I am interested as well.
Do you already have the SW software?
Did you do the tutorials? I started using SW back in the early 2000s and the tutorials where great to get me going.
I would not buy that. Looks fishy.
Do you have some CAD experience?
I had formal training in AutoCAD, back when you had to know command lines, bought and continued to use my own student license of AutoCAD 2002 for years after changing majors. I got my first job out of grad school because of it, and was forced to use the abysmal BobCAD (God awful excuse for a drafting suite) until I finally convinced the powers that be that we needed REAL software, and we got Solidworks. I got myself a copy of current at the time, Solidworks 2007-ish that, uh, fell off a Russian truck, and taught myself the program at home. I did buy a book, but found the built in tutorials and YouTube to be more than sufficient.
I made a living with Solidworks for several years. Having some knowledge of other platforms helped but isn't necessary.
Over a decade later, I've dusted off my CAD skills and am about done designing our new shop/house with the educator version of Autodesk's REVIT. Super powerful architecture suite. It was pretty easy to pick up, a lot is similar to other software I've used, YouTube and forums have answered every question I've had.
I'd have a hard time paying for that service.
The Solidworks Student version comes with a huge book that starts you off making parts on day one and expands on the assembly until you hve hit on most of the features. I took the course years ago because I wanted my guys to learn it. I never used it after the course so forgot most of it. MY guys use it all the time and it has advanced out design exponentially.
I think what they're trying to do here is make you eligible to buy the Student Edition by claiming that you're a qualified student when enrolled in their online class.
I don't think it quite counts. The terms of use for Student Edition state a qualified student is enrolled full time (6 credit hours) at an accredited education or research institution.
Now, is Dassault going to come after you? Probably not. But the person peddling this online course feels a little greasy.
If you want a Student license of Solidworks you can get that for free with an EAA membership ($40/year). I did that for a couple years until I found a copy of NX12 that fell off a truck.
I've been using Fusion 360 on the free trial, and I've grown to like it. I haven't touched Solidworks since high school, which I think we were stuck with version 2005 since the DoD had far stricter domain/PC policies compared to say a public school back in the US. Ah, the joys of DoDDS, but I wouldn't trade that experience for anything, even if we were sometimes behind in available software/tech.
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