To understand why someone would want to install SolidWorks 2010 today, one must appreciate the state of the industry when it was released. Coming off the heels of the 2009 version—which was widely regarded as a massive stability improvement over its predecessors—SolidWorks 2010 was released with the tagline "Design without Limits."
However, if a user needs to access legacy archives exactly as they were created—preserving the specific feature tree and references without migration errors—they must run the legacy software. Solidworks 2010 startimes