Thread: Need your advice: Should I move to SolidWorks?
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Unread 18-05-2013, 09:28
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Re: Need your advice: Should I move to SolidWorks?
Why: It does better drawings, especially with GD&T. It's industry standard. You have plugins like HSMWorks. You can customize every program function to a hotkey of your choice.

Why not: Inventor is free and easy to get for students. Showcase integration looks awesome. You already know Inventor, and it is a solid product.

That's about all I have. I use Inventor here because it's free and easy to get at home, and because my school/workplace already pays the annual license fee for the design suite for their AutoCAD class. Also, it's the platform I originally learned in 2002 and stuck with ever since. When I priced it out about a year ago, Solidworks was significantly more costly. If SolidWorks did student downloads/licenses like AutoDesk does, and if the pricing was a little lower to install in full labs at school, I'd be all over it.
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