I think you have confused OnShape and SolidWorks. OnShape and SolidWorks are completely separate products. One did not transition to the other and both are big-league players now. OK, there is a connection. Some executives quit Dassault Systèmes SE (the makers of SolidWorks) to found this new start-up called OnShape. The two companies are competitors.
OnShape does not offer a trial period. And you never "install" it so you would not have needed to delete it. OnShape is web-based and can be used on any computer with an Internet connection with no "install" required. It sounds like your licensing problems must have been with SolidWorks. I would not recommend SolidWorks to any hobby user. The cost is "mid four digits" which puts it out of reach. As for learning, Fusion and OnShape both have very good tutorials that were produced by the companies themselves and I've gotten good tech support even without paying for the products. About design files. Keep backups in STEP format. Then do the normal such that at all times you date lives on three different physical media and at two different geographical locations. > Funny you should mention Onshape though, formerly Solidworks. I made the > mistake years ago of downloading their so called freebie that had a 30 > day free trial, then found it had zero help unless you had paid for it, > and I was totally lost, never having dealt with any CAD like program > before. So I deleted it, then spent the next year feeding their legal > threats to spamassassin and replying to them by denying that a copy of > it existed on any system I owned. To say they were insistent assholes > about it is being way nicer than they deserved. They did every threat > in the book short of sending it to a bill collector. I half expected to > get a registered letter at anytime, demanding I cough up the $600 they > wanted, but eventually they gave up. So you can guess how fat the > chance is that I'll ever deal with those people again. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
