If you wish to install it yourself, here are download links: This version requires you to be on campus, or connected to the VPN if you are off-campusįaculty and staff can email and specify your computer name and we can install it remotely if you are on campus.

If you are installing Solidworks on a Mac, here is a PDF with basic instructions to get you started. Students should follow the instructions in this PDF to download and install Solidworks. IF THIS METHOD DOESN'T WORK USE ALTERNATE METHOD AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE Note: Student licenses are only valid for 1 year The license key for student use is available to UA students via SOLIDWORKS 2021-2022 Student Key

You will need to connect to the campus VPN in order to use the faculty/staff license.

You will need to run the EXE to unzip the installer and you will need to run the installer as an admin or uncheck the Electrical option to avoid the SQL Express error.

Mac and Linux users will need to install Windows first.Ĭonnection to campus VPN is not required to license Solidworks for student version but is required for faculty version. Solidworks is only available for 64-bit Windows. SolidWorks is published by Dassault Systèmes.Īccording to the publisher, over two million engineers and designers at more than 165,000 companies were using SolidWorks as of 2013. SolidWorks is a solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) computer program that runs on Microsoft Windows.

7 Alternate Method to Install Solidworks (STUDENTS).

Solidworks on mac