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Originally Posted by bardd
Thanks for your tips everyone. I'll see if I can legally find a free copy of SolidWorks and try and work with both softwares.
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SolidWorks does supply free licenses to FIRST teams and basically every other student design competition.
Here - Just describe your challenge and why you want SolidWorks, and hit go. For FIRST at least, the questions aren't really a screening process (though do try reasonably), I suspect it's more for tracking their own success. We've never been turned down or anything like that, and you can get as many licenses as you'd like.
We didn't always ship to a school address either; I contacted them and they said any 501c3 works. There are probably other exceptions, if it makes it easier for you.
That said, while it was nice to be in the same program I used in college, it's not desperate. If anything, I'd advise "switching" just so you've learned both. Think of it as a mind/learning capacity expansion project.
Final Pro: the SW install, at least compared to when I last did Inventor (2010?) is lightyears faster and milliamps less painful.