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Do you qualify for this program? https://www.solidworks.com/solution/organization-type/entrepreneurs-startups https://www.solidworks.com/solution/organization-type/entrep... I use Solidworks professionally and prefer it but the above program isn't in my region. I'm starting a side project and need CAD. Solidworks starts at like, $5000 plus $2000 per year and if you don't renew the license, you either have to backpay all renewal fees you missed, or buy it again. Actually it's double the price in my region. Their reseller program is awful too. After checking all the options you've mentioned and more, I decided to use solidedge. It has a monthly option starting from about $100, direct from Siemens, that can be stopped and restarted without penalty. And I feel really good about supporting this licensing scheme as all the others out there are just awful. For FEM I think I will use a Siemens FEMAP/NASTRAN. It's $700 a month, with the same good license terms. I could batch my work that requires it to 1-2 months per year. There's even cheaper ways to use it in a cloud service too. I would maybe try onshape but I don't like the idea that I'd have to pay forever if I wanted to maintain parametric files, or live with exported solids whenever I stop the service.