Solidworks Serial Number Student 159
Emmanuelle Riker
Many college and high school students these days are lucky enough to have access to SOLIDWORKS in their classrooms and computer labs. This is a really great way to learn not only 3D CAD, but engineering and design principles in general. But did you know that if you are a student at a school that has a network of SOLIDWORKS licenses, there is a good chance that you have access to an installation of SOLIDWORKS on your own personal computer? For free? Sounds too good to be true, right? Wrong!
Student Access Licensing comes in two flavors. There is the Student Design Kit (SDK), which is available to students at schools that have at least 45 networked seats of SOLIDWORKS. There is also the Student Engineering Kit (SEK), which is available to schools with 100 or more networked seats. The Student Design Kit offers an installation of SOLIDWORKS Standard, while the Student Engineering Kit comes with an installation of SOLIDWORKS Premium, including Simulation Premium and Flow Simulation as well as SOLIDWORKS Sustainability. Both the SDK and SEK come as standalone license installations, meaning that SOLIDWORKS can be run without the computer needing to be connected to the licensing network.
Many commercial costumers of SOLIDWORKS choose to purchase a yearly subscription service, which allows the customer access to unlimited technical support, among other things. The same subscription services are not available to student access licenses; however there are many great resources available on the SOLIDWORKS Students website. You can also email student...@solidworks.com with questions. If you have technical problems with the installation, contact your schools CAD Administrator for help.
CAEN receives a limited number of licenses for the SOLIDWORKS Student Edition. These licenses are only available for Microsoft Windows operating systems. College of Engineering students (Ann Arbor campus only) who are enrolled in a for-credit U-M course during the current term may access the online registration instructions by clicking here.
To access these instructions, you must log in with your UMICH account, and you must also be connected to either an on-campus network or through the U-M VPN service. If a problem occurs with the software installation, use the SOLIDWORKS Student Support Form to submit a request, including a screenshot of any error.
Hi, i'm pretty new to this kind of software and also to linux itself. I downloaded a solidworks assembly of an 6-axis epson robot from the epson site. I changed some mates and added all nececary axes. But i cannot open the exported urdf in rviz, moveit!,...
I don't know if it's because it's really a bug in the urdf file, or just because i open it in the wrong environment (because i had to copy it from my microsoft OS to my virtualBox ubuntu OS via shared folders). If someone could tell me if you could open this files on your pc? So I would now if there's a bug in the code, or because i just don't open it in the right environment, that would be really helpfull!
Could you perhaps copy/paste some of the console output you get? *I cannot open it* is rather vague, so if you could provide some more details as to what fails for you, we might be able to figure something out. The solidworks_urdf_exporter can be somewhat finicky, but most of the times it works.
@Yannik_K: could you update your original question with this information? It's hard to read as a comment. Apart from that, without access to the URDF, this is probably going to be hard to debug. -11 == segmentation fault, so the moveit_setup_assistant.log will probably be empty (if it exists).
@gvdhoorn First, i had to add an axis to every part except for the base and it's child link. Because there were none available for them in the window wich comes up after i clicked the 'preview and export' button. Second, for those same parts, i had to change the joint type to revolute, because they were set to fixed.Alse, when i press the 'preview and export' button, i see some errors flashing in the solidworks window. It says 'over defined' but i cannot get a detailed list of those errors. Do you need more information about exporting it to URDF?
@Yannik_K: in short: your export failed, all STLs are empty files. Export of a single part should work, regardless of axes, mates etc. As for the axes, just set to 'none' for now. Joint type should be set in first dialogue, before 'preview and export'. Which version of plugin are you using?
SolidWorks version (32, 64bit) / language? Could you try to see if normal stl export does work? I've had some success using an older version of the plugin (1.1.0 fi). They can all be downloaded from the bitbucket site.
As an answer to your original question: the MoveIt setup assistant and rviz most likely crash because the STL files your URDF is referring to are only 80-bytes (most likely only STL header) and contain only '\0' bytes.
This could be caused by the fact that you are using the student version of SolidWorks, which has been known to be incompatible with the exporter plugin. See brawner/sw2urdf/issues on bitbucket for a list of known issues.
SolidWorks is a 3D mechanical CAD (computer aided design) program that runs on Microsoft Windows and is being developed by Dassault Systmes SolidWorks Corp. SolidWorks is currently used by over 2 million engineers and designers at more than 165,000 companies worldwide.
The UW site license is provided by the College of Engineering. These are concurrent use licenses. This means you can install the software on as many computers as you wish, but a license server will limit the number of instances running at any given time to the number of licenses ordered. Your computer must be connected to the internet in order to access the College's license server.
Departments licensing SolidWorks are given a code allowing their students to download and install a free student version of the software on student's personal computers. That software is downloaded directly from the SolidWorks website.
For more information, head to Nunez.edu/Workforce and submit a Course Inquiry using the CRN numbers above. Students can also contact Workforce Development Director Brian Gibson at 504-278-6420 or bgi...@nunez.edu.
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Nunez Community College is a student-centered institution that delivers relevant and innovative curriculum integrating the arts, sciences, and humanities leading to academic credentials and workforce opportunities. Nunez serves a vital role in the community by engaging with partners to support student success and personal growth.
This network also includes free CSWA certification vouchers to help prepare students for industry, as well as free SOLIDWORKS downloads at home, enabling students to continue coursework or remote learning away from school.
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Yes. A school that has at least 60 licenses in its SOLIDWORKS Education Network on active subscription will be given a Student Engineering Kit serial number which will allow students to download SOLIDWORKS at home.
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