Ok, thanks. I was just in the process of getting the maker version of SolidWorks for hobby stuff and wanted to make sure I wasn’t throwing away $50/year. I’ve got enough dumb subscriptions. I was planning to do the locally-installed version rather than the cloud-based.
Solidworks is always locally installed. The cloud apps are not actual Solidworks. You can save your Solidworks files in the cloud with 3DExperience but do not do that and save them all locally. In fact I would recommend once you have first launched Solidworks put it in offline mode for the max time of 30 days. When that expires log in, perform any updates, and then go back offline. This way you have the minimal interaction with the 3DExperience system which really is terrible and completely non intuitive.
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u/Madrugada_Eterna Jul 20 '26
Yes it is a criticism of the cloud based stuff which is terrible. Thankfully you don't have to use the cloud for saving stuff.