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Originally Posted by Heburn
The CAD team does not have any mentor help, and as far as I know, there aren't any local companies or workshops.
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In this case I'd definitely suggest having your CAD team try each of them out. Inventor and Solidworks have good built in tutorials, and Creo has some good tutorials available on the PTC website. Once they've tried each, they should have a good grasp of both the fundamentals and and the general "feel" of each program. Like I said, I really do see this as a personal preference-- all three packages are perfectly capable of doing everything an average FRC team needs, they just have different flavors and approaches to solving essentially the same problems.
One thing to keep in mind is that generally Inventor is an academic program-- while I'm sure there are companies out there that use it, Solidworks, and to a certain extent Creo are vastly more common-- I know several people that design professionally in each. Make of that what you will.