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Originally Posted by JorgeReyes
Yeah I intern at a university and find it a lot better than inventor. The problem is that we have 3 mentors from autodesk...
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Play to your strengths. Solidworks, Inventor, and Creo are all completely viable in terms of being able to effectively use CAD in FRC. They each come with their strengths (Solidworks and Creo are used in industry, Inventor has a bunch of educational resources), but if you have mentors who know Inventor (and aren't just sticking with it because they happen to work at AutoDesk), take advantage of that resource.
If it comes down to it, you can use both in the team. Team 2220 has some parts of the team that use Creo (because we've been using it since 2009 and have a lot of support from PTC), and some parts that work in Solidworks and then export to Creo when they have finished models. It's a bit of a pain, but it keeps the two groups of engineering mentors on our team happy. Heck, we once had a guy that did all his design in Sketchup (ok, maybe I didn't particularly like him after a season of having to deal with re-modelling all of his parts, but he was stubborn like that...)
Just make sure that you sit down and discuss it-- if you really think Solidworks is the best path going forward for your team, it's still not worth losing three technical mentors due to a heavy-handed delivery.