What’s new in SOLIDWORKS Education Edition

SOLIDWORKS® Education Edition is our desktop solution packed with power and performance. Our mission is to provide students with the tools and skills they need to build their careers. SOLIDWORKS Education Edition delivers 3D design solutions to help unleash students’ creativity for inspired design.

SOLIDWORKS Education Edition provides powerful, engaging, hands-on software for students to understand the real-world mechanics of science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEM/STEAM). With SOLIDWORKS Education Edition, educators and students have access to the same 3D development tools used by countless engineering and design professionals around the world, so they can focus on what’s really important—fostering new ideas, solving problems, teamwork, and innovation.

The Education Edition includes over 12 products, allowing students to conceptualize, create, validate, communicate, manage, and transform ideas into great designs. Learn more about SOLIDWORKS Education Edition.

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The SOLIDWORKS Education Portfolio has expanded!

In today’s competitive job market, students need every advantage they can get. Now powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, SOLIDWORKS® Education has expanded its portfolio to bring cloud and collaboration into the classroom, boosting students’ employability.

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Add the Value of 3DEXPERIENCE

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3DEXPERIENCE EDU Portfolio Matrix

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3DEXPERIENCE platform for Schools and Students

2D Drawings are now in the Cloud!

The all-cloud role of 3D Designer now includes 2D drawings in the cloud! This offers students and educators the ability to define concepts in a way that combines intuitive model-based engineering with familiar 2D drawings. Make changes with confidence, as all dimensions, annotations, and tolerances update automatically with model changes.

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Manufacturing Definition Creator

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First Look: 3D & 2D Drawings

New Role: 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Education

Take your designs and concepts to the next level with 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Education and turbocharge them with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Connect all your most vital resources in one unified, secure place and bring industry best practices into your classroom.

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3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Education

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First Look 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS

Additional 3DEXPERIENCE Education Roles

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform empowers educators with the tools to maintain learning continuity, collaboration, and knowledge acquisition. 3DEXPERIENCE for Education offers the ideal infrastructure for bringing industry practices into learning.

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3D Designer for Education

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3DEXPERIENCE Engineer for Education

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Project Collaborator for Education

What’s included in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Education Roles

Collaborative Business Innovator

Connect all users and foster real-time collaboration through dashboards, communities, instant messaging and other cloud-based services.

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Collaborative Industry Innovator

Securely access product data, basic lifecycle management, compliance services and enable real-time, secure and structured collaboration on product content.

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3D Creator

3D Creator enables designers and engineers to create, review and evaluate 3D models through easy-to-use parametric modeling capabilities.

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3D Sculptor

3D Sculptor enables designers and engineers to create 3D organic shapes quickly and easily with an intuitive cloud modeling solution.

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Project Planner

Enable teams to plan and monitor project status in real time by sharing tasks and defining deliverables, dependencies, and key milestones. Empower team members to efficiently collaborate from anywhere, at any time and on any device.

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Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS

Connects SOLIDWORKS users to the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform, to manage product designs and documents directly from the desktop authoring application.

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3D SheetMetal Creator

Streamline how you create, store, share, and validate the design of complex sheet metal components, assemblies and enclosures for manufacture.

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3D Structure Creator

Create accurate, manufacturing-ready structure designs on any device.

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SOLIDWORKS Curriculum

Educators are essential in shaping the future of engineering and design. Our curriculum empowers them with cutting-edge tools and comprehensive lessons, equipping students to excel in real-world challenges and innovate with confidence. Together, we’re fostering the next generation of problem solvers and industry leaders.

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SOLIDWORKS Certification

In today’s competitive job market, CAD professionals need every advantage they can get, and the SOLIDWORKS Certification Program gives students a proven edge. Students show employers they have the 3D CAD skills for the job. Become a SOLIDWORKS Academic Certification Provider and have your students take their certification exam for FREE*!

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SOLIDWORKS Education 2025

What’s new in SOLIDWORKS Education Edition

The SOLIDWORKS Education Portfolio has expanded!

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2D Drawings are now in the Cloud!

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New Role: 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Education

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Additional 3DEXPERIENCE Education Roles

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What’s included in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Education Roles

Learn more about our SOLIDWORKS Education Desktop Offerings

SOLIDWORKS Curriculum

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