The SOLIDWORKS Bargain

The eternal struggle of every engineering student and professional who's ever touched SOLIDWORKS! For the uninitiated, SOLIDWORKS is a 3D CAD software used by engineers to design products... and apparently to destroy their sanity. The trade offer is painfully accurate - you pay thousands for the software license, and in return, you get the joy of random crashes right before you hit save on that model you've been working on for 6 hours straight. The purple lighting really captures the late-night desperation of trying to finish a design while praying to the engineering gods that your computer doesn't implode. Every engineer knows that the real engineering challenge isn't the design itself—it's getting the software to cooperate long enough to complete it!