As Dassault Systèmes announced in their recent blog, there will be an increase in the cost of subscription for new perpetual licenses and renewed term licenses for SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD products from July 2023, this coincides with the inclusion of the new SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services with these licenses.

The amount varies between countries and for different license types, so we recommend that you contact your account manager to understand exactly how this will affect you.

This increase secures the continued development of SOLIDWORKS, the excellent new Cloud Services and the industry leading cloud infrastructure that supports these tools.

From July 2023 new perpetual SOLIDWORKS desktop CAD licenses must also be purchased with two years of subscription.

After the initial two year period licenses can be renewed on an annual basis. If you choose not to renew then you will keep access to SOLIDWORKS but you will lose all subscription benefits including SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services, technical support, version and service pack updates and SOLIDWORKS Visualize.

Customers with existing subscriptions of perpetual SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD products can choose whether or not to upgrade their product subscriptions to include SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services.

SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD term licenses that are renewed after July 2023 will include SOLIDWORKS Cloud Services and there will be an increase in cost to reflect this.

The amount varies between countries and for different license types, so we recommend that you contact your account manager to understand exactly how this will affect you.