For schools and students — gull system

CAD configurators and the Logic add-on free for schools, permanently. The licence belongs to the school, support is provided through the community, and output carries a watermark.

For schools and students

CAD configurators and the Logic add-on, permanently free.

Driving a finished assembly with rules is a skill you take into your first job. That is why CAD configurators and Logic are free for schools, in the full version and with no time limit.

The licence goes to the school, not the individual student. A teacher or a department creates it by registering, and we verify and attach it. The school then joins its students with a single link.

The programme is opening. The first licences go out once the platform is ready.

We will start issuing school licences once the platform is finished and the licence terms for schools are written. You can get in touch now. We will note you down and let you know when the programme opens. It is free and without obligation.

What a school gets

A school gets everything in gull system that drives CAD. One part is deliberately left out.

CAD configurators

You connect to your own assembly or part in your own CAD, capture dimensions and features, and write the rules that drive them. The same build paying customers run.

The Logic add-on

The add-on for cases where a value is not a single formula, because you look it up in a table or a longer calculation sits behind it. It comes with the education licence too.

Every output format

PDF, STEP, DXF and DWG. An education licence exports everything a paid licence does, with a watermark.

Web configurators

The customer-facing web configurator is not part of the school licence; a school has nothing to sell. It is the only part the school licence leaves out.

School licence conditions

Even a free licence has conditions. There are only these three, and we will add no others to the licence terms.

Output carries a watermark

Files produced under an education licence are marked, the same way SOLIDWORKS Student Edition marks its own. To remove the watermark, or to run paid work through gull system, you need an ordinary licence.

Teaching and coursework only

An education licence covers lessons, exercises and term or final projects. A job for a company is commercial use, even when the school workshop takes it on, and it belongs under a paid licence.

Support comes from the community

The school licence comes with no guaranteed response time. You ask in the community and someone who solved it before you answers.

How to get the licence

The school creates an account and we attach the licence to it. A student registers and joins the school's account through a link.

  1. Create an account. A few lines: the school, an e-mail, a phone number and, if you like, a website. Registration is free and commits you to nothing.
  2. We get in touch and attach the licence. We verify by hand, because Czech schools have no shared domain to check against. We will write to you and attach the licence to your account.
  3. Send your students the link. Your school account has one link for all students. Send it round by e-mail or put it in an assignment.
  4. Register. The ordinary registration everyone else uses. An e-mail and a password are enough.
  5. Open your school’s link. The link joins you to your school’s account. It is not personal; the whole year group uses the same one.
  6. Download gull system. From then on it runs on the school licence. The installer is in your account.

The student link is not a personal invitation

It is one link for the whole class: you can e-mail it, put it in an assignment or read it out in a lesson. But anyone who has it can join. The school sees the seats taken in its account and can revoke the link at any time.

We will say when it opens. The invite will be tied to a gull system account, so you can create one now.

Why we do this

It is not charity. Students who learn gull system at school know it in their first job and tell their employer they want it. That is how SOLIDWORKS holds its place in Czech technical schools.

It costs us almost nothing: a free user means one licence check, and the community provides support. You get software that otherwise costs money and a skill employers are asking for. That is the whole deal.

gull system was founded by a student who took first place in CAD Designer at CzechSkills 2026, the Czech national skills championship. What technical schools teach, and where it falls short in practice, we know first-hand.