


Has anyone gotten it running on a free-tier cloud service? We would love to try PDM vault, but we do not have a server of our own and we can’t afford to pay for a 7/24 cloud service to run it on. Old advice was that it wasn’t worth the effort, and we realize that Dassault has put a lot of effort into making it better, but not being able to directly control organization membership is a big problem. We haven’t tried 3DExperience because, frankly, we have found the on-boarding process to be off-putting.

Really, the only problem with Solidworks is the lack of a sharing system. We know a fair number of other teams who like OnShape, but we do view Solidworks as the more capable tool. The two options we are considering are returning to Solidworks, or switching to OnShape. We now have a handful of members with some experience with CAD but who are generally unhappy with F360. However, the pandemic left us with a dearth of CAD experience and with the imminent loss of GrabCAD we switched to Fusion 360 for the year. All existing SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD Subscription licenses will have the opportunity, for a nominal fee, to upgrade to Subscription with Cloud Services, but they will have the flexibility to continue to renew their usual Subscription, if they prefer.ĭoes anyone know how this will affect existing and future FIRST Solidworks users? My team has traditionally been a Solidworks team and used GrabCAD for design sharing.Starting in July 2023, all new purchases of SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD licenses (Perpetual, Term, Standalone, or Network) will include Cloud Services as part of the Subscription.Dassault recently announced that starting in July new Solidworks desktop licenses will include a cloud service.
