Solidworks vs Inventor
Solidworks vs Inventor
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Hi,
Don't want to start a war here. I have been using SolidWorks for about 3 years. I recently moved to another company. They are debating wheather to buy Inventor or SolidWorks. Inventor is having a promotion which is making it much cheaper than SolidWorks. I have never used Inventor but have reads quite a bit about it. If anyone here has used both could you please tell me your thoughts on them.
Thanks.
Don't want to start a war here. I have been using SolidWorks for about 3 years. I recently moved to another company. They are debating wheather to buy Inventor or SolidWorks. Inventor is having a promotion which is making it much cheaper than SolidWorks. I have never used Inventor but have reads quite a bit about it. If anyone here has used both could you please tell me your thoughts on them.
Thanks.






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RE: Solidworks vs Inventor
Inventor is an "ok" product and they have kickin demos to watch but if you put two equally capable designers behind each one and do a benchmark on real life work, you find that SOlidworks has the upper hand in a lot of areas. SUre there a few areas that they may have a slight advantage but the many features and benefits the solidworks has far outweighs the few!
Why else would they have to do that "frisbee" marketing routine they use??? You get waht you pay for, and you pay for that that you do not get....MANY FOLD!
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RE: Solidworks vs Inventor
Sounds like you have used Inventor doing "real life work" to be able to say SolidWorks has the upper hand with "real life work".
Do not get me wrong, I think SolidWorks is the better midrange package in the mid range market. But I am, as well as your are, biased because SolidWorks is the package that we use and support.
As far as the "frisbee" marketing, whatever that means, means nothing to a user that is confused on what package to buy.
rockguy,
You are in a tuff spot with the new company. If you have using SolidWorks for 3 years you already know the benifts of SolidWorks and probably know the in and outs as well as the rest of us. I would think this alone would weigh heavy in your companies’ decision. The only insights I can give on Inventor is try out an eval and do some "real life" parts.
Good Luck!
BBJT CSWP
RE: Solidworks vs Inventor
RE: Solidworks vs Inventor
Thanks a million for the hands on input. Hats of to your company for taking the time to evaluate the two packages. I agree that Inventor will continue to get better but I think SolidWorks will always be one up because of their head start. They are all good packages and the competition between them is our, as users, biggest benifit. It forces the tool that we decide to use to be continualy sharpened.
Thanks for the two cents and good luck.
BBJT CSWP