{"id":344,"date":"2011-08-29T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Solid-Edge-Student-Edition\/ba-p\/334745"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:59:51","slug":"solid-edge-student-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/solid-edge-student-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Edge Student Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:239px;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/08\/academic.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-6886  \" style=\"margin: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/08\/academic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"159\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Students at Polytechnical College of San Sebastian (Spain) designed and fabricated a prototype of a 125cc racing motorcycle using Solid Edge<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>Everywhere you look in the last couple weeks, you see back to school &#8220;stuff&#8221;. Commercials, news stories, the Sunday circulars, etc. It&#8217;s that time of year where your children (or you) are educated; grow to learn new skills. We&#8217;ve decided to make it easier for engineering students to learn how to use CAD by announcing the <a title=\"Solid Edge Student Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/forms\/solid-edge-student.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge Student Edition &#8211; for free &#8211; to students of all ages<\/A>. Yep, I said <STRONG>FREE<\/STRONG>!<BR \/><BR \/>This announcement is part of a strategic and ongoing investment in education as part of our GOPLM program. Siemens PLM&nbsp;is developing a comprehensive academic&nbsp;intiative to meet the needs of industry, initially focusing on Solid Edge but expanding to include other products in our protfolio.&nbsp;By providing the Solid Edge Student Edition free of charge, we aim to increase the number and quality of engineering graduates entering the workforce.<BR \/><BR \/>Here&#8217;s the down and dirty info:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI><a title=\"Solid Edge Student Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/forms\/solid-edge-student.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Register<\/A> &#8211; please use a legit email so we can send you the license file<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Check your email for the 12 month license file (just a warning, there could be up to 5 minute wait for this email)<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Download Solid Edge (Our tests are showing this takes about 20 minutes)<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Design better!<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/>PS &#8211; <SPAN style=\"color: #ff0000\"><STRONG><SPAN style=\"color: #ff0000\">The student license is incompatible with the commerical version of Solid Edge.<\/SPAN> <\/STRONG><\/SPAN><BR \/><BR \/>We&#8217;re still in the middle of rolling out Solid Edge ST4 in all languages which means the Solid Edge Student Edition is available <SPAN style=\"text-decoration: underline\">today<\/SPAN> in English, French, Russian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. The remaining languages &#8211; German, Korean, Italian, Traditional Chinese and Japanese &#8211; be be available in the coming weeks.<BR \/><BR \/>We&#8217;re not just letting students download the software and leave them hanging. We provide links to tutorials and other on-line media, and grant access to a dedicated forum that will allow collaboration with other students around the world! We will&nbsp;periodically&nbsp;email technical productivity tips to help further increase proficiency.<BR \/><BR \/>If you or your child are interested in learning how to use Solid Edge, go <a title=\"Solid Edge Student Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/forms\/solid-edge-student.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">download the Student Edition today<\/A>!<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Solid Edge Student Edition Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/newsroom\/press\/press_release.cfm?Component=138207&amp;ComponentTemplate=822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read the official Press Release<\/A><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Solid Edge on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/solidedge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Like&#8221; Solid Edge on Facebook<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Polytechnical College of San Sebastian (Spain) designed and fabricated a prototype of a 125cc racing motorcycle using Solid Edge       Everywhere you look in the last couple weeks, you se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-academic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}