[jdiwnab]

Sounds intreaging. I'll try the demo before passing judgement, though. I looked at the guide, and it says that it supports STEP, their STEP, IGES, DXF, and DWG file types. That means exproting all the Inventor and redoing some things that STEP doesn't remember (like constraints). The 3d modeling protion seems to be powerful, but the interface doesn't look as good as Inventor. Some portions look like a strait rip off of Inventor (like the edit dimention box, and the way they do the drawing notations (but this may be a standard)). Our school computers are bad, but we have 40 of them. We are considering getting more copies of Inventor when (if ever) we get new computers. Because they seems to have a deal with people that have autocad, it might be a good idea for the extra licenses that we would want.