Collaboration Tools for Education

Your students can design from any device, on any campus, at any hour. Their work lives in one place and you can see it.

Every program with a CAD lab knows this pattern.

A student builds a model on lab machine 14. They leave for the day. The file is on machine 14, or on a flash drive, or in a personal cloud folder with a name like final_v3_ACTUAL.sldprt. Their teammate cannot open it. The instructor cannot see progress until it is submitted, which means the first time anyone catches a fundamental modeling error is after it is too late to fix.

Then a student who works nights, or commutes, or shares a district-issued Chromebook, simply cannot participate outside of building hours.

This is not a software problem, but an architecture problem you can solve with the right platform.

3DEXPERIENCE for Education

Browser-based CAD

3D Creator and SOLIDWORKS xDesign give students parametric modeling in a browser, on any device, including tablets and Chromebooks. xDesign now includes 2D drawings in the cloud, so dimensions, annotations, and tolerances update automatically with the model.

One source of truth

Every student and every project connects to shared, secure project data with basic lifecycle management. There is no wrong version because there is one version. Students start a project on campus, continue at home, and always open the current state of their work.

Real-time collaboration

Dashboards, communities, and instant messaging built into the environment. Team projects stop being three people emailing files and start looking like how an actual engineering team works.

Teacher Experience

Purpose-built for educators. Course management, class rosters, and progress tracking in one place, so administrative overhead does not eat the time you meant to spend teaching.

3D Learn

Learning content available directly inside the platform. Students learn and work in the same environment instead of alt-tabbing between a tutorial video and the software.

Sizing

Education solutions come in pack sizes of 10, 30, 100, 300, and 900, so a single classroom and a full department are both addressable configurations. We help you pick the pack and the role mix rather than buying the largest thing on the price list.

Connecting what you already have

You do not have to abandon a working desktop lab to get the collaboration layer.

Project Collaborator connects existing SOLIDWORKS desktop data to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Students keep modeling in desktop SOLIDWORKS on lab machines while the project data, versioning, and collaboration live on the platform. For most established programs, this hybrid is the right first step rather than a full cutover.

A realistic phase-in of 3DEXPERIENCE looks like adding the platform for project data and team collaboration, followed by browser-based CAD for students whose hardware cannot run desktop. Then, expand roles as specific courses need them.

Why work with SWYFT?

You can license software from anywhere. What you get with SWYFT is a partner who knows SOLIDWORKS inside and out and who works with education programs specifically. We help you scope the right package for your curriculum and budget, get your students and instructors onboarded, and stay reachable when you have questions mid-semester. The platform is powerful, and a good partner is what turns that power into a program that actually runs smoothly.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It is a cloud-based platform that combines 3D CAD with real-time collaboration, connected cloud storage, and product lifecycle management in one connected environment for schools, instructors, and students. Depending on the package, students can model in the browser, in a connected desktop version of SOLIDWORKS, or across a broader engineering toolset.
No. Because the platform runs in the cloud, students can work from Chromebooks, Macs, tablets, and lower-spec machines. The browser-based tools require no installation, which removes most of the hardware barrier that used to come with a CAD lab.
Licenses are named-user, meaning they follow the student rather than being tied to a specific machine. Packages come in set seat counts that can be combined to reach the total your program needs, and access is managed directly on the platform, where creating a user group per class keeps everything organized.
Contact SWYFT. We will help you choose the right package for your curriculum, hardware, and budget, then handle setup and onboarding so your program is ready to teach.