Why CAD is expensive
Why CAD is expensive
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Came across this today. Thought I would share...
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RE: Why CAD is expensive
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Greg Locock
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RE: Why CAD is expensive
Care to expand on your statement? What is the cost of real engineering software?
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RE: Why CAD is expensive
"The cost of CAD is mainly inflated to the price we think it's worth to our business. "
wow do I disagree with that one.
As a beta tester and tech support for a major cam program, the development and testing that goes into the software is phenomenal. All that for a relative small customer base. xx,xxx thousand. As far as dealer "mark up", the support staff and knowledge base of the vendor is very much appropriate to their margin.
I'd be be willing to be adobe can amortize their development cost over a much wider user base. Oh, and with adobe you don't have the risk of crashing multi-million dollar cnc machines. :D
Speaking from the other side of the coin, and not just blowing my horn.
RE: Why CAD is expensive
Full install matlab >$20000
LMS $60000
Expensive Nastran ~20000
etc
Bear in mind that people will have several of these packages in use at one time, for instance I run ADAMS and Matlab simultaneously because different parts of the model run in each program. In another job I'll run 5 licenses of ADAMS at once.
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Greg Locock
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RE: Why CAD is expensive
SW had many advantages in development that its competitors did not. SW was one of the first systems developed in a Windows-native environment. They were also able to simply purchase many technologies (notably Parasolid), so they did not have to develop many parts of SW on their own.
RE: Why CAD is expensive
Markets determine prices. I think they are appropriate. Otherwise, they would not have survived.
Best regards,
Alex