- When collaborating with outside resources,
it's often the case that your version of solidworks
does not match their version of
solidworks and this can create complications.
Things to be aware of are the different versions,
year versions and service packs
that are available for solidworks.
By going to the solidworks website you can easily see
the different versions that are available for solid works.
Solidworks premium being the top level version.
Then below that professional.
Then below that the base package standard.
To add complication to this there
is also an educational version.
Which opens up files, just the same as solidworks
but has watermarks and other things to limit you
from using it commercially.
Now that we're aware of this complication that
arises from different versions of solidworks,
how do we find out which version we have.
This is done simply by going up to the help menu.
Clicking once, going down to, about solidworks.
Clicking again and here we see all the information
about RC and license.
So, we have a version of solidworks premium 2017,
64 bit, updated to service pack three.
You can leave this menu by simply clicking ok
and going back to work.