as a veteran.

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    It’s definitely well worth the $20 you spent, but it’s wild to me you managed to make that without running into any problems. We have a group chat at work dedicated to ranting about SW issues that never stays silent for a full 24 hours.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    That's really unfortunate. I use CATIA at work, and I used to have so many issues with it. Well, I had one issue with it that occurred all the time. I would get the "Click OK to Terminate" problem where you could only click it and it closed and I lost everything since my last save.

    That issue turned out to be a Dell video driver. Back to Solidworks - I have had it unexpectedly close on me 3 or 4 times in the past year. I think that is good based on my CATIA experience.

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