Portable Solidworks -

Before the cloud, there was the borrowed to a USB dongle.

There are a few options available for running a portable SolidWorks:

Boot from the SSD. Install SolidWorks as normal. Use a (this allows license checkout to the machine’s MAC address, which is less finicky than standalone activation).

SOLIDWORKS provides built-in tools to export your 3D models and 2D drawings into universal, "portable" file formats. SolidWorks Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) 2D Drawings