


The SOLIDWORKS Certification program has created over 180,000 certified SOLIDWORKS users. The ebook is available to educators and their students through our Value Added Reseller network. This year, we introduce the Fundamentals of 3D Design and Simulation ebook available as part of our partnership with schools on subscription. We have two goals, one, to provide the most qualified students to our commercial customers and two, to advocate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competency for all students. Through support from our Value-Added Resellers (VARs), schools receive free eBooks, free student certification exams, access to MySolidWorks Standard, and access to the SOLIDWORKS Community. We partner with schools that invest in SOLIDWORKS. Students can use these products to gain a complete understanding of product design. Our customer, Parrot, develops electro-mechanical assemblies with not only mechanical assemblies made up of machined, plastic, and sheet metal parts but also sensors, radios, and embedded electronics, SOLIDWORKS Education Edition includes SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, SOLIDWORKS Plastics, and SOLIDWORKS Sustainability. Students will be able to show off their projects with these professional visualization tools. Because results are indistinguishable from photos, they can be used directly for marketing or other areas in which physical prototypes don’t exist or carry too much cost. SOLIDWORKS Visualize picks up where PhotoView 360 leaves off, by introducing an environment that is more similar to photography versus technical rendering with a focus on 3D data.

New this year is an expanded portfolio to schools including SOLIDWORKS Visualize. Based on SOLIDWORKS Premium 2016, we continue to prepare the best students for the best jobs for our commercial customers whose businesses revolve around our manufacturing ecosystem.

The new SOLIDWORKS Education Edition, Academic Year 2016-2017 gives educators and students an innovation platform of software tools to make great designs happen.
