{"id":881,"date":"2009-04-06T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/at-last-the-solidworks-engineering-stimulus-package"},"modified":"2009-04-06T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:31:24","slug":"at-last-the-solidworks-engineering-stimulus-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/04\/at-last-the-solidworks-engineering-stimulus-package.html","title":{"rendered":"At last: the SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/engineering_stimulus_package.html\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESP_mainpage2\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201156efb489f970c image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e201156efb489f970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"ESP_mainpage2\" \/><\/a><br \/>Almost as soon as Jeff Ray announced the Engineering Stimulus Package (ESP) at SolidWorks World 2009, we started getting questions from many of you, asking about the details. Today, we&#39;re happy to announced that the program is live for those of you living in the US and Canada. For those of you in other parts of the world, we&#39;re working on making it available to you in the next 4-5 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>To quote the SolidWorks website, &quot;the SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package provides free SolidWorks 3D CAD software to an US or Canadian resident <strong><\/strong>seeking<br \/>\nto develop, upgrade, or refresh the valuable 3D CAD skills that<br \/>\nemployers need. In addition to the software, you get self-support, free<br \/>\ntraining materials,&#0160;free certification, and job leads.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re not familiar with the ESP, you get a limited-term trial version of <strong>SolidWorks Student Design Kit<\/strong>, which includes:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SolidWorks Standard software (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/mechanical-design-software-matrix.htm\">Product Matrix <\/a>for more details) <\/li>\n<li>Animation functionality <\/li>\n<li>Library standards <\/li>\n<li>Photorealistic rendering <\/li>\n<li>eDrawings\u00ae <\/li>\n<li>DWGeditor\u00ae <\/li>\n<li>Complete online documentation and tutorials <\/li>\n<li>90-day term-of-use license<\/li>\n<li>One chance to take the CSWA exam for free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#39;s a lot more to the program than I can go into here, so visit our website to learn more. And if you can use it, download the package and start learning something new.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#39;s Jeff explaining a little more:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OLsf2xmNl4w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OLsf2xmNl4w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost as soon as Jeff Ray announced the Engineering Stimulus Package (ESP) at SolidWorks World 2009, we started getting questions from many of you, asking about the details. 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