No, you didn’t get snapped in the eye with a hand towel. SolidWorks is pasting the paper to poles with a year-end promo to scream at your boss about. If you’re in the market for a shiny new seat of SolidWorks, you’re getting an upgrade worth two knee surgeries and some morphine, or $4000.
The upgrade is SolidWorks Premium for the price of Standard. Here’s the SolidWorks comparison. To give you a better idea of what you’re getting and somethings to think about take a look at this.
Some things you may care about that are included in Premium are the following:
- eDrawings (full version) for collaboration
- PhotoView360 for rendering
- Feature Recognition (not too shabby for simple stuff)
- SolidWorks Toolbox for massive hardware library
- CircuitWorks for PCB Design
- SolidWorks Routing for Piping/Tubing
- Revision Control
- Assembly/Mechanism Simulation
Of course, you have ‘no additional cost’… which means you have to go on subscription, if you’re not already.
A couple other things to note:
If you’re on a network license, you can add a seat to that. This would allow anybody to use the Premium level features on a first come, first serve basis. Your reseller probably has some other strings they can pull. It’s the last couple months of the year, so hit them up about other options. Unfortunately, if you just spent all summer selling puppies and bought 20 Standard seats in August, you’re probably out of luck on this promo, but I’d check to see if they can retro-activate you. pormo aaaway, young solidworks user.
Call them up or find out more via SolidWorks.
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Might be different in the US, but here in Oz, the deal is buy *two* standards and both get a free upgrade to premium…. Shame because we only need one more seat.
they're really pushing for more new seats down your way. I bet the VAR would work something out if you only needed one. won't hurt to ask.
Pudler, which state are you in? I work at Solidtec – drop me a line with your details, I'll get someone in touch with you – we should be able to work something out.
kieran (dot) choy (at) solidtec (dot) com (dot) au
Here we go again! What about those of us who might want to upgrade to Premium? Did you know it will cost me as much in the UK to upgrade to Premium from Professional as it would to buy a new seat (and that's a new seat of Premium now) in the USA?
I think it's a good deal, but it may not be as good as it looks on first glance. Subscription is required. You could buy a standard seat of SWX without subscription for $4,000.-
However, if you want to take advantage of this offer you also need to buy subscription. Subscription for SWX Premium runs at the premium cost of $2,000.- so your total would be $6,000.- for a new seat of Premium.
If you were to buy premium without subscription that would be $8,000.- If I do the math on this it would be a $2,000.- discount with the “benefits” of subscription.
Like I said it's a good deal, but it isn't a $4,000.- discount in my book.
Right on Mark. Pretty common. I actually asked a VAR if I could just get two seat of standard instead of one seat of premium…
I think most VAR's will work with (potential) customers, if they get on subscription. Thanks for the comment.
merry christmas and happy new year.wish you have a good time.
We bought a new seat of basic in November this year, we don't get the option of teh upgrade because we didn't buy a subscription at the same time. Even if we buy the subscription now we won't get the upgrade.
Not sure why we would buy the subscription now?
subscription is a big part of it all. the catch. SolidWorks (and many other software companies) make a large part of their revenue from companies who get on subscription plans. The 'deal' is basically designed to get people on a subscription service that cost more.
Understand but the 'deal' isn't an incentive to subscribe now, basically we already have the 2010 version which came with our purchase in November.
If we are still using SW by the end of 2010 then we could subscribe then, if at all.
We bought a new seat of basic in November this year, we don't get the option of teh upgrade because we didn't buy a subscription at the same time. Even if we buy the subscription now we won't get the upgrade.
Not sure why we would buy the subscription now?
subscription is a big part of it all. the catch. SolidWorks (and many other software companies) make a large part of their revenue from companies who get on subscription plans. The 'deal' is basically designed to get people on a subscription service that cost more.
Understand but the 'deal' isn't an incentive to subscribe now, basically we already have the 2010 version which came with our purchase in November.
If we are still using SW by the end of 2010 then we could subscribe then, if at all.
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