• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Solidworks for Makers @ CAD30.00 per year

Manfred

Manfred

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Solidworks for makers special offer. 50% off until 25 July. $30.00 Canadian

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Power the Maker Within

Choose from two comprehensive design packages from SOLIDWORKS for Makers, industry leading 3D CAD software for hobbyists and personal projects.
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I have never used Solidworks but will take this as an opportunity to finally learn CAD/M.

NOTE: Set to auto-renew annually.
 
Word of warning. SolidWorks for Makers is a hot mess. The CAM is completely incomprehensible and the whole platform is very resource intensive. My i7 machine with 36 GB of RAM ran at a crawl.

I'd do yourself a favor and learn Fusion.
 
I think the 3DExperience Solidworks for Makers (PC installation) is the one to (attempt to) get, presuming you can navigate through their swamp & it doesn't blow up on some future update. The CAD engine itself is great. But if there was an award for worst corporate software website ever, 3DE would be a perennial champion.


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